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Rovers Blog: Singh playing the lead role in Ewood pantomime season (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Rovers Blog: Singh playing the lead role in Ewood pantomime season
10:39am Tuesday 1st January 2013 in Sport
By Dan Clough, Reporter
WELL the circus continues and ringmaster Shebby Singh is making us football’s biggest laughing stock.
Henning Berg should probably never have got the job. I am glad he has gone before his name has been dragged through the mud.
He can hold his head high.
The sackings of Eric Black, Iain Brunskill and Bobby Mimms, though not altogether unexpected, were done disgracefully.
And I still don’t fully understand how Mimms can shoulder any blame. He’s only a goalkeeper coach.
For them to find out via the media just shows how far this club has fallen. Merry Christmas and all that.
In my last column two weeks ago I called for Shebby to go. I reiterate that call.
His 606 interview gave him a national platform on which to look ridiculous, and he duly obliged.
The most frightening prospect to come out of an incredible fortnight was that of a Bollywood actor joining the coaching staff. Then again, I had heard Judan Ali had always dreamed of acting in a true British farce.
Before we took on Berg, I sent in an application for the vacant managerial position at Blackburn Rovers as a joke to see what would happen.
Aside from once taking Rushden and Diamonds from the Conference to the Championship on an old version of PC game Championship Manager, I have no football management experience.
But surely I should expect a phone call soon?
At least the nation’s press appears to have finally woken up to the real plight of Rovers. Unfortunately those journalists who seemed to need a lot of persuading that things weren’t altogether tickety boo have already succeeded in tarnishing the reputation of our core fanbase.
Now the pressure is on for Venky’s and Shebby Singh.
Get the next appointment right or suffer the consequences.
Mrs Desai, don’t leave the decision in his hands. Please.
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Comments (34)
10:45am Tue 1 Jan 13
8 Ball Deluxe says...
10:54am Tue 1 Jan 13
leitchy says...
10:58am Tue 1 Jan 13
ROVERSPAL1 says...
ayers who thought this league would be a walk in the park he has wought players in like Rhodes.. SADLY ALL I SEE WITH LT IS BLAME THE INDIANS AND LEAVE THE COWBOYS ON THE PITCH.. WHY?? AND WHEN TONY PARKS WAS GOT RID OF BY HUGHES WERE THE SAME WORDS USED BY THE LT?? HE IS A SUPPORTER AND A HERO FOR MOST FANS A SERVANT TO OUR CLUB FOR MANY YEARS.. LT IS BECOMING A JOKE
11:01am Tue 1 Jan 13
bypass06 says...
And Agnew will run this club into the ground. SHEBBY IN.
11:05am Tue 1 Jan 13
drunken donut says...
11:07am Tue 1 Jan 13
srvp28 says...
11:17am Tue 1 Jan 13
BAPA4 says...
11:33am Tue 1 Jan 13
born n bred blue says...
11:37am Tue 1 Jan 13
Dublin rover says...
11:45am Tue 1 Jan 13
glp says...
11:48am Tue 1 Jan 13
dangerous dave says...
11:59am Tue 1 Jan 13
Radheesh says...
also LT full of anger as he sacked their sources.
Simply LT need some hot news to sell their S**t
12:04pm Tue 1 Jan 13
sonny says...
Paul Agnew And Derek Shaw are the real Poison at this club, Shebby is pretty insignificant compared to those two parasites(Agnew imparticular).
12:05pm Tue 1 Jan 13
Angry From Accrington says...
12:09pm Tue 1 Jan 13
Angry From Accrington says...
12:12pm Tue 1 Jan 13
srvp28 says...
Get all three out and start from scratch.
12:13pm Tue 1 Jan 13
To.guy says...
12:17pm Tue 1 Jan 13
mike55 says...
1. Get rid of SS,PA,DS,CH.
2. Send one of the Rao's to Wigan to see how a small town club should be run
3. Appoint a proper chairman with the appropriate values that Rovers always stood for (ideally John Williams if he would take it or Venkys would be prepared to eat humble pie)
4. Allow the new chairman to appoint an internal structure which reflects what Rovers always was- stable,prudent,in touch with the supporters.
5. Give the above carte blanche to appoint their own manager of the club and initiate a major campaign over the summer to reclaim the thousands of supporters who whilst still supporting the club have voted with their feet and cannot bear to step into Ewood.
6. Venkys to back the new administration without reservation and to adopt a totally back seat position at least until some modicum of stability is restored
Simples really
12:18pm Tue 1 Jan 13
sonny says...
12:31pm Tue 1 Jan 13
sonny says...
12:41pm Tue 1 Jan 13
srvp28 says...
All three should go, but because they're all awful at the jobs they're employed to do.
12:42pm Tue 1 Jan 13
Angry From Accrington says...
1:07pm Tue 1 Jan 13
Marky mark says...
1:14pm Tue 1 Jan 13
A Rover 45 years and over says...
1:22pm Tue 1 Jan 13
pbirty says...
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pbirty says...
1:40pm Tue 1 Jan 13
lusorover says...
2:59pm Tue 1 Jan 13
Dukes says...
VENKYS OUT
6:24pm Tue 1 Jan 13
ashleyk260 says...
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garyintandem says...
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follaldo says...
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moh says...
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