Lancashire Telegraph comment: End this absurd farce now (From This Is Lancashire)

Please get rid of him

You use the word "circus" ion this comment, I think ASYLUM is far more appropriate, especially with these lunatics, chief amongst them Shebby Singh, now running the show. Never can there have been a more incompetent bunch of idiots running any football club anywhere in the world. P*ss up and brewery is a mild way of describing the situation!

Until ALL these people are confined to history, I cannot see OUR club moving forward. For the good of the club, Venky's please go, and take the incompetents, the Three Stooges with you. The longer this situation continues, the more credence asset stripping will have.

SHYSTERS GET OUT OF OUR CLUB

Whilst i hate Kean and all he stands for the Venky's should be held accountable for the farce we now find ourselves in. How the hell they have manged to run a successful business in India is beyond me as judging by the way they have run our football club they appear to be totally useless and incompetent fools. They should look to sell the club at the earliest opportunity and let us try and get the club back to some kind of normality. These bl**dy clowns have made BRFC the laughing stock of the football league. And before people say they are now investing, weigh up the players sold against what we have spent on new players and you will see they have invested zero really. Venky's should go to hell and never come back.

Nothing is unfair when it comes to Mr Steve Kean......

I think he is dead man walking

BOYCOTT BOYCOTT. Hit them where it hurts money . If it is kept up who know's they may sayenough is enough and sell us the club. But Kean must be SACKED Now even today would be to late for what he has done to our club.

alphajono wrote:
I think he is dead man walking

Rich dead man walking though

Venkys have never publically backed Kean. Never made a statement in supprt of him since the initial days when Desai grossly over represented his abilities. The fans dont want him, despite results (which I expect to slide anyway) he is clueless at organising the team. We've only picked up points by scoring high. That cannot continue. In this now damaging situation, they still don't make a statement of support for him. Back him or sack him and then sort yourselves out Venkys. Shambolic management. They've set us back years and I fear the expected mass return of fans will now not happen

You should never have a woman anywhere near running a Football Club. Just look what Thatcher did to this Country.

AND when the sacking is over with, make sure we get a decent replacement with an experienced manager and not some clueless yes man!!!

There is talk in the morning papers that kean is on his way to india for talks and that rovers are heading for talks with tim sherwood to take over dont know which is worse.

To all Rovers fans. Don't you feel like we are all involved in Groundhog Day?
Every day the same. We get up in a morning, first thing, check the news, has he gone? No! Rest of day scan the web, has he gone? No! Comment on LT site. Has he gone yet? No! Last thing at night, check the web has he gone yet? No! Next day repeat process.

When will this nightmare end?

Jake and Elvis wrote:
You should never have a woman anywhere near running a Football Club. Just look what Thatcher did to this Country.

At least when she was president of the Rovers we were a well run club.

Get him sacked and get an experienced man in. With the players we have and some strenghening in defence we can get promoted. I have never thought this before in 50 years as a supporter, but defeat against Charlton may not be such a bad thing? No matter what happens we must all turn up for any games against burnley, these are games we MUST win! it will show the football world, kean and venky's what the supporters are really all about.

Keans days are 100% numbered,along with agnew....just a matter now of severance pay...

Just get rid of this failure of a Manager and replace him with an experienced, capable guy a.s.a.p. Pay whatever it takes; the club's future depends on it

dallydally wrote:
Just get rid of this failure of a Manager and replace him with an experienced, capable guy a.s.a.p. Pay whatever it takes; the club's future depends on it

Don't care if they replace him with a monkey, as long as he goes!

merlinrabbit wrote:
Venkys have never publically backed Kean. Never made a statement in supprt of him since the initial days when Desai grossly over represented his abilities. The fans dont want him, despite results (which I expect to slide anyway) he is clueless at organising the team. We've only picked up points by scoring high. That cannot continue. In this now damaging situation, they still don't make a statement of support for him. Back him or sack him and then sort yourselves out Venkys. Shambolic management. They've set us back years and I fear the expected mass return of fans will now not happen

Even if it did continue, and we reached the promised land of the PL, what then ? There's a world of difference between the two leagues. He's had two seasons there and has proved to all and sundry that he simply can't hack it.

over-rovers wrote:
There is talk in the morning papers that kean is on his way to india for talks and that rovers are heading for talks with tim sherwood to take over dont know which is worse.

Just hope that Kitman hasn't flown out with his misses

BRFCBrabant wrote:
AND when the sacking is over with, make sure we get a decent replacement with an experienced manager and not some clueless yes man!!!

Worst case they sack Kean and Shebby thinks he can do the job!

A Darener wrote:
To all Rovers fans. Don't you feel like we are all involved in Groundhog Day?
Every day the same. We get up in a morning, first thing, check the news, has he gone? No! Rest of day scan the web, has he gone? No! Comment on LT site. Has he gone yet? No! Last thing at night, check the web has he gone yet? No! Next day repeat process.

When will this nightmare end?

I got you babe.

A Darener wrote:
To all Rovers fans. Don't you feel like we are all involved in Groundhog Day?
Every day the same. We get up in a morning, first thing, check the news, has he gone? No! Rest of day scan the web, has he gone? No! Comment on LT site. Has he gone yet? No! Last thing at night, check the web has he gone yet? No! Next day repeat process.

When will this nightmare end?

That just about sums up my day at the moment, its driving me mad. Desperately want to get back to normal, and look forward to going back to Ewood and enjoying a game (when he is gone of course).

Venky's Out: Why every football fan should battle alongside Blackburn's
Squarefootball‎.co
m or uk dont know how to do links. but by far the most accurate and relavent piece i have read in the past 2 years + , guaranteed to brighten your mood in a tell us what you really think of kean/venkys kinda way.

i think this is really the water shed moment for the club, we stand at a cross roads now, one of which should take us back to the premiership and another could potentially see us slip into everlasting championship or below football.

Regardless of anyones views on Mr Keans ability to manage ( Personally would not let him near my under 9s team), the impact on keeping this man in charge at the club is highly damaging, both on a buisness and footballing level, the decision to leave Steve Kean in charge has no logical argument, he is delivering nothing of note on the pitch and there is almost an all out war amongst long term Blackburn fans that continues to damage the club.

One decision changes everything here , remove steve Kean and bring in fresh management, the squad is strong enough to storm this league, the fans begin to come back,revenues increase, the atmosphere around the club improves, sponsors come back to the club , we all go nuts when we get promoted and I can stop using valuable work time to come on here and comment about the obvious.

in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Whats HENDRY going to do when they eventually give Kean his P45 ?
Nobody to to drop off and pick up from the pub.
Hendry has been on 8,000 pound a week since May and not a penny offered to the pensioners he stole their life savings from,a real hero .
Get rid of that clown at the same time when Kean leaves.
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proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Sorry my burnleys a bit rusty got most of it I think your suggesting we will finish below you. ( Looks like the crack pipe`s kicked in again) just not sure on the UTMC is that Uneducated Totally Mindless Cretin.

What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

When I woke up this morning there was a nice red glow in the sky. At the time I thought that Burnley was on fire, but this post shows that, alas, it was a false dawn.

There is still a mystery surrounding Conman Kean, Anderson & Co....they, plus all their drinking"mates" in the club must all go...A "NO BRAINER".

ONLY A COMPLETE CLEAR-OUT PLUS 100% SUPPORT FROM THROUGHOUT THE CLUB FOR THE NEW MANAGER WILL DO....plus no interfere from Venky,s & Singh !!!

Sherwood not the experienced Manager we are all crying out for...yet if he comes with the same application and determination he had has a player, he could be a winner.

Yes, end this soap opera Ms Venky, for goodness sake !!!!!!!!!!!

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Is anyone available to translate this post into English from Dinglish?

midas wrote:
What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

Maybe we should follow your lead and set fire to the manager's wife in a Burnley chip shop.

I understand a boycott is hard for some people to do. Season tickets are bought because the team is loved and the reasoning is that to not go to a game for which hard earned cash has been spent on seems a waste. I can sympathize masively with this view. We like to watch the players and by attending a game are we supporting them and yet supporting the regime? I think not, you can watch the game and not support the owners.
However, there comes a time when a huge message simply has to be sent. And that time is Wolves at home Saturday week. Surely a nigh on total boycott would get the message across. Maybe an attendance around the 3,000 mark? Obviously some people will go to a match come hell or high water. Well the high water is here, it's all around us. A boycott maybe the case of I will if you will, or maybe some folk just can't see what purpose a mass boycott serves.
So how about this...against Wolves we really send the message, enough is enough. Even go to the ground if you wish but not go in. If it doesn't work, then we move on and think again. Buy really, what have we got to lose, one game out of 23 on your season ticket? Surely that is worth it to help save this great club we all love and cherish. Imagine the coverage an attendance around 3,000 would get. Apparently 13,000 doesn't cover the wages of Rhodes, Murphy and Ethuhu. So lose 10,000 from that and even our dunderheaded owners must take notice.
Twitter hashtag to see who we not attend #boycottwolvesgame

This is the second time that the LT Comment has asked, nay demanded the removal of Kean.

There's no point leaving it sat on the Telegraph website though Andy, it should be all over SSN by now putting some global pressure on Venky's.

Come on Andy, the top is spinning get it whipped up now.

Come and join the boycotters, Kean will be gone soon if you help underline the message. What a pity some of you couldn't resist the reduced price season ticket bribe. We could have had this done and dusted sooner.

KEAN SACK
THOUSANDS BACK

FOOTBALL MANAGER - YES
ROOKIE MANAGER - NO

Do we want to get out of this division or not?

Jake and Elvis wrote:
You should never have a woman anywhere near running a Football Club. Just look what Thatcher did to this Country.

The Blessed Margaret Hilda Thatcher was the saviour of this country and the most successful peacetime prime minister, ever. She is also a Vice President of our beloved club. She would not have tolerated the likes of the incompetent SK in her government. Love her or loathe her, she was decisive!

Oakdale blue wrote:
This is the second time that the LT Comment has asked, nay demanded the removal of Kean.

There's no point leaving it sat on the Telegraph website though Andy, it should be all over SSN by now putting some global pressure on Venky's.

Come on Andy, the top is spinning get it whipped up now.

Even Radio Lancashire had the bottle to get Shebby out of bed to answer questions on Tuesday morning, LET should take a lesson from them and grow a pair

Could the Venky's feel inspired to go for the hat trick and remove Kean, Singh and Agnew, all in one fell swoop?

Why is Sherwood in the frame? Yes he was a hero when he won the Premiership but I lost all respect for him when he forced his way out of the club to go to Spurs. Plus he has zero, nada, nil management experience!!!! Have the Venkys not realised that a half decent coach (and I am not saying Kean was) does not a great manager make?!?! Has Sherwood ever even played in the Championship? We need an experienced manager who will get us organised, disciplined and who knows the division. My vote... Simon Grayson. He's no nonsense and he doesn't make excuses and he knows what it takes to get a team promoted. And he played for us last time we were in this league. He could be our new "Graeme Souness".

There is a boycott being planned for the Wolves game. An advert in the LT is being prepared right now. Spread the word - your non-attendance forces Kean closer to his exit.

Couple of things strike me reading everything I can on Rovers these past 18 months. Firstly Kean going is just part one, its very important we get the right man to follow, (Curbishley would be my choice), and second just how badly do the Walker family come out of all this? They met these people and listened to them and then gave them our football club, a club that their Jack had loved and nurtured.

