- 1. Clueless owners oversee a second relegation for Blackburn Rovers ...
- (Stories)
- ... intent on pulling out, the 2010 purchase of Blackburn Rovers by the Indian conglomerate Venky’s offered hope of financial investment and long-term stability. However, within days of the takeover ridiculous ...
- Created on 09 May 2017
- 2. Blackburn Rovers 2 Aston Villa 0 ...
- (Match of the month)
- Simon Hart describes the scenes as Blackburn play their first match under the watchful eye of their new owners There are three Robbie Savages grinning in front of me as I take my seat in the press box ...
- Created on 21 January 2011
- 3. From the archive ~ Blackburn Olympic: the first northern FA Cup winners ...
- (Stories)
- Embed from Getty Images Many early FA Cup triumphs are footnotes of a bygone age but, as Tom Green explained in WSC 236, Blackburn Olympic’s 1883 win was a turning point for the game At the start ...
- Created on 23 May 2017
- 4. Tony Mowbray has tough task at Blackburn as Venky’s remain focus for anger ...
- (Stories)
- ... of Owen Coyle (by the usual "mutual consent") has come as no great surprise to the supporters of Blackburn Rovers who have seen their side slide towards Championship relegation. Despite building a decen ...
- Created on 24 February 2017
- 5. Blackburn’s poor start increases Ewood Park gloom ...
- (Stories)
- ... at local rivals Blackburn Rovers, so what Owen Coyle most needed to keep supporters on-side was a good start to the season. After a disastrous first game against Norwich in which they were 3-0 down within ...
- Created on 26 August 2016
- 6. Blackburn fans launch petition to investigate owners ...
- (Stories)
- Venky’s have owned Rovers since November 2010 Embed from Getty Images 16 August ~ Blackburn Rovers fans have launched a petition demanding that the FA investigate the running of their club. Since ...
- Created on 16 August 2016
- 7. Classic match ~ Blackburn 3-1 Burnley, FA Cup, 1952 ...
- (March 2016)
- 5 March ~ Burnley and Blackburn go into today’s "Cotton Mills Derby" having had very different seasons so far. While Burnley are near the top of the Championship, Blackburn have struggled in lower-mid table ...
- Created on 05 March 2016
- 8. Classic match ~ Blackburn 7-1 West Ham, 2001 ...
- (February 2016)
- 21 February ~ Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United meet in the FA Cup fifth round today, a tournament they have won nine times between them. This season West Ham are pushing for a European place while ...
- Created on 21 February 2016
- 9. Agents, Rovers and Cricket Loving Owners
- (Clubs)
- by Michael Blackburn Grosvenor House, £7.99 Reviewed by Tom GreeneFrom WSC 310 December 2012 Buy this book I was 100 pages into reading Agents, Rovers and Cricket Loving Owners when Steve Kean ...
- Created on 04 December 2012
- 10. Blackburn Olympic 1883 ...
- (As good as it got)
- Many early FA Cup triumphs deserve to be just footnotes of a bygone age but, as Tom Green explains, that of Blackburn Olympic in the 1883 final was a turning point in the history of the game At the start ...
- Created on 14 October 2006
- 11. How defender Paul Warhurst (briefly) became the country's most fearsome striker
- (Stories)
- ... semi-final first leg at Blackburn a month earlier. After going 1-0 down, Wednesday produced the most magical spell of football imaginable, with four goals in just 16 minutes. Warhurst gave Colin Hendry ...
- Created on 06 July 2018
- 12. WSC 373 with free pull-out kids' magazine out now!
- (Stories)
- ... in crisis | Nations League chance for Scotland | Focus on Roger Milla | Foreign coaches no longer welcome in Brazil | Canada’s underachieving men get a new boss | Shrewsbury aim to halt Blackburn revival ...
- Created on 07 February 2018
- 13. How "they won" became "we won" – the rise of the partisan football fanatic
- (Stories)
- ... was between the growing fanbases of Burnley and Blackburn Rovers. As was often the case, this football rivalry had been fuelled by an industrial rivalry, between the towns’ cotton mills. (Burnley v Blackbur ...
- Created on 24 January 2018
- 14. On The Brink: A journey through English football’s north west by Simon Hughes
- (General)
- ... such as Preston, Blackpool, Bolton, Blackburn and the giants of Manchester and Merseyside. Author Simon Hughes selects the region to take a snapshot of the current state of English football as a whole, ...
- Created on 22 November 2017
- 15. The Billionaires Club: The unstoppable rise of football’s super-rich owners
- (General)
- ... among the actual personalities is rendered in more than two dimensions. Also, Blackburn Rovers’ erstwhile steel magnate benefactor Sir Jack Walker, surely the pivot between the vanished era of somewhat ...
- Created on 13 September 2017
- 16. Savage Enthusiasm: A history of football fans by Paul Brown
- (Fandom)
- ... v Blackburn derby of 1890 when the referee was the brother of the Rovers goalkeeper. Solid research into small matters abounds. When did rosettes and club songs come in? How many minutes’ silences did ...
- Created on 15 August 2017
- 17. There’s always last year ~ Championship 2016-17
- (Stories)
- ... Meanwhile Bruce Wilkinson had similar hopes for Blackburn – “Despite the negativity surrounding the way the owners, Venky’s, run the club, some signings are a cause for optimism so top-half finish” – whic ...
- Created on 27 July 2017
- 18. “Every day is a battle”: Jason Brown on dealing with mental health in football
- (Stories)
- ... the thought of taking my own life becomes more rational.” Jason Brown is a former goalkeeper who had Premier League experience with Blackburn Rovers and won caps for Wales Under-21s. Now 35, he has found ...
- Created on 13 July 2017
- 19. The Mixer by Michael Cox
- (General)
- ... “Amazing” and “incredible” appear to be his favourite adjectives. It is surely stretching the bounds of reason to claim that prior to their 1994-95 title triumph, it was “amazing” that Blackburn Rovers ...
- Created on 11 July 2017
- 20. WSC 365 plus bonus “experiences of 2016-17” magazine out now
- (Stories)
- ... “Of late, when it gets really on top of me, the thought of taking my own life becomes more rational.” Jason Brown is a former goalkeeper who had Premier League experience with Blackburn Rovers and won ...
- Created on 06 June 2017
