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FULL TIME: Blackburn Rovers 0 Leeds United 0
4:53pm Saturday 23rd February 2013 in Football
By Andy Cryer, Blackburn Rovers reporter
BLACKBURN Rovers' play-off hopes were dealt a blow this afternoon in a disappointing goalless draw at home to Leeds United.
The draw leaves Rovers still seven points adrift of the top six with Middlesbrough to play later in the evening against Millwall.
Rovers struggled to impose themselves as an attacking force in the opening 45 minutes, with Leeds enjoying the majority of the possession.
The visitors were unable to make the most of the ball though as they often lacked the final product to punish a sloppy Rovers display.
Tom Lees had a close range shot saved by goalkeeper Jake Kean, while Grant Hanley blocked from Ross McCormack.
At the other end, Colin Kazim-Richards went closest for the hosts with a shot from 18 yards that was parried away by Paddy Kenny.
Leeds should have been ahead soon after the restart after Steve Morison played Ross McCormack through on goal down the left.
The Leeds' midfielder never looked comfortable though and, after hesitating, he blasted well wide of Kean's goal.
Rovers' cause wasn't helped on 54 when Kazim-Richards limped out of the action with what looked like an ankle injury, to be replaced by Morten Gamst Pedersen.
The hosts were almost ahead against the run of play 61 when Murphy capitalised on hesitancy in the Leeds defence to play Rhodes through but, with just Kenny to beat, he curled wide from 18 yards.
Rhodes went close with a shot from 18 yards on 86, after a neat turn, but Rovers did little to suggest they could win the game.
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Comments (111)
4:59pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
5:01pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
5:05pm Sat 23 Feb 13
steralc says...
Knew you could do it
5:08pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
5:11pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
5:12pm Sat 23 Feb 13
A Darener says...
5:20pm Sat 23 Feb 13
burnleyglentoran says...
0-0 draws and 1-0 wins were the kind of result Big Sam used to achieve.
The deluded of Bol-Ewood will not accept that. They believe they are somehow better than that.
Carry on like this and they'll turn and you'll soon be on the receiving end of the bile and venom that they are used to dishing out to decent managers.
Decent managers, like Roy Hodgson, who managed them in the Premier League.
If they can do it in the Prem, how long will it be before they turn on you in, what they called, the "Chumpionship"
BRKFC - Mourniho wouldnt be good enough.
5:27pm Sat 23 Feb 13
passingfootball says...
5:27pm Sat 23 Feb 13
bluerob says...
Dire to watch today again, apart from Bristol City we have been outplayed by every team that comes to Ewood.
This league was there for the taking, terrible decisions by the owners have cost us badly, thanks Venkys.
5:42pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Venkytrash says...
5:43pm Sat 23 Feb 13
passingfootball says...
5:44pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Since1972 says...
BRFC biggest, best and oldest in East lancs
5:46pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Venkytrash says...
Murphy and pederson are past it!!
5:54pm Sat 23 Feb 13
dangerous dave says...
!!
Long way to go at Ewood to get anywhere near a good Championship team never mind the Premiership
OUT WITH THE LOT OF THEM
5:56pm Sat 23 Feb 13
passingfootball says...
6:03pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Jonny Bovril says...
Pederson offers absolutely nothing and does just hoof it, or flick it on hopefully. Those who think he offers any kind of alternative in CM no nowt about football.
We need CKR up front with Rhodes, DJ and JR are not suited as a pair, J King on the left and a new player in CM and we could put a run together.
On the positive side Hanley and Dann are as good a pair of CH in the championship.
As MA has said we are very much a work in progress. Don' t despair we are on the right tracks, but we' ll prob fall short this season. Lets just look for progress and maybe a day out at wembley.
Aye
6:07pm Sat 23 Feb 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
Now the pennies dropped that Bonlehs 3 weeks of glory being above Rovers is over, he's resorted to Roy Hodgsons sacking nearly 15 years ago. I thought you didn't like to mention the past glentoran?
