Premier League dismiss calls for Rovers investigation (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Well said Jack. Any kind of fit and proper crook can be an owner.

Who controls the club controls the owners. Who controls the manager controls the club.

you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

And the manager controls everything. Or so it would seem. Hiring, firing, all at the hands of Steve Kean.

you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

dorsetclaret wrote:
you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

No we don't think we have a divine right to be in the PL. but we do have a right to question the goings on at BRFC.

what do the fa know.......F.A.

who are they anyway.....overpaid, greedy, incompetent, corrupt, .....remind you of anyone?

B U N G B U N G B U N G B U N G.

The only people who will sort this out ( don't forget the fa do FA in summer ) are probably living round the corner from me.

S T E P D O W N K E A N O

Arte et Labore
ps. or my friends in bensonhurst NY city.

Nice try Jack but come on, when have the football authorities ever done anything that would expose their own incompetence ?

Do keep shouting, but take what you know to someone who has something to gain from pursuing this disgraceful mob.

What this needs is serious investigative journalists and the taxmans forensic accountants.

The Prem league are just as crooked as anything going on at our club, there trying to brush us under the carpet.

I Believe if theirs no signs of change in the next 7 days uefa should be the next contacted and along with are club issues a complaint should also be made about the prem bosses that have allowed this.

A Darener wrote:
And the manager controls everything. Or so it would seem. Hiring, firing, all at the hands of Steve Kean.

Nothing to do with you, clear off.

A Darener wrote:
And the manager controls everything. Or so it would seem. Hiring, firing, all at the hands of Steve Kean.

Nothing to do with you, clear off.

What about the OFT?

Glasgow is a sh*thole.

S T E P D O W N K E A N O

Arte et Labore.
ps. it could technically be New Jersey actually.

I'm still waiting for an apology Kean

A Darener wrote:

dorsetclaret wrote:
you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

No we don't think we have a divine right to be in the PL. but we do have a right to question the goings on at BRFC.

I really am astonished that some people still can't get this into their vacuous skulls. IT IS NOT ABOUT RELEGATION. It is about the likelihood that this club doesn't have a future full stop.

dorsetclaret wrote:
you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

Apologies Darener, It was the Dingle I was addressing.

Harwoodstblue wrote:

A Darener wrote:
And the manager controls everything. Or so it would seem. Hiring, firing, all at the hands of Steve Kean.

Nothing to do with you, clear off.

Excuse me! I have been following the Rovers for nearly 60 years. What do you mean, clear off?

Apologies again.

A Darener wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

A Darener wrote:
And the manager controls everything. Or so it would seem. Hiring, firing, all at the hands of Steve Kean.

Nothing to do with you, clear off.

Excuse me! I have been following the Rovers for nearly 60 years. What do you mean, clear off?

That's ok,we are all getting a bit uptight. Dingles on our site gets us all agitated. They should stick to their own problems, they could be next.

A Darener wrote:

A Darener wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

A Darener wrote: And the manager controls everything. Or so it would seem. Hiring, firing, all at the hands of Steve Kean.

Nothing to do with you, clear off.

Excuse me! I have been following the Rovers for nearly 60 years. What do you mean, clear off?

That's ok,we are all getting a bit uptight. Dingles on our site gets us all agitated. They should stick to their own problems, they could be next.

I think we can safely say the dingles will never ever be subject to asset stripping.

mountain and mole hill come to mind you got relegated deal with it the days of a sugar daddy or well and truely over for you lot welcome to the real world there are bigger clubs than you lot so you won prem once big deal you will never do it again and i know the burnley probally never will but so what roll on next year when we take 6 points of you lot and you guessed it relegation again for you lot

A Darener wrote:

A Darener wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

A Darener wrote:
And the manager controls everything. Or so it would seem. Hiring, firing, all at the hands of Steve Kean.

Nothing to do with you, clear off.

Excuse me! I have been following the Rovers for nearly 60 years. What do you mean, clear off?

That's ok,we are all getting a bit uptight. Dingles on our site gets us all agitated. They should stick to their own problems, they could be next.

Yes I was getting carried away and clicked the wrong quote.

They have little else to do.

S T E P D O W N K E A N O

Arte et Labore
ps remember the thrashing we took at Chelski when Scott Sellars scored a consolation cracker......another playoff we reached. chimchimcherooooooo

you have become a side show like the venkys advert your players took part in you could see it coming a mile off so why you lot are suprised is beyond every claret out there lol

typical of you lot when your not slagging the owners or manager , your slagging each other off , fizzy pop league lmfao

dorsetclaret wrote:
you have become a side show like the venkys advert your players took part in you could see it coming a mile off so why you lot are suprised is beyond every claret out there lol

I'll say it again, clear off.

dorsetclaret wrote:
mountain and mole hill come to mind you got relegated deal with it the days of a sugar daddy or well and truely over for you lot welcome to the real world there are bigger clubs than you lot so you won prem once big deal you will never do it again and i know the burnley probally never will but so what roll on next year when we take 6 points of you lot and you guessed it relegation again for you lot

A prime example of a Burnley education.

Have a word with Jimmy Jambone, he probably has a few punctuation marks and capital letters you can borrow. If you ask nicely he will explain how to use them.

jacklowe wrote:
typical of you lot when your not slagging the owners or manager , your slagging each other off , fizzy pop league lmfao

You clear off too Jackasse.

dorsetclaret wrote:
you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

nob

dorsetclaret wrote:
mountain and mole hill come to mind you got relegated deal with it the days of a sugar daddy or well and truely over for you lot welcome to the real world there are bigger clubs than you lot so you won prem once big deal you will never do it again and i know the burnley probally never will but so what roll on next year when we take 6 points of you lot and you guessed it relegation again for you lot

Ever heard of full stops. Your comments have nothing to do with the article. As for your comments about 6 points and relegation, you have no idea and only hope. You may be correct, you may be not. Placing stupid assumptions show who you are and your inability for reason. By all means carry on with your relegation party, that is if you have any friends.

1 person who will always be remembered steve kean is immortalised lol

Harwoodstblue wrote:

jacklowe wrote:
typical of you lot when your not slagging the owners or manager , your slagging each other off , fizzy pop league lmfao

You clear off too Jackasse.

strange how you want everyone to clear off , i seriously hope the venkys don`t listen to you . lmfao

Well that's not a surprise. Everybody knows the Premier League is simply concerned with making money (remember the 39th game nonsense?) If they had their way it would be a city club, big fan-base league. Surely, however, the FA have a sense of history, tradition and responsibility and might feel compelled to investigate why a founder member of the Football League is being destroyed by a cohort of charlatans?

jacklowe wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

jacklowe wrote:
typical of you lot when your not slagging the owners or manager , your slagging each other off , fizzy pop league lmfao

You clear off too Jackasse.

strange how you want everyone to clear off , i seriously hope the venkys don`t listen to you . lmfao

You also need to need to have a word with Jimmy Jamboner about punctuation. A dingle who can spell.

Isn't this a bit of PR for Jack "Rendition" Straw, wasn't he a cabinet Minister for 13 years and never once suggested a tightening of the rules regarding control of football clubs when he had some political clout. When is he in court for sending Libyan back to be tortured by Gaddhafi ?

dorsetclaret wrote:
you have become a side show like the venkys advert your players took part in you could see it coming a mile off so why you lot are suprised is beyond every claret out there lol

Nobody has said on here they are suprised rovers have been relegated we all new months ago every one on here is suprised that your suprised mental head.

Harwoodstblue wrote:

jacklowe wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

jacklowe wrote:
typical of you lot when your not slagging the owners or manager , your slagging each other off , fizzy pop league lmfao

You clear off too Jackasse.

strange how you want everyone to clear off , i seriously hope the venkys don`t listen to you . lmfao

You also need to need to have a word with Jimmy Jamboner about punctuation. A dingle who can spell.

you get the message tho, deadwood hahahaha lets all laugh at ba?@{^%s nah nah nah

The Premier League "Fit and proper" test will not apply for BRFC after Saturday so Straw needs to be approaching the Football League not the Premier League.The FL "fit and proper" test rules may be different to the PLs i suggest.Saying that however look at Peter Ridsdale who all but destroyed Leeds yet was allowed to continue wrecking clubs from Cardiff to Barnsley etc.Venky's in my view aren't fit to be running any sports club as they fail to interact with those that work within it or support it.One thing i think could have an effect however would be for all BRFC employees-except Kean-to go on strike from office staff to the tea lady to lottery agents to the groundsman.Maybe even a symbolic blockade of Ewood Park -even out of season that would have an effect.If the entire workforce of BRFC apart from Kean ground the club to a halt then that would drag the Indian owners over to Blackburn without hesitation.

