* By Jonnie Baker 6 December 2013 Anticipation is obviously reaching fever pitch over the unspeakably complicated group-stage draw for the 2014 Fifa World Cup (TM), which hasn’t been obsessing too many people at all. Certainly not to the extent that anyone would come up with a draw simulator, like the one linked here, […]
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Documentary maker: Why I made ‘Venky’s – The fall of Blackburn Rovers’
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 […]
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Tell me why … the English football authorities keep buck-passing the Blackburn farce
* 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 […]
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LIVE blog: the best and worst owners in English football
. 31 DECEMBER 2012 A Sportingintelligence survey of almost 1,000 fans from more than 60 different clubs has been published on this website today (link here), with those taking part voting SWANSEA CITY as the club in English football with the best owners, and BLACKBURN ROVERS as the club with the worst owners. These are […]
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Fans celebrate as Steve Kean ‘forced to resign’ as Blackburn manager
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 […]
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Kean won stay of execution at Blackburn ‘after wife’s 11th-hour call to owner’
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 […]
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Blackburn fans given boost by MPs and FA – and ask Anderson for answers
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 […]
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Revealed: Facebook role in Blackburn transfers as fans prepare for government meeting
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. […]
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Venky’s ponder options as Indian media turns spotlight on Blackburn
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 […]
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The Sportingintelligence Worldle wall: where the stories catch your eye
By Sportingintelligence May 2012 . From time to time, Sportingintelligence will be adding word cloud images into this gallery, representing stories that appear on this website. Most recent additions on top. Scroll down for more. . 5 The Premier League’s TV rights sale for the 2013-16 seasons and what it means Read story . […]
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