END THIS FARCE
Monday National newspapers were full of the news that Steve Kean was about to be sacked for not achieving 16 points from a possible 21 in Rovers opening 7 games.
I don’t believe a word of it – Monday came and went and Kean is still here with a statement from Ewood Park saying “his position is being monitored”.
What is to monitor? The man has to go.
The points total is a smoke screen. Kean was never set a total of 16 points, the 14 he has accumulated and a third placed position in the League table are acceptable at this stage of the season.
I know that and the Ewood hierarchy know that.
The reason they want rid of Kean, and they do, is they have been rocked to the core by the attendances at Rovers opening league games.
In their arrogance they never envisaged such a large drop in support and revenue.
The supporters have spoken; they are not coming and will not return whilst Kean is there.
You can only ignore the fans for so long, as Mrs Anuradha (I like to be entertained) Desai has done. She has ignored the fans for too long and now they have gone.
PANIC HAS SET IN AT EWOOD PARK.
Season ticket sales are at a all-time low, attendances are at a all-time low. There is no sponsorship of any substance and cooperate hospitality is almost none existent.
ROVERS ARE A CLUB IN FREE FALL.
Newly appointed directors, Derek Shaw, Paul Agnew, and Shebby Singh now fear for their jobs as Mrs Desai (pic above) considers cost saving costs.
So no smoke screen please about point targets, the issue is all about finance and the problem is Kean and he has to go.
WHAT IS THERE TO MONITOR.
Reg
Footnote:
If the F.A ever produce a handbook on HOW NOT TO RUN A FOOTBALL CLUB. They will use the Venky ownership of Blackburn Rovers as the blue print.

www.regoftherovers.c
o.uk

Long time Rover wrote:
Couple of things strike me reading everything I can on Rovers these past 18 months. Firstly Kean going is just part one, its very important we get the right man to follow, (Curbishley would be my choice), and second just how badly do the Walker family come out of all this? They met these people and listened to them and then gave them our football club, a club that their Jack had loved and nurtured.

Perhaps the LT could get in touch with the Walker family for their views on the situation, ending with an apology to all the Rovers fans.

KEAN REFUSES TO BUDGE
Steve Kean is refusing to go quietly – as Rovers advisor Shebby Singh, (pic above) tries to talk him into taking a behind the scenes job.
The Blackburn boss took training yesterday despite the latest attempt to oust him.
Singh is planning to offer Kean a lesser post at the Rovers in a bid to avoid giving him a lump sum pay-off.
Kean would be due around £500,000 in compensation if sacked. Kean is determined to cling onto his £1.3 million pound per annum job or make the Venky’s pay him full compensation for dismissal.
Cash strapped Venky’s are hesitating over a compensation package hence Kean’s continued survival much to Singh’s frustration. It could be a war of wills, who goes first Kean or arch enemy Singh.
Reg
Footnote:
Can anyone tell me why newly appointed Gobal advisor Shebby Singh is not named in the Rovers list of officials in the match day programme?
Even Robert (not ft for purpose) Coar is still listed as a director.
Could it be fans favourite, Shebby Singh’s stay is to be a brief one?
It will if Kean has anything to do with it.

www.regoftherovers.c
o.uk

KEAN REFUSES TO BUDGE
Steve Kean is refusing to go quietly – as Rovers advisor Shebby Singh, (pic above) tries to talk him into taking a behind the scenes job.
The Blackburn boss took training yesterday despite the latest attempt to oust him.
Singh is planning to offer Kean a lesser post at the Rovers in a bid to avoid giving him a lump sum pay-off.
Kean would be due around £500,000 in compensation if sacked. Kean is determined to cling onto his £1.3 million pound per annum job or make the Venky’s pay him full compensation for dismissal.
Cash strapped Venky’s are hesitating over a compensation package hence Kean’s continued survival much to Singh’s frustration. It could be a war of wills, who goes first Kean or arch enemy Singh.
Reg
Footnote:
Can anyone tell me why newly appointed Gobal advisor Shebby Singh is not named in the Rovers list of officials in the match day programme?
Even Robert (not ft for purpose) Coar is still listed as a director.
Could it be fans favourite, Shebby Singh’s stay is to be a brief one?
It will if Kean has anything to do with it.

www.regoftherovers.c
o.uk

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

When you learn English you stupid dingle, come back and comment!!!

Quite apart from all his well documented difficiences, how can Kean possibley have any motivation any longer to give his best for the club, given the level of fan hatred of him. Why should he put himself out when nothing he can do can possibley turn around the fans attitued towards him. There is nothing in the job for him now but the money ( and loads of it). He's lost all semblance of pride and cannot possibly motivate his team when he can't even motivate himself. Surely Venkys you must realise you are now paying him for treading water.

inflightmagazine wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Sorry my burnleys a bit rusty got most of it I think your suggesting we will finish below you. ( Looks like the crack pipe`s kicked in again) just not sure on the UTMC is that Uneducated Totally Mindless Cretin.

UP THE MIGHTY CLARETS CARRY ON WID UR KOVO U TRAMP

Billypieman wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Is anyone available to translate this post into English from Dinglish?

get ur mum o sister on screen they tend 2 undastand => UTC

http://articles.squa
refootball.net/squar
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kburns.html

YOUR ROVERS TILL U DIE? YOUR ROVERS TILL U DIE? WE KNW U R,WERE SURE U R, UR UNITED TILL U DIE HAHA GLORY HUNTERS

proud burnley lad wrote:

inflightmagazine wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote: in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Sorry my burnleys a bit rusty got most of it I think your suggesting we will finish below you. ( Looks like the crack pipe`s kicked in again) just not sure on the UTMC is that Uneducated Totally Mindless Cretin.

UP THE MIGHTY CLARETS CARRY ON WID UR KOVO U TRAMP

suns out looks like the day release patients are finally getting a run outside.

Here is a good read

http://www.thedaisyc
utter.co.uk/2012/09/
venkys-out-why-every
-football-fan-should
-stand-together-with
-blackburn/?

YarkshahRover wrote:
Quite apart from all his well documented difficiences, how can Kean possibley have any motivation any longer to give his best for the club, given the level of fan hatred of him. Why should he put himself out when nothing he can do can possibley turn around the fans attitued towards him. There is nothing in the job for him now but the money ( and loads of it). He's lost all semblance of pride and cannot possibly motivate his team when he can't even motivate himself. Surely Venkys you must realise you are now paying him for treading water.

Put yourself in his place for a moment.
He just has to put in a few more 'shifts' and a nice fat cheque (on top of all the others awaits!!!).

Much like a lottery win to you and me.

I very much doubt he will be having a good old sob in the lavs.

I could summon up some mighty dynamic 'motivation' for the monies he has and is going to be bestowed.

His will make my and your bank balances look fairly weak in comparison (well mine at least).

proud burnley lad wrote:

janus1947 wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

When I woke up this morning there was a nice red glow in the sky. At the time I thought that Burnley was on fire, but this post shows that, alas, it was a false dawn.

wtf lol wt u on bwt sure it wasnt ur sistas **** in ur face b*****d lool

On your way to collect your job seeker's allowance you could also call in at Burnley General to see if they can be of any help in curing your obvious affliction, though lobotomy is no longer an option in the NHS

fudgingluvrovers wrote:
Venky's Out: Why every football fan should battle alongside Blackburn's
Squarefootball‎.co

m or uk dont know how to do links. but by far the most accurate and relavent piece i have read in the past 2 years + , guaranteed to brighten your mood in a tell us what you really think of kean/venkys kinda way.

Brilliant article! - Squarefootball.com.
Slubberdegullion Kean out now!

I cant think of one rovers fan who wants Kean to stay, but at the end of the day the real problem is VENKYS and their inability to make the decisions that matter, when they are needed, Kean should have gone at worst at the end of last season (in honesty the mid point of last season), but for some reason maybe pride Venkys just wont make the call. I strongly think that if this situation continues much longer, the approach of the fans must change from KEAN OUT - to VENKYS OUT.

Who oh why as there not been an investigation by the FA/Premier league (last season) on who actually owns the club. Jack Straw seems to have gone quiet when he needs to be pressing the authorities about an investigation. If we could only get rid of shyster Anderson then I think the whole circus big top would come tumbling down around their ears. I might leave the club in a predicament, but it can't be any worse than we are enduring now, at least we would be able to move forward, which is positive.

Reg Rover wrote:
KEAN REFUSES TO BUDGE
Steve Kean is refusing to go quietly – as Rovers advisor Shebby Singh, (pic above) tries to talk him into taking a behind the scenes job.
The Blackburn boss took training yesterday despite the latest attempt to oust him.
Singh is planning to offer Kean a lesser post at the Rovers in a bid to avoid giving him a lump sum pay-off.
Kean would be due around £500,000 in compensation if sacked. Kean is determined to cling onto his £1.3 million pound per annum job or make the Venky’s pay him full compensation for dismissal.
Cash strapped Venky’s are hesitating over a compensation package hence Kean’s continued survival much to Singh’s frustration. It could be a war of wills, who goes first Kean or arch enemy Singh.
Reg
Footnote:
Can anyone tell me why newly appointed Gobal advisor Shebby Singh is not named in the Rovers list of officials in the match day programme?
Even Robert (not ft for purpose) Coar is still listed as a director.
Could it be fans favourite, Shebby Singh’s stay is to be a brief one?
It will if Kean has anything to do with it.

www.regoftherovers.c

o.uk

Dont like the idea of him staying at the club in any capacity, if he does there will be many who will still not return so the problem will not be resolved..

Andy I take it you won't be attending the Friday pre match pressser lol

I can't understand why Kean's still in charge is they some sort deal that he can't be sacked? Do SEM still have a influence at the club? If so how long for and are the so called board members ie Agnew and co, contracted in the same way.

I feel that the Venkys have been duped by SEM, they have admitted to having no knowlegde of English football in the past and it seem that theyhave been ill advised by these charlatans. I hope and pray that they realise what has happened and can do something about it.

Alan Curbishley would be a safe choice and like Alan Pardew is probably desperate to do a good job, as he's been out of the game for a while.

Jurgen Klinsmann is a dream choice, never going to come off.

Tim Sherwood is a very risky choice but could pay off like Mark Hughes did.

To be honest I am not actually sure that any of these managers would have amassed the same amount of points as Kean has so far but that is not the point is it. As the article says - his position is untenable.

bluefadingfast wrote:
Who oh why as there not been an investigation by the FA/Premier league (last season) on who actually owns the club. Jack Straw seems to have gone quiet when he needs to be pressing the authorities about an investigation. If we could only get rid of shyster Anderson then I think the whole circus big top would come tumbling down around their ears. I might leave the club in a predicament, but it can't be any worse than we are enduring now, at least we would be able to move forward, which is positive.

Well, that's Jack Straw for you, Blackburn through and through - NOT

midas wrote:
What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

What a pointless comment.
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Simple answer is Rovers have been extremely lucky this season, they should be in the bottom 3 on performance, they have been absolute crud, no midfield, a defence and keeper that hasn't been introduced to each other yet and a manager that brings new meaning to the word "inept".
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The fans have a right to voice an opinion, especially idiots like me who have paid up front for ST's, albeit at the last minute, what a stupid mistake, heart ruling head I am afraid and I can only apologise to the fans who had the balls to stay away.
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So if there is a boycott for the Wolves game I will join it, the disenfranchised are not going to the games anyway so it's now up to the current ST holders to stand up and be counted.
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More away fans in the ground than home fans should be the target, with a silent protest outside for 90 minutes.

He must go, and out, not a sideways move. No part whatsoever with the running of BRFC. Out with him and the parasitic rogue hangers on!

RoverDownSouth wrote:
Why is Sherwood in the frame? Yes he was a hero when he won the Premiership but I lost all respect for him when he forced his way out of the club to go to Spurs. Plus he has zero, nada, nil management experience!!!! Have the Venkys not realised that a half decent coach (and I am not saying Kean was) does not a great manager make?!?! Has Sherwood ever even played in the Championship? We need an experienced manager who will get us organised, disciplined and who knows the division. My vote... Simon Grayson. He's no nonsense and he doesn't make excuses and he knows what it takes to get a team promoted. And he played for us last time we were in this league. He could be our new "Graeme Souness".