By the way, if you hadn't noticed (which you have because you're obsessed with Rovers) it was Kean we didn't accept, not Big Sam or Hodgson. Maybe we should've tried to set Keans wife on fire like those ape creatures from turdville did with Jimmy thingy?
BFC - Anyone will do, beggars can't be choosers
6:27pm Sat 23 Feb 13
steralc says...
BOTB
Been second best nearly every home game , and you know it !
Long may it continue
Well done agent Applecart
6:30pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
6:31pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Riverside 7 says...
No creation, no drive, no service to the frontmen.
Rhodes again feeding off scraps and DJ Campbell offered absolutely nothing.
Whilst Appleton has talked alot of sense since he arrived he made a big error in his team selection at Hull last Tuesday and we can all now see that he is very, very negative.
If Appleton really believed that we had a chance of reaching the play-offs surely he would have used his substitutes and tried to win the game.
Campbell was awful yet Goodwillie & Gomez remained on the bench. Why?
6:45pm Sat 23 Feb 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
6:46pm Sat 23 Feb 13
A Darener says...
6:50pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Road Runner Road Runner says...
A day out at Wembley is a possibility, and I doubt none of the folks will turn their nose up at that ?
Enjoy your evening also - will you stop shouting at that guy, you rotter !! Ha Ha ;-) If the game isn't lively then, hey........
Arte et labore
7:00pm Sat 23 Feb 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
Anyone still dreaming of promotion or even play-offs though are in cloud cuckoo land.
Write the season off. If we finish top 6 then great, lets enjoy the play off lottery but after the turmoil of this season I can't believe anyone expects much more.
Judge MA this time next year
7:01pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
7:15pm Sat 23 Feb 13
GameRoverMan says...
7:16pm Sat 23 Feb 13
A Rover 45 years and over says...
7:19pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Stourbridge_Rover says...
7:23pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
7:23pm Sat 23 Feb 13
eddyo says...
*
Days like this you wonder why do 'professional' players get paid so much and what do they do during the week? X-box?
*
How about a game with good, cleanly hit passes and not flicks with the outside of their one good foot which never come off.
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Write it off as a bad day with good, solid performances from Hanley & Dann.
7:24pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
7:27pm Sat 23 Feb 13
baz58 says...
8:03pm Sat 23 Feb 13
To.guy says...
8:07pm Sat 23 Feb 13
CheltRover says...
8:09pm Sat 23 Feb 13
keanoutofrovers says...
8:18pm Sat 23 Feb 13
To.guy says...
8:23pm Sat 23 Feb 13
BlueSkies says...
The defence does quite well, they're organised and work reasonably ok, The midfield 4 compliments them but, we have no outlet to release pressure and put pressure on the opposition.
Still dysfunctional.
Hanley did well, Lowe tried to push forward more (thankfully). Don't knock Murphy for effort but this simply isn't his playground.
We had 2 quality strikers in Rhodes and DJ but these guys love it in and around the box, not having to make runs from the half-way line, it's not their game.
Decent back four, decent strikers. What's missing?
COYB
8:54pm Sat 23 Feb 13
peely says...
9:04pm Sat 23 Feb 13
hasslem hasslem says...
the reality is that we have sold the family silver and there is no quick buscks to be made anymore from lucrative transfers....we'll get a bit of dosh for kean (if we opt to sell him) and maybe dann - but the cupboard is bare.
shi.t or bust for venkys methinks - let's see how ambitious they really are.
9:10pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Sturdy_Rover says...