The Premier League are reluctant to do anything - that is surprising. As long as the pounds keep coming in that is all they are worried about. However, how short term because the recession is cutting deep and more and more clubs will have difficulties for many reasons including incompetence and skull duggery; in the case of the Rovers. If it can happen to the mighty Rangers as well as the Rovers who next I wonder? The Premier League should be aware and act on anything that potentially brings the game into disrepute. Hence Jack Straw is entirely correct and the Rovers situation should be investigated as a matter of course.

dorsetclaret wrote:
you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

I'm sure the majority of us Rovers fans have never thought we have a god given right to be in the premiership. Most of us are realists and that means we know that we have been punching above our weight for 18 out of the last 20 seasons, thanks initially to JW. We were safely in mid-table, nowhere near relegation when this regime took over. There is a difference between going down and being TAKEN down and that's why we are all angry. Nothing to do with divine right. Remember John Bond?? Might need to ask grandad about that one. You might want to focus more on those English for beginners adult classes that your probation officer set up for you, wheen yuo where lett owt earley on goode beheavoiur.....!

happiness wrote:

dorsetclaret wrote:
you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

I'm sure the majority of us Rovers fans have never thought we have a god given right to be in the premiership. Most of us are realists and that means we know that we have been punching above our weight for 18 out of the last 20 seasons, thanks initially to JW. We were safely in mid-table, nowhere near relegation when this regime took over. There is a difference between going down and being TAKEN down and that's why we are all angry. Nothing to do with divine right. Remember John Bond?? Might need to ask grandad about that one. You might want to focus more on those English for beginners adult classes that your probation officer set up for you, wheen yuo where lett owt earley on goode beheavoiur.....!

I work with a Burnley fan. They all seem to repeat the same few sentences. Are they given a script. Its like the clock stopped in 1995 and they dont know whats happened since. The fact that they think we are this upset about relegation shows a massive lack of understanding of football outside of Burnley whereas fans of all other clubs have grasped the situation.

Why is everyone so soft?

Jack, forget all this political rubbish!

Send the Army in to India!! Get this mess sorted!!

Were the bosses! Were there rulers!! Why are we taking this rubbish!

STRAW knows all about `A willful neglect of responsibilities`

What an evil `man` you are

Reality50 wrote:
The Premier League "Fit and proper" test will not apply for BRFC after Saturday so Straw needs to be approaching the Football League not the Premier League.The FL "fit and proper" test rules may be different to the PLs i suggest.Saying that however look at Peter Ridsdale who all but destroyed Leeds yet was allowed to continue wrecking clubs from Cardiff to Barnsley etc.Venky's in my view aren't fit to be running any sports club as they fail to interact with those that work within it or support it.One thing i think could have an effect however would be for all BRFC employees-except Kean-to go on strike from office staff to the tea lady to lottery agents to the groundsman.Maybe even a symbolic blockade of Ewood Park -even out of season that would have an effect.If the entire workforce of BRFC apart from Kean ground the club to a halt then that would drag the Indian owners over to Blackburn without hesitation.

Think you're assuming that all BRFC employees are Rovers fans.

Never always seen eye to eye with Mr Straw...and this is probably one of the first occasions, but the Scudamore needs to serious get his act together...he fawns over the likes of Manchester United/City whilst seemingly oblivious to what happens at smaller Premier League clubs. What is the point of the 'fit and proper test' when clearly it has been abused on numerous occasions. They don't want to get involved because they know full well the findings will be a source of humiliation and entirely undermine their authority in the game.
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The Premier League needs to be held to account. Jack Straw and his fellow MP's (as many as possible) needs to really ramp this up in Parliament. The Premier League need to get involved...possibly end the ownership of Venkys and reinstate Rovers in a 21 team Premier League. If they did this then they would be taking steps to compensate supporters of a founder Premier League club in the face of clear irresponsibility by all involved.
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What is Robert Coar doing?? Is he as bad as Kean??? Happy to take his money and watch Jack's club be systematically asset stripped!!?? He is supposed to be on the board of the FA isn't he??

What the scruff halfwit needs to do is to think about why he ever allowed Condoleezza Rice to be potographed with a woevers' shirt!.........Not that the scumbag didn't suit it!!!

hmmm the best way to hide that you are not gutted about relegation , is to print rubbish , ( lack of understanding about football ) everybody understands you are crap , but you have not arrived at you`r destination yet , bankrupt next , lmfao

And while were are on the subject of Jack Walker, which you lot have obsessed about for 20 years now.Here's a serious question to all proper Clarets supporters (not fans). If a multi-millionaire or billionaire Clarets supporter (not an arab sheik or Russian business tycoon) decided to sell his business to put large chunks of his wealth into the club, in the hope that they could again reach the heights of, say the early seventies or sixties and hopefully become the best team in the country. What would you do? Seriously, what would you do? Abandon the club or go along with it? Always wanted to know that.....!!!

gudari wrote:
What the scruff halfwit needs to do is to think about why he ever allowed Condoleezza Rice to be potographed with a woevers' shirt!.........Not that the scumbag didn't suit it!!!

What does potographed mean

Harwoodstblue wrote:

gudari wrote:
What the scruff halfwit needs to do is to think about why he ever allowed Condoleezza Rice to be potographed with a woevers' shirt!.........Not that the scumbag didn't suit it!!!

What does potographed mean

Rice and potatoes? Is he a bigot?

it means picture taken , you retard

07761879107 keans number
check out elhadji sioux diouf tweets.
he said he hates kean to and gave this number

dorsetclaret wrote:
1 person who will always be remembered steve kean is immortalised lol

It might not be headline news (because you're a small-fry outfit) but you lot are also screwed now that Barry Kilby is no longer propping you up. At least we can look back with fond memories of the last 20 years including 2 major trophies, several semi-finals, umpteen top class players whilst all you can look back on is scratching around in the doldrums and getting excited about watching washed up has-beens like Ian Wright and Paul Gascoigne.

Keep pushing buttons Mr Jack Straw, this needs raising in parliament. Corruption to the core, these agencies that are in it for making a fast buck need to be stopped. The FA is supposed to represent the clubs of the league and not the money it milks for itself. Look at FA headquaters, its not exactly a tram shed in halifax is it. Oust these dinosaurs, bring down the house, we want justice thats all and you were the justice secretary so keep plucking them strings. People are starting to feel very uncomfortable about this situation and the governing body should bare some of the blame. If they dont take it seriously the Rovers fans consortium should sue.

jacklowe wrote:
it means picture taken , you retard

No that's photographed...Knobb
y.

bypass06 wrote:

jacklowe wrote:
it means picture taken , you retard

No that's photographed...Knobb

y.

photograph you **** in the championship , hahahahaha top team NOT ,

happiness wrote:
And while were are on the subject of Jack Walker, which you lot have obsessed about for 20 years now.Here's a serious question to all proper Clarets supporters (not fans). If a multi-millionaire or billionaire Clarets supporter (not an arab sheik or Russian business tycoon) decided to sell his business to put large chunks of his wealth into the club, in the hope that they could again reach the heights of, say the early seventies or sixties and hopefully become the best team in the country. What would you do? Seriously, what would you do? Abandon the club or go along with it? Always wanted to know that.....!!!

I'd rather my club achieve it's successes, however modest they may be, on it's own back. I am probably alone in that.

But that's not the point - The point is, if that did happen: It would be an achievement of the business man, not of the football club.

I wouldn't delude myself and swan around saying Burnley were all this and that. I wouldn't confuse myself or forget that it was not an achievement of the football club or of the town.

It would be an achievement of the business man's.

Jack Walker created, BRFC and it's fans just took. Moochers and looters, leeches and value takers.

ste.g wrote:
07761879107 keans number
check out elhadji sioux diouf tweets.
he said he hates kean to and gave this number

We'll have some more of that then....R.T.I.D. !!!!

noddymcleod wrote:
Isn't this a bit of PR for Jack "Rendition" Straw, wasn't he a cabinet Minister for 13 years and never once suggested a tightening of the rules regarding control of football clubs when he had some political clout. When is he in court for sending Libyan back to be tortured by Gaddhafi ?

jacks a rovers fan

discussion and phone-in re Rovers on danny kelly 9pm tonight talkspurs

They ain't sacking kean its that simple, why, god I wish I knew but he ain't going anywhere and I would bet my house he who cannot be named is heavily involved in the running of the club but what the fcuk can we do.

RoverInRotterdam wrote:
ste.g wrote:well done dioufy

RoverInRotterdam wrote:

ste.g wrote:
07761879107 keans number
check out elhadji sioux diouf tweets.
he said he hates kean to and gave this number

We'll have some more of that then....R.T.I.D. !!!!

that account is so fake it is untrue. Read some of the tweets please. El Hadj left twitter some time ago after the Sean Mackie incident and the genuine account read quite differently than the false one you present here.

dorsetclaret wrote:
you have become a side show like the venkys advert your players took part in you could see it coming a mile off so why you lot are suprised is beyond every claret out there lol

Can't blame you for leaving slumey for Dorset but get a life and walk the moors or something I am sure there there are some nice ewes waiting for you

the premier league make the vichy regime in france look like moralistic and brave heroes.
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simply they dont give a monkeys - this was demonstrated with their chronic "see no evil, hear no evil speak no evil" to dirty leeds, leaving it to the football league to try and sort out following their relegation from the prem.
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the premier league care even less about blackburn rovers now we are not their problem.
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its not football administrators that should be investigating or digging into all things rovers.....its the fraud squad, hmrc, forensic accountants etcc.
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there are "dark forces" (to quote a well known public address announcer at arsenal's ground) at play at ewood park. we all know that, the press is slowly waking up to it....let's hope and pray that it all comes out ion the wash before it is too late.