I agree, Simon Grayson is a lot better prospect than Tim Sherwood. He has experience and also excellent tactics as he did successfully against Blackpool.

Breaking news on Sky Sports!!!!!!! - oh well, they've just pasted this LET article, but hey, every little helps

well thats me done with rovers for the foreseable wether kean goes or not,if the only reason they are considering this idiots future is because of falling gates and revenue then that says everything i need to kow about our owners.they couldnt give a toss what we think.I really wanted it to work this season,but to be honest the football has been the same as,if not worse than last season.i have enough good memories over the last 40 years to keep me happy until these cretins get their act together.going to the games this season has been awful,the atmosphere is poison,the only talk in the pub is about kean and venkys,no one talks about the previous game,or todays game,its just no fun anymore.

Why Sherwood?who picked him who is his agent.

Venkys/keans strategy- divide the fans- protests will subside/ keep lining their pockets!
If you care about the club at all- unite for one match (Wolves) and DON'T ATTEND.
Attendance will legitimise their running of the club!

I presume by "Absurd farce" your referring to your newspaper.

I see I'm going to have to get the hammer out for you lot:

There is no uncertainty, no circus, get on with the job of SUPPORTING the team and stop encouraging the papers to print more dross, it'll only confuse you more, although your in a catch 22 now.

Maybe a boycott of cancerous publications would benefit you. Rovers are doing their job, LET are doing their job, however you lot are laughable in that most of you now support the LET more than Rovers. Congrats to the media.

There is one thing that most people are missing when they are calling for certain people to come and manage BRFC. Who in their right mind is going to work for the Venkys Regime given their 22mth reign and total mitigated failure / disaster. Certainly it would take someone very headstrong.Someone who should ask for total control over who comes and who goes.

This not my article , but what a cracking point it makes

It could be your club. Would Mr Kean have ‘dignity’ then?
I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them.
If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his clubs.
Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the Media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply.
And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated? A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean?
As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement.
Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore i

We're assuming here that Venkys have the power to remove Kean. Wouldn't things suddenly make a lot more sense if it was true that they have no authority and that contractually Kean and his friends have the last say on footballing matters. Venkys just sign the cheques and reap the rewards of the vast publicity. Anyone who thinks our predicament is a result of Desai's stupidity needs to wake up and see what is really happening here. Kean was involved with this lot before the takeover (see Henrique Calisto) and he decides what happens with his influential associates behind the scenes. Hence why Venkys are successful business people in India but cannot influence things in England.

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

WOW, your uncle, sister, dog, goat or whoever you class as your mother must be so proud that you can tap words on a computer, just a shame they don't make sense (so advance though for a dingle....well done!). Now get back to what you do best and go score some crack from ya gran, get wasted and dream that one day you can have a sexual relationship with a girl that's not a member of your family.
You will ALWAYS be 2nd best in the east lancs derby!
KEAN OUT
R.T.I.D

the_iconoclast wrote:
I presume by "Absurd farce" your referring to your newspaper.

I see I'm going to have to get the hammer out for you lot:

There is no uncertainty, no circus, get on with the job of SUPPORTING the team and stop encouraging the papers to print more dross, it'll only confuse you more, although your in a catch 22 now.

Maybe a boycott of cancerous publications would benefit you. Rovers are doing their job, LET are doing their job, however you lot are laughable in that most of you now support the LET more than Rovers. Congrats to the media.

Idiot!

owd nick wrote:

midas wrote:
What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

What a pointless comment.
.
Simple answer is Rovers have been extremely lucky this season, they should be in the bottom 3 on performance, they have been absolute crud, no midfield, a defence and keeper that hasn't been introduced to each other yet and a manager that brings new meaning to the word "inept".
.
The fans have a right to voice an opinion, especially idiots like me who have paid up front for ST's, albeit at the last minute, what a stupid mistake, heart ruling head I am afraid and I can only apologise to the fans who had the balls to stay away.
.
So if there is a boycott for the Wolves game I will join it, the disenfranchised are not going to the games anyway so it's now up to the current ST holders to stand up and be counted.
.
More away fans in the ground than home fans should be the target, with a silent protest outside for 90 minutes.

welcome to the real world me and many other fans have been saying for a long time that a boycote was the ony way forward and by the comments comming out of ewood it is having the right effect stick together and we will win the battle to get rid of kean , winning the war though may be getting rid of venkys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!

Anderson must go with kean,
something really fishy about
these two, slimely toads !!!

Mrs Desai needs committing to an asylum and the Rao brothers should take a Power Of Attorney out to take over the running of our club,not ideal I know but the best option available to us.We need a new manager with experience definately not Tim Sherwood or even Shearer we need Hoddle or Redknapp.Shebby should also be dismissed as his input is useless and he has not got the power he pretended he had its still down to that idiotic woman in India!

Quote, "THE Lancashire Telegraph is today calling for Venky’s to end the farce surrounding Blackburn Rovers by taking decisive and immediate action on Steve Kean’s managerial future."

I'd take it further than that. Venkys should take immediate and decisive action on their own future in the Club. i.e. get out and take their puppets with them.

Anybody who has done business in the Far East/Asia will understand that it is totally different to running a legitimate business in Europe and read into that what you will - so dont expect any well thought out decision making from these shambolic owners/managers.
As far as the fans are concerned Kean and the likes of Agnew and Hendry have to go and not be offered alternative positions within the club otherwise even more fans will stay away from Ewood.
OUT WITH KEAN HENDRY AGNEW SINGH VENKEYS IN WITH THOUSANDS OF FANS.

A Darener wrote:

Jake and Elvis wrote:
You should never have a woman anywhere near running a Football Club. Just look what Thatcher did to this Country.

At least when she was president of the Rovers we were a well run club.

Well spotted :-)

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Shouldn't you be getting back to your class. Play time's over.

i thought u people want kean out so who cares who comes in as long as the idiot is out yeah ofc a person who has managed b4 will be the best option but i wud take sherwood anyday over kean

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who cares who replaces kean because after all u people want him out so id rather have sherwood then kean he cant do as bad as a job kean has done up untill now

KEAN SACK
THOUSANDS BACK

True VENKYS

Long time Rover wrote:
Couple of things strike me reading everything I can on Rovers these past 18 months. Firstly Kean going is just part one, its very important we get the right man to follow, (Curbishley would be my choice), and second just how badly do the Walker family come out of all this? They met these people and listened to them and then gave them our football club, a club that their Jack had loved and nurtured.

I raised this point months ago. The Walker family should shoulder the responsibility for selling the club off to Venky in the first place, but that's water under the bridge now. Nothing can be done to rectify that.

alphajono wrote:
I think he is dead man walking

Lime Martin McGartland?

stony bloke wrote:

Long time Rover wrote: Couple of things strike me reading everything I can on Rovers these past 18 months. Firstly Kean going is just part one, its very important we get the right man to follow, (Curbishley would be my choice), and second just how badly do the Walker family come out of all this? They met these people and listened to them and then gave them our football club, a club that their Jack had loved and nurtured.

I raised this point months ago. The Walker family should shoulder the responsibility for selling the club off to Venky in the first place, but that's water under the bridge now. Nothing can be done to rectify that.

Anyone who knew Jack knows he would never of sold to Venkys type!

i fear that has it stands rovers will have lost at least 3000 fans who will not go back no matter what happens in the future at ewood, if kean went now i dont think rovers would average over 19000 till the end of the season its going to take a lot more than venkys or there backroom yes men to turn this one round !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!

janus1947 wrote:

bluefadingfast wrote: Who oh why as there not been an investigation by the FA/Premier league (last season) on who actually owns the club. Jack Straw seems to have gone quiet when he needs to be pressing the authorities about an investigation. If we could only get rid of shyster Anderson then I think the whole circus big top would come tumbling down around their ears. I might leave the club in a predicament, but it can't be any worse than we are enduring now, at least we would be able to move forward, which is positive.

Well, that's Jack Straw for you, Blackburn through and through - NOT

Jack Straw isnt from Blackburn, so how can he support the club?

I dont support Pune Athletic!

lowelife wrote:

Jake and Elvis wrote: You should never have a woman anywhere near running a Football Club. Just look what Thatcher did to this Country.

The Blessed Margaret Hilda Thatcher was the saviour of this country and the most successful peacetime prime minister, ever. She is also a Vice President of our beloved club. She would not have tolerated the likes of the incompetent SK in her government. Love her or loathe her, she was decisive!

Seriously you cant be from Blackburn!

No NORTHERN person would ever support the Tories (unless they wernt working class)!

What next, Naked Zumba on Wednesday night!

So the vast majority squawk; it is ‘just a game’. This football stuff, it doesn’t matter really. It is meaningless in comparison to other, more sugary aspects of our life such as love, or perhaps living itself. Any website – any facebook page. I guarantee you will stumble across that type of comment. The type which I still maintain is vacant, hollow and inherently contradictory. Just a game. Just like scrabble. Or drunken twister. Or perhaps a few rounds of Snap!

Of course, if we are to take this notion to its logical conclusion…well, then it all becomes rather convoluted and inconveniently tricky, doesn’t it? Bob Dylan is not the poet of a generation. He’s just a guy with an acoustic and a way with words. The film Philadelphia with Tom Hanks? Not the profound masterpiece which lightened eyes from a homophobic darkness; nope, just a handful of people playing pretend, perched in front of lights and cameras. George Orwell’s 1984? Just words.

I hope my point is clear. Anything that relentlessly hypnotises humans – anything that consumes us like football does – is more than its raw, base description. It is art. If you’ll allow this headstrong lout to opine, the ‘just a game’ saying is a vapid, desecrated, skewed viewpoint. We bestow upon life such a sacred, tender gracefulness and awe; yet how interesting that hours upon hours of that precious life are spent watching football. The game is more than a game. Therein lies the allure, and it should be imbued and inculcated within every one of us. We must cherish and promulgate that point to the heavens above. And of course if football is more than a game, then football clubs are more than just clubs.

And this is why Blackburn Rovers, still flush with the unsubtle, supine disease of Venky’s, are so tragic. I am not a Rovers fan. But this club are not to be laughed at. They are not to be insulted. Any dignified football fan must stride with them in a battle against what amounts to nothing more than sleazy, repugnant molestation, hidden under a carapace of insulting, lip-trembling, woe-is-me delusion by the bone-jarring joker of the putrid pack – Steve Kean. Remember in May, when Blackburn were relegated? The enduring image of the Blackburn Rovers crest sullied by Lancashire rain and syringed by infection should never leave you.

It could be your club. Would Mr Kean have ‘dignity’ then?

I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them.

If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his clubs.

Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the Media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply.

And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated? A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean?

As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement.

Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore it.

First of all long live Maggie Thatcher. She put the Great back into Great Britain.
Naked Zumba on at Salesbury Memorial Hall on Tuesday's at 7.
Anybody paying to watch BRFC at the moment must be out of their tiny minds. Stop going its as simple as that. It won't be long before we are all back together where we belong.

makaveli96 wrote:
So the vast majority squawk; it is ‘just a game’. This football stuff, it doesn’t matter really. It is meaningless in comparison to other, more sugary aspects of our life such as love, or perhaps living itself. Any website – any facebook page. I guarantee you will stumble across that type of comment. The type which I still maintain is vacant, hollow and inherently contradictory. Just a game. Just like scrabble. Or drunken twister. Or perhaps a few rounds of Snap!

