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 […]

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 Sportingintelligence 15 December 2011 Blackburn Rovers fans opposed to the ownership of the club by Venky’s and to the ongoing management of the club by Steve Kean have called a temporary ‘truce’ in public protests against the regime for the next two home games. Rovers play relegation rivals West Brom this weekend and Bolton […]

By Nick Harris 21 January 2011 A special series about the new Indian owners of Blackburn Rovers is running on sportingintelligence this week. The main feature is at the link in the last sentence. This is one of several sets of related photographs, annotated. These pictures were taken at the flagship branch of the Venky’s XPRS fast […]

By Nick Harris 20 January 2011 A special series about the new Indian owners of Blackburn Rovers is running on sportingintelligence this week. The main feature is at the link in the last sentence. This is one of several sets of related photographs, annotated. In every factory, plant, office, property and business that is part of the […]

By Nick Harris 19 November 2010 Blackburn have become the first India-owned Premier League club today after a deal was finalised by Jack Walker’s trust, BRFC Investments, to sell its 99.9 per cent stake in Rovers to the Venky’s London Limited, a new subsidiary of the poultry conglomerate Venky’s, for £23m. Venky’s will also assume […]

. 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 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 December 2012 Swansea City have the best owners of any club playing within English football according to a wide-ranging survey conducted by Sportingintelligence over the past month. Dave Whelan at Wigan has been voted the second best owner, followed by Sheikh Mansour of Manchester […]

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 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 […]