9:20pm Sat 23 Feb 13
hasslem hasslem says...
positives:
+ve. another clean sheet, which was as rare as rocking horse droppings under our previous regime
+ve the team is fitter than previous and doesn't run out of batteries after 70 minutes and the inevitable happened
+ve dann and hanley are developing into a formidable partnership under appleton's management
+ve kean had his worst game in the sticks for us - but leeds still weren't able to make anything count
negatives
-ve campbell is so far off the pace, it seems obvious he hasn't played for coming on for 2 years, he has the first touch of a rapist (hopefully he can work on this - but he needs to start firing PDQ)
-ve what is murphy for? his game was summed up for me after 71 minutes when, under no pressure, he kicked a dreadful clearance randomly straight up in the air into touch
-ve maybe a bit too much to hope for, but i expected a bit more from bentley.....kept trying to spray hollywood balls across the field when a simple 10-15yd pass was what was needed.
anyhow we all know we are nowhere near good enough to go up. leicester on wednesday will be a tough test then it is 3 games for me that will define our season.....beat posh and we should confirm a top half finish, beat millwall and it's wembley and do the dingles and **** the hill monkeys up for yet another year.
9:30pm Sat 23 Feb 13
wampam says...
i don't know his circumstances,but he will pick up good wages in the reserves till he retires. he has to be written off as a player. we do not have a credible midfield. write off this year and put a reserve lad with legs in centre midfield.
9:40pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
ely nothing to lose.
10:16pm Sat 23 Feb 13
wolsty says...
10:17pm Sat 23 Feb 13
fireonthemountain says...
The only good thing was that CKR
didn't get a yellow card . There's a first .
I don't blame the managers (past or present) - I don't even blame the Venky crowd .
I blame the players ,
Do they actually know how to play football ?
Last I heard it's about passing , dribbling , tackling and - (wait for it )
shots on goal .
Utter , utter rubbish play today .
10:31pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
10:38pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
10:41pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
10:45pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
10:48pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
10:50pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
11:07pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
11:11pm Sat 23 Feb 13
Angry From Accrington says...
11:18pm Sat 23 Feb 13
French Rover says...
12:17am Sun 24 Feb 13
MattNewcastle says...
Forcing an inexperienced manager on us at a time when we needed a really experienced manager.
Realism 1
If we don't go back up this season via the ever so unlikely playoffs expect years in the championship to follow.
Realism 2
All those that say we need to spend another year in the championship to regroup are missing the point that 6 of our current players will all be lured away in the summer - Yes Premiership sides will pay over the odds for
Kean
Olsson
Hanley (before Dann)
Dann
Rhodes
CKR (Yes he is a good target man and can hold the ball up)
Realism 3
Venkys will be only to happy to take the profits thank you.
To be replaced by whom?
If Appleton's signings to date are anything to go by lower teams nobody s because he does not have the name or influence as some managers would have had to sign the players needed.
As for his footballing nous he has not got a clue.
I will give you one for starters. Brian McDermots Reading went on a more or less unbeaten run last year because he had the guts and bravery to play all subs and go out to snatch a win in the last twenty odd minutes
Putting subs on and using all of them strategically when the oppositions concentration is going and they are getting tired reaped rewards by getting late winners and taking the three points instead of bottling it for just the one.
Appleton would not know what strategy to use if it hit him in the face.
Oh and by the way Moore his U18 West Brom sidekick coach is also meant to have the magic formula (as stated BY HIM recently) as to how teams get out of this division because he has experienced it on a number of occasions himself and knows you know.
Why does this not even instill me with confidence in this current set up
12:34am Sun 24 Feb 13
noddy57 says...
1:24am Sun 24 Feb 13
indiana patel says...
Blackburn want a local moneybag like the late Jack Walker who loves Blackburn Rovers not some foreign billionaire who's only here to make a name for themselves .Venkys who now all over the tabloid press some chicken billionaires from India a land of call centres,snake charmers sitars saris loin cloths and slumdogs millionaires.I did like freddy mercury he was white indian and ravi shankar .Anybody where india is on map is it near france?
2:38am Sun 24 Feb 13
dean555 says...
1) Kean kicking was ver poor, but was steady
2) defence again solid apart from the lad from city, who had a disappointing game
3) murphy, enough said
4) kaz ineffective as a wide man , better linking up with rhoads
5) DJ, didn't know he was playing, very poor in possession
6) Rhoads, not one of his better games
All in all good point!