Jack who?
What a tosser!
Worked at in a 'proper job' for 3 years, (barrister).
Rest of his life spent as a sponger and lickspittle to socialist tosspots.
BRFC loyalists, you need JS just as much as you need Keano.
Disregard Straw and get rid of Kean.

and for all the dingles - sorry to disappoint you but i don't know a single rovers supporter who hold the view that we have some sort of divine right to be in the premier.
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most of us knew that eventually we would return to whence we came - after a glorious unbroken spell of eleven years in the prem....the longest time in our history incidentally at the top level....this period also an eleven year period FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF JACK WALKER!

No more than expected.Said on here months ago the P/L and sports tv,press had washed there hands of rovers,the PL left BRFC adrift going into a storm without any chance of survival and a complete disregard for the people and town of blackburn and rovers football club. BRFC to the PL was an embarrassment right from the beginning of venkys take over.The fans were left to fend for the honour of our famous club, laughed at and ridiculed by the press tv pundits for months and then after rovers fans finally woke up to the horror of what was happening to BRFC they began to fight back against venkys and keans shocking management. Amazingly the the tv sports and press turned against Blackburns fans and blamed the fans for the demise of BRFC by not backing steve kean all along. Were are you all now with your knives. Now that BRFC are demoted the press and tv decided now that rovers fans did have a valid reason to demonstrate against keans and venkys blundering incompetent management. Why did the press and tv,PL stand by and watch us sink?it all comes down to money.The PL realised very early on in the first few months that venkys plan for rovers did not include them bank rolling the club for more success when they took over.For the PL it was simple no money no PL, let them sink there is nothing to gain from a club who have no money to invest and who will not bring some good publicity for the PL.Who better to drag a club down than the owners themselves, greedy for a quick buck and no interest at all in BRFC or football other than its assets and a manager who would sell his soul to the devil,evil beyond belief. ThePL new all along this would be the outcome it just took one season longer than expected and that is only through the fantastic fans of BRFC who amazingly kept their dignity,no other football fans in the world would have put up with so much lies and deceit and still kept on supporting their club till the end like the rovers fans have. kean rovers fans are going no were.we will be here when you are thrown out of BRFC, time is on our side and that day will come 100% sure on that. were in it for the long haul fatboy.

Jack Straw was not a barrister. I'll give one of my Accy Stanley tickets for next season to anyone who can show documentary proof that Straw was a Rovers fan until it become fash for New Labour to support footie.
He made no public utterances about being a fan until Rovers were Champs and until New Labour decided that supporting a footie club was OK and an allowable bit of "laddism"

I heard everything from the Manager today,the supporters are behind me,I think he will be gone after Sundays game,saw him tonight playing Zak Dingle,in Emmerdale,on the Moors above Blackburn,deluded,th
e same as he as been all season

hasslem hasslem wrote:
and for all the dingles - sorry to disappoint you but i don't know a single rovers supporter who hold the view that we have some sort of divine right to be in the premier.
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most of us knew that eventually we would return to whence we came - after a glorious unbroken spell of eleven years in the prem....the longest time in our history incidentally at the top level....this period also an eleven year period FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF JACK WALKER!

Absolutely Hasslem.

Don't allow the scurrilous dirty Dingles some form of perverse acknowledgement for their own dirty ends.

Up the Rovers

Burnley chose their kit in honour of Aston Villa.....they talk funny too.

If you haven't the intelligence or respect to stop your parochial behaviour then just take more drugs or interest in your own club.....it will be hard in football terms;but there are plenty of drug dealers in your town....or further afield Nelson....most of them from other countries.

Do you'rselves a favour and focus on Miss E Howe's team.

Arte et Labore
ps have you ever seen Ehawe and Dame Edna together....ewe should ave bean at funnie girls when ewe lost to bpool.

I come here to read about BRFC and would NEVER waste any of my hours reading about Dingle FC. laughable that our resident inbreeders refr to our town and club as "insignificant" yet they seem to spend every waking hour on here discussing us.
the irony is that "Burnley" is merely a small area on the eastern boundary of the ancient hundred of "Blackburnshire" not just in our shadow but forever on our fringe!

****

Harwoodstblue wrote:

dorsetclaret wrote:
you lot think you have a god given right to be in premiership get a life your a small town club done well for a short period wake up and smell the roses you are now in the championship tough titty lmao

Apologies Darener, It was the Dingle I was addressing.

Clear off the two of you!........It's you two grintwum scruffs that I'm addressing!!

A Darener wrote:

Harwoodstblue wrote:

A Darener wrote:
And the manager controls everything. Or so it would seem. Hiring, firing, all at the hands of Steve Kean.

Nothing to do with you, clear off.

Excuse me! I have been following the Rovers for nearly 60 years. What do you mean, clear off?

No apologies!!!

Reality50 wrote:
The Premier League "Fit and proper" test will not apply for BRFC after Saturday so Straw needs to be approaching the Football League not the Premier League.The FL "fit and proper" test rules may be different to the PLs i suggest.Saying that however look at Peter Ridsdale who all but destroyed Leeds yet was allowed to continue wrecking clubs from Cardiff to Barnsley etc.Venky's in my view aren't fit to be running any sports club as they fail to interact with those that work within it or support it.One thing i think could have an effect however would be for all BRFC employees-except Kean-to go on strike from office staff to the tea lady to lottery agents to the groundsman.Maybe even a symbolic blockade of Ewood Park -even out of season that would have an effect.If the entire workforce of BRFC apart from Kean ground the club to a halt then that would drag the Indian owners over to Blackburn without hesitation.

They are, however , more than fit to be running woevers!

i love it that dingles were originally called burnley rovers!

craftandgraft wrote:
Burnley chose their kit in honour of Aston Villa.....they talk funny too.

If you haven't the intelligence or respect to stop your parochial behaviour then just take more drugs or interest in your own club.....it will be hard in football terms;but there are plenty of drug dealers in your town....or further afield Nelson....most of them from other countries.

Do you'rselves a favour and focus on Miss E Howe's team.

Arte et Labore
ps have you ever seen Ehawe and Dame Edna together....ewe should ave bean at funnie girls when ewe lost to bpool.

Pot, kettle, black you inbred scruff. It's not as if blackbum is a white man's haven now is it?

alfa111 wrote:
No more than expected.Said on here months ago the P/L and sports tv,press had washed there hands of rovers,the PL left BRFC adrift going into a storm without any chance of survival and a complete disregard for the people and town of blackburn and rovers football club. BRFC to the PL was an embarrassment right from the beginning of venkys take over.The fans were left to fend for the honour of our famous club, laughed at and ridiculed by the press tv pundits for months and then after rovers fans finally woke up to the horror of what was happening to BRFC they began to fight back against venkys and keans shocking management. Amazingly the the tv sports and press turned against Blackburns fans and blamed the fans for the demise of BRFC by not backing steve kean all along. Were are you all now with your knives. Now that BRFC are demoted the press and tv decided now that rovers fans did have a valid reason to demonstrate against keans and venkys blundering incompetent management. Why did the press and tv,PL stand by and watch us sink?it all comes down to money.The PL realised very early on in the first few months that venkys plan for rovers did not include them bank rolling the club for more success when they took over.For the PL it was simple no money no PL, let them sink there is nothing to gain from a club who have no money to invest and who will not bring some good publicity for the PL.Who better to drag a club down than the owners themselves, greedy for a quick buck and no interest at all in BRFC or football other than its assets and a manager who would sell his soul to the devil,evil beyond belief. ThePL new all along this would be the outcome it just took one season longer than expected and that is only through the fantastic fans of BRFC who amazingly kept their dignity,no other football fans in the world would have put up with so much lies and deceit and still kept on supporting their club till the end like the rovers fans have. kean rovers fans are going no were.we will be here when you are thrown out of BRFC, time is on our side and that day will come 100% sure on that. were in it for the long haul fatboy.

Great post.

Visit this web site.

http://ewoodpark.jim
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Introduction:
There have been unacceptable levels of abuse aimed at Blackburn Rovers supporters from the national media, footballers, football managers and football fans throughout the country since the protest's against Steve Kean, The Venky's and Jerome Anderson began.

I hope that the information on this page will go some way towards redressing that.

I am totally biased.
There is nothing impartial in anything I write about Blackburn Rovers, the Protest Movement or Steve Kean, Jerome Anderson and The Venky's.
I support the actions of the various protest groups 100%.
I support the actions of any spontanious organic protests as and when they arise 100%.
I support Blackburn Rovers Football Club 100%.
0% Steve Kean.
0% Jerome Anderson.
0% Venky's.

