Blackburn Rovers Blog

Right then boys and girls its back to back home games at Ewood after a week off for World Cup qualifiers and as far as I can see meaningless friendlies. Let’s just hope that those involved for their respective countries returns to Lancashire unscathed and we have a fully fit squad to pick from. [...]

Rovers are reported to be after Derry City midfielder, Darren McCauley. The teenage A-Level student has had two trials at Ewood Park, but is also reported to be attracting interest from Ipswich Town, Coventry City as well as Scottish sides Hearts and Celtic.

McCauley is currently playing for the Northern Ireland Under-19 team in a Four [...]

Ewood Park welcomes The “Official” Rovers Bogey Team – West Ham United
Throughout the history of football, in particular relating to West Ham and Rovers matches, there can be no other team that can be considered our “bogey team”. The team from East London take the honour by a legendary mile.
Saturday 11th March 1911 saw the [...]

I told you last weekend about Warnock’s move to Aston Villa, BBC Sport are now reporting the deal is in the process of being done and the two clubs are in talks, with Big Sam leaving John Williams to conduct the negotations with Villa.
Chimbonda soon to be seen in Blue & White Halves Again

Coming in [...]

Thanks to UpTheJunction from the West Ham forum for his replies via BRFCS.com, to Hasta who composed a Q&A for this weekends Rovers vs West Ham United game.
What your opinion of Gianfranco Zola, a man nobody seems to dislike. He’s doing quite well isn’t he?
Gianfranco is doing exceptionally well in difficult circumstances.
How are the finances [...]

He finally did it, he’s been trying at least since he signed for Blackburn back in 2007, Morten Gamst Pedersen has scored direct from a corner kick. Hopefully that will give him the boost to bring in the displays we know he is capable of, but has lacked in recent times. A firing Gamst Pedersen, [...]

Whilst the rest of the Blackburn squad head north to the Stadium of Light for the Saturday game against Sunderland, the news coming out tonight is that left-back and player of the season last year Stephen Warnock, is heading to Aston Villa for around £8 million.

Warnock won’t be in Rovers shirt anymore
It seems all the [...]

As already reported by Gavh of BlogsFC Leicester City, the Foxes have signed Rover’s Paul Gallagher for an undisclosed fee. It isn’t a surprise to see Gally leave the club after years of leaving on loan, attempting each time to come back and prove himself good enough to play Premier League football at Ewood. It [...]

They’ll be a few additions to this list hopefully, Nikola Kalinic if he gets his work permit, Nathan Ellington if he suitably impresses Big Sam and maybe if we are lucky a new midfielder.
But the rest of the players have sorted out their numbers for their shirts they will be wearing next season, so you [...]

Tonight the Rovers website have confirmed what we had been hoping to hear for a while now, Franco Di Santo is joining Blackburn Rovers on loan. We maybe weren’t expecting it to be just until January, but that is a sign maybe of how much Chelsea rate him, coupled with the fact that for [...]