Of course, if we are to take this notion to its logical conclusion…well, then it all becomes rather convoluted and inconveniently tricky, doesn’t it? Bob Dylan is not the poet of a generation. He’s just a guy with an acoustic and a way with words. The film Philadelphia with Tom Hanks? Not the profound masterpiece which lightened eyes from a homophobic darkness; nope, just a handful of people playing pretend, perched in front of lights and cameras. George Orwell’s 1984? Just words.

I hope my point is clear. Anything that relentlessly hypnotises humans – anything that consumes us like football does – is more than its raw, base description. It is art. If you’ll allow this headstrong lout to opine, the ‘just a game’ saying is a vapid, desecrated, skewed viewpoint. We bestow upon life such a sacred, tender gracefulness and awe; yet how interesting that hours upon hours of that precious life are spent watching football. The game is more than a game. Therein lies the allure, and it should be imbued and inculcated within every one of us. We must cherish and promulgate that point to the heavens above. And of course if football is more than a game, then football clubs are more than just clubs.

And this is why Blackburn Rovers, still flush with the unsubtle, supine disease of Venky’s, are so tragic. I am not a Rovers fan. But this club are not to be laughed at. They are not to be insulted. Any dignified football fan must stride with them in a battle against what amounts to nothing more than sleazy, repugnant molestation, hidden under a carapace of insulting, lip-trembling, woe-is-me delusion by the bone-jarring joker of the putrid pack – Steve Kean. Remember in May, when Blackburn were relegated? The enduring image of the Blackburn Rovers crest sullied by Lancashire rain and syringed by infection should never leave you.

It could be your club. Would Mr Kean have ‘dignity’ then?

I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them.

If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his clubs.

Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the Media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply.

And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated? A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean?

As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement.

Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore it.

copy cat MAK!!!!!!

Bungle97 wrote:
First of all long live Maggie Thatcher. She put the Great back into Great Britain.
Naked Zumba on at Salesbury Memorial Hall on Tuesday's at 7.
Anybody paying to watch BRFC at the moment must be out of their tiny minds. Stop going its as simple as that. It won't be long before we are all back together where we belong.

"She put the great back into Great Britain" Tell that to the millions she left destitute, mate.

Anyway, enough of that nonsense.

You're right, a boycott is the only answer.

Well its another beautiful morning in Sunny Florida. Just had breakfast on the terrace whilst reading the latest LT diatribe.

Many many weeks ago I wrote on this advising Rovers fans that the only way to remove Steve Kean was a near 100% boycott. The majority did not listen.

Now your team sits third in the league and are averaging 2 points a game which is promotion form. If Kean is sacked on results then so should 90% of managers.

As for the mighty LT demanding Keans head on a silver platter !!! Who on earth do they think they are. If they are so passionate about the local team then buy it and make all the decisions you want. Would love to see Andy Cryer as manager.

Who is to blame ?

Without a doubt it is The Walkers Trust. Once Jack Walker died so did Blackburn Rovers. The trust simply wanted their cash and to get out as fast as possible. They had no loyalty whatsoever to the club or the town. No one who cared would have sold to a bunch of Indian chicken farmers. After that is was always going to be downhill. The club ( predictably ) is full of mercenaries. Anderson, Kean,Singh , the Players etc and The venkys will never understand that they are being taken to the cleaners on a daily basis.

The Answer

As much as I would like to see Blackburn Rovers sink into oblivion, the only answer is to remove the Venkys completely and replace them with owners who care about the club. Simply replacing Kean with Sherwood or whoever is not sufficient. Look at Anderson and Shebby Singh ! I mean would you employ them to run YOUR football club. I think not.

My own club are struggling like many others but I would not swap places with you guys at any price..UTC

benal13 wrote:
i fear that has it stands rovers will have lost at least 3000 fans who will not go back no matter what happens in the future at ewood, if kean went now i dont think rovers would average over 19000 till the end of the season its going to take a lot more than venkys or there backroom yes men to turn this one round !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!

that is not unusual for a relegated club....three to five thousand is consider 'normal'......but if we are still up there come April then you will see quite a few of the missing fans back.

Cant understand why we are waiting to can Kean...? If he is going why the heck has he not gone now? Black can take the team for a game or two until we sort out Sherwood (if that is who we are going for).....what are the majority of fans feeling for Sherwood anyway? .We all said that 'anyone' would be better than Kean - but is Sherwood 'anyone'...? He clearly does not have enough experience to manage the Rovers on his own? So I expect a more experienced co-manager (or director of football) alongside him. Dalglish maybe or Redknap in the short term?

Well its another beautiful morning in Sunny Florida. Just had breakfast on the terrace whilst reading the latest LT diatribe.

Many many weeks ago I wrote on this advising Rovers fans that the only way to remove Steve Kean was a near 100% boycott. The majority did not listen.

Now your team sits third in the league and are averaging 2 points a game which is promotion form. If Kean is sacked on results then so should 90% of managers.

As for the mighty LT demanding Keans head on a silver platter !!! Who on earth do they think they are. If they are so passionate about the local team then buy it and make all the decisions you want. Would love to see Andy Cryer as manager.

Who is to blame ?

Without a doubt it is The Walkers Trust. Once Jack Walker died so did Blackburn Rovers. The trust simply wanted their cash and to get out as fast as possible. They had no loyalty whatsoever to the club or the town. No one who cared would have sold to a bunch of Indian chicken farmers. After that is was always going to be downhill. The club ( predictably ) is full of mercenaries. Anderson, Kean,Singh , the Players etc and The venkys will never understand that they are being taken to the cleaners on a daily basis.

The Answer

As much as I would like to see Blackburn Rovers sink into oblivion, the only answer is to remove the Venkys completely and replace them with owners who care about the club. Simply replacing Kean with Sherwood or whoever is not sufficient. Look at Anderson and Shebby Singh ! I mean would you employ them to run YOUR football club. I think not.

My own club are struggling like many others but I would not swap places with you guys at any price..UTC

midas wrote:
What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

What a nonsense comment, with no basis to facts.

If you purchased a product which was completely unsatisfactory and the vendor refused to put things right, whilst being supported by the owner, would you continue to be a customer?

makaveli96 wrote:
So the vast majority squawk; it is ‘just a game’. This football stuff, it doesn’t matter really. It is meaningless in comparison to other, more sugary aspects of our life such as love, or perhaps living itself. Any website – any facebook page. I guarantee you will stumble across that type of comment. The type which I still maintain is vacant, hollow and inherently contradictory. Just a game. Just like scrabble. Or drunken twister. Or perhaps a few rounds of Snap!

Of course, if we are to take this notion to its logical conclusion…well, then it all becomes rather convoluted and inconveniently tricky, doesn’t it? Bob Dylan is not the poet of a generation. He’s just a guy with an acoustic and a way with words. The film Philadelphia with Tom Hanks? Not the profound masterpiece which lightened eyes from a homophobic darkness; nope, just a handful of people playing pretend, perched in front of lights and cameras. George Orwell’s 1984? Just words.

I hope my point is clear. Anything that relentlessly hypnotises humans – anything that consumes us like football does – is more than its raw, base description. It is art. If you’ll allow this headstrong lout to opine, the ‘just a game’ saying is a vapid, desecrated, skewed viewpoint. We bestow upon life such a sacred, tender gracefulness and awe; yet how interesting that hours upon hours of that precious life are spent watching football. The game is more than a game. Therein lies the allure, and it should be imbued and inculcated within every one of us. We must cherish and promulgate that point to the heavens above. And of course if football is more than a game, then football clubs are more than just clubs.

And this is why Blackburn Rovers, still flush with the unsubtle, supine disease of Venky’s, are so tragic. I am not a Rovers fan. But this club are not to be laughed at. They are not to be insulted. Any dignified football fan must stride with them in a battle against what amounts to nothing more than sleazy, repugnant molestation, hidden under a carapace of insulting, lip-trembling, woe-is-me delusion by the bone-jarring joker of the putrid pack – Steve Kean. Remember in May, when Blackburn were relegated? The enduring image of the Blackburn Rovers crest sullied by Lancashire rain and syringed by infection should never leave you.

It could be your club. Would Mr Kean have ‘dignity’ then?

I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them.

If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his clubs.

Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the Media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply.

And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated? A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean?

As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement.

Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore it.

At least admit it is not your own work.

FCBurnley wrote:
Well its another beautiful morning in Sunny Florida. Just had breakfast on the terrace whilst reading the latest LT diatribe.

Many many weeks ago I wrote on this advising Rovers fans that the only way to remove Steve Kean was a near 100% boycott. The majority did not listen.

Now your team sits third in the league and are averaging 2 points a game which is promotion form. If Kean is sacked on results then so should 90% of managers.

As for the mighty LT demanding Keans head on a silver platter !!! Who on earth do they think they are. If they are so passionate about the local team then buy it and make all the decisions you want. Would love to see Andy Cryer as manager.

Who is to blame ?

Without a doubt it is The Walkers Trust. Once Jack Walker died so did Blackburn Rovers. The trust simply wanted their cash and to get out as fast as possible. They had no loyalty whatsoever to the club or the town. No one who cared would have sold to a bunch of Indian chicken farmers. After that is was always going to be downhill. The club ( predictably ) is full of mercenaries. Anderson, Kean,Singh , the Players etc and The venkys will never understand that they are being taken to the cleaners on a daily basis.

The Answer

As much as I would like to see Blackburn Rovers sink into oblivion, the only answer is to remove the Venkys completely and replace them with owners who care about the club. Simply replacing Kean with Sherwood or whoever is not sufficient. Look at Anderson and Shebby Singh ! I mean would you employ them to run YOUR football club. I think not.

My own club are struggling like many others but I would not swap places with you guys at any price..UTC

It'll be a cold day in hell before I take any advice from a Bonleh fan.

Now go and have a swim in the Everglades!

This is it now folks. We make a final stand here, Kean goes or we go. PLEASE don't turn upto the next home game, we can force anyones hand if we work together.

Time to bite the bullet madame venky an pot the doughnut. Its the only viable solution.

bburnrover wrote:
Mrs Desai needs committing to an asylum and the Rao brothers should take a Power Of Attorney out to take over the running of our club,not ideal I know but the best option available to us.We need a new manager with experience definately not Tim Sherwood or even Shearer we need Hoddle or Redknapp.Shebby should also be dismissed as his input is useless and he has not got the power he pretended he had its still down to that idiotic woman in India!

Spot on!

FCBurnley wrote:
Well its another beautiful morning in Sunny Florida. Just had breakfast on the terrace whilst reading the latest LT diatribe. Many many weeks ago I wrote on this advising Rovers fans that the only way to remove Steve Kean was a near 100% boycott. The majority did not listen. Now your team sits third in the league and are averaging 2 points a game which is promotion form. If Kean is sacked on results then so should 90% of managers. As for the mighty LT demanding Keans head on a silver platter !!! Who on earth do they think they are. If they are so passionate about the local team then buy it and make all the decisions you want. Would love to see Andy Cryer as manager. Who is to blame ? Without a doubt it is The Walkers Trust. Once Jack Walker died so did Blackburn Rovers. The trust simply wanted their cash and to get out as fast as possible. They had no loyalty whatsoever to the club or the town. No one who cared would have sold to a bunch of Indian chicken farmers. After that is was always going to be downhill. The club ( predictably ) is full of mercenaries. Anderson, Kean,Singh , the Players etc and The venkys will never understand that they are being taken to the cleaners on a daily basis. The Answer As much as I would like to see Blackburn Rovers sink into oblivion, the only answer is to remove the Venkys completely and replace them with owners who care about the club. Simply replacing Kean with Sherwood or whoever is not sufficient. Look at Anderson and Shebby Singh ! I mean would you employ them to run YOUR football club. I think not. My own club are struggling like many others but I would not swap places with you guys at any price..UTC

These are very fair points and what ANY true footall fan (devoid of supporting their own team) would gree with!