5:04am Sun 24 Feb 13
Roverthere says...
6:52am Sun 24 Feb 13
MatthewCA says...
IF he is not started , we lost, check this
7:47am Sun 24 Feb 13
CasBRFC says...
The key point on the pitch for me is very simple we have virtually no midfield murphy is just not doing it and Lowe is ok at best and against today we didn't have a winger on the pitch (pederson sub) - its the most key area on the pitch and its our weakest!
I want to win every game just like everyone, buts lets be patient and give MA time. I agree the league was for the taking and i dont know why but it just doesn't seem to work that way like last time we went down it may take a couple of seasons. The best in fact the only thing we can do to help is get behind the team! Come on you Blues...............
.....RTID..........
8:37am Sun 24 Feb 13
owd nick says...
I suppose it depends on whether you were there or not, ok it was scrappy at times but "disappointing?", well there were two half decent teams out there giving it everything and I actually enjoyed it and thought it was a fair result.
If we had their midfield we would have scored 5 or 6, ditto if they had our strikers.
Some of the comments on here are ridiculous, neither of these sides are good enough to go up this season, anyone who thinks otherwise has less braincells than your average Burnley tree frog.
We don't have a midfield general, a Robbie Savage if you like, Lowe and Murphy do their best but they are not that type of player.
Rochina was great to watch in spells, scored the odd nice goal, but I can think of 6 or 6 goals against Rovers at Ewood this season that were down to him being greedy or a misplaced pass.
The others mentioned are simply no better than the ones we have on the pitch, some didn't want to be here.
Not Appleton's fault, it will be his fault if we are in the same position at the same time next season.
8:45am Sun 24 Feb 13
whappen says...
Desai wanted him to stay, just one of many non - decisions which have left us where we are. Venkys' (Desai's) decision to keep him on at least three occasions when he should have got the hook condemned us to certain relegation and zero chance of bouncing straight back.
Their (her) other decisions all of which, without exception, have been disastrous, are well documented.
On reflection, I suppose they (she) did "force" Kean out. Another of their (her)disastrous decisions - hiring Singh - did contribute to him resigning, despite it not being what they (she) wanted.
Where is that heejut, by the way? It seems even they themselves have effectively admitted his appoinment was an embarrassing mistake. That said, his disappearance did come around the time they hauled their sorry @$$e$ over here to grace us with their presence (only once mind; check the date of the next blue moon for the next royal visit).
I'd like to bet they had to be told to do both by the PR company they hired; they couldn't even make those glaringly obvious "decisions" themselves.
So they (she) most certainly did not VOLUNTARILY force Kean out so don't make it sound like it was part of their master plan. Even if it was, are you saying you are sorry that parasite Kean has gone?
Seriously?
Please say you are not; no sane person could believe that.
9:29am Sun 24 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
9:33am Sun 24 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
9:51am Sun 24 Feb 13
Nuttall Street says...
Of course, that brings us to the fly in the ointment, the Venkys and that master pi11ock The Global Adviser. I wonder if he has introduced himself to the new manager yet. Perhaps the LET could get off it's inert @rse and find out. We haven't heard much from Shabby recently. Has anyone sighted the hideous b@st@rd? He is certainly not attending to the "global" marketing side of his brief if my own experience is anything to go by. I telephoned Ewood Park from Switzerland in order to buy some tickets for the Arsenal game to find that the ticket line wouldn't take calls from abroad!!! It would greatly boost attendances at home games if Shabby was to be put in the stocks for 15 minutes before kick off so that fans could pelt him with detritus. Even I would return to Ewood Park for that.
Keep it up Mr. Appleton, you have made a good start with poor resources and a club in turmoil. You deserve encouragement.
10:45am Sun 24 Feb 13
bluenick says...
10:48am Sun 24 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
10:55am Sun 24 Feb 13
A Darener says...
