[Archived] Steven Kean 'Attacked'

[Ricky]

To be fair though Phil the star source didn't say a club spokesman it just said a club source, slightly different.

You still convinced you saw him at the Munich game when you were watching it. I said at the time he denied it and had no reason to lie about it. Can't imagine he would have mentioned it again if he had actually been there.

I hate the man as much as anyone but you've got to admit there are a lot of false stories being thrown around.

[Tom]

I agree with a point you make there Ricky, whilst I do think the club is rotten there is plenty to be outraged and hate the man over instead of making up reasons which I've seen happen.

[TBTF]

From the LT article:

STEVE Kean has laughed off suggestions that he was ‘attacked’ by a fan at training this week – after insisting the ‘mischief makers’ are just ignored.

So SK is calling "a Rovers spokesman" (as per Star and Mail) a mischief maker?

That's what happens when you make things up- it is ever more difficult to stop the make believe curling round on itself....

The article also says the players '' read the press and just laugh''. Comforting they take that reaction after reading reports of their last 6 defeats in 7 games in the midst of fighting for survival.I bet they rolled over on their backs with their legs in the air after discovering they hit new lows at Spurs last Sunday!!

[Andy]

To be fair though Phil the star source didn't say a club spokesman it just said a club source, slightly different.

You still convinced you saw him at the Munich game when you were watching it. I said at the time he denied it and had no reason to lie about it. Can't imagine he would have mentioned it again if he had actually been there.

I hate the man as much as anyone but you've got to admit there are a lot of false stories being thrown around.

There have arguably been false stories knocking around, but they're outnumbered three-fold by straight up, bare faced lies that Kean has come out with.

[47er]

Dear Lord. Nick Clegg, the heir to Karl Marx! Politics is not your strong point is it?

As, by your reasoning, The Guardian ia a paper for 'left-wing extremists' (whatever they are), can it be deduced that the Daily Mail, The S*n and he Star are neo-fascist publications?

Yes!

Newspapers don't like free speech (unless they are defending a ridiculous story full of BS they printed in a court of law the). The best example of this is the Guardian, a site with a section called 'Comment Is Free' but from which you'll be banned or have comments removed unless you stick to the extreme left-wing manifesto they subscribe to.

TBH I don't know why papers even offer the comments sections because it's always going to be used to critisise the story journalist itself rather than it's content.

That is utter bs.

[47er]

Good comment from Alex on here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2138829/Steve-Kean-confronted-Blackburn-fan-training-ground.html#comments

"Marion Mcbride" would be the one who phoned 606 last weekend I imagine.

That's because the BBC are a left wing organization, but at least they admit it (well Peter Sissons anyway)

80% of the British press is right-wing so a bit of balance doesn't come amiss. As for the Guardian------the world's greatest newspaper and increasing sales when everyone else is down.

[philipl]

To be fair though Phil the star source didn't say a club spokesman it just said a club source, slightly different.

You still convinced you saw him at the Munich game when you were watching it. I said at the time he denied it and had no reason to lie about it. Can't imagine he would have mentioned it again if he had actually been there.

I hate the man as much as anyone but you've got to admit there are a lot of false stories being thrown around.

Club spokesman = someone either from or associated and authorised by Blackburn Rovers said

Club source = someone from or officially associated with Blackburn Rovers said

Munich game- yes sticking to it. Let's put it this way, someone with more integrity than Steve Kean has would be lying for it not to be true. I did not say I had seen him (I never watched the game) but I said he had been seen and how he came to be there.

[Jock]

"Marion Mcbride" would be the one who phoned 606 last weekend I imagine.

80% of the British press is right-wing so a bit of balance doesn't come amiss. As for the Guardian------the world's greatest newspaper and increasing sales when everyone else is down.

Yes its Marion who spoke to Alan Green.

[Wing Wizard Windy Miller]

The answer to this leaked story is quite obvious, a slightly dyslexic club source phoned the paper claiming

"Kean is a Tw@t"

[jim mk2]

Print daily stories of minorities being 'persecuted' by the majority...check!

Disregard every Tory policy not because you understand it and the implications but simply because it the Tories and they're evil..check!

Everything private companies does is evil, everything the public sector does great...check!

Daily Cartoon mocking Cameron and Osborne's 'posh' background..check!