UKdarran wrote:

FCBurnley wrote:
Well its another beautiful morning in Sunny Florida. Just had breakfast on the terrace whilst reading the latest LT diatribe.

Many many weeks ago I wrote on this advising Rovers fans that the only way to remove Steve Kean was a near 100% boycott. The majority did not listen.

Now your team sits third in the league and are averaging 2 points a game which is promotion form. If Kean is sacked on results then so should 90% of managers.

As for the mighty LT demanding Keans head on a silver platter !!! Who on earth do they think they are. If they are so passionate about the local team then buy it and make all the decisions you want. Would love to see Andy Cryer as manager.

Who is to blame ?

Without a doubt it is The Walkers Trust. Once Jack Walker died so did Blackburn Rovers. The trust simply wanted their cash and to get out as fast as possible. They had no loyalty whatsoever to the club or the town. No one who cared would have sold to a bunch of Indian chicken farmers. After that is was always going to be downhill. The club ( predictably ) is full of mercenaries. Anderson, Kean,Singh , the Players etc and The venkys will never understand that they are being taken to the cleaners on a daily basis.

The Answer

As much as I would like to see Blackburn Rovers sink into oblivion, the only answer is to remove the Venkys completely and replace them with owners who care about the club. Simply replacing Kean with Sherwood or whoever is not sufficient. Look at Anderson and Shebby Singh ! I mean would you employ them to run YOUR football club. I think not.

My own club are struggling like many others but I would not swap places with you guys at any price..UTC

It'll be a cold day in hell before I take any advice from a Bonleh fan.

Now go and have a swim in the Everglades!

EVERGLADES the lying dingle hes nearer the leeds liverppol cannal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!

UKdarran wrote:

FCBurnley wrote:
Well its another beautiful morning in Sunny Florida. Just had breakfast on the terrace whilst reading the latest LT diatribe.

Many many weeks ago I wrote on this advising Rovers fans that the only way to remove Steve Kean was a near 100% boycott. The majority did not listen.

Now your team sits third in the league and are averaging 2 points a game which is promotion form. If Kean is sacked on results then so should 90% of managers.

As for the mighty LT demanding Keans head on a silver platter !!! Who on earth do they think they are. If they are so passionate about the local team then buy it and make all the decisions you want. Would love to see Andy Cryer as manager.

Who is to blame ?

Without a doubt it is The Walkers Trust. Once Jack Walker died so did Blackburn Rovers. The trust simply wanted their cash and to get out as fast as possible. They had no loyalty whatsoever to the club or the town. No one who cared would have sold to a bunch of Indian chicken farmers. After that is was always going to be downhill. The club ( predictably ) is full of mercenaries. Anderson, Kean,Singh , the Players etc and The venkys will never understand that they are being taken to the cleaners on a daily basis.

The Answer

As much as I would like to see Blackburn Rovers sink into oblivion, the only answer is to remove the Venkys completely and replace them with owners who care about the club. Simply replacing Kean with Sherwood or whoever is not sufficient. Look at Anderson and Shebby Singh ! I mean would you employ them to run YOUR football club. I think not.

My own club are struggling like many others but I would not swap places with you guys at any price..UTC

It'll be a cold day in hell before I take any advice from a Bonleh fan.

Now go and have a swim in the Everglades!

Like Florida is a catch, full of snowbirds and drivel, enjoy the mosquitos and palmetto bugs

"Stay away on game day, go back when SK gets the sack"

makaveli96 wrote:
So the vast majority squawk; it is ‘just a game’. This football stuff, it doesn’t matter really. It is meaningless in comparison to other, more sugary aspects of our life such as love, or perhaps living itself. Any website – any facebook page. I guarantee you will stumble across that type of comment. The type which I still maintain is vacant, hollow and inherently contradictory. Just a game. Just like scrabble. Or drunken twister. Or perhaps a few rounds of Snap!

Of course, if we are to take this notion to its logical conclusion…well, then it all becomes rather convoluted and inconveniently tricky, doesn’t it? Bob Dylan is not the poet of a generation. He’s just a guy with an acoustic and a way with words. The film Philadelphia with Tom Hanks? Not the profound masterpiece which lightened eyes from a homophobic darkness; nope, just a handful of people playing pretend, perched in front of lights and cameras. George Orwell’s 1984? Just words.

I hope my point is clear. Anything that relentlessly hypnotises humans – anything that consumes us like football does – is more than its raw, base description. It is art. If you’ll allow this headstrong lout to opine, the ‘just a game’ saying is a vapid, desecrated, skewed viewpoint. We bestow upon life such a sacred, tender gracefulness and awe; yet how interesting that hours upon hours of that precious life are spent watching football. The game is more than a game. Therein lies the allure, and it should be imbued and inculcated within every one of us. We must cherish and promulgate that point to the heavens above. And of course if football is more than a game, then football clubs are more than just clubs.

And this is why Blackburn Rovers, still flush with the unsubtle, supine disease of Venky’s, are so tragic. I am not a Rovers fan. But this club are not to be laughed at. They are not to be insulted. Any dignified football fan must stride with them in a battle against what amounts to nothing more than sleazy, repugnant molestation, hidden under a carapace of insulting, lip-trembling, woe-is-me delusion by the bone-jarring joker of the putrid pack – Steve Kean. Remember in May, when Blackburn were relegated? The enduring image of the Blackburn Rovers crest sullied by Lancashire rain and syringed by infection should never leave you.

It could be your club. Would Mr Kean have ‘dignity’ then?

I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them.

If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his clubs.

Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the Media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply.

And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated? A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean?

As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement.

Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore it.

The greatest thoughts I have ever read on these pages concerning just what this disgraceful episode as spawned for BRFC.

Par excellence Makaveli96 on your find or indeed, your words.

Arte et labore

inflightmagazine wrote:
i think this is really the water shed moment for the club, we stand at a cross roads now, one of which should take us back to the premiership and another could potentially see us slip into everlasting championship or below football.

Regardless of anyones views on Mr Keans ability to manage ( Personally would not let him near my under 9s team), the impact on keeping this man in charge at the club is highly damaging, both on a buisness and footballing level, the decision to leave Steve Kean in charge has no logical argument, he is delivering nothing of note on the pitch and there is almost an all out war amongst long term Blackburn fans that continues to damage the club.

One decision changes everything here , remove steve Kean and bring in fresh management, the squad is strong enough to storm this league, the fans begin to come back,revenues increase, the atmosphere around the club improves, sponsors come back to the club , we all go nuts when we get promoted and I can stop using valuable work time to come on here and comment about the obvious.

We wil all go nuts when they sack Kean!!!! lol!!

Rover since 1947 wrote:

midas wrote: What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

What a nonsense comment, with no basis to facts. If you purchased a product which was completely unsatisfactory and the vendor refused to put things right, whilst being supported by the owner, would you continue to be a customer?

Have you read the first three paragraphs of the article? The LET are calling on Venkys to end the speculation about Kean. If Venkys come out and support Kean will the "supporters" return? No they won't.
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You might find the product unsatisfactory but others don't. The position in the League is more than satisfactory. The vendor is doing nothing wrong, average over 2 points per game and the owners are doing nothing wrong (you might not agree with what they are doing but its their club and they set the policy), if you don't like it choose something else or stick with it and support.

Any honourable manager would have fallen on his sword by now and it speaks volumes about the man.

A long time ago I admired him for his belief in himself - but it didn't take long to realise there was something else to this saga and not just an air of dillusion from the man in charge of our team.

Why would he not go of his own accord? Maybe, because he knows he's unemployable as a manager again. Had he gone sooner the job market would have been more promising.

Some would say can you blame him for milking things for as long as possible. Maybe for some seemingly impossible reason he is harder to 'get rid' of than most....mmm leaves a lot to the imagiantion that one too.

Either way, the longer the stay of execution the worse it will get whether you go or you are pushed. But rest assured Kean whatever you reasons, whatever your motive not to resign and waiting to be pushed, you will at some point in the future inevitably reap what you sow. The longer it continues the worse it will be.

The truth is only Steve Kean knows the REAL truth about himself. If he is 100% honest one day - when he looks himself in the mirror and asks himself if he is proud of his life and his achievemeents. Deep down only he will TRULY know if he has been a good egg or not. Well Steve, I hope when you do you will remember all the disruption, heartache and upset that those who love BRFC have endured as you pose that question to youself. I hope you can 100% say to yourself that your conscience is clear, but I somehow doubt it.

Mr. Steve Kean, life is full of never-ending lessons and it will continue to present you with the same lesson until you learn from it and then move on to the next. So do us ALL a favour and move on...

I once remember Graeme Souness saying, "This is a proper football club, run by proper people for the right reasons." How times have changed!

Weak owners or not, your very presence at Ewood compounds the club's problems day by day. Your debt and the owners debt to the fans get bigger with every second just as the cashflow diminishes at the same time too.

There is a glimmmer of hope for Venjys if a new manager can be brought in. I just hope you don't go down in history for being the man that bankrupted our club through your self-interest. If so, you won't enjoy the visit to the mirror on little bit.

bluenick wrote:

inflightmagazine wrote:
i think this is really the water shed moment for the club, we stand at a cross roads now, one of which should take us back to the premiership and another could potentially see us slip into everlasting championship or below football.

Regardless of anyones views on Mr Keans ability to manage ( Personally would not let him near my under 9s team), the impact on keeping this man in charge at the club is highly damaging, both on a buisness and footballing level, the decision to leave Steve Kean in charge has no logical argument, he is delivering nothing of note on the pitch and there is almost an all out war amongst long term Blackburn fans that continues to damage the club.

One decision changes everything here , remove steve Kean and bring in fresh management, the squad is strong enough to storm this league, the fans begin to come back,revenues increase, the atmosphere around the club improves, sponsors come back to the club , we all go nuts when we get promoted and I can stop using valuable work time to come on here and comment about the obvious.

We wil all go nuts when they sack Kean!!!! lol!!

yes but we will still have the nuts called venkys !!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone seen or heard from Derek Shaw or Paul Agnew recently????

Do they exist or are they card board cutouts.

At least Shebby has some balls and does come out to talk to the media even if he takes a while to say nothing much.

It seems to me like Venkys employ these people but they are scared to death to actually say or do anything for fear of losing their unearned income.

Neither Tim Sherwood or Alan Shearer fill me with too much hope, both are untried and tested at managerial or championship level...that said this league is there for the taking and just to see either of them in the dugout instead of the present incumbent would be such a relief and I am looking forward to the party at Ewood WHEN not IF it happens!

Road Runner Road Runner wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:
So the vast majority squawk; it is ‘just a game’. This football stuff, it doesn’t matter really. It is meaningless in comparison to other, more sugary aspects of our life such as love, or perhaps living itself. Any website – any facebook page. I guarantee you will stumble across that type of comment. The type which I still maintain is vacant, hollow and inherently contradictory. Just a game. Just like scrabble. Or drunken twister. Or perhaps a few rounds of Snap!

Of course, if we are to take this notion to its logical conclusion…well, then it all becomes rather convoluted and inconveniently tricky, doesn’t it? Bob Dylan is not the poet of a generation. He’s just a guy with an acoustic and a way with words. The film Philadelphia with Tom Hanks? Not the profound masterpiece which lightened eyes from a homophobic darkness; nope, just a handful of people playing pretend, perched in front of lights and cameras. George Orwell’s 1984? Just words.