11:00am Sun 24 Feb 13
Roverthere says...
11:23am Sun 24 Feb 13
Will P says...
Look, where the midfield was concerned, MA had spoken to Hodgson to ask how he used Etuhu with Murphy in the centre. So Lowe would have been dropped to the bench to allow a central partnership of Etuhu and Murphy. Problem that's been is that the midfield isn't good enough. No manager can work with a team that has no midfield. QPR are doing exactly the same as us but they have a poor midfield so they can't get goals.
On the note of we'll be in financial crisis next year if we don't get promoted this season, no, we won't. The parachute payments are split into four years, with our first parachute payment used to buy Rhodes. We'll have to sell all the deadwood though and try our best to keep hold of our prized assets. I can see Olsson leaving as well as Dann/Hanley.
We're 7 points off of the play-offs with Watford, Leicester and Cardiff still to play away from home. Realistically speaking I think it's fair to say we won't go up this year, unless of course we can take 4 or more points from those 3 games.
MA is setting the foundations, something we didn't have before. We're building from a defensive base and that's the way to steady the ship and to get success. It's what Mourinho did at Chelsea, Redknapp at Tottenham etc. I know we're not of that calibre, but it's the philosophy and principles.
Imagine if we loaned in Stephen Ireland and Wilson Palacios though! Then hey, I'm pretty sure play-offs would then become realistic. Should be interesting to see who MA has got lined up. I think he'll need about 4 more loan signings (1 left mid, 2 centre mids and a playmaker). Can he find them? Top quality players aren't usually available.
Things are getting better, we've got a team of 11 duracel batteries, organisation is far better, there's actual effort being put in, the players seem to be more happy than before and we actually have a clue what's going on at the club. Leeds would of beaten us 2 months ago, very comfortably.
1:12pm Sun 24 Feb 13
peely says...
Doomed I tell ya ,doomed !
1:22pm Sun 24 Feb 13
moh says...
1:25pm Sun 24 Feb 13
indiana patel says...
Venys are not stupid people made their billions selling chicken all over the world and bought a small football club just for a adverts.Have anybody looked in recent morning tabloids sun mirror and star it's all Venkys .
They do not care for Blackburn Rovers it's just a toy to play with .
1:26pm Sun 24 Feb 13
moh says...
1:26pm Sun 24 Feb 13
moh says...
1:27pm Sun 24 Feb 13
handyamBRFC says...
We have tried all season to play with players who are not up to the job.
Our problem is central midfield.
We need strong youngish determined midfield marvels...!!
Unfortunately these particular type of player are harder to find and lure to BRFC. People have more chances of finding gold on the streets of Blackburn.....!!!!
All season, we have had to make do with players who are simply not up to it..!
Murphy is past it and too old.
Lowe is simply not good enough but tries hard and for me is only a squad member. To be fair to the lad he has fitted into the team and doing a job.
Pederson is too old and past it.
Dunn is unlikely to play again and if were lucky we may get 5 mins.
Not sure if the others cando a job as yet unproven...!!
Williamson, out for 6 weeks thats his season over..!!
Etuhu, finsihed for season..!
so many more players out and injuries likely to mount as its a tough league the championship...!
We need to attract more players on short term loans and BRFC must pay high wages to get the ones we really need.
Thank God, we have currently have Venkys who will hopefully pay the wages required..!
I doubt if any other owner would have continued investing and paying like Venkys are doing.
Hopefully, MA sees this and finds the players we need.....!!! too take us up.
Hopefully we can go up...!!!
but that will mean BRFC will have to spend 50 million at least just to have a chance of staying up...!!!
1:32pm Sun 24 Feb 13
moh says...
1:37pm Sun 24 Feb 13
moh says...
1:55pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Captain Dreckley says...
2:40pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Come the Revolution says...
BTW Kean was, as expected, spouting rubbish. The mute button has now been pressed until; match resumes.
