Inside Blackburn Rovers' slow and agonising demise under Venky's: How reviled owners have banned the local paper and turned on their own fans, the meddling from India costing Rovers in transfer market
Here fans protest against executive Suhail 'Pasha' SheikhThe reasons why this view prevails among many fans was written through Ewood Park, the day after that Swansea defeat. (You know a club’s relationship with fans is truly broken when supporter groups are asking police for such numbers.) The paper has not published anything particularly offensive about the club, though Rovers deemed the tweet ‘personal’. Director of football Gregg Broughton also left, replaced by Gestede, who appears to have no credentials for the role. Mowbray’s successor Jon Dahl Tomasson was also popular before he became frustrated with Venky's and left.
Source: Metro January 23, 2026 15:38 UTC
