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Media Kean to Jump on Steve's Bandwagon

As a football fan, and more specifically a Blackburn Rovers fan, I find the media world’s ignorance surrounding the 'Venky's / Steve Kean’ debacle quite astounding.  Following Saturday’s victory against Swansea, there has been a public outcry against those amongst the Blackburn Rovers fans who chanted for the removal of Steve Kean from his position throughout the match.  Whilst I agree that it isn’t ideal for any outsider to witness such a display of dissent from the Rovers fans, no other club in the PL has experienced such a sharp demise of their club in the way Blackburn fans have over the past 12 months.  Once one of the most well-run clubs in the country, fans now have absolutely no idea what’s going on inside those walls, and when all we can see is Steve Kean’s unwavering optimism and complete disregard for the club’s lowly league position, it’s not only frustrating but extremely worrying.  Kean’s blatant lack of respect for Blackburn Rovers, club and fans alike, is an absolute disgrace, and following Wednesday’s latest blunder, tensions were running extremely high on Saturday. It’s unsurprising that Rovers fans’ split-second reaction towards him during Yakubu’s celebration was to boo. My only regret is how easily this can be misconstrued in the Great British media, and that it infringed upon the Yak’s moment. Steve Kean has brought every bit of hostility he receives on himself.

Let’s not forget that it was only last Wednesday that Kean conveniently declared he had decided to forfeit the Carling Cup in favour of our Premier League campaign, following a 2-0 defeat to Championship side Cardiff.  Eight hundred fans travelled to Cardiff last Tuesday night, those of whom had read the LET en route, will have been buoyed by Kean’s proclamation that Rovers would be looking to acheive cup success a la Graeme Souness circa 2002.  Only two hundred fans decided to protest post Saturday’s game.  I’d say he got off lightly.

Less than one week ago, an article by Rory Smith was published in the Independent, likening our great manager to Iraqi propagandist, Comical Ali.  To quote Mr Smith, 'the Blackburn manager has done for his reign what Comical Ali did for the Iraq war: he has obfuscated and optimised, shrouded the truth in spin and statistics.’  This is the same Independent, which, merely 4 days later also played host to an article slating Rovers fans for their treatment of Steve Kean during his second victory of the season (and I will just remind that it’s now December and we were playing against Swansea.  At home.) And they say football fans are fickle.

I’m afraid one good result, halfway through the season, at home against a newly promoted side, is not convicing enough for any Blackburn fan to embrace Kean’s regime.  Between them, the Venkys and Steve Kean have taken one man’s legacy, and 135 years of history, and turned it into a farce and a laughing stock.  

Kean Out
Venky's Out

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