The Venky’s Scattergun Approach Strikes Again At Blackburn
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The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
Match Of The Past: Blackburn Rovers
This morning, we return to our series of videos of the clubs of the Football League Championship with another of those relegated from the Premier League at the end of...
Sit Down, Shut Up: Blackburn Rovers Supporters & The Stewardship Of Their Club
With an air of the inevitability that has accompanied much of their season and more than a hint of black comedy, Blackburn Rovers slipped from the Premier League last night....
Blackburn Rovers: When Owners Turn Chicken
One emerging problem with the “benefactor model” of club ownership is “what happens next?” Blackburn Rovers have struggled with this problem since their 1990s benefactor, steel magnate Jack Walker, died...
Match Of The Week: Manchester United 2-3 Blackburn Rovers
The Premier League title race, we have been told repeatedly over the last couple of weeks or so, is back on. Since getting knocked out of the Champions League by...
Wigan, Bolton & Blackburn Labour Under Grey Lancastrian Skies
The absence of the top five or six clubs from much of the schedule for yesterday’s Premier League fixtures may have meant that the eyes of many may have drifted...
Match Of The Week: Blackburn Rovers 4-3 Arsenal
For the second time this season, the heavens opened on a Saturday lunchtime for Arsenal in more senses than one today, and this time around they contrived to be more...
The Twohundredpercent Premier League Previews: Blackburn Rovers
Although the close season seems to be getting shorter and shorter, the summer is a chance for football clubs to regroup and rebuild, and it goes without saying that some...
How Literal Will The Premier League’s Survival Sunday Be?
In an August 2009 Radio 5 Live programme on the Premier League’s financial troubles, Supporters Direct Chief Executive Dave Boyle addressed the issue of the “chasm” between Premier League and...
Living Colour: Ince as a Cult of Personality
In what appears to be incredibly bad timing, on the same week Professional Footballers Association Chief Executive Gordon Taylor called for the hiring of more minority managers in English football, League One...
Odd Goings-On At Blackburn And Watford
There was a rumour circulating recently that Watford Football Club were in takeover negotiations with someone who had neither changed his name nor had a troubled business and financial background....
Ronaldinho For Blackburn: Straight From The Horse’s Mouth, Or Not
You’d have been as well off with Wikipedia for reliable sourcing of “Ronaldinho for Blackburn” news. This time yesterday, entries one and three on page one for the Google entry...
2010: A Football Financial Review
You could frame it. If you wanted a short, pithy representation of all that has been wrong with football finance in 2010, you could do no better than quote a...
Match Of The Midweek 1: West Bromwich Albion 1-3 Blackburn Rovers
To the outsider, Blackburn Rovers had always been one of the more stable Premier League clubs. However, since the arrival of Indian Poultry giants Venky’s last month, the off-field business...
Cause For Concern At Blackburn?
I was surely not alone in thinking “Ha-ha-ha” when hearing of “Big” Sam Allardyce’s Blackburn departure. But unless there has been a master plan in place since day one (and...