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Steve Kean: His most memorable quotes
11:39am Monday 1st October 2012 in News
Former manager Steve Kean's quotes alienated him from the fans
Steve Kean’s reign as Blackburn Rovers will be remembered for many reasons, one of which was the quotes that often drove a wedge between himself and the fans. From the wildly over-optimistic to the frankly ridiculous, ANDY CRYER looks back at his most infamous comments...
- “This is a new era. We have new owners, it is going to be an exciting time for the club. The owners have been disappointed and a little bit confused about the reaction from the press.” After being appointed in December 2010.
- “It looks like it has brought negative publicity but I don’t see why. I don’t think it has been done just for publicity. If it has fizzled out then it has, but we haven’t been chasing it just for publicity.” On the attempt to sign Ronaldinho in January 2011.
- “As soon as he says he wants to come back to England you have to throw your hat in the ring.” His hopes of signing David Beckham in January 2011.
- “We feel that Myles Anderson is a player with great potential as a late developer. He could be-come something of a Chris Smalling, who came through late in football and Myles has done the same.” Anderson is now on loan at Aldershot.
- “We can look forward and really kick on. We do have lift-off because this was important.” Kean after scraping survival on the last day of the 2010/11 season at Wolves.
- “Bruno – or Denis after Denis Irwin, the boys call him, because he never gives the ball away – will fill in that position and that is great for us.” After Kean’s words on August 8, 2011, Ribeiro did not play a game all season.
- “David’s always been put on a par with a young Rooney and he can certainly score all types of goals… it’s not just nice tap-ins, he can create a goal for himself, score from outside the box, chip them in, pass them in, smash them in.” Kean’s praise of David Goodwillie in August 2011 did not exactly come to fruition.
- “We are very close on Junior’s deal. We have agreed in principle a deal. It’s a long contract. We are confident it will be done and dusted in the next 24 hours.” Hoilett left a year later, having never signed the deal.
- “The most important thing is 99% of the fans didn't demonstrate.” Kean’s comments about rising discontent among Rovers support on September 17, 2011. One per cent? You are having a laugh?
- “I didn’t see the plane and I don’t know what it said.” After Rovers fans flew a plane over his head calling for ‘Kean out’ during a game against Chelsea in November 2011.
- “We won’t get relegated, absolutely no chance.” Kean’s ill-advised prediction in November 2011.
- “We are in a position where we have forfeited going through and having the chance to reach a cup final.” After Rovers’ Carling Cup loss to Cardiff City in November 29, 2011.
- “These are challenging times for the club and the owners, but I believe Venky’s are 100 per cent the right owners.” May 9 2012.
- “I won’t walk away.” September 2012.
Comments(50)
MatthewCA
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11:55am Mon 1 Oct 12
Some where down the line, Fans of our club dosn't like him, so thick skin went down the line now.
Full of "positive" always, Even we loose a game , he will find positive from it.
All the best for him in coming years, I feel he got experiance , courage and still he can be a good manager at one of the club in english football.
French Rover
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11:56am Mon 1 Oct 12
Boris The Spider
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11:57am Mon 1 Oct 12
submin01
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11:59am Mon 1 Oct 12
It can happen again because the same team will interviewing the contenders. The heartbeat of Rovers was the team headed by John Williams,
Venkeys have been badly advised, the advisors are still there. So it will be same again, some one who will work to the agenda of the manipulators.
Bryan Douglas supporter
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12:00pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Kean's 'comments' during his 'successful' reign, well done Paul Agnew.... PR advisor to the stars!
givet82
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12:00pm Mon 1 Oct 12
walkerjack
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12:02pm Mon 1 Oct 12
ewoodcow
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12:03pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Following relegation - May 2012
givet82
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12:04pm Mon 1 Oct 12
MatthewCA wrote:God you need a slap man
Good Good. Steve Kean still a good man and talk positive. We have to respect and players get good boost from such remarks.
Some where down the line, Fans of our club dosn't like him, so thick skin went down the line now.
Full of "positive" always, Even we loose a game , he will find positive from it.