There has been too much disrespect shown, particularly in the corporate media towards the protestors, their aims and their objectives. Therefore, it is left to alternative media sources such as this to provide some perspective.

However, in some cases I have relied upon corporate media sources for some information as there have been honourable individual exceptions - but that does not alter the fact that the corporate media as an institution has in most cases treated the protesters with disdain.

It is an obvious though seldom acknowledged reality that Steve Kean had nine months as manager of Blackburn Rovers before a single protest began.

So, why did the protest movement begin?

This is an important question, to understand the protest movement we must first understand the context within which it arose.

Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the most efficiently and well administered football clubs in English football. A model football club, a model to emulate and imitate - and many did try to "do a Blackburn" - but failed.

Above all, Blackburn Rovers represented something of an anomaly, regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope to 'under dogs' everywhere, yet resented at the same time: A well respected club within the game but despised by neutral fans jealous of the clubs stature and historical significance and disliked in the corporate media based largely in London, resentful of a small northern town football club's plucky resilience.

This is to be expected. England resents success. BRFC and its supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.

Four months before he died in 2001, Jack Walker gave an interview to reassure Blackburn Rovers supporters that he had made provision for the club. "A number of years ago I put in place a family trust structure to own my various business interests, including Blackburn Rovers," he explained. "This structure ensures continuity of management and provides the necessary financial support for all my businesses for the foreseeable future. I have made known my wishes to my colleagues, whom I am confident will carry forward the policies necessary to promote and enlarge all my business interests."

The trust, which was registered in Jersey, was run by a board of trustees. They rarely spoke publicly, but when Jack Walker died the trust chairman, the Jersey solicitor Paul Egerton-Vernon, did make a statement: "The club is provided for the foreseeable future."

The terms of the instructions Jack Walker left the trustees were never disclosed, but Egerton-Vernon explained that Rovers would be subsidised by other assets in the Walker portfolio, which included property and the Jersey-based airline, Flybe. "There seems to be a misunderstanding that there is an ever-shrinking pot of money available," he said. "That is not the case. There are other businesses apart from the club which generate profits which are available."

From 2002 the Walker Family Trust donated £3million a year to the club, helping to give it a competitive edge over similar sized clubs.

In 2005, with the £3m that was loaned interest-free to the club, the Walker investment in Blackburn Rovers had reached £97million.

Then, finally, the trustees decided they had spent enough.

Jack Walker had charged them with growing his businesses financially and, although they did not explain their decision, it is assumed they viewed the club as a drain. The family, although the beneficiaries of their father's estate, were not understood to have had any formal involvement in its administration.

And so in the summer of 2005 the trustees of the Jack Walker Settlement decided to sell the club, and appointed the bank Rothschild, which previously handled the disastrous sale of Liverpool to Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to find the right buyer for Rovers. Chris Ronnie, the chief executive of retailer JJB Sports, had publicly declared his interest and was said by informed sources to be ahead of any other parties that were looking at the club.

In 2006, Blackburn Rovers announced that Walker's trustees had converted £14m of loans into shares, then in January 2007 they converted a further £80m into shares.

In 2007 the Walker Family Trust stop funding the club.

It was a little-noticed paragraph in the club's accounts, published in January 2008, which announced that the trustees had stopped funding the club back in 2007.

The news was phrased somewhat obliquely by John Williams, the chairman, generally admired as a shrewd guiding force. He insisted the decision was not irreversible. "Given the new TV deal, the trustees see no immediate requirement to invest further (having donated £3m a year since 2002)," he wrote. "In a climate of emerging markets overseas, buoyant domestic TV revenues and rarity value leading to capital growth, they are in no hurry to sell. Focus is on finding a suitable investor to take the club forward beyond the Jack Walker dynasty."

John Williams hoped the search for a new owner would bring in a football enthusiast, prepared to take a bet on a club with potential, rather than a merchant bringing debt or eyeing a quick profit.

Enter the Venky's, SEM, Kentaro, Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean.

When the Venky's bought Blackburn Rovers in 2011, it was not a football club in free-fall, it was not a football club that was in decline; it was a progressive and steady football club skillfully guided by John Williams and his team.

After the Venky's takeover:

2010-2011 Season: Sam Allardyce sacked 13 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Steve Kean appointed manager till the end of the season 22 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner expressing concerns at the way the club was being run. 4 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: With poor results and the threat of relegation, Kean handed 3 year contract. 20 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: Chairman John Williams resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 14 years. Feb 2011

2010-2011 Season: Managing Director Tom Finn resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 15 years. May 2011

2010-2011 Season: Blackburn Survive in the Premier League on the final day of the season. 22 May 2011

During pre season: Manchester United confirmed that they had reached an agreement to sign promising Rovers starlet Phil Jones on a five-year deal for an undisclosed transfer fee, which was believed to be at least £16.5m. This was a huge blow the team and the fans; Phil Jones was a local Lancashire lad, Rovers fan and an integral part of the team and a product of Jack Walkers legacy - The Blackburn Rovers Youth Academy. 13 Jun 2011

During pre season: Myles Anderson the son of Jerome Anderson (SEM/Kentaro), signs for Blackburn Rovers, no appearance to date.

2011-2012 Season: Steve Kean banned for drink driving blaming Rovers fans for lacing his drink. 15 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Blackburn Rovers suffered their worst start to a league campaign in 60 years after 1-0 loss to Everton; Kean reveals in interview with the Lancashire Telegraph that he is untroubled by Blackburn Rovers' start to the season. 27 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Fans Stage first Protest. 17 Sep 2011

All this in the context of what had hitherto been a well run football club with excellent lines of open communication with its fans and which was a symbol of pride to the community it represented; something of an oddity in today’s multiplatinum sophisticated world of corporate finance and obscene footballers wages and agent fees.

Some Rovers fans felt that the Venky's clearly knew how to run a business, having built up their own poultry and pharmaceutical empire in India and having passed the Premier League's due diligence test; it was also felt that the Walkers Family Trust would have administered their own due diligence on the Venky's and would not have sold the club to quick profit merchants, risking Jack Walkers legacy.

Opinions of the departure of Phil Jones were mixed but the general consensus was that the promising young player could at least have given Rovers one more season but would eventually have left no matter who was in charge and had at least moved to the biggest football club in the world.

At the same time it was felt by many that Jones' departure was the true end of the Walker Era, it was the final poke in the eye to Jack Walkers legacy; the feeling being that Rovers had now become nothing more than a finishing school for Manchester United. Meanwhile, the national media where completely ignorant of who Phil Jones actually was and what his symbolic and footballing importance to the club and its fans represented.

By now it was becoming increasingly clear that the club was entering a new era - but at least Rovers were playing a better brand of football. The Venky's also kept season ticket prices down, renamed the famous Blackburn End in honour of a club legend - Ronnie Clayton - and had donated the historic and famous Rovers shirt to a worthy charity - The Princes Trust - when it would have been much easier to drop their own brand name on top of the famous Blue 'n' white halves.

And so some Rovers fans were still prepared to give the Venky's a chance to prove themselves, believing that if guilty of anything, they had perhaps been naive: linking the club with footballing superstars was only going to result in mockery - that was not their fault - but that is football snobbery and the culture of the English. The London media does not react so snootily when small mediocre southern clubs like Portsmouth and Fulham are linked with Maradonna but they do when Blackburn Rovers are, because to them, Blackburn is a dirty northern slum town; cloth caps, whippets and cobbled streets.

However naive the Venky's were, it was felt that they needed to improve their PR by attended home games and speaking to the fans on BBC Radio Lancashire or through the Lancashire Telegraph about their vision for the club; even an open fans forum at Ewood Park was mooted - but despite repeated pleas from the fans for communication - silence.

The Venky's completely shunned the Rovers faithful, displaying that peculiarly Indian form of arrogance, hubris - completely ignoring the fans - whom they are there to serve.

It was also becoming increasingly clear that the Venky's felt that they could run the football club from India; summoning Steve Kean, a first time manager with no experience in the role, let alone at one of the most historic clubs in the game, competing in what is considered by many to be the best football league in the world to monthly meetings on the sub continent. Steve Kean was summoned to Pune, India, once a month to discuss progress with the Venky's. This was the only guidance Kean had and many fans felt some sympathy.

Initially, however, the focus of unrest on the slopes of Ewood Park were directed mainly at Steve Kean. After all, he buys the players, sells players, picks the team, chooses the tactics and substitutions and is the main interface between the club, the media and the fans.

It is against this backdrop that the protest movement was born.

For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park, as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.

Throughout this time the club - now in new hands - have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.

The protestors have also beendemonised by Jerome Anderson on SKY Sports, Steve Kean and a significant minority of fellow Rovers supporters opposed to the protests; for their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performances and bad results and labeled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher the former Rovers favourite, to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".

The protestors have not only had to endure much ongoing ridicule from their loyal opposites in the national media - but damning criticisms from fans of other clubs around the country - writing and phoning national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tuting at the "horrendous" behaviour of the Blackburn Rovers fans.

