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Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers Kick off 3pm Saturday 31st October 2020 Liberty Stadium
Referee : DEAN WHITESTONE Richard Wild and Ian Cooper Fourth Official : Andy Davies
Lovely to see the EFL being a bit more proactive on their appointments schedule. An experienced EFL official, Dean Whitestone refereed his first Football League game in 2005 at Notts County.
He has since gone on to referee over 400 EFL games across all divisions, including acting as Fourth Officials for the EFL Trophy Final at Wembley between Coventry City and Oxford United. Unlike the pretty unnoticeable Andre Marriner on Tuesday evening Whitestone, albeit an experienced ref is not on the same level. He seems to be content ploughing a narrow furrow and has done since 2005. The last time he sent two players off in a game was in December last year at the Liberty when the swans beat Middlesbrough 3-1. Both were boro players so it doesn’t really matter. He has only sent off one player in all his games since then. That was a QPR player and that also doesn’t matter. Whitestone seems to be a tolerant referee with a low risk of being booked by him. Let’s see.
So, why does he call himself Whitestone ? Quite simply he loved the TV show ‘King of Queens’ with the fat American bloke and rather tasty wife. The area preferred to shoot the show was Whitestone, New York. And there is the obvious connection. Dean immediately changed his name and the rest is referee history. Dean used to be called Bill, now there’s another reconnection here because ... Ready ? Dean Whitestone is in the old bill, he is a serving lawman in the Met Police and has been since 2004. Thank you for your service sir. In the eight previous Swansea games he has been referee In, the swans have only lost one and that was to Doncaster Rovers back in League one. We like Dean here at Swansea Independent, and if I was him I would keep it that way. Because, well,just because. This is Dean in work yesterday having a laugh with his mates
So, what do we know about Blackburn? 58% of the people who live in Blackburn are called Tony. In the seventies it got so confusing that people had to otherwise reference their family members as ‘our Tony’ or in conversation with others ‘your Tony’ when speaking about a particular Tony in the third person it would ‘their Tony’ with either a backward thumb jerky over the shoulder motion or raised eyes slightly aft. Other variants could be ‘that Tony’ however this expression was used in times of running the particular Tony in question down for some reason. ‘ I see that Tony is round our Tony’s house again with weed he got from your Tony’ Is a good example. Of course with diversity came other ways of referencing Tony. ‘ Asian Tony’ is one, ‘Black Tony’ is another, ‘Mexican Tony’ came about as a result of a native of the town liking for tequila, but when a real Mexican bloke moved in round the corner, called Tony, he gracefully stepped aside and became ‘drunk Tony’ The handing over the names ceremony back in May1986 (it was brought forward because of the World Cup) is still talked about today, although ‘drunk Tony’ can’t remember it. If you get to grips with the many Tony differentials available, the world is an endless bubbling cauldron of Tony solutions.
This is a picture of a man called Tony Blackburn which is a massive slap in the face to the people of Blackburn
Here we see Tony’s Top Chippy in Blackburn
Unfortunately Drunk Tony’s son Drunk Tony Jr, who used to called ‘Moron Tony’ put the sign up, and he never went to school much because he was too pissed. Chippy Tony did go to the press about it and it caused quite a stir locally, nothing really happened and in the end they all laughed about it.
Here is a picture of everyone laughing about it
This was taken by Porno Tony the photographer from just down the road from Blackburn Rovers ground. Please don’t confuse Porno Tony with another Tony who is a photographer of models in the town. His name is Tony Cross, when he found out about Porno Tony taking business from him he went really ballistic and smashed a tea cup in his converted kitchenette. He is now called Angry Tony, which he quite likes.
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Tony Mowbray, his name brought a huge change to Blackburn Rovers fortunes
Now, here is what they say in my local parlour of extravagant ladies ‘the rub’ Manager and Coach of Blackburn Rovers is TONY MOWBRAY. And this is where it all comes together. When he first came to Blackburn in 2017 he was originally called ‘Melton Tony’ however, his name is now ‘Boring Tony’ the names Mundane and Sleepy were rejected. However, this season his team have scored numerous goals and some would say the name should be placed under celebrated change. The issues of living in Blackburn are many, due to the many areas of confusion with the name Tony most people now christen or call their sons and daughters Anthony or Toni.
The last time we played Blackburn at the Liberty Stadium it ended 2-2.
Highlights of the last Liberty meeting
The last three games between the two sides have ended in a draw. The first game between the two clubs was in 1915 in the FA Cup, the swans won 1-0. The swans beat Blackburn 5-1 in 1951 and in 1956, in the same year rovers beat the swans 5-3.
The two best known players in recent times to play for both clubs are Danny Graham and local chap James Thomas, who starred in that last gasp win v Hull City in 2003.
James Thomas sticking it up Hull City
Blackburn Rovers owners are Venkys, this particular company build hens and chickens For northern Indian consumption. These are called broiler
This is Balaji Rao of Venkys, only three years ago he was a day old egg then hatched, it just goes to show what can be achieved these days. Well done Balaji, with looks like that you will be a huge catch with the ‘chicks’ in Blackburn. This photograph wasn’t taken by ‘Porno Tony’ but it could have been.
TEAM NEWS
Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Kyle Naughton, Ben Cabango, Marc Guehi; Connor Roberts, Korey Smith, Jay Fulton, Jake Bidwell; Yan Dhanda; Andre Ayew (captain), Jamal Lowe.
Substitutes: Steven Benda, Ryan Bennett, Ryan Manning, Kasey Palmer, Matt Grimes, Wayne Routledge, Viktor Gyokeres.
Blackburn Rovers: Aynsley Pears, Ryan Nyambe, Derrick Williams, Adam Armstrong, Lewis Holtby, Harvey Elliott, Tom Trybull, Ben Brereton, Joe Rankin-Costello, Darragh Lenihan (captain), Corry Evans.
Substitutes: Antonis Stergiakis, Sam Gallagher, Harry Chapman, Jacob Davenport, John Buckley, Scott Wharton, Tyrhys Dolan.
Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread on 15:27 - Oct 31 by Highjack
Connor Roberts is a very good corner taker.
Keep him on corners. Wtf has Grimes been taking them for so long.
Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread on 16:02 - Oct 31 by Chief
Certain pen. No attempt to play the ball at all.
Is Roberts getting / got a bit of a reputation with refs?
The refs read this forum, and see Swans fans calling him a big time Charlie. So they book him.
Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread on 16:17 - Oct 31 with 1685 views
Cooper subs Lowe off and brings on Viktor Gyökeres, but leaves Smith on who apparently isn't playing very well. Still I suppose a sub is better than no sub.
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Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread on 16:32 - Oct 31 by A_Fans_Dad
Cooper subs Lowe off and brings on Viktor Gyökeres, but leaves Smith on who apparently isn't playing very well. Still I suppose a sub is better than no sub.
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Kin ell
He brought a striker on in a game we dominated to go 2nd in the league.
It’s about time this Cooper bashing was knocked on the head it’s pretty tedious.
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