All the best for him in coming years, I feel he got experiance , courage and still he can be a good manager at one of the club in english football.
vicn1956
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12:12pm Mon 1 Oct 12
He still makes you laugh (or cry)
Please, can the LT give a £ everytime you print his picture or his nameto a charity from now on. We've see the last of him at last!
vicn1956
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12:14pm Mon 1 Oct 12
"I'll be back."
vicn1956
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12:14pm Mon 1 Oct 12
"I'll be back."
Gazzrover
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12:14pm Mon 1 Oct 12
We can raise a smile now he has gone but at the times these were said , his words just made us all cringe with embarrassment that after a string of decent men running our club we had a complete fantasist in charge of our beloved club.
And Fantasist is putting it politely, it wasnt just his stupid , deluded comments it was the arrogant smug way he said them and many more , usually after a defeat that made him depised by most of us fans.
REJOICE IT HAS GONE
.ONWARDS AND UPWARDS WITH INTEGRITY NOW
Gazzrover
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12:18pm Mon 1 Oct 12
givet82 wrote:this Matthew CA
MatthewCA wrote: Good Good. Steve Kean still a good man and talk positive. We have to respect and players get good boost from such remarks. Some where down the line, Fans of our club dosn't like him, so thick skin went down the line now. Full of "positive" always, Even we loose a game , he will find positive from it. All the best for him in coming years, I feel he got experiance , courage and still he can be a good manager at one of the club in english football.God you need a slap man
are you from a different planet ? or are you one of the Venkeys ? or both ??
haha
ewood1952
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12:26pm Mon 1 Oct 12
MidlandRover85
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12:29pm Mon 1 Oct 12
J.C - Rishton
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12:29pm Mon 1 Oct 12
I was driving to Leek, staffs at the time and was cringing so much I nearly crashed the car !!
He made it worse when, after he said it, Ronnie Irani tried to help Kean out by saying "Steve I think you mean the Europa League don't you?"
Only for that muppet Kean to confirm he was totally mentally ill by replying "No the Champions league"
Even Alan Brazil couldnt defend one of his "ex-footballing luvies" on that one - he was completly and utterly speechless !!
OnePostThenTheOther
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1:08pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Steve Kean - positively the most gigantic swinging appendage ever to disgrace the modern game.
OnePostThenTheOther
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1:18pm Mon 1 Oct 12
MxMave
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1:26pm Mon 1 Oct 12
makaveli96
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1:32pm Mon 1 Oct 12
MatthewCA wrote:Your not from Blackburn are you Matty!
Good Good. Steve Kean still a good man and talk positive. We have to respect and players get good boost from such remarks. Some where down the line, Fans of our club dosn't like him, so thick skin went down the line now. Full of "positive" always, Even we loose a game , he will find positive from it. All the best for him in coming years, I feel he got experiance , courage and still he can be a good manager at one of the club in english football.
makaveli96
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1:38pm Mon 1 Oct 12
makaveli96
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1:38pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Andy Young
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1:46pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Andy Cryer - negative to the end lol
Good riddance to the most deluded, arrogant, machiavellian, inept, undignified idiot to sit in the managers seat in my lifetime. And you had to go some to be worse than Jim Iley and Paul Ince!!
RUinsane
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1:52pm Mon 1 Oct 12
bburnrover
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1:54pm Mon 1 Oct 12
unclejacklegend
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2:03pm Mon 1 Oct 12
French Rover wrote:Agreed, I think that it should be frowned upon to mention his name from here on in.
Andy Cryer - is that you taking the mickey out of our inglorious former manager? You rascal. Now let that be an end to us seeing Kean's name in this paper. We have read all we ever want to read about him and more besides. The LET should be declared a Kean-Free Zone from now on please...
LanghoDAN
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2:05pm Mon 1 Oct 12
handyamBRFC
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2:06pm Mon 1 Oct 12
many asked for that ... U got it......!!
now lets concentrate on supporting the team...
BRFC neeeds You the supporters....!!!
Where are you.......!!!
Lets get on with our job of supporting the team....
BRFC neeeds us, the team needs us, the players need us...!!
we are playing against 12 men every weeek...!!!!
come on fans lets back the players and start winning matches
We are BRFC, lets show em all we are the best fans
and lets be proud of BRFC and we BRFC can be winners.
Arte et Labore......come on now.....show em all and beat em all..
Lets not get carried away with the enemies of BRFC who have had a field day of late, and many are falling for their vision of hate against BRFC.