There has also been no shortage of pundits, journalists, footballers, ex-footballers, football managers and ex-football mangers queing up to robustly defend Steve Kean and smear the Blackburn Rovers supporters.

One can to some extent understand some of the criticisms from football fans of other clubs, after all, they have been subject to intense media brainwashing as the corporate clique's and their cronies have banded together against the protesting Rovers fans.

And that is the point. These protesting fans represent the 'little man', working-class people desperately trying to cling onto and protect the heritage of a footballing institution that was born in their town during footballs formative years.

This is David and Goliath stuff, the mega money men of SEM, Kentaro, The Venky's, SKY SPORTS, mediocre multi millionaire footballers and parasitic pundits on triple figure salaries who do not pay to watch Premier League football; the most expensive football matches in Europe and footballers who can earn more in one week than many do in 15 years and more in one month than many do in a life time.

To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.

It is against this backdrop that the protests continue.

Venkeys please take note
Last season
Big Sam 17 games 21 points
Big Sam gets the sack
This season
Kean 17 games 10 points
37 games 31 points

20 Million Spent
Team in total disarray
Relegation without a fight
Fans in Revolt
Club in total turmoil
Club heading towards extinction

Sack Kean Now

Melanie, congratulations. I feel this is the fairest and most honest posting on here I have seen for weeks. Move over AC.

fondarovers wrote:
Venkeys please take note
Last season
Big Sam 17 games 21 points
Big Sam gets the sack
This season
Kean 17 games 10 points
37 games 31 points

20 Million Spent
Team in total disarray
Relegation without a fight
Fans in Revolt
Club in total turmoil
Club heading towards extinction

Sack Kean Now

Venky's aren't pulling the strings....Kean and his chum are running the show. Venkys are just the company who agreed to go along with the charade. Once the carcass has been stripped of every last bit of meat, that is when Kean and co will pack their bags.
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As for the Premier League "fit and proper test", I suggest Richard Scudamore is not fit and proper to be Chief Executive. It may be ok to have assumed that the owners were who they said they were...which many believed at the time...but things have changed dramatically since then. That is plain for all to see.
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The best way to get this sorted would be for Premier League club chiefs to put pressure on Scudamore to demand an inquiry. I doubt that would happen but if there is anything Dave Whelan could do to help then I am sure that would be greatly appreciated by all Rovers fans.

noddymcleod wrote:
Jack Straw was not a barrister. I'll give one of my Accy Stanley tickets for next season to anyone who can show documentary proof that Straw was a Rovers fan until it become fash for New Labour to support footie.
He made no public utterances about being a fan until Rovers were Champs and until New Labour decided that supporting a footie club was OK and an allowable bit of "laddism"

i so him with my own eyes attending matches long before new labour

Melanie :-) wrote:

alfa111 wrote:
No more than expected.Said on here months ago the P/L and sports tv,press had washed there hands of rovers,the PL left BRFC adrift going into a storm without any chance of survival and a complete disregard for the people and town of blackburn and rovers football club. BRFC to the PL was an embarrassment right from the beginning of venkys take over.The fans were left to fend for the honour of our famous club, laughed at and ridiculed by the press tv pundits for months and then after rovers fans finally woke up to the horror of what was happening to BRFC they began to fight back against venkys and keans shocking management. Amazingly the the tv sports and press turned against Blackburns fans and blamed the fans for the demise of BRFC by not backing steve kean all along. Were are you all now with your knives. Now that BRFC are demoted the press and tv decided now that rovers fans did have a valid reason to demonstrate against keans and venkys blundering incompetent management. Why did the press and tv,PL stand by and watch us sink?it all comes down to money.The PL realised very early on in the first few months that venkys plan for rovers did not include them bank rolling the club for more success when they took over.For the PL it was simple no money no PL, let them sink there is nothing to gain from a club who have no money to invest and who will not bring some good publicity for the PL.Who better to drag a club down than the owners themselves, greedy for a quick buck and no interest at all in BRFC or football other than its assets and a manager who would sell his soul to the devil,evil beyond belief. ThePL new all along this would be the outcome it just took one season longer than expected and that is only through the fantastic fans of BRFC who amazingly kept their dignity,no other football fans in the world would have put up with so much lies and deceit and still kept on supporting their club till the end like the rovers fans have. kean rovers fans are going no were.we will be here when you are thrown out of BRFC, time is on our side and that day will come 100% sure on that. were in it for the long haul fatboy.

Great post.

Visit this web site.

http://ewoodpark.jim

do.com

Introduction:
There have been unacceptable levels of abuse aimed at Blackburn Rovers supporters from the national media, footballers, football managers and football fans throughout the country since the protest's against Steve Kean, The Venky's and Jerome Anderson began.

I hope that the information on this page will go some way towards redressing that.

I am totally biased.
There is nothing impartial in anything I write about Blackburn Rovers, the Protest Movement or Steve Kean, Jerome Anderson and The Venky's.
I support the actions of the various protest groups 100%.
I support the actions of any spontanious organic protests as and when they arise 100%.
I support Blackburn Rovers Football Club 100%.
0% Steve Kean.
0% Jerome Anderson.
0% Venky's.

There has been too much disrespect shown, particularly in the corporate media towards the protestors, their aims and their objectives. Therefore, it is left to alternative media sources such as this to provide some perspective.

However, in some cases I have relied upon corporate media sources for some information as there have been honourable individual exceptions - but that does not alter the fact that the corporate media as an institution has in most cases treated the protesters with disdain.

It is an obvious though seldom acknowledged reality that Steve Kean had nine months as manager of Blackburn Rovers before a single protest began.

So, why did the protest movement begin?

This is an important question, to understand the protest movement we must first understand the context within which it arose.

Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the most efficiently and well administered football clubs in English football. A model football club, a model to emulate and imitate - and many did try to "do a Blackburn" - but failed.

Above all, Blackburn Rovers represented something of an anomaly, regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope to 'under dogs' everywhere, yet resented at the same time: A well respected club within the game but despised by neutral fans jealous of the clubs stature and historical significance and disliked in the corporate media based largely in London, resentful of a small northern town football club's plucky resilience.

This is to be expected. England resents success. BRFC and its supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.

Four months before he died in 2001, Jack Walker gave an interview to reassure Blackburn Rovers supporters that he had made provision for the club. "A number of years ago I put in place a family trust structure to own my various business interests, including Blackburn Rovers," he explained. "This structure ensures continuity of management and provides the necessary financial support for all my businesses for the foreseeable future. I have made known my wishes to my colleagues, whom I am confident will carry forward the policies necessary to promote and enlarge all my business interests."

The trust, which was registered in Jersey, was run by a board of trustees. They rarely spoke publicly, but when Jack Walker died the trust chairman, the Jersey solicitor Paul Egerton-Vernon, did make a statement: "The club is provided for the foreseeable future."

The terms of the instructions Jack Walker left the trustees were never disclosed, but Egerton-Vernon explained that Rovers would be subsidised by other assets in the Walker portfolio, which included property and the Jersey-based airline, Flybe. "There seems to be a misunderstanding that there is an ever-shrinking pot of money available," he said. "That is not the case. There are other businesses apart from the club which generate profits which are available."

From 2002 the Walker Family Trust donated £3million a year to the club, helping to give it a competitive edge over similar sized clubs.

In 2005, with the £3m that was loaned interest-free to the club, the Walker investment in Blackburn Rovers had reached £97million.

Then, finally, the trustees decided they had spent enough.

Jack Walker had charged them with growing his businesses financially and, although they did not explain their decision, it is assumed they viewed the club as a drain. The family, although the beneficiaries of their father's estate, were not understood to have had any formal involvement in its administration.

And so in the summer of 2005 the trustees of the Jack Walker Settlement decided to sell the club, and appointed the bank Rothschild, which previously handled the disastrous sale of Liverpool to Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to find the right buyer for Rovers. Chris Ronnie, the chief executive of retailer JJB Sports, had publicly declared his interest and was said by informed sources to be ahead of any other parties that were looking at the club.

In 2006, Blackburn Rovers announced that Walker's trustees had converted £14m of loans into shares, then in January 2007 they converted a further £80m into shares.

In 2007 the Walker Family Trust stop funding the club.

It was a little-noticed paragraph in the club's accounts, published in January 2008, which announced that the trustees had stopped funding the club back in 2007.

The news was phrased somewhat obliquely by John Williams, the chairman, generally admired as a shrewd guiding force. He insisted the decision was not irreversible. "Given the new TV deal, the trustees see no immediate requirement to invest further (having donated £3m a year since 2002)," he wrote. "In a climate of emerging markets overseas, buoyant domestic TV revenues and rarity value leading to capital growth, they are in no hurry to sell. Focus is on finding a suitable investor to take the club forward beyond the Jack Walker dynasty."

John Williams hoped the search for a new owner would bring in a football enthusiast, prepared to take a bet on a club with potential, rather than a merchant bringing debt or eyeing a quick profit.

Enter the Venky's, SEM, Kentaro, Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean.

