To come back to this, in a word, no. Venkys problem was incompetence. They effectively let an agent run the show, and hired a rookie manager in Steve Kean who while respected as an assistant, was never cut out to be a manager. Blackburn had already been moneyed title winners. Their 1995 title came of the back of being bankrolled by Jack Walker. £3.6 million for Shearer and £5 million for Sutton might not seem much now but were vast sums then.mspm89 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 20:15 Howay the lads!
A question for guys like Oldelpaso, Lorric, etc. who hail from England and know what they're talking about:
A decade ago, when there was talk that the Venkys could boost Blackburn to new heights only to relegate them within a couple of years, I heard a few opinions that can be summarized like this: having owners with supposedly bottomless pockets is not everything for teams like City or Chelsea, they need good local rivals too (one has Man U and the other has Arsenal, Spurs and you can count Fulham and a few others in for the "local derby factor").
What do you guys think about this factor, could it be significant? Because if that's the case, we need the Mackems back up and do better than they have for who knows how many decades.
Chelsea are a weird one for rivalries. Any Arsenal fan would call Spurs their main rivals. Fulham and QPR would like to think of Chelsea as their rivals but Chelsea fans would regard that as beneath them due to the long spells of being in different divisions. London rivalries can be a bit of a web like that, several that mean more to one set of fans than the other.
