It's been 14 years of Venky's ownership; Rovers have become dormant
When people leave Ewood Park’s Riverside Stand early, it is more obvious than anywhere else in English football. Due to topographical constraints, there is a large walkway between the front of the stand and the pitch. As a player, you can see your congregation casting their judgement with their feet: a long grumpy procession of Lowry-a-likes muttering their resentment under their breath.
You probably know the Venky’s story by now. They arrived in England 14 years ago this month with ambitions offootball and apparent intentions to sign global stars such as Ronaldinho. They answered a call for investment to take his beloved club onwards and led them only into disarray. Blackburn had effectively been up for sale for three years and few other parties seemed willing to pay the asking price.
Time is an odd concept at Blackburn Rovers for the outsider who visits infrequently. In one sense it seems to fly by: it is unfathomable that it is 13 years since the Venky’s protests in the Premier League, with the chicken thrown onto the pitch. But because everything seems to exist in the same futile mini-cycle of brief ambition and eventual disappointment all wrapped up in vague resentment from those who watch about how they got here at all, years can feel very long indeed.
The model’s success depends upon the direction of the club as a whole, and that has been a little blurry. As Scott Sumner, editor of the, explains, there exists a cycle within a cycle where Blackburn seem to gear up for grand ambition and then fall back to safety-first measures when that doesn’t work out. Blackburn came mighty close to relegation to League One last season.
You see the point: two years on from an apparent new age, Director of Football Broughton has left, manager Tomasson has left, relegation was avoided but only through appointing a steady manager in Eustace who has done a fine job in the circumstances but, logic suggests, will suffer soon or eventually from a small squad with a number of recruitment gambles and resources stretched.
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