2:41pm Sun 24 Feb 13
indiana patel says...
Remember they wanted to change the name from Ewood Park to Venky Park.
These people are billionaire from a nation who are only love cricket and yoga.The billionaires are like kings in India and the rest are just working class slaves.In India 2% of these billionaires millionaires and corrupt politician have 80% of the wealth while over half of of India's population on poverty trap.A rich man's palace in middle of nowhere with with squalor and poverty stricken millions of starving people.Thats modern India with wealth in few hands and over half of it's people on abject poverty.India some say a rich and booming economy with space programes,motorways,
call centres shopping malls skyscrapers and manufacturing plants now larger than Europe turning out more steel cars motobikes,tvs an the rest but thats for the rich middle class millionaires ad billionaires who makes up 300 million while 900 million on those least have barely to eat a days meal.
2:54pm Sun 24 Feb 13
To.guy says...
2:59pm Sun 24 Feb 13
To.guy says...
3:01pm Sun 24 Feb 13
To.guy says...
3:27pm Sun 24 Feb 13
indiana patel says...
First it was Kean now Appleton thinks the ownrs are ambitious ? then there is Shebby who looks after the boardroom and looks like he's in full control of the club's business.Shaw Agnew and Appleton are just on payroll with huge salaries and the masters are in India.
This is about club in England and English football leagues owned by all those foreign Billionaires around the world.Look it up in your net list of English football club's owners hardly any English Billionaires.Looks like the English aristocrats sold all our silver to foreigners abroad.
5:28pm Sun 24 Feb 13
RoversMCMLXXV says...
5:47pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
5:56pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
5:59pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
6:03pm Sun 24 Feb 13
merlinrabbit says...
6:09pm Sun 24 Feb 13
intothevalley says...
6:11pm Sun 24 Feb 13
merlinrabbit says...
6:44pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Harwoodstblue says...
9:55pm Sun 24 Feb 13
indiana patel says...
What English football rules applys to that a club has no devine right to be in Premiership .All English football rules says three clubs go down and three clubs go up.Blackburn were just not good enough to stay up last season and Venkys are just not ambitous .
As for the Venkys they did pass the fiancial test to own the football club easily that statement came from Premier League Chief Richard Scudamore and they have behaved themselves as owners of club what the FA required
Venkys just did not live up to their promises as they told the Blackburn fans that they were investing more money to put Blackburn with the top six clubs in the Premier League.
They did buy a small club on the cheap £48 million i called that chicken feeds.They are investing in ther company's expasion in Europe and North America and if they sell billion chickens a year the Blackburn investments was paid off in just a year .Indian billionares are not stupid people they live like kings in India with over half of India's people are in abject poverty.A country full of corrupt politicians three hundred million middle class and some million rich elite like bollywood stars rich industrialists and maharajas while over third of India's population are on abject poverty living in squalor .
10:28pm Sun 24 Feb 13
modan says...
I am modan the Indian you don't like because you lot threw snow balls at my fellow Indians Venkys who owns BRFC
If you hate Venkys you hate us Indians too because we Indians are proud people .We came from India and there are 1.2 million Indian diaspora living in UK.Mr Cameron visits to India this week was for trade as India is the second fastest growing economy in the world as India is the second largest investors in UK worth £24 Billion last year created million of jobs here.
China dumps cheap goods in UK and Europe and millions lost their jobs while India invest in UK and Europe and ceated million of jobs.
We have 350 million people living in poverty like i told you Indian government is spending £70 Billion to lift millions out of poverty every year.India wants to eradicate poverty by 2025.India has told the rich WEST we no longer want your economic aid a sum of $4.5 Billion "it's peanuts"says India's President, while India spends £70 Billion on welfare in India.
Briitish Government say it's aid is set to end in 2015 and India is a rich country that spends Billions on defence,Space Programmes and sending rockets into space so India should help it's poor people.India has 300 million middle class and more Billioaires than Europe.