When the Venky's bought Blackburn Rovers in 2011, it was not a football club in free-fall, it was not a football club that was in decline; it was a progressive and steady football club skillfully guided by John Williams and his team.

After the Venky's takeover:

2010-2011 Season: Sam Allardyce sacked 13 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Steve Kean appointed manager till the end of the season 22 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner expressing concerns at the way the club was being run. 4 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: With poor results and the threat of relegation, Kean handed 3 year contract. 20 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: Chairman John Williams resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 14 years. Feb 2011

2010-2011 Season: Managing Director Tom Finn resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 15 years. May 2011

2010-2011 Season: Blackburn Survive in the Premier League on the final day of the season. 22 May 2011

During pre season: Manchester United confirmed that they had reached an agreement to sign promising Rovers starlet Phil Jones on a five-year deal for an undisclosed transfer fee, which was believed to be at least £16.5m. This was a huge blow the team and the fans; Phil Jones was a local Lancashire lad, Rovers fan and an integral part of the team and a product of Jack Walkers legacy - The Blackburn Rovers Youth Academy. 13 Jun 2011

During pre season: Myles Anderson the son of Jerome Anderson (SEM/Kentaro), signs for Blackburn Rovers, no appearance to date.

2011-2012 Season: Steve Kean banned for drink driving blaming Rovers fans for lacing his drink. 15 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Blackburn Rovers suffered their worst start to a league campaign in 60 years after 1-0 loss to Everton; Kean reveals in interview with the Lancashire Telegraph that he is untroubled by Blackburn Rovers' start to the season. 27 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Fans Stage first Protest. 17 Sep 2011

All this in the context of what had hitherto been a well run football club with excellent lines of open communication with its fans and which was a symbol of pride to the community it represented; something of an oddity in today’s multiplatinum sophisticated world of corporate finance and obscene footballers wages and agent fees.

Some Rovers fans felt that the Venky's clearly knew how to run a business, having built up their own poultry and pharmaceutical empire in India and having passed the Premier League's due diligence test; it was also felt that the Walkers Family Trust would have administered their own due diligence on the Venky's and would not have sold the club to quick profit merchants, risking Jack Walkers legacy.

Opinions of the departure of Phil Jones were mixed but the general consensus was that the promising young player could at least have given Rovers one more season but would eventually have left no matter who was in charge and had at least moved to the biggest football club in the world.

At the same time it was felt by many that Jones' departure was the true end of the Walker Era, it was the final poke in the eye to Jack Walkers legacy; the feeling being that Rovers had now become nothing more than a finishing school for Manchester United. Meanwhile, the national media where completely ignorant of who Phil Jones actually was and what his symbolic and footballing importance to the club and its fans represented.

By now it was becoming increasingly clear that the club was entering a new era - but at least Rovers were playing a better brand of football. The Venky's also kept season ticket prices down, renamed the famous Blackburn End in honour of a club legend - Ronnie Clayton - and had donated the historic and famous Rovers shirt to a worthy charity - The Princes Trust - when it would have been much easier to drop their own brand name on top of the famous Blue 'n' white halves.

And so some Rovers fans were still prepared to give the Venky's a chance to prove themselves, believing that if guilty of anything, they had perhaps been naive: linking the club with footballing superstars was only going to result in mockery - that was not their fault - but that is football snobbery and the culture of the English. The London media does not react so snootily when small mediocre southern clubs like Portsmouth and Fulham are linked with Maradonna but they do when Blackburn Rovers are, because to them, Blackburn is a dirty northern slum town; cloth caps, whippets and cobbled streets.

However naive the Venky's were, it was felt that they needed to improve their PR by attended home games and speaking to the fans on BBC Radio Lancashire or through the Lancashire Telegraph about their vision for the club; even an open fans forum at Ewood Park was mooted - but despite repeated pleas from the fans for communication - silence.

The Venky's completely shunned the Rovers faithful, displaying that peculiarly Indian form of arrogance, hubris - completely ignoring the fans - whom they are there to serve.

It was also becoming increasingly clear that the Venky's felt that they could run the football club from India; summoning Steve Kean, a first time manager with no experience in the role, let alone at one of the most historic clubs in the game, competing in what is considered by many to be the best football league in the world to monthly meetings on the sub continent. Steve Kean was summoned to Pune, India, once a month to discuss progress with the Venky's. This was the only guidance Kean had and many fans felt some sympathy.

Initially, however, the focus of unrest on the slopes of Ewood Park were directed mainly at Steve Kean. After all, he buys the players, sells players, picks the team, chooses the tactics and substitutions and is the main interface between the club, the media and the fans.

It is against this backdrop that the protest movement was born.

For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park, as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.

Throughout this time the club - now in new hands - have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.

The protestors have also beendemonised by Jerome Anderson on SKY Sports, Steve Kean and a significant minority of fellow Rovers supporters opposed to the protests; for their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performances and bad results and labeled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher the former Rovers favourite, to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".

The protestors have not only had to endure much ongoing ridicule from their loyal opposites in the national media - but damning criticisms from fans of other clubs around the country - writing and phoning national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tuting at the "horrendous" behaviour of the Blackburn Rovers fans.

There has also been no shortage of pundits, journalists, footballers, ex-footballers, football managers and ex-football mangers queing up to robustly defend Steve Kean and smear the Blackburn Rovers supporters.

One can to some extent understand some of the criticisms from football fans of other clubs, after all, they have been subject to intense media brainwashing as the corporate clique's and their cronies have banded together against the protesting Rovers fans.

And that is the point. These protesting fans represent the 'little man', working-class people desperately trying to cling onto and protect the heritage of a footballing institution that was born in their town during footballs formative years.

This is David and Goliath stuff, the mega money men of SEM, Kentaro, The Venky's, SKY SPORTS, mediocre multi millionaire footballers and parasitic pundits on triple figure salaries who do not pay to watch Premier League football; the most expensive football matches in Europe and footballers who can earn more in one week than many do in 15 years and more in one month than many do in a life time.

To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.

It is against this backdrop that the protests continue.

Brilliant post, just hope that all the effort you have put into your post has helped people who have not got a clue what has been going on at our club, to understand a little of what's been going on.

RTID

Melanie :-) wrote:

alfa111 wrote:
No more than expected.Said on here months ago the P/L and sports tv,press had washed there hands of rovers,the PL left BRFC adrift going into a storm without any chance of survival and a complete disregard for the people and town of blackburn and rovers football club. BRFC to the PL was an embarrassment right from the beginning of venkys take over.The fans were left to fend for the honour of our famous club, laughed at and ridiculed by the press tv pundits for months and then after rovers fans finally woke up to the horror of what was happening to BRFC they began to fight back against venkys and keans shocking management. Amazingly the the tv sports and press turned against Blackburns fans and blamed the fans for the demise of BRFC by not backing steve kean all along. Were are you all now with your knives. Now that BRFC are demoted the press and tv decided now that rovers fans did have a valid reason to demonstrate against keans and venkys blundering incompetent management. Why did the press and tv,PL stand by and watch us sink?it all comes down to money.The PL realised very early on in the first few months that venkys plan for rovers did not include them bank rolling the club for more success when they took over.For the PL it was simple no money no PL, let them sink there is nothing to gain from a club who have no money to invest and who will not bring some good publicity for the PL.Who better to drag a club down than the owners themselves, greedy for a quick buck and no interest at all in BRFC or football other than its assets and a manager who would sell his soul to the devil,evil beyond belief. ThePL new all along this would be the outcome it just took one season longer than expected and that is only through the fantastic fans of BRFC who amazingly kept their dignity,no other football fans in the world would have put up with so much lies and deceit and still kept on supporting their club till the end like the rovers fans have. kean rovers fans are going no were.we will be here when you are thrown out of BRFC, time is on our side and that day will come 100% sure on that. were in it for the long haul fatboy.

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Introduction:
There have been unacceptable levels of abuse aimed at Blackburn Rovers supporters from the national media, footballers, football managers and football fans throughout the country since the protest's against Steve Kean, The Venky's and Jerome Anderson began.

I hope that the information on this page will go some way towards redressing that.

I am totally biased.
There is nothing impartial in anything I write about Blackburn Rovers, the Protest Movement or Steve Kean, Jerome Anderson and The Venky's.
I support the actions of the various protest groups 100%.
I support the actions of any spontanious organic protests as and when they arise 100%.
I support Blackburn Rovers Football Club 100%.
0% Steve Kean.
0% Jerome Anderson.
0% Venky's.

There has been too much disrespect shown, particularly in the corporate media towards the protestors, their aims and their objectives. Therefore, it is left to alternative media sources such as this to provide some perspective.

However, in some cases I have relied upon corporate media sources for some information as there have been honourable individual exceptions - but that does not alter the fact that the corporate media as an institution has in most cases treated the protesters with disdain.

It is an obvious though seldom acknowledged reality that Steve Kean had nine months as manager of Blackburn Rovers before a single protest began.

So, why did the protest movement begin?

This is an important question, to understand the protest movement we must first understand the context within which it arose.

