Blackburn Rovers: The Premier League Champions That DISAPPEARED 

I’ve still got a Liverpool scarf I swapped with a home fan after lifting the PL trophy at Anfield that day.

​I wish I was born in England 😢

As a United fan, that was a bad day, but really exciting at the time as well. Did Jamie Redknapp score a free kick that day?

He just answered that question about the Redknapp free kick. DOH.

blackburn had our legend in the dug out in shape of kenny daglish and then another thing they were competing with man utd and u knw wat that means if yo a liverpool fan... there hav to b celebrations

And all 3 have fallen down.

Indeed bro its what made subscribe in the first place

@@joshuamendoza1493 same bro

Amen Brother!

In decades you will get back to the EPL. But in all seriousness I miss your team and Norwich City in the premier league.

Fair enough haha

Lol that made me chuckle too. First time I'd ever heard it pronounced like that.

@FootballIconic it's pronounced Ossie Ar-De-Lez. 👍

Nah facts

Andy Carroll and Luis Saurez

I agree, but closely followed by Yorke and Cole

Papisse Cisse and demba ba

SAS was hands down the best English strike duo, for sure.

Yes! I love his channel and selfishly want more content too. He’s one of the best for sure

Hey, thanks for that! I’ve been thinking the same thing moving forward.

I disagree, I think all the videos fit nicely right here =)

i'm a man utd fan it's the same with us our decline at the hands of the horible gready glaziers who only care about themselves and lining their pockets

@@aaronkatzen4245 The same ?

As a soton fan born and bred ive always had a soft spot for blackburn. My mum was lancastrian and as a young kid we used to go and stay with my auntie in blackburn during the summer holidays. Great memories. Early to mid 90s blackburn had a great team. King kenny and shearer won em the league. Hope they get back to the promised land again.

As a Burnley fan, it's fucking brilliant!

@@aaronkatzen4245get real, Administration and relegation are real possibilities to Blackburn. “Oh no we won’t be able to spend another £80 million on an over rated winger…our clubs is ruined” That’s how you sound when you talk about the glazer vs the Venkeys

Him and Mokoena were great

Nelson was a top player for Rovers all day. Miss the Hughes days honestly. We had the ability to sign decent names like McCarthy and Santa Cruz (from Bayern) we were big boys in the day

@@accringtonstanley559 Accy Stanley’s journey is equally as crazy, if not more so. Nelson was a rock at the back, but I sold programmes at Ewood the year they won the league. It was a surreal time. Almost like a dream.

​@@accringtonstanley559 I used to use my mates dads season ticket back then

Same! Haha

Been our secret weapon for a while, but has been out of the limelight behind other players (Brereton-Diaz, Wharton, Gallagher). This season absolutely carried us, and no one was there to steal his shine. No way he stays.

He really stepped up for us this year. We were worried about not having an attacker capable of scoring often, but he stepped up and probably saved us from relegation

Szmodics, a very Irish name.

Never heard of him what position does he play

@@meentage midfield/ winger

Kenny deserves a tone of credit though. Most of those players tanked after leaving Blackburn. Like in the late 90's Wilcox, Batty, Sherwood, Ripley, Sutton, Hendry and co were all still playing and most of them were still in their 20's or at the very least early 30's but no one really saw them as guys who could be on title winning teams. Arsenal, United and Liverpool weren't looking at them. If you put that team back together in 99, even with Shearer it wouldn't get near a title.

@@SonnyK248 Very true 🎯💯

Very true, looking back now and especially if you weren't around then the story seems wild but at the time they were just one of the big boys for a time and there wasn't any strange feeling about it. Some great games between them and Man Utd.

@@jdevlin1910 Yep in that 90s era them and Newcastle were just constantly there in the convoys before Chelsea and City got money and took their spots

As an outsider, I'm slightly disappointed with Venky's. One of the things that really set United on the path to greatness was the way their board went out to build up their commercial partnerships globally, and their commercial advantage is still massive to this day. I'd love to see a video go in to that as it's not often discussed (probably because people don't like thinking of clubs as businesses), because for me this is a key difference between the early Premier League winners. Jack Walker subsidised Rovers, the United owners built the business. This is what intrigued me about Venky's, in that given the number of people of a heritage that traces back to the Indian subcontinent in the area, it seemed like this was a chance to try and build a commercial profile for the club in India, and maybe the other surrounding countries too.What would it mean for example if Blackburn started to develop a number of players in their academy who could represent India in international football? From the outside though, they just seem to be typical owners who don't have a coherent vision of what they can do to take the club forward.

Yeah Andersons advice fucked us..

that peterbough utd team produces really good attacking players

The Walker Trust have a lot to answer for. Towards the end, I think more money went into Birmingham City than it did to Rovers (via their sponsorship with Flybe). I think they also sponsored Southampton and Norwich too.

You will probably lose against Blackburn now if they don’t hurry fix the medical team and sack Erik Ten Reasons

@@mrartdeco You clearly haven't seen us play this season if you think United are that poor 😂.

@@mrartdeco United over the last decade have basically been flipping a coin before each game on whether they're gonna win or lose, no matter the quality of the opposition. I gave up on trying to find any kind of logic to this damn team years ago! 😄

I also remember that Villa game in 2009, Friedel was saving everything it seemed and we were 2-0 down also. Came back to win 3-2, that famous Macheda goal!

@@basedelon I love how Macheda lost the ball, it bounces out to Giggs, and immediately Macheda was demanding a pass. Really thought he'd become a star with that kind of mentality, shame it didn't happen. Still, we'll always have that Machedaaaaaa moment, those are the moments you watch live sports to experience!

Pretty good 👍

As a rovers fan from blackburn, no need to be sorry the venkys had bad advice not bad intentions we will be back at some point 😊

​@callumrobinson4137 no we won't be back under them your a gob shite

Will you be apologising for India’s real sins?

Thanks. That's the longterm plan!

@@FootballIconic Yes please keep doing doc's like these, Paisley's Liverpool - Busby's Babes - Chapman's Arsenal.

No, u

Not under venkys we won't

Weird coincidence haha