I hope my point is clear. Anything that relentlessly hypnotises humans – anything that consumes us like football does – is more than its raw, base description. It is art. If you’ll allow this headstrong lout to opine, the ‘just a game’ saying is a vapid, desecrated, skewed viewpoint. We bestow upon life such a sacred, tender gracefulness and awe; yet how interesting that hours upon hours of that precious life are spent watching football. The game is more than a game. Therein lies the allure, and it should be imbued and inculcated within every one of us. We must cherish and promulgate that point to the heavens above. And of course if football is more than a game, then football clubs are more than just clubs.

And this is why Blackburn Rovers, still flush with the unsubtle, supine disease of Venky’s, are so tragic. I am not a Rovers fan. But this club are not to be laughed at. They are not to be insulted. Any dignified football fan must stride with them in a battle against what amounts to nothing more than sleazy, repugnant molestation, hidden under a carapace of insulting, lip-trembling, woe-is-me delusion by the bone-jarring joker of the putrid pack – Steve Kean. Remember in May, when Blackburn were relegated? The enduring image of the Blackburn Rovers crest sullied by Lancashire rain and syringed by infection should never leave you.

It could be your club. Would Mr Kean have ‘dignity’ then?

I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them.

If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his clubs.

Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the Media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply.

And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated? A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean?

As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement.

Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore it.

The greatest thoughts I have ever read on these pages concerning just what this disgraceful episode as spawned for BRFC.

Par excellence Makaveli96 on your find or indeed, your words.

Arte et labore

Majestic words indeed.....from the court's jester!

FCBurnley wrote:
Well its another beautiful morning in Sunny Florida. Just had breakfast on the terrace whilst reading the latest LT diatribe.

Many many weeks ago I wrote on this advising Rovers fans that the only way to remove Steve Kean was a near 100% boycott. The majority did not listen.

Now your team sits third in the league and are averaging 2 points a game which is promotion form. If Kean is sacked on results then so should 90% of managers.

As for the mighty LT demanding Keans head on a silver platter !!! Who on earth do they think they are. If they are so passionate about the local team then buy it and make all the decisions you want. Would love to see Andy Cryer as manager.

Who is to blame ?

Without a doubt it is The Walkers Trust. Once Jack Walker died so did Blackburn Rovers. The trust simply wanted their cash and to get out as fast as possible. They had no loyalty whatsoever to the club or the town. No one who cared would have sold to a bunch of Indian chicken farmers. After that is was always going to be downhill. The club ( predictably ) is full of mercenaries. Anderson, Kean,Singh , the Players etc and The venkys will never understand that they are being taken to the cleaners on a daily basis.

The Answer

As much as I would like to see Blackburn Rovers sink into oblivion, the only answer is to remove the Venkys completely and replace them with owners who care about the club. Simply replacing Kean with Sherwood or whoever is not sufficient. Look at Anderson and Shebby Singh ! I mean would you employ them to run YOUR football club. I think not.

My own club are struggling like many others but I would not swap places with you guys at any price..UTC

I think you'll be waking up soon for your medication, and You'll look out the window, and yer car will be in bricks, and sheet all over the streets, and you'll look at your family and say, ahh, there's no place like home. Florida, my butt.

bluenick wrote:

inflightmagazine wrote:
i think this is really the water shed moment for the club, we stand at a cross roads now, one of which should take us back to the premiership and another could potentially see us slip into everlasting championship or below football.

Regardless of anyones views on Mr Keans ability to manage ( Personally would not let him near my under 9s team), the impact on keeping this man in charge at the club is highly damaging, both on a buisness and footballing level, the decision to leave Steve Kean in charge has no logical argument, he is delivering nothing of note on the pitch and there is almost an all out war amongst long term Blackburn fans that continues to damage the club.

One decision changes everything here , remove steve Kean and bring in fresh management, the squad is strong enough to storm this league, the fans begin to come back,revenues increase, the atmosphere around the club improves, sponsors come back to the club , we all go nuts when we get promoted and I can stop using valuable work time to come on here and comment about the obvious.

We wil all go nuts when they sack Kean!!!! lol!!

The party stuff is ready to get out when Kean gets the sack !!

FCBurnley wrote:
Well its another beautiful morning in Sunny Florida. Just had breakfast on the terrace whilst reading the latest LT diatribe.

Many many weeks ago I wrote on this advising Rovers fans that the only way to remove Steve Kean was a near 100% boycott. The majority did not listen.

Now your team sits third in the league and are averaging 2 points a game which is promotion form. If Kean is sacked on results then so should 90% of managers.

As for the mighty LT demanding Keans head on a silver platter !!! Who on earth do they think they are. If they are so passionate about the local team then buy it and make all the decisions you want. Would love to see Andy Cryer as manager.

Who is to blame ?

Without a doubt it is The Walkers Trust. Once Jack Walker died so did Blackburn Rovers. The trust simply wanted their cash and to get out as fast as possible. They had no loyalty whatsoever to the club or the town. No one who cared would have sold to a bunch of Indian chicken farmers. After that is was always going to be downhill. The club ( predictably ) is full of mercenaries. Anderson, Kean,Singh , the Players etc and The venkys will never understand that they are being taken to the cleaners on a daily basis.

The Answer

As much as I would like to see Blackburn Rovers sink into oblivion, the only answer is to remove the Venkys completely and replace them with owners who care about the club. Simply replacing Kean with Sherwood or whoever is not sufficient. Look at Anderson and Shebby Singh ! I mean would you employ them to run YOUR football club. I think not.

My own club are struggling like many others but I would not swap places with you guys at any price..UTC

Yes,but you Dingles are always struggling, you are so used to failure its become a way of life for you. Even now with all the problems at Ewood,you are still below us and there you will stay. Rovers problems stem from a bad sale of the club to people who have no knowledge of the game, your clubs problems are that they have Dingles supporting them.

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Don't know what you've got to be proud of you illiterate moron.

Yaaaaawwwn. SSDD.
Back tomorrow.

mellorb&w wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Don't know what you've got to be proud of you illiterate moron.

Hoilet fee agreed at £4 that twice the amount all of Bumleys team is worth

Steph Henchoz has commented on the useless owners. Wouldn't it be nice if the current players got themselves organised and came out with something. Not likely I suppose.

If only they read this in india!

willhelmrover98 wrote:
If only they read this in india!

If they had any sense they would. All the best managers come on this site to comment.

Has he gone yet ????

I dreamt I was a yo-yo.

I've been up half the night

Wayne Roney played well last night.

Mind you, he alwas does after hes had a nasty gash...

When my missus died in an accident the coroner passed comment "I think your wife was a cracker"

"cheers pal" I replied, "you really think so"

He Said, "yes, when we cut her open we found a rubbish joke, party hat and bottle opener"!

Interesting to note that GOBSH!TE KEAN has been very quite this week, not his usual preening **** sure self, lets home things are afoot to boot him out the door for good, but why does it have to take so long.

I honestly don't think we'll progress with Sherwood. I'm not particularly happy with the way he left - sideways move for me. Get someone in who knows how to manage.

Most of you ingrates wanted big Sam out at the time so careful what you wish for!

stevenroper wrote:
I honestly don't think we'll progress with Sherwood. I'm not particularly happy with the way he left - sideways move for me. Get someone in who knows how to manage.

Dead right stevenroper. Sideways move. May as well get Alan Shearer as Tim Deadwood.

PS - was your uncle a copper?

wampam wrote:
Steph Henchoz has commented on the useless owners. Wouldn't it be nice if the current players got themselves organised and came out with something. Not likely I suppose.

That's because the current players are pulling TOGETHER, something you so called "fans" wouldn't know anything about.

stony bloke wrote:

Long time Rover wrote:
Couple of things strike me reading everything I can on Rovers these past 18 months. Firstly Kean going is just part one, its very important we get the right man to follow, (Curbishley would be my choice), and second just how badly do the Walker family come out of all this? They met these people and listened to them and then gave them our football club, a club that their Jack had loved and nurtured.

I raised this point months ago. The Walker family should shoulder the responsibility for selling the club off to Venky in the first place, but that's water under the bridge now. Nothing can be done to rectify that.

The Walker family, like the FA and thousands of Rovers fans, were the victims of confidence tricksters. The only people to blame for this debacle, are the scum in India.

Stone Island: wrote:

stony bloke wrote:

Long time Rover wrote:
Couple of things strike me reading everything I can on Rovers these past 18 months. Firstly Kean going is just part one, its very important we get the right man to follow, (Curbishley would be my choice), and second just how badly do the Walker family come out of all this? They met these people and listened to them and then gave them our football club, a club that their Jack had loved and nurtured.

I raised this point months ago. The Walker family should shoulder the responsibility for selling the club off to Venky in the first place, but that's water under the bridge now. Nothing can be done to rectify that.

The Walker family, like the FA and thousands of Rovers fans, were the victims of confidence tricksters. The only people to blame for this debacle, are the scum in India.

Apprently Russ Walker didnt want to sell despite not being into football. It was the others who wanted to offload. Can you imagine what Jack would think now? He would have those Venkys down Nuttal Street quicker than you can say Steve Kean!

wampam wrote:
Steph Henchoz has commented on the useless owners. Wouldn't it be nice if the current players got themselves organised and came out with something. Not likely I suppose.

I think they have it's called playing sheet, only trouble is it's backfiring and they are actually winning some games.

stevenroper wrote:
I honestly don't think we'll progress with Sherwood. I'm not particularly happy with the way he left - sideways move for me. Get someone in who knows how to manage.

Also it would be another case of having a manager with links to those above - Shebby.

The Mighty Weetabix wrote:

wampam wrote:
Steph Henchoz has commented on the useless owners. Wouldn't it be nice if the current players got themselves organised and came out with something. Not likely I suppose.

That's because the current players are pulling TOGETHER, something you so called "fans" wouldn't know anything about.

back to yorkshire you go laddie

Cumbrian Blue wrote:

Road Runner Road Runner wrote:

makaveli96 wrote:
So the vast majority squawk; it is ‘just a game’. This football stuff, it doesn’t matter really. It is meaningless in comparison to other, more sugary aspects of our life such as love, or perhaps living itself. Any website – any facebook page. I guarantee you will stumble across that type of comment. The type which I still maintain is vacant, hollow and inherently contradictory. Just a game. Just like scrabble. Or drunken twister. Or perhaps a few rounds of Snap!

Of course, if we are to take this notion to its logical conclusion…well, then it all becomes rather convoluted and inconveniently tricky, doesn’t it? Bob Dylan is not the poet of a generation. He’s just a guy with an acoustic and a way with words. The film Philadelphia with Tom Hanks? Not the profound masterpiece which lightened eyes from a homophobic darkness; nope, just a handful of people playing pretend, perched in front of lights and cameras. George Orwell’s 1984? Just words.

I hope my point is clear. Anything that relentlessly hypnotises humans – anything that consumes us like football does – is more than its raw, base description. It is art. If you’ll allow this headstrong lout to opine, the ‘just a game’ saying is a vapid, desecrated, skewed viewpoint. We bestow upon life such a sacred, tender gracefulness and awe; yet how interesting that hours upon hours of that precious life are spent watching football. The game is more than a game. Therein lies the allure, and it should be imbued and inculcated within every one of us. We must cherish and promulgate that point to the heavens above. And of course if football is more than a game, then football clubs are more than just clubs.

And this is why Blackburn Rovers, still flush with the unsubtle, supine disease of Venky’s, are so tragic. I am not a Rovers fan. But this club are not to be laughed at. They are not to be insulted. Any dignified football fan must stride with them in a battle against what amounts to nothing more than sleazy, repugnant molestation, hidden under a carapace of insulting, lip-trembling, woe-is-me delusion by the bone-jarring joker of the putrid pack – Steve Kean. Remember in May, when Blackburn were relegated? The enduring image of the Blackburn Rovers crest sullied by Lancashire rain and syringed by infection should never leave you.