I dunno how you can say they are 'left of centre', they lean further to the left than Heather Mills did the day she misplaced her wooden leg.

Why do you have a problem with the Guardian "leaning to the left" ?

The right wing has the Telegraph, Mail, Times, Express, Sun and Star on its side - isn't that enough?

As for the Beeb, just because it is not like Fox TV does not mean it is left wing.

As it happens I read most of the newspapers - even the ones I do not agree with politically. It's called knowing your enemy.

By the way, your boys are taking a pasting in the local elections tonight.

[Roverall]

Why do you have a problem with the Guardian "leaning to the left" ?

The right wing has the Telegraph, Mail, Times, Express, Sun and Star on its side - isn't that enough?

As for the Beeb, just because it is not like Fox TV does not mean it is left wing.

As it happens I read most of the newspapers - even the ones I do not agree with politically. It's called knowing your enemy.

By the way, your boys are taking a pasting in the local elections tonight.

Jim, do you predict that the happy-clappers will win out on Monday night or will fans have the balls to do something big?

[Audax]

http://www.soccerway.com/news/2012/May/03/kean-blasts-laughable-rumours/

Just one more link on this.

[bypass06]

Reply from the Daily Star, to a fans complaint.

Thank you for your email .

I will try to address your comments in order.

First of all, Adrian is not as you state “a journalistic chancer” or a “buffoon”. He is a good young journalist, who always takes care with his stories. Due to a clerical error his name should not have been on the report as it was actually written by Jeremy Cross, who is well connected at Blackburn, the club in question.

The story came from one of Jeremy’s trusted sources and, as with anything we print in the sports pages, we made every possible attempt to check the validity of it.

I should point out that in my experience, just because a manager/club official/player denies an incident occurred, it does not mean that is actually the case.

The closeness to a pub is irrelevant. We did not say he had been in a pub, merely that he appeared to be drunk. Obviously he could have been drinking anywhere.

That he made it through security is part of the reason why the story is so staggering.

The removal of the comments section on the website is something I was unaware of and in truth is dealt with by a separate department. I will ask them about it on your behalf though.

I am sorry you do not like the story, but without evidence to prove otherwise we stand by our reporter, who in turn stands by his source and story.

Thanks for reading and thanks again for your comments.

I hope I have managed to address your concerns adequately.

Good luck for the rest of the season... Andy Rose Sports News Editor

[perthblue02]

http://www.soccerway.com/news/2012/May/03/kean-blasts-laughable-rumours/

Just one more link on this.

Interesting article looks like a total turnaround on the attack story, perhaps did not get reported by the usual suspects in the Kean love in this season and have the desired effect, so they decided to try and refute it and go down the "look how honest and dignified a man I am " route . Certainly looks like good old man of honour Kean is pinning the blame for this on someone else. Wouldn't be unusual he has form for this.

Hope it's not poor old Agnew whose getting the blame after he has put all his eggs in the Kean basket over the course of the season, would hate to see him lose 70% of his business's work. .

Surely Kean has heard of the boy who cried wolf?

"We have high security here and there have been no altercations - nothing has happened. It is obviously people trying to stir something up which is not there."

Unfortunately Stevie Boy that person has been you, your Agent and your adoring pal Agnew!

[47er]

Interesting article looks like a total turnaround on the attack story, perhaps did not get reported by the usual suspects in the Kean love in this season and have the desired effect, so they decided to try and refute it and go down the "look how honest and dignified a man I am " route . Certainly looks like good old man of honour Kean is pinning the blame for this on someone else. Wouldn't be unusual he has form for this.

Hope it's not poor old Agnew whose getting the blame after he has put all his eggs in the Kean basket over the course of the season, would hate to see him lose 70% of his business's work. .

Surely Kean has heard of the boy who cried wolf?

"We have high security here and there have been no altercations - nothing has happened. It is obviously people trying to stir something up which is not there."

Unfortunately Stevie Boy that person has been you, your Agent and your adoring pal Agnew!

I think everybody just laughed at it so they had to try and turn it around!

[True Blue & White]

80% of the British press is right-wing so a bit of balance doesn't come amiss.

You're forgetting that the BBC is a publicly funded broadcaster and has a duty to be completely impartial, if they were a private company they could be as left wing as they like but whilst everyone who owns a telly has to pay for their existence they don't have the right to be opinionated.

Why do you have a problem with the Guardian "leaning to the left" ?

