By Rishi Sikka 27 May 2013 If there was a single game that defined the anger of Blackburn Rovers fans at what’s happened to our club in the past three years, it’s almost certainly the night in December 2011 when Rovers – my team – lost 2-1 at home to Bolton Wanderers and sank […]

* English football has been a soap opera for years, an unending pantomime of drama, chaos, money, more money, haves and never-will-haves, millionaires, billionaires, plutocrats and conmen. The demise of Leeds was shocking, the demise of Portsmouth shameful. But one story now well into its third year that continues to be simply extraordinary is that […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 28 September 2012 Steve Kean’s managerial reign at Blackburn is over after the 44-year-old surprisingly resigned on Friday evening. Nobody at the club was expecting the Scot to quit so suddenly and MD Derek Shaw, when told of the news, said he was unaware it […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 28 September 2012 Steve Kean earned a ‘stay of execution’ at Blackburn Rovers after his wife Margaret called the club’s co-owner Anuradha Desai to say she believed sacking him would be unfair, sources in India and England have told Sportingintelligence. Insiders say the decision was […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 June 2012 As a group of Blackburn fans return to Lancashire this evening after three days of meetings in London with MPs and the FA about the plight of their club, Sportingintelligence publishes a letter, in full below, sent last week by the same […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 June 2012 The chaotic way in which Blackburn Rovers has been run under the ownership of Venky’s is further exposed today by the revelation that transfer policy at the club in the past year has been partly informed by tips from fans via Facebook. […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 May 2012 As Blackburn’s manager Steve Kean prepares to leave for India on Tuesday evening for talks with the club’s owners on Wednesday, a critical difference of opinion over his fate persists; on one side are senior club officials at Ewood Park and at […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 10 May 2012 One of Blackburn’s co-owners has claimed today that former deputy CEO Paul Hunt was sacked yesterday for cost-cutting reasons. Sportingintelligence has learned Hunt was sacked late on Tuesday in the wake of the publication by this website (see story) of an emailed […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 May 2012 An extraordinary letter written in late December by Blackburn Rovers’ deputy CEO Paul Hunt to the club’s owner, Anuradha Desai, has laid bare the crisis that has been gripping the club all season. READ THE LETTER IN FULL on our Facebook page […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 February 2012 Blackburn Rovers have agreed to sell centre-half Chris Samba to one of Russia’s richest clubs, Anzhi Makhachkala, for an initial fee of £9m that will rise to £11m with ‘achievable’ add-ons, sources have confirmed to Sportingintelligence. The sale of the 27-year-old Congolese […]