COME ON now lets get ourselves together & show em all that we BRFC are the best fans in the UK. we now need to prove that......!!
as many questions have been asked of the fans......!!
Irrespective of who the manager will be, its the fans that will make the difference. Do we want to win.....! Do we care about BRFC..?
Lets get together and show everyone that were together and a force to be reckoned with. Arte et Labore.... Were hardworking winners......!!
Nuttall Street
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2:12pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Could we now have the same type of article on the Venkys please.
MxMave
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3:06pm Mon 1 Oct 12
bburnrover wrote:I think he was some kit manager at ewood years ago... not entirely sure, don't remmeber winning any games with him at the helm anyway, he jus seemed to trot around the dugout like someone with DVT.
Steve who?
bburnrover
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3:09pm Mon 1 Oct 12
The jouyrnos know more than these ex players abput what is really happening at the clubs ,sorry exclude the Daily Mirror as that guy who guests on Talk Sport knows very little about the inglorious history surrounding Kean's tenancy. Paul Merson knows nothing at all about anything except drinking he failed at Walsall and I would not pay him in washers to sit on any panel they should bring Rodney Marsh back on Sky Sports as its dismal since he left.
Harrime
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3:12pm Mon 1 Oct 12
givet82 wrote:Yes, and it's about time we heard from Ryan about his departure from Ewood! Oh no you WON'T - as Kean took legal action out against Nelsen upon his departure!
Nelson suffering a bad injury was the worst. A week later he played for Spurs!
We may be waiting a while - but NOW is the time Andy, before Venky's appoint the wrong man and make a mess of it all over again - to dig the dirt and find out the whole clutch of messy stories - especially surrounding the players who left the club under 'mysterious' circumstances!
lusorover
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3:19pm Mon 1 Oct 12
The moronic pundits on Sky still peddle their 'Kean hard done-by' garbage.
We the fans can now move on and prove all our critics wrong by getting behind the club and the new manager in due course. We need to turn out in huge numbers against Wolves and show the football world just why we protested and boycotted. Kean has gone so the fans must come back in big numbers to show just how much we really do care.
We will have the last laugh.
Make sure you get this appointment right Venkys!
1rover
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3:59pm Mon 1 Oct 12
kazz wrote:your right myles anderson one of the unused subs for aldershot.
The best one was myles anderson, how the hell he expected us to believe him i will never know
Rovers1975
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4:01pm Mon 1 Oct 12
MatthewCA wrote:What!? You need help pal.
Good Good. Steve Kean still a good man and talk positive. We have to respect and players get good boost from such remarks.
Some where down the line, Fans of our club dosn't like him, so thick skin went down the line now.
Full of "positive" always, Even we loose a game , he will find positive from it.
All the best for him in coming years, I feel he got experiance , courage and still he can be a good manager at one of the club in english football.
carlmc1
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4:04pm Mon 1 Oct 12
What I would like to see now is for some of the pundits who backed him, to prove they really meant what they said. A good example of that would be for Charlie boy Nicholas, to back him as the next Scotland boss and Merson to recommend hom to Arsenal. I can imagine the outcry now from any club who dares to mention his name as a potential manager.
I think he should now dissapear from where he came onto obscurity, unless his mate Sir Alex can find a little job for him!
willhelmrover98
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4:44pm Mon 1 Oct 12
K2rockall
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5:12pm Mon 1 Oct 12
Question: How Many Steve Keans does it take to change a light bulb?
Answers:
1 to say that it is in fact a positive that the light bulb blew.
1 to defend how well the light bulb had done in the first 30 minutes before it blew.
1 to explain how only 1% of people believe the light bulb to have blown so it can’t have done.
1 to say how he didn’t see the lightbulb blow so therefore it can’t have done.
1 to exclaim that there was absolutely no chance of the light bulb blowing.
1 to announce that the blown light bulb will be signing a new contract within the next 48 hours.
1 to say that he in fact ‘forfeited’ the light bulb so that we could concentrate on some new light bulbs.
1 to proclaim that the dark days are behind us even though he’s stood there in the dark.
1 to say that he has signed a host of new foreign light bulbs, but will have to store them away in the shed until they adjust to the pace of English electricity.
1 to explain that the light emitted from a light bulb is not the only way to measure its success.
