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Wigan Athletic v Blackburn Rovers, 3pm Saturday 19 November

Blackburn's global dream overwhelmed by fight in local pecking order

A year ago the new owners Venky's promised the earth, but Rovers face a bottom-of-the-table derby at Wigan on Saturday

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2011/nov/17/blackburn-global-ambition-pecking-order

[Kamy100]

Fantastic article by David Conn, the best thing was that he bothered to talk to a number of fans as part of the research process for this article.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

An excellent (apart from the two free transfers -Goodwille/Petrovic) article.

Good work fella.

[47er]

Wigan Athletic v Blackburn Rovers, 3pm Saturday 19 November

Blackburn's global dream overwhelmed by fight in local pecking order

A year ago the new owners Venky's promised the earth, but Rovers face a bottom-of-the-table derby at Wigan on Saturday

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David Conn

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 November 2011 19.00 GMT

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Sorry if this is already somewhere else.

Good article.

[Brfcrule1]

They also forgot to mention Vucevic apart from that good article.

[broadsword]

Thank you, David Conn.

[EgyptianPete]

Wigan Athletic v Blackburn Rovers, 3pm Saturday 19 November

Blackburn's global dream overwhelmed by fight in local pecking order

A year ago the new owners Venky's promised the earth, but Rovers face a bottom-of-the-table derby at Wigan on Saturday

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2011/nov/17/blackburn-global-ambition-pecking-order

This post has been edited by Glenn (not Glen): 2 minutes ago

Reason for edit: Body of text removed and replaced a a link to article. Don't cut and paste other site's content please guys.

Sorry Glen, lesson learnt

[ruggles1995]

a very good article. Nice to read something with the proper facts. Give this lad a promotion

[BB9]

Good piece. David Conn is one of the best football writers around.

[Amo]

A few inaccuracies but overall an educated piece. It's too bad the rest of the media can only spew a bunch of platitudes about our current crisis.

[Majiball]

credit where it's due, well done.

[DE.]

A good article, but why this is the exception rather than the norm I have no idea. Surely journalists must be able to see the obvious facts in front of them? As nice as it is to read Conn's article, it's not like he's done any deep research - it reads like a summary of the gripes most of us on here speak about on a daily basis.

As I said, nice to see an article like this out there, but it baffles me why there aren't more out there questioning Venky's. I have my suspicions though.

[Kendalrover]

I agree very good article. It is nice to know that some of the press are taking note of the chaos that is now Blackburn Rovers.

[Rovers_786]

good article to read well done :D

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

A proper newspaper, been taking it since 1971.

[Craigman]

And another !!

Are the media gradually seeing what we have for months ?

[Seggie]

Shame The Mirror has however taken Kean's propaganda for tomorrow.

[Glenn]

This post has been edited by Glenn (not Glen): 2 minutes ago

Reason for edit: Body of text removed and replaced a a link to article. Don't cut and paste other site's content please guys.

Sorry Glen, lesson learnt

No worries, it's not the worst thing in the world, it's just in this ever more litigious world, we can't be too careful.

[philipl]

My goodness, that Mail article is crushingly bad for the clueless chickens.

It is on its way to India right now.

[Wendal]

My goodness, that Mail article is crushingly bad for the clueless chickens.

It is on its way to India right now.

Are we sure that the Venkys are actually picking these negative bits of publicity up?

[bob fleming]

As I said, nice to see an article like this out there, but it baffles me why there aren't more out there questioning Venky's. I have my suspicions though.

So do I.

The clown has an appalling record, he has never achieved anything in his managerial career, must surely be on course to have the worst record in an 11 month period in the history of football, spouts positives, doesn't see low flying aircraft carrying his name, talks of "deserving" more points, claims to know nothing of his assistant's departure but showed his replacement around the club a week earlier, brought his Agents' son to the club who isn't good enough for Leyton Orient, allowed Emerton and Andrews to leave to be replaced by inexperienced unknowns, wastes money on Agents fees and taxis, still lives in Surrey, lies, claims fans spiked his drink, still claims it's a minority who want him out, name drops whenever possible and fawns over the inept owners of the club at every given opportunity.

So why is it that only Conn and Winter have picked up on and reported on this farce? Lack of interest? Nothing to see here? He also fell out with a member of the press on a scouting mission watching Man City in Europe, but no, it takes a lot for the UK press to look into Kean and Venkys ownership in any depth. Clearly.

Meanwhile most of us will carry out fussing about nothing. Anyone for another mortgage?

[Audax]

There was another long thread similar to this one so I thought, maybe this article as well had been posted but it is from FourFourTwo towards the end of October. http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/fourfourtwoview/archive/2011/10/26/rovers-fans-right-to-want-rid-of-kean-the-david-brent-of-the-premier-league.aspx Probably not as good as at least the Guardian article.

[adsfortheblues]

I would just like to thank everybody who Pm'd me this week in regards to an article i wrote to the Daily Mail. If you have seen the article that is in todays edition, that is based on the article I sent to Mark Alford at the Daily Mail. If anybody would wish to see it just ask