Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
"There is a large group of people for whom following a football club involves latching on to a team purely and simply because they are regularly successful, play at huge stadia, enjoy a massive global profile, and boast the best players on the planet.

Burnley and Blackburn Rovers tend not to attract that kind of following; instead, they draw their support largely from their immediate locality. For those supporters, their team is so much more than a mere fashion statement or a trendy whim; it is a physical, visceral attachment; it speaks of a person’s identity, values, and heritage. It is who you are and where you belong."

Hmmm, not too sure the above is applicable to our Blackburn friends. The season Uncle Jack bought in, 1990/91 their average gate was 8,126, ours wasn't much different, 7,882. Five years later, after Uncle Jack had invested his millions, they were playing in a modern stadium, regularly successful, had a global profile and had some of the best players money could buy, their average gate was 27,714, ours was 9,064.

I think it's valid to ask the Mrs Merton question to those 19,000 additional Blackburn fans who had appeared, as if from nowhere, during those five years, "What was it that first attracted you to the millionaire Jack Walker's football club" ? Could it really be explained by "a physical, visceral attachment; it speaks of a person’s identity, values, and heritage. It is who you are and where you belong."

I rather think not, they weren't called Bandwagon Blues for nothing. We had 'em sussed.
I remember standing on the Bee Hole End sinkov in the pissing rain getting hammered by Hereford Town and the crowd could not have been more than 3000.

On the "wrong" side of our family they all support the B@stards (Ashley Barnes' word not mine!), and they are so fecking fickle. When Shearer and Sutton were running rampant, they were all chests puffed out and attended every game. Now hardly a whimper.

I know I have bias, but the Deadwood Brigade are not a patch on our lot. I still love the absolute buzz of going to our away games the Burnley fans are always in full attendance and full voice.

I hate to say this but Owen Coyle seemed to put the "bounce" back into Burnley crowds, we have not looked back since he took us to Wembley.

For a town with the indigenous population the size it is, to have 16000 fully paid-up season ticket holders is really quite insane.