Blackburn Rovers were once regarded as one of the most efficiently and well administered football clubs in English football. A model football club, a model to emulate and imitate - and many did try to "do a Blackburn" - but failed.

Above all, Blackburn Rovers represented something of an anomaly, regarded as a huge football club - in a small town; perhaps the only football club in world football to be thought of as such - a beacon of hope to 'under dogs' everywhere, yet resented at the same time: A well respected club within the game but despised by neutral fans jealous of the clubs stature and historical significance and disliked in the corporate media based largely in London, resentful of a small northern town football club's plucky resilience.

This is to be expected. England resents success. BRFC and its supporters have long been despised for winning The Premier League in 1995.

Four months before he died in 2001, Jack Walker gave an interview to reassure Blackburn Rovers supporters that he had made provision for the club. "A number of years ago I put in place a family trust structure to own my various business interests, including Blackburn Rovers," he explained. "This structure ensures continuity of management and provides the necessary financial support for all my businesses for the foreseeable future. I have made known my wishes to my colleagues, whom I am confident will carry forward the policies necessary to promote and enlarge all my business interests."

The trust, which was registered in Jersey, was run by a board of trustees. They rarely spoke publicly, but when Jack Walker died the trust chairman, the Jersey solicitor Paul Egerton-Vernon, did make a statement: "The club is provided for the foreseeable future."

The terms of the instructions Jack Walker left the trustees were never disclosed, but Egerton-Vernon explained that Rovers would be subsidised by other assets in the Walker portfolio, which included property and the Jersey-based airline, Flybe. "There seems to be a misunderstanding that there is an ever-shrinking pot of money available," he said. "That is not the case. There are other businesses apart from the club which generate profits which are available."

From 2002 the Walker Family Trust donated £3million a year to the club, helping to give it a competitive edge over similar sized clubs.

In 2005, with the £3m that was loaned interest-free to the club, the Walker investment in Blackburn Rovers had reached £97million.

Then, finally, the trustees decided they had spent enough.

Jack Walker had charged them with growing his businesses financially and, although they did not explain their decision, it is assumed they viewed the club as a drain. The family, although the beneficiaries of their father's estate, were not understood to have had any formal involvement in its administration.

And so in the summer of 2005 the trustees of the Jack Walker Settlement decided to sell the club, and appointed the bank Rothschild, which previously handled the disastrous sale of Liverpool to Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to find the right buyer for Rovers. Chris Ronnie, the chief executive of retailer JJB Sports, had publicly declared his interest and was said by informed sources to be ahead of any other parties that were looking at the club.

In 2006, Blackburn Rovers announced that Walker's trustees had converted £14m of loans into shares, then in January 2007 they converted a further £80m into shares.

In 2007 the Walker Family Trust stop funding the club.

It was a little-noticed paragraph in the club's accounts, published in January 2008, which announced that the trustees had stopped funding the club back in 2007.

The news was phrased somewhat obliquely by John Williams, the chairman, generally admired as a shrewd guiding force. He insisted the decision was not irreversible. "Given the new TV deal, the trustees see no immediate requirement to invest further (having donated £3m a year since 2002)," he wrote. "In a climate of emerging markets overseas, buoyant domestic TV revenues and rarity value leading to capital growth, they are in no hurry to sell. Focus is on finding a suitable investor to take the club forward beyond the Jack Walker dynasty."

John Williams hoped the search for a new owner would bring in a football enthusiast, prepared to take a bet on a club with potential, rather than a merchant bringing debt or eyeing a quick profit.

Enter the Venky's, SEM, Kentaro, Jerome Anderson and Steve Kean.

When the Venky's bought Blackburn Rovers in 2011, it was not a football club in free-fall, it was not a football club that was in decline; it was a progressive and steady football club skillfully guided by John Williams and his team.

After the Venky's takeover:

2010-2011 Season: Sam Allardyce sacked 13 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Steve Kean appointed manager till the end of the season 22 Dec 2010

2010-2011 Season: Letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner expressing concerns at the way the club was being run. 4 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: With poor results and the threat of relegation, Kean handed 3 year contract. 20 Jan 2011

2010-2011 Season: Chairman John Williams resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 14 years. Feb 2011

2010-2011 Season: Managing Director Tom Finn resigns from Blackburn Rovers after 15 years. May 2011

2010-2011 Season: Blackburn Survive in the Premier League on the final day of the season. 22 May 2011

During pre season: Manchester United confirmed that they had reached an agreement to sign promising Rovers starlet Phil Jones on a five-year deal for an undisclosed transfer fee, which was believed to be at least £16.5m. This was a huge blow the team and the fans; Phil Jones was a local Lancashire lad, Rovers fan and an integral part of the team and a product of Jack Walkers legacy - The Blackburn Rovers Youth Academy. 13 Jun 2011

During pre season: Myles Anderson the son of Jerome Anderson (SEM/Kentaro), signs for Blackburn Rovers, no appearance to date.

2011-2012 Season: Steve Kean banned for drink driving blaming Rovers fans for lacing his drink. 15 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Blackburn Rovers suffered their worst start to a league campaign in 60 years after 1-0 loss to Everton; Kean reveals in interview with the Lancashire Telegraph that he is untroubled by Blackburn Rovers' start to the season. 27 Aug 2011

2011-2012 Season: Fans Stage first Protest. 17 Sep 2011

All this in the context of what had hitherto been a well run football club with excellent lines of open communication with its fans and which was a symbol of pride to the community it represented; something of an oddity in today’s multiplatinum sophisticated world of corporate finance and obscene footballers wages and agent fees.

Some Rovers fans felt that the Venky's clearly knew how to run a business, having built up their own poultry and pharmaceutical empire in India and having passed the Premier League's due diligence test; it was also felt that the Walkers Family Trust would have administered their own due diligence on the Venky's and would not have sold the club to quick profit merchants, risking Jack Walkers legacy.

Opinions of the departure of Phil Jones were mixed but the general consensus was that the promising young player could at least have given Rovers one more season but would eventually have left no matter who was in charge and had at least moved to the biggest football club in the world.

At the same time it was felt by many that Jones' departure was the true end of the Walker Era, it was the final poke in the eye to Jack Walkers legacy; the feeling being that Rovers had now become nothing more than a finishing school for Manchester United. Meanwhile, the national media where completely ignorant of who Phil Jones actually was and what his symbolic and footballing importance to the club and its fans represented.

By now it was becoming increasingly clear that the club was entering a new era - but at least Rovers were playing a better brand of football. The Venky's also kept season ticket prices down, renamed the famous Blackburn End in honour of a club legend - Ronnie Clayton - and had donated the historic and famous Rovers shirt to a worthy charity - The Princes Trust - when it would have been much easier to drop their own brand name on top of the famous Blue 'n' white halves.

And so some Rovers fans were still prepared to give the Venky's a chance to prove themselves, believing that if guilty of anything, they had perhaps been naive: linking the club with footballing superstars was only going to result in mockery - that was not their fault - but that is football snobbery and the culture of the English. The London media does not react so snootily when small mediocre southern clubs like Portsmouth and Fulham are linked with Maradonna but they do when Blackburn Rovers are, because to them, Blackburn is a dirty northern slum town; cloth caps, whippets and cobbled streets.

However naive the Venky's were, it was felt that they needed to improve their PR by attended home games and speaking to the fans on BBC Radio Lancashire or through the Lancashire Telegraph about their vision for the club; even an open fans forum at Ewood Park was mooted - but despite repeated pleas from the fans for communication - silence.

The Venky's completely shunned the Rovers faithful, displaying that peculiarly Indian form of arrogance, hubris - completely ignoring the fans - whom they are there to serve.

It was also becoming increasingly clear that the Venky's felt that they could run the football club from India; summoning Steve Kean, a first time manager with no experience in the role, let alone at one of the most historic clubs in the game, competing in what is considered by many to be the best football league in the world to monthly meetings on the sub continent. Steve Kean was summoned to Pune, India, once a month to discuss progress with the Venky's. This was the only guidance Kean had and many fans felt some sympathy.

Initially, however, the focus of unrest on the slopes of Ewood Park were directed mainly at Steve Kean. After all, he buys the players, sells players, picks the team, chooses the tactics and substitutions and is the main interface between the club, the media and the fans.

It is against this backdrop that the protest movement was born.

For the majority of the fans the protests have become the norm at Ewood Park, as supporters of Blackburn Rovers have voiced their concerns over the direction of the football club that they have supported unconditionally throughout their lives.

Throughout this time the club - now in new hands - have manipulated the media by strategically implementing a smear campaign against its own supporters by painting Steve Kean as the victim.

The protestors have also beendemonised by Jerome Anderson on SKY Sports, Steve Kean and a significant minority of fellow Rovers supporters opposed to the protests; for their efforts, the Protestors have been blamed for the teams poor performances and bad results and labeled "disgusting", a "mob", "the worst fans in the country", and as Kevin Gallacher the former Rovers favourite, to his eternal shame wrote in The Telegraph, "an embarrassment".