It could be your club. Would Mr Kean have ‘dignity’ then?

I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them.

If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his clubs.

Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the Media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply.

And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated? A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean?

As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement.

Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore it.

The greatest thoughts I have ever read on these pages concerning just what this disgraceful episode as spawned for BRFC.

Par excellence Makaveli96 on your find or indeed, your words.

Arte et labore

Majestic words indeed.....from the court's jester!

They are not his words. He has plagiarised from State of the Game website

Stone Island: wrote:

stony bloke wrote:

Long time Rover wrote:
Couple of things strike me reading everything I can on Rovers these past 18 months. Firstly Kean going is just part one, its very important we get the right man to follow, (Curbishley would be my choice), and second just how badly do the Walker family come out of all this? They met these people and listened to them and then gave them our football club, a club that their Jack had loved and nurtured.

I raised this point months ago. The Walker family should shoulder the responsibility for selling the club off to Venky in the first place, but that's water under the bridge now. Nothing can be done to rectify that.

The Walker family, like the FA and thousands of Rovers fans, were the victims of confidence tricksters. The only people to blame for this debacle, are the scum in India.

Come come, Stony Bloke!
So the Walkers, FA and thousands of fans were all victims of confidence tricksters? If that's so then it says more about you than them. But you've only got to be smarter than what you're up against and they were smart enough to pick you! In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king!
Good luck with that parliamentary inquiry you were banging on about having.

lowelife wrote:

Jake and Elvis wrote: You should never have a woman anywhere near running a Football Club. Just look what Thatcher did to this Country.

The Blessed Margaret Hilda Thatcher was the saviour of this country and the most successful peacetime prime minister, ever. She is also a Vice President of our beloved club. She would not have tolerated the likes of the incompetent SK in her government. Love her or loathe her, she was decisive!

Margaret Thatcher wouldn't have tolerated an incompetent yes man like Kean in her government?

You are having a giraffe aren't you?

Billypieman wrote:

midas wrote: What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

Maybe we should follow your lead and set fire to the manager's wife in a Burnley chip shop.

Too - f@ckin' -shay.

Quality Billy P

shebby kean wrote:

Stone Island: wrote:

stony bloke wrote:

Long time Rover wrote:
Couple of things strike me reading everything I can on Rovers these past 18 months. Firstly Kean going is just part one, its very important we get the right man to follow, (Curbishley would be my choice), and second just how badly do the Walker family come out of all this? They met these people and listened to them and then gave them our football club, a club that their Jack had loved and nurtured.

I raised this point months ago. The Walker family should shoulder the responsibility for selling the club off to Venky in the first place, but that's water under the bridge now. Nothing can be done to rectify that.

The Walker family, like the FA and thousands of Rovers fans, were the victims of confidence tricksters. The only people to blame for this debacle, are the scum in India.

Come come, Stony Bloke!
So the Walkers, FA and thousands of fans were all victims of confidence tricksters? If that's so then it says more about you than them. But you've only got to be smarter than what you're up against and they were smart enough to pick you! In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king!
Good luck with that parliamentary inquiry you were banging on about having.

Most people were actually taken in by the scum in India. They promised the earth, and people believed them. They made many promises, and have reneged on them ALL. They've turned out to be despicable, and dishounourable people, and have employed people of the same ilk.

The Walkers believed their lies. The FA believed their lies. And thousands of Rovers fans believed their lies. The result is what we're seeing now. A complete shambles from top to bottom. As long as these scum have anything to do with this once proud club, we will continue to lurch from one crisis to another. The longer they are here, the more damage they will do.

Venky's and Steve Kean: You are beneath contempt.

What another PR farce. Who is actually in charge of PR at BRFC? Surely Mr Kean has to go now. I really don't believe Venky's are holdng on because they don't want to pay Mr Kean compensation. They must be smarter than that? There has to be more to this. Where are BRAG with all this evidence? Whatever the die is really cast now and his situation is untenable. Mr Kean has to go as manager whether he stays in another format who knows but wqould be a strange move and not appease the fans. He has to be taken to the tower and off with his head quickly. My biggest concern is that Mr Sherwood is being mentioned as a replacement along with Mr Shearer as second preference

midas wrote:
What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

Quite right Midas !!

If the owners did give way to 'supporter power' and not to business sense then it would raise the question of who was actually running the Club, and encourage more protest in the future.
The words tail, wagging, and dog spring to mind.

P.S. Kean is a duffer and I want him out PDQ.
However it's not my millions which are keeping the club afloat so I have to grin and bear it for a little longer.

whappen wrote:

lowelife wrote:

Jake and Elvis wrote: You should never have a woman anywhere near running a Football Club. Just look what Thatcher did to this Country.

The Blessed Margaret Hilda Thatcher was the saviour of this country and the most successful peacetime prime minister, ever. She is also a Vice President of our beloved club. She would not have tolerated the likes of the incompetent SK in her government. Love her or loathe her, she was decisive!

Margaret Thatcher wouldn't have tolerated an incompetent yes man like Kean in her government?

You are having a giraffe aren't you?

Like her or loathe her she was "Decisive".

Saddam Hussein was "decisive"

Gadaffi too, was decisive.

And Assad....and Robert Mugabe....

and Dale Cregan while we're at all. All of them wonderfully DECISIVE

You imbecile. Oh and I do loathe her. Cos she was a c.nt

State of the Game - Jack Heaney

So, the vast majority squawk; it is ‘just a game’. This football stuff, it doesn’t matter really. It is meaningless in comparison to other, more sugary aspects of our life such as love, or perhaps living itself. Any website – any facebook page. I guarantee you will stumble across that type of comment. The type which I still maintain is vacant, hollow and inherently contradictory. Just a game. Just like Scrabble. Or drunken Twister. Or perhaps a few rounds of Snap!

Of course, if we are to take this notion to its logical conclusion…well, then it all becomes rather convoluted and inconveniently tricky, doesn’t it? Bob Dylan is not the poet of a generation. He’s just a guy with an acoustic and a way with words. The film Philadelphia with Tom Hanks? Not the profound masterpiece which lightened eyes from a homophobic darkness; nope, just a handful of people playing pretend, perched in front of lights and cameras. George Orwell’s 1986? Just words.

I hope my point is clear. Anything that relentlessly hypnotises humans – anything that consumes us like football does – is more than its raw, base description. It is art. If you’ll allow this headstrong lout to opine, the ‘just a game’ saying is a vapid, desecrated, skewed viewpoint. We bestow upon life such a sacred, tender gracefulness and awe; yet how interesting that hours upon hours of that precious life are spent watching football. The game is more than a game. Therein lies the allure, and it should be imbued and inculcated within every one of us. We must cherish and promulgate that point to the heavens above. And of course if football is more than a game, then football clubs are more than just clubs.

And this is why Blackburn Rovers, still flush with the unsubtle, supine disease of Venky’s, are so tragic. I am not a Rovers fan. But this club are not to be laughed at. They are not to be insulted. Any dignified football fan must stride with them in a battle against what amounts to nothing more than sleazy, repugnant molestation, hidden under a carapace of insulting, lip-trembling, woe-is-me delusion by the bone-jarring joker of the putrid pack – Steve Kean. Remember in May, when Blackburn were relegated? The enduring image of the Blackburn Rovers crest sullied by Lancashire rain and syringed by infection should never leave you.

It could be your club. Would Mr. Kean have ‘dignity’ then?

I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them.

If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his club’s.

Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply.

And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated?

A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean?

As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement.

Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore it.

Is the fat controller, also known as the fat **** that has final say in india, actually retarded and sub normal in terms of IQ? No owner in the football league other than the Venkys and the fat controller still keep Mr kean in a job at this moment time.
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What exactly do they think they will achieve by keeping Kean as manager, they have gone from 25,000 average gate to 12,777 in under 2 years. Do they hate Blackburn rovers and want the club to go out of business?

If Kean had any sense he would go now - he could point to the fact tht he had taken the club to the Top of the Championship but he was forced out by the supporters. It wasnt his fault it was Venkys for failing to back him with serious cash when Rovers were a Premiership Club He would get sympathy from the wider footballing world who believe Rovers fans are as much to blame and he would get a nice pay off.

Unfortunately his positive thoiughts do not see it this way and therefore Venkys need to act before their investment hits roock bottom. £3 Million pounds for Hoillett - dont you wish Rovers could do such deals.

over-rovers wrote:
There is talk in the morning papers that kean is on his way to india for talks and that rovers are heading for talks with tim sherwood to take over dont know which is worse.

Share your sentiments entirely. Prior to taking over at Rovers, Kean had no prior front line managerial experience and we have painfully suffered the consequences of a rookie wannabe manager. Are we about to make the same mistake again with Sherwood? Surely the old maxim of 'once bitten, twice shy' should come into play. What the club needs more than anything is a steady pair of experienced managerial hands at this juncture.

its now not only Kean the worm who has to go, but his maggots aswell,,,,agnew, Black, hendry and that geezer from pne....

earwego wrote:

mellorb&w wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Don't know what you've got to be proud of you illiterate moron.

Hoilet fee agreed at £4 that twice the amount all of Bumleys team is worth

haha if u say so pal ur teams full of underaged portugese kids o pensioners lol wtf u still thinkin bwt hoilet 4 nd id love 2 c hw much ur gna lose on rhodes da shitbag 8 million wt a waste CHARLIE AUSTIN LEADING GOALSCORER were 5 points behnd yet u lot go on lyk ur a league ahead lol dm days r ova lads get ova it ur in CHAMPIONSHIP FACE FACTS STOP ****!!!! it'll b 2 points wn u lose 2 charlton UTMC

proud burnley lad wrote:

earwego wrote:

mellorb&w wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Don't know what you've got to be proud of you illiterate moron.

Hoilet fee agreed at £4 that twice the amount all of Bumleys team is worth

haha if u say so pal ur teams full of underaged portugese kids o pensioners lol wtf u still thinkin bwt hoilet 4 nd id love 2 c hw much ur gna lose on rhodes da shitbag 8 million wt a waste CHARLIE AUSTIN LEADING GOALSCORER were 5 points behnd yet u lot go on lyk ur a league ahead lol dm days r ova lads get ova it ur in CHAMPIONSHIP FACE FACTS STOP ****!!!! it'll b 2 points wn u lose 2 charlton UTMC

Ok you are not having the last say on her today numb-nuts, learn to type and stop using text, you are getting annoying

Enjoy your 10th birthday!!

proud burnley lad wrote:

earwego wrote:

mellorb&w wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Don't know what you've got to be proud of you illiterate moron.

Hoilet fee agreed at £4 that twice the amount all of Bumleys team is worth

haha if u say so pal ur teams full of underaged portugese kids o pensioners lol wtf u still thinkin bwt hoilet 4 nd id love 2 c hw much ur gna lose on rhodes da shitbag 8 million wt a waste CHARLIE AUSTIN LEADING GOALSCORER were 5 points behnd yet u lot go on lyk ur a league ahead lol dm days r ova lads get ova it ur in CHAMPIONSHIP FACE FACTS STOP ****!!!! it'll b 2 points wn u lose 2 charlton UTMC

I bet your parents are really proud of your 'education'. What a tool you are!

proud burnley lad wrote:

earwego wrote:

mellorb&w wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Don't know what you've got to be proud of you illiterate moron.

