One of the best artles on Rovers in a long time

[DanRrr]

Pre-match v Citeh in today's Guardian. It's nice to see there are still some journalists out there who care about what they write. Well worth a read.

Edit: who hoo, I've spelt 'article' wrong in the thread title. Not like me O:) - view external link (http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/14/blackburn-rovers-manchester-city-venkys)

[Davhor]

Very good article Danno. Well balanced and down to earth.

[seventwo]

Three key paragraphs -

You could almost believe a model Championship club, solid, steady, careful Blackburn Rovers, are coming to play Sheikh Mansour's A?1bn City project, if you mentally will away, as some at Rovers seem to do, the chaos of the first three years under the club's ownership by Venky's, the chicken company from Pune in India. Their ownership has dumped Rovers, well run in the Premier League before the takeover, with a A?37m loss made in 2012-13, when wages were running at 137% of the club's whole income. Continuing losses this season are estimated within the club to be around A?24m, with several high-earning players signed in the summer of 2012 still being generously paid but seldom playing."

and

Venky's representatives declined to comment but Shaw said of the owners: "There is no talk of them getting out; they know mistakes have been made, they don't dwell on it and they are looking forward. They have an unbelievably big business in India and the Far East, they have

[DanRrr]

Yep Sven, reminds the outside world of what the club has been through and is going through. A long, long way to go to get out of the woods.