India is now a aid donor ie
Africa starving people $5 Billion
Bangladesh $1 Billion
Afganistan $2 Billion
Sri Lanka $500 million
Sikkim.Bhutan,Nepal $500 million
"India is rising superpower and will have the third largest economy by 2025" Dave Cameron Britain's Prime Minister
"India has emerged" Obama President of USA
www india skyscrapercity .com
10:40pm Sun 24 Feb 13
modan says...
the fact is Venkys chicken will be 100% chickens just like late Bernad Mathew a turkey Billionaire .So whats wrong with selling chickens ? they are billionaires employing 250,000 people and they also owns pharmaceautical industries in many countries too .Venky's assets are worth £2 Billion or more.They live like kings in India with palaces,private jet,many Rolls Royce and Bentleys just like any billionaires in UK ,Europe or USA.
10:54pm Sun 24 Feb 13
owd nick says...
11:00pm Sun 24 Feb 13
Jarrod Schulz Bearded Wonder says...
3:59am Mon 25 Feb 13
Roverthere says...
5:33am Mon 25 Feb 13
whappen says...
5:36am Mon 25 Feb 13
whappen says...
6:16am Mon 25 Feb 13
MatthewCA says...
.....which is missing !!!,
10:56am Mon 25 Feb 13
modan says...
Venkys
Venkys
Venkys owner of BRFC and you have to live with it.If you don't like them stay away you BRAG the morons.
Yes you go and help clean up your filth if you care ?
Who gives a toss about you just go chase a train.
12:51pm Mon 25 Feb 13
walshy2866 says...
Well we ain't, we been found wanting, bad owners , bad managers, fans with a god given right to PL football, whatever, plenty of reasons .
We are were we are, the football being played is woeful, I went to Hull, it was pure 5hite, end of.
But just look at the table and we're still above the claret 5cum, no wonder they hate us!
1:17pm Mon 25 Feb 13
A Darener says...
3:50pm Mon 25 Feb 13
kitchener2 says...
6:46pm Mon 25 Feb 13
modan says...
Electricity power stations
Nuclear power Stations
Water and sewerage systems
motorways
if you look at www india skyscrapercity .com you will see how much India has progressed over the last twenty years like motorways shopping malls skyscrapers ,metros new industries and power stations etc etc
Like you say a very big country with a population of 1.2 Billion and there is still so much progress as yet to made.Many villages i visited have electricity,running tap waters,tvs,satellite dishes,computers,car
s good roads,schools post offices and many people have cars tractors motorbikes and many folks watching football ,cricket bollywood films.People were watching Blackburn Rovers game live football against Burnley.
Many Indians are Man Utd fans and they have many Manchester United stores in India .
India has the world's largest football stadia in Kolkata called Salt Lake Stadia capacity 120,000 where Byern Munich and even Messi played here.
www indiaskyscrapercity.
com
7:16pm Mon 25 Feb 13
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7:00pm Tue 26 Feb 13
indiana patel says...
India has about one third of population in India and abject poverty coupled with inequality in wealth distribution in India here is the list
top 10% of the population 53% of the wealth
bottom 50% of the population 8% of the wealth
The gap between rich and poor in India is so vast about 35% of the population live on $1 a day and nationally half the chidren suffer from malnourishment.
India has these billionaires bollywood stars and corrupt politicians and some 300 million middle class and there are 400 million on abject poverty living in squalor.
India has problem of over population an underdevelopment and inequality in wealth distribution.
India might of pogressed over the last thirty years or so with modern motorways skyscrapers shopping malls fast foods outlets like mcdonalds kfc pizza huts and many cars only the middle class and the rich can afford to buy.Mumbai is a modern city like the ones in Europe and America but Mumbai has half the population living in squalor and abject poverty.
Modan is making a point abot India cause the Venkys the owners of Blackburn Rovers FC are in India and Blackburn has a large Indian population.People on this forum might have got bored with modan's postings.
I have read modan's posting and i just laugh it off.