The protestors have not only had to endure much ongoing ridicule from their loyal opposites in the national media - but damning criticisms from fans of other clubs around the country - writing and phoning national radio stations, quivering and palpitating with sanctimonious indignation, wagging their fingers, cluck-cluck clucking and tut-tuting at the "horrendous" behaviour of the Blackburn Rovers fans.

There has also been no shortage of pundits, journalists, footballers, ex-footballers, football managers and ex-football mangers queing up to robustly defend Steve Kean and smear the Blackburn Rovers supporters.

One can to some extent understand some of the criticisms from football fans of other clubs, after all, they have been subject to intense media brainwashing as the corporate clique's and their cronies have banded together against the protesting Rovers fans.

And that is the point. These protesting fans represent the 'little man', working-class people desperately trying to cling onto and protect the heritage of a footballing institution that was born in their town during footballs formative years.

This is David and Goliath stuff, the mega money men of SEM, Kentaro, The Venky's, SKY SPORTS, mediocre multi millionaire footballers and parasitic pundits on triple figure salaries who do not pay to watch Premier League football; the most expensive football matches in Europe and footballers who can earn more in one week than many do in 15 years and more in one month than many do in a life time.

To blame the fans of Blackburn Rovers for the plight of the football club is despicable.

It is against this backdrop that the protests continue.

Melanie, in a nut shell from the start to the end,nice one.

i love it a moron 6 fingered jibb who was a member and contributer to the most sleazy dishonest group of people ever assembled under one roof calling for enquires and reports and as for
No we don't think we have a divine right to be in the PL. but we do have a right to question the goings on at BRFC.”
If you don't like the goings on don't go on you thick jibb moron hahahahahahahah

bankhall wrote:
i love it a moron 6 fingered jibb who was a member and contributer to the most sleazy dishonest group of people ever assembled under one roof calling for enquires and reports and as for
No we don't think we have a divine right to be in the PL. but we do have a right to question the goings on at BRFC.”
If you don't like the goings on don't go on you thick jibb moron hahahahahahahah

Another semi-literate post from w@nkhall. I take it brightness isn't your strong point then?

Jimmy Jambone wrote:

happiness wrote: And while were are on the subject of Jack Walker, which you lot have obsessed about for 20 years now.Here's a serious question to all proper Clarets supporters (not fans). If a multi-millionaire or billionaire Clarets supporter (not an arab sheik or Russian business tycoon) decided to sell his business to put large chunks of his wealth into the club, in the hope that they could again reach the heights of, say the early seventies or sixties and hopefully become the best team in the country. What would you do? Seriously, what would you do? Abandon the club or go along with it? Always wanted to know that.....!!!

I'd rather my club achieve it's successes, however modest they may be, on it's own back. I am probably alone in that. But that's not the point - The point is, if that did happen: It would be an achievement of the business man, not of the football club. I wouldn't delude myself and swan around saying Burnley were all this and that. I wouldn't confuse myself or forget that it was not an achievement of the football club or of the town. It would be an achievement of the business man's. Jack Walker created, BRFC and it's fans just took. Moochers and looters, leeches and value takers.

Must I spell it out?

L-E-T I-T G-O.

You wont make us feel guilty using your twisted interpretation of honour or ethical superiority, born out of envy .

It didn't happen to you, it happened to us, like it has done at countless clubs.

If you can't accept it, you'll just have to handle it......

Jimmy Jambone wrote:

happiness wrote: And while were are on the subject of Jack Walker, which you lot have obsessed about for 20 years now.Here's a serious question to all proper Clarets supporters (not fans). If a multi-millionaire or billionaire Clarets supporter (not an arab sheik or Russian business tycoon) decided to sell his business to put large chunks of his wealth into the club, in the hope that they could again reach the heights of, say the early seventies or sixties and hopefully become the best team in the country. What would you do? Seriously, what would you do? Abandon the club or go along with it? Always wanted to know that.....!!!

I'd rather my club achieve it's successes, however modest they may be, on it's own back. I am probably alone in that. But that's not the point - The point is, if that did happen: It would be an achievement of the business man, not of the football club. I wouldn't delude myself and swan around saying Burnley were all this and that. I wouldn't confuse myself or forget that it was not an achievement of the football club or of the town. It would be an achievement of the business man's. Jack Walker created, BRFC and it's fans just took. Moochers and looters, leeches and value takers.

Must I spell it out?

L-E-T I-T G-O.

You wont make us feel guilty using your twisted interpretation of honour or ethical superiority, born out of envy .

It didn't happen to you, it happened to us, like it has done at countless clubs.

If you can't accept it, you'll just have to handle it......

Kean can not be sacked he is a share holder with his gangster mates from glasgow.

Jack Straw accusing the Premier League of “a wilful neglect of its responsibilities” is a bit rich!
F Off, Jack.

My goodness the boring one is back. Typical of a woman can't keep her mouth (keyboard) shut or is it another bad attack of the verbal diarrhoea you seem to suffer from??

Are you perhaps in Politics, or Banking? None of whom keep their words!


Following your example of cutting and pasting; below is your very own statement.

Quote Monday 7th May by Melanie

"By the way, this is my last ever post here. The season is over, Rovers are relegated and summer beckons.

I will read the reports, visit the various web sites and try to keep myself informed of developments".

Discussion forums like this again.... no nay never no more".

My goodness the boring one is back. Typical of a woman can't keep her mouth (keyboard) shut or is it another bad attack of the verbal diarrhoea you seem to suffer from??

Are you perhaps in Politics, or Banking? None of whom keep their words!


Following your example of cutting and pasting; below is your very own statement.

Quote Monday 7th May by Melanie

"By the way, this is my last ever post here. The season is over, Rovers are relegated and summer beckons.

I will read the reports, visit the various web sites and try to keep myself informed of developments".

Discussion forums like this again.... no nay never no more".

I agree with the Rovers fans, relegation is not the issue, but a symptom of boardroom politics. If this is not investigated by the FA, beyond their so-called 'fit and proper' test, what precedence does it allow for other takeovers for other clubs?

'Competency' HAS to be part of the test, and in the end, what is happening at Rovers, is bringing disrepute and suspicion upon the English football league...and the FA don't want to investigate...why?

Simply because it will open up a whole can-of-worms about football in general. Fans are nothing more than cash cows, and through their loyalty (sometimes misguided) perpetuate gravy train without receiving the reward of flavour.

If you don't like a product, you don't buy it! With Rovers, this percept will hurt the club, and so each fan has to weigh his own conscience against the form of protest he/she makes.

Perhaps, by witholding their money, the fans will constrict the oxygen that businessmen breathe - profit or regular income. The relatioship between club and fan is not altruistic, but profit-motivated. Fans bring cash, club brings honours (hopefully), and at Rovers, this has broken down irrevocably.

How the fans proceed will require delicate balancing in their protests, or they could lose the club entirely. However, tthey proceed, the short-term future does not look good. UTC!

FANS

Just the usual daily reminder

DON'T by any Season Tickets

DON'T buy any merchandise

DONT believe anything coming out if Ewood until it happens,

DON'T give the Venkys a penny of your hard earned money until KEAN has been SACKED

FINNALY DON'T give up hope, we can beat these B@stards.

Have a nice weekend

Just a guess, Chelsea 2 BRFC 0

Kean, we played well whilst it was 0-0 we had 37 shots in practise, we should have had three penaltys, I did not see the sign etc etc etc

ste.g wrote:

noddymcleod wrote:
Jack Straw was not a barrister. I'll give one of my Accy Stanley tickets for next season to anyone who can show documentary proof that Straw was a Rovers fan until it become fash for New Labour to support footie.
He made no public utterances about being a fan until Rovers were Champs and until New Labour decided that supporting a footie club was OK and an allowable bit of "laddism"

i so him with my own eyes attending matches long before new labour

Seems a shame that the local journalist couldn't/wouldn't write an article on these lines. Well said!

Jack Straw talking about more competancy and disclosure - whatever next?
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I don't recall this inbred dodgy politician requesting any of this when he was a cabinet minister a few years ago, none of this seemed that important when other clubs like Leeds and pompey were going to the wall, only now it seems to be a problem when his 'adopted' team have been relegated.
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**** off Jack you odious little scrote.

dorsetclaret wrote:
mountain and mole hill come to mind you got relegated deal with it the days of a sugar daddy or well and truely over for you lot welcome to the real world there are bigger clubs than you lot so you won prem once big deal you will never do it again and i know the burnley probally never will but so what roll on next year when we take 6 points of you lot and you guessed it relegation again for you lot

Hows your lip Jimmy?

dorsetclaret wrote:
1 person who will always be remembered steve kean is immortalised lol

SO IS JOHN BOND NOB HEAD

Chelsea away for me tomorrow, to support Blackburn, no season ticket for me and my son, first time in 8 years. Next season, we are going to go to all away games but no home games. Still supporting Blackburn but providing the venky scum with no money

PL wont investigate cos they're being paid under the table, they're just as corrupt and should all burn.