I don't, where did I say I did? I think people need to rewind as my original point has been completely lost and wasn't actually about the Guardian but about newspapers having comment sections. I simply pointed out that you can't have a section called 'comment if free' if you are going to moderate it heavily. If you read their 'house rules' you can see that comments are pretty much restrained to left wing ideology and whilst their are right wing posters on there, they have make their points is carefully worded ways without using insults whilst lefties can get away with calling anyone who votes Tory 'scum' and openly preying for Thatcher's death.

By the way, your boys are taking a pasting in the local elections tonight.

Who are my boys Jim? Unlike you, I'm not partisan and judge each potential cabinet and members thereof on their own merit not by what badge they wear.. I know that must an alien concept to you (It's clear from your posts you are a die hard Unionist Labour supporter) but I look forward to the day when politics becomes a lot less religious and people give up on the idea that you have to vote for the same party for your whole life.

Political parties aren't football teams, it's OK to switch your allegiance whenever you like. (If you must know I voted Lib Dem in the previous GE as my area is a Labour stronghold and they were the only viable contenders to beat them to the seat; but the GE before that I voted Labour. I was too young to vote before that so I'm not to annoy you but I've never voted Conservative in my life, but unlike you I'd never write the possibility off).

[47er]

You're forgetting that the BBC is a publicly funded broadcaster and has a duty to be completely impartial, if they were a private company they could be as left wing as they like but whilst everyone who owns a telly has to pay for their existence they don't have the right to be opinionated.

I believe they are impartial! You guys get so used to the Tory media you can't hack it when a broadcaster isn't right-wing biased!

[Mattyblue]

Is it buggery imparital.

The Guardian is the bible of the BBC journalist.

[Rovermatt]

Is it buggery imparital.

The Guardian is the bible of the BBC journalist.

Definitely...

[blueboy3333]

Is it buggery imparital.

The Guardian is the bible of the BBC journalist.

Nick Robinson, BBC's chief political reporter, used to have links to the Tory party in his younger days and was widely lambasted during the run-up to the GE for his pro-Tory stance. There were even twitter and facebook campaigns to get him sacked.

Chris Patten, old-school Tory, is Chairman of the BBC.

That must make the Guardian right-wing. Which it isn't. It supported the Fib-Dems in the last election, who i believe to be in Coalition with the Tories. It's a complicated world.

[Mattyblue]

Andrew Neil, he's another BBC journo who is from the right.

Obviously there are exceptions, it is institutionally left wing.

[47er]

Is it buggery imparital.

The Guardian is the bible of the BBC journalist.

Well Matty-------I didn't have you down as a posh Eton boy but I'll agree with you on just about everything Rovers. Meanwhile I'll continue to get my news from the BBC and the Guardian without which life would be so much poorer.

Whose my favourite person outside the family,Duggie or Polly Toynbee?--------its a tough one!

[jim mk2]

You're forgetting that the BBC is a publicly funded broadcaster and has a duty to be completely impartial, if they were a private company they could be as left wing as they like but whilst everyone who owns a telly has to pay for their existence they don't have the right to be opinionated.

The view that the BBc is "left-leaning" is one consistently peddled by the right and is of course complete nonsense. The right is not content with having 90 per cent of the press in its pocket and cannot stomach an organisation that reports the news with a sense of balance that as a public service broadcaster it is required to do.

Perhaps you would be happier if the Beeb were more like Fox News ? .

[True Blue & White]

I believe they are impartial! You guys get so used to the Tory media you can't hack it when a broadcaster isn't right-wing biased!

Clearly they are not impartial on many issues and there are a few websites which point that out, and past presenters and Chief Execs have come out and admitted they have a left wing bias. The fact they spend 80% of their recruitment budget with the Guardian tells you all you need to know really about their desire to have a balanced staff working for them.

But if you want a good example of non-impartiality just look at their reporting on AGW (man made global warming),

how one sided the presentation of the issue is by the BBC. Oh and there's also a bit at the end showing where the Guardian hand a hand in ending two people's careers based on a known lie they started (which will p*ss many off here who think the Guardian are infallible and just because their papers uses longer words than most tabloids they can't pull the same dirty tricks the rest of the media do).

[jim mk2]

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Obviously there are exceptions, it is institutionally left wing.

Rubbish, but one you would expect from a Daily Mail reader.