Hoilet fee agreed at £4 that twice the amount all of Bumleys team is worth

haha if u say so pal ur teams full of underaged portugese kids o pensioners lol wtf u still thinkin bwt hoilet 4 nd id love 2 c hw much ur gna lose on rhodes da shitbag 8 million wt a waste CHARLIE AUSTIN LEADING GOALSCORER were 5 points behnd yet u lot go on lyk ur a league ahead lol dm days r ova lads get ova it ur in CHAMPIONSHIP FACE FACTS STOP ****!!!! it'll b 2 points wn u lose 2 charlton UTMC

We have the worst defense in the Championship,we have the worst owners in our history,we are playing rubbish football,we have the worst manager that's ever been in the world of football,we are seen as a laughing stock. Yet with all this going on in our club,you Dingles still cant catch us. Keep looking up,we will always be there. Its good that you feel you need to come on this site,simply because there is nothing of interest in Dingleland,apart from chasing sheep and inbreeding,but then again, as your name implies, you are proud of that.

£3m is good money for Junior Toillet and a creditable bit of business for Steve Kean. Well done.

Why don't the Venkys take a leaf out of Mike Ashley's book and award Kean with an improved 8 year deal? He clearly deserves it doing a fine job of leading you to the promotion spots in the face of some tremendous pressure.

Only1Garner wrote:
State of the Game - Jack Heaney So, the vast majority squawk; it is ‘just a game’. This football stuff, it doesn’t matter really. It is meaningless in comparison to other, more sugary aspects of our life such as love, or perhaps living itself. Any website – any facebook page. I guarantee you will stumble across that type of comment. The type which I still maintain is vacant, hollow and inherently contradictory. Just a game. Just like Scrabble. Or drunken Twister. Or perhaps a few rounds of Snap! Of course, if we are to take this notion to its logical conclusion…well, then it all becomes rather convoluted and inconveniently tricky, doesn’t it? Bob Dylan is not the poet of a generation. He’s just a guy with an acoustic and a way with words. The film Philadelphia with Tom Hanks? Not the profound masterpiece which lightened eyes from a homophobic darkness; nope, just a handful of people playing pretend, perched in front of lights and cameras. George Orwell’s 1986? Just words. I hope my point is clear. Anything that relentlessly hypnotises humans – anything that consumes us like football does – is more than its raw, base description. It is art. If you’ll allow this headstrong lout to opine, the ‘just a game’ saying is a vapid, desecrated, skewed viewpoint. We bestow upon life such a sacred, tender gracefulness and awe; yet how interesting that hours upon hours of that precious life are spent watching football. The game is more than a game. Therein lies the allure, and it should be imbued and inculcated within every one of us. We must cherish and promulgate that point to the heavens above. And of course if football is more than a game, then football clubs are more than just clubs. And this is why Blackburn Rovers, still flush with the unsubtle, supine disease of Venky’s, are so tragic. I am not a Rovers fan. But this club are not to be laughed at. They are not to be insulted. Any dignified football fan must stride with them in a battle against what amounts to nothing more than sleazy, repugnant molestation, hidden under a carapace of insulting, lip-trembling, woe-is-me delusion by the bone-jarring joker of the putrid pack – Steve Kean. Remember in May, when Blackburn were relegated? The enduring image of the Blackburn Rovers crest sullied by Lancashire rain and syringed by infection should never leave you. It could be your club. Would Mr. Kean have ‘dignity’ then? I hesitated before writing this article because the latest development in the sorry saga was so very inevitable. The reports came in: Kean to be sacked. He was supposed to pick up 16 points yet picked up 14. Hilariously some even offer that as a reason to be a Kean-apologist. The reports came in again: Kean will still be in charge for at least one more game. Haven’t we heard this one before? Who exactly is this man? What credentials does he possess? Does his ego know no bounds: to have the audacity – the gall – to claim that exciting times lie ahead for Blackburn after overseeing their relegation is an insult. And there’s a long list of them. If this charlatan cared a jot about the club he ‘represents’ (in actuality he embodies not a hair on the Blackburn head) he would have resigned. That would be dignity; but then, just how did Kean get the Blackburn gig again? Oh. Oh yeah, we remember. He is not ‘optimistic’ or ‘determined’, but deluded and deranged. A selfish man concerned with his own needs, not his club’s. Perhaps some of the spotlight has been diluted since Rovers relegation. With fans exiting the stands and not returning, one would expect the common sense to prevail. Perhaps the most baffling aspect of it all is the media’s sympathy for Kean. Especially towards the end of last season, it was the Blackburn fans being tarred because of ‘violence’. What is honestly expected of them? Should they merely stand there while a nugget of their town is buried underneath swindlers, corruption and moral abjection? Just imagine the feeling – be empathetic. You spend your money to watch the team. A connection between you and the club matures: memories of visits to the stadium with mums and dads, or triumphant wins that are etched into your memory delicately but deeply. And now it is sapped from you; over a century of history; an institution that began 37 years before the Titanic sunk. The football world often sees things haphazardly, but the way some protected the incompetent Kean was earthworm low. Not to mention Venky’s: parachute payments, believing they could challenge for the Champions League on an absurdly low budget, the absentee landlords aspect of their egotistically ignominious era. If Kean is ever removed – and sometimes it feels as though he never will be – it is a step. But Venky’s intentions are still dark and murky. They are still morally bankrupt. And remember what happens when one is eliminated? A power vacuum. The truth is, Venky’s are so far removed from logic that an afterbirth could convince them to fork out a salary. Who knows who they could pick to replace Kean? As ever with these situations, it is the fans that pay. Cross-town rivalries should pale. When Kean holds his hand up to the fans after the final whistle of a match, he is drowning – not waving. Any football worth his or her salt should realise that the work of every legendary figure at the club – from Jack Walker to Simon Garner – is being undone. By now, hopefully most stand with Blackburn. But there’s always room for improvement. Alas, Rovers neighbourhood is being ravished. But collectively now we should all stand alongside Blackburn fans. For they are the only ones trying to restore it.

"George Orwell’s 1986"

Was that the threequel?

Steve Kean was anathema and still remains anathema. Society hates him without ration.

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? Steve Kean may foster quickened heartbeats and unadorned hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician? Is he worse than `the manufacturer who set up belated foundations with the money he made by handing bombs and guns to suicidal nationalists? Is he worse than the distiller who gave bastardized grain juice to stultify further the brains of those who, sober, were incapable of a progressive thought? (Nay, I apologize for this calumny; I nip the brew that feeds me.) Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with **** and death wishes? Really, now, search your soul; lovie—is Steve Kean so bad?

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L U S T without the spaces, is according to LT inappropriate language. Strange.

Conman Kean of to India....that is unbelieveable if true !!!

His conman has some old on his position at the club that is not "the norm" and is now off to tell the Venky,s what is going to happen from here.

The bigest insult to the supporter is that conman Kean remain within the club in some capacity that would allow him to continue puling the strings behind the scene.
This would not give the new Manager any hope of succeeding....AND WHYARE THEVENKY,S GOING YET AGAIN WITH AN INEXPIRENCED MANAGER....OR ARE THEY LOOKING FOR A "YES" MAN FOR KEAN !!!!

whappen wrote:

Billypieman wrote:

midas wrote: What a pointless article! If Venkys declare that Kean is to be the manager will the "supporters" accept that and return? No they won't in effect they are trying to blackmail or hold the club to ransom. If they don't get their own way, which is for Kean to go, they will boycott the club regardless of Venkys giving Keen support.

Maybe we should follow your lead and set fire to the manager's wife in a Burnley chip shop.

Too - f@ckin' -shay. Quality Billy P

Whilst its an apocryphal story he resigned soon after. Now off you go and support your team :-)

earwego wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:

earwego wrote:

mellorb&w wrote:

proud burnley lad wrote:
in a way i wish u get rid of kean ur playas dnt know wt they doing anywai so another manager and stuff to get used 2 ul b slipping dwn the table haha dnt trip up were right behnd u UTMC

Don't know what you've got to be proud of you illiterate moron.

Hoilet fee agreed at £4 that twice the amount all of Bumleys team is worth

haha if u say so pal ur teams full of underaged portugese kids o pensioners lol wtf u still thinkin bwt hoilet 4 nd id love 2 c hw much ur gna lose on rhodes da shitbag 8 million wt a waste CHARLIE AUSTIN LEADING GOALSCORER were 5 points behnd yet u lot go on lyk ur a league ahead lol dm days r ova lads get ova it ur in CHAMPIONSHIP FACE FACTS STOP ****!!!! it'll b 2 points wn u lose 2 charlton UTMC

We have the worst defense in the Championship,we have the worst owners in our history,we are playing rubbish football,we have the worst manager that's ever been in the world of football,we are seen as a laughing stock. Yet with all this going on in our club,you Dingles still cant catch us. Keep looking up,we will always be there. Its good that you feel you need to come on this site,simply because there is nothing of interest in Dingleland,apart from chasing sheep and inbreeding,but then again, as your name implies, you are proud of that.

5 points ahead woow uv fluked every game cnt w8 4 wn u lose against charlton u cry lyk btches wn u lost 2 boro cnt w8 2 c hw ur gna take it wn ur slipping dwn nd dwn lol u aint fans da onli blue u probz b is city

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 taken to sack Kean last weekend and plans for his dismissal were so advanced that a press release confirming the news was in circulation at Ewood Park on Monday morning, signed off by Venky’s and ready to be posted on the club website.

But in an 11th-hour intervention, sources say, Mrs Desai took at least one call from Mrs Kean to protest at what was then believed to be an imminent departure.

It is not known whether Kean himself and / or Kean’s agent, Jerome Anderson, also spoke to Mrs Desai but the sacking did not go ahead as planned and the press release was not issued.

Rumours persist that Kean will be leaving the club anyway in the next few weeks – but nobody at the club or in India will confirm this, leading to fresh confusion and anger among fans. Rumours that compensation remains the only sticking point cannot be confirmed.

This is not the first time that Kean has apparently been on the brink only to be spared by Mrs Desai. To Sportingintelligence
’s knowledge, he has been close to the sack at least three previous times only to argue successfully he should stay – or have unconfirmed other parties make that case on his behalf.

Sportingintelligence called Mrs Desai at her family home in Pune, India, this morning to ask about Kean’s situation. A secretary said she would return the call but this has not happened at the time of writing.

Kean said earlier today he had held ‘positive and constructive’ talks with the owners.

On Tuesday, Venky’s ‘global advisor’ Shebby Singh, said he had ‘no comment’ to make about Kean’s long-term future but that Kean would remain in charge for this weekend’s match against Charlton.

Singh has declined to comment further.

Blackburn director Paul Agnew said earlier this week that he had no knowledge that Kean was about to be sacked.

Anderson has not responded to messages. Rovers MD Derek Shaw is away today and unavailable for comment.

Blackburn were relegated from the Premier League under Kean last season and are currently third in the Championship with 14 points from seven games.

Crowds at Ewood Park have plunged this season, raising concerns over the club’s income streams. Blackburn have no shirt sponsor and a fractured relationship with other sponsors and local businesses.

Singh took day-to-day control of the club as the owners’ hands-on representative in England over the summer. He is understood to favour a change of manager, as do both Mrs Desai’s brothers and co-owners, Balaji and Venky.

The brothers, along with virutally all senior club and Venky’s insiders, have urged managerial change on multiple occasions during the past 14 months but Mrs Desai has always overruled them to keep Kean in place.

Mrs Desai is known to want to improve relations with fans groups. Via Shebby Singh she has told one supporters’ group that if they nominate three Rovers fans who need ‘life-changing medical treatment’, then Venky’s will arrange and pay for such treatment.

What many fans would rather see is a new manager and a fresh start but it remains unclear when such change might happen.

Great news. Steve Kean is to be offered a job in the board room as Director for Global Football Development.

I'm glad to hear this news. Steve Kean did brilliantly getting the club as far as he did and it would be a crying shame not to build on the foundations he laid.

He deserves this position. Well done Steve.

THE KEAN IS DEAD

LONG LIVE THE KEAN