1 to defend that the shape and ambition of the light bulb was fine despite the fact it failed to emit a single photon of light on or off target in 90 minutes.
1 to put the light bulb in the wrong way and stand back whilst it blows the entire fusebox.
1 to explain that he will sit down with the broken light bulb’s owners and discuss budgets for some cheap replacements.
1 to explain that before he does anything with regards replacing the light bulb he must run it past his agent, Jerome Anderson and his lawyers.
1 to explain how growing up on the rough streets of Glasgow taught him how to change the light bulb.
1 to claim that the light bulb cannot light up due to contractual issues.
1 to claim that the light bulb is injured and will not light up again this season, before everybody sees it light up in a different house just days later.
1 to claim that we will conclude all light bulb buying early in the transfer window and buy experienced light bulbs that will come in and shine straight away.
1 to claim that the light bulb exceeded its capacity because its drink was spiked.
1 to say the electric company are fully behind him despite cutting off the power six months ago.
1 to claim the light bulb was not in the right frame of mind to light up despite the light bulb insisting otherwise.
1 to announce that the light bulb is going nowhere before selling it to the Russians.
1 to claim that he will attend to the light bulb after he has waded through the hundreds of letters of support for his work.
1 to state that the light bulb worked perfectly well at Old Trafford and Anfield so what’s the problem?
1 to explain that the light bulb is a late developer, but will shine brightly in the near future.
1 to insist that the new light bulb is the next best thing since sliced bread, then never use said light bulb.
1 to say that despite being broken, these are exciting times for the light bulb.
1 to take the broken light bulb to Dubai to increase its vitamin D levels.
1 to purchase a light bulb multi-pack, aiming to highlight their ‘togetherness’
1 to claim that the electrician who installed the light bulb is a ‘f***ing crook’, so he should fit the new light bulb.
1 to say that the broken light bulb has taken a step backwards to take two steps forwards.
1 to claim that it was he who had spotted the light bulb’s potential and was responsible for getting it fitted in the first place.
1 to claim that the owners of the broken light bulb are in fact very knowledgeable about light bulb maintenance despite the fact they have no idea what to do.
1 to claim that there had been a foul in the run-up to the light bulb blowing so therefore we were unlucky that it did.
1 to rather than put in a like-for-like replacement light bulb, attempt to install a light bulb which doesn’t fit the socket just because he had fallen out with the first.
1 to do absolutely nothing about changing the light bulb. No substitutions allowed.
carlmc1
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5:17pm Mon 1 Oct 12
buzzinfly
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5:43pm Mon 1 Oct 12
shebby kean
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5:57pm Mon 1 Oct 12
lusorover wrote:This would never have happened at a big club and that is the whole point. He would have been chased out in no time just about anywhere else.
Can you imagine the outcry there would have been in the national media had this clown been in charge at Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool etc etc The moronic pundits on Sky still peddle their 'Kean hard done-by' garbage. We the fans can now move on and prove all our critics wrong by getting behind the club and the new manager in due course. We need to turn out in huge numbers against Wolves and show the football world just why we protested and boycotted. Kean has gone so the fans must come back in big numbers to show just how much we really do care. We will have the last laugh. Make sure you get this appointment right Venkys!
PS lusrover, I really wouldn't get your hopes up about Venkys making the right appointment, pal.
stony bloke
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6:32pm Mon 1 Oct 12
givet82 wrote:No, he needs English lessons.
MatthewCA wrote:God you need a slap man
Good Good. Steve Kean still a good man and talk positive. We have to respect and players get good boost from such remarks.
Some where down the line, Fans of our club dosn't like him, so thick skin went down the line now.
Full of "positive" always, Even we loose a game , he will find positive from it.
All the best for him in coming years, I feel he got experiance , courage and still he can be a good manager at one of the club in english football.
goldfinger59
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11:36pm Mon 1 Oct 12
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Marky mark
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1:52pm Tue 2 Oct 12
brfcrule1
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10:35pm Tue 2 Oct 12
“We are not going to be able to invent 10 games where we can go on an unbeaten run because there are not enough games left.”
surprised no one thought of this classic
pbirty
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7:01am Wed 3 Oct 12
Brunzig
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4:37pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Davelyn
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5:23pm Wed 3 Oct 12
kazz says...
11:52am Mon 1 Oct 12