STARS IN EUROPE - GHANA - CLUB - Swansea sign Andre Ayew

Swansea City sign Ghana forward on four-year deal.

11 Jun 2015
STARS IN EUROPE - GHANA - Atsu joins Bournemouth

Promoted AFC Bournemouth have signed Chelsea winger Christian Atsu on a season-long loan deal.

31 May 2015
STARS IN EUROPE - IVORY COAST - Inter Milan hopeful over Yaya Toure deal

Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure is close to joining Inter Milan...

20 May 2015
STARS IN EUROPE - CONGO DR - Crystal Palace winger Yannick Bolasie

Crystal Palace winger worth £20m, claims Boss Alan Pardew

17 Apr 2015
STARS IN EUROPE - ENGLAND - SUNDERLAND - Black Cats flourishing in Africa

If ambition had a league table, English Premier League club Sunderland would top it.

28 Mar 2015
STARS IN EUROPE - IVORY COAST - YAYA TOURE

Coach Pellegrini pleased by Yaya Toure's form

23 Nov 2014
TRANSFER - IVORY COAST - WEST HAM SIGN BARCA'S SONG ON LOAN

Alex Song on a season-long loan. - "It was a very hard decision when you have options of a lot of clubs who are playing in the Champions League, but at the end of the day I chose West Ham because I wanted to come to the Premier League."

2 Sep 2014
TRANSFER - GAMBIA - Swansea City sign striker Modou Barrow from Ostersunds

Gambian-born Barrow moved to Sweden as a youngster and scored 10 goals in 19 appearances for Ostersunds last season.

2 Sep 2014
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Blackburn Rovers F.C.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 08/2015


Full name
Blackburn Rovers Football Club

Nicknames
Rovers
The Blue and Whites
The Riversiders

Founded
1875

Ground
Ewood Park, Blackburn, 
Lancashire

Capacity
31,367

Owner
Venky's London Ltd

Managing Director
Derek Shaw

Manager
Gary Bowyer

League
The Championship

2014-15
The Championship, 9th


Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. 

The team competes in the Football League Championship from the 2012-13 season. 

They were relegated from the Premier League, the top tier of English football, at the end of the 2011–12 season. 

The club are currently managed by Gary Bowyer after previous manager Michael Appleton was dismissed on 19 March 2013.

Appleton was the third manager to have lost his job in 6 months after Steve Kean and Henning Berg.

The club was established in 1875, becoming a founding member of The Football League in 1888. 

It is one of only three clubs to have been both a founder member of the Football League and the Premier League (the others being Aston Villa and Everton). 

In 1890 Rovers moved to its permanent home at Ewood Park.

Prior to the formation of the Premier League in 1992, most of the club's successes were before 1930, when it had gained league and FA Cup trophies on several occasions. 

Relegation in 1965-66 was followed by 26 successive seasons of football outside the top flight.

In 1992, Blackburn gained promotion to the new Premier League a year after being taken over by local steel baron Jack Walker, who installed Kenny Dalglish as manager. 

In 1995, Blackburn became Premier League champions, having spent millions of pounds on players like Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. 

However, the title-winning team was quickly split up and, in the 1998-99 season, the club was relegated. 

It was promoted back to the Premier League two years later, in the 2000-01 season, just after Walker's death. 

During this time it has qualified for the UEFA Cup four times: 
once as League Cup winners
twice as the Premier League's sixth-placed team 
once via the Intertoto Cup 

The 2011-12 season marked the club's 72nd, non-consecutive, year in the top flight. 

Blackburn are currently one of only five clubs to have won the Premier League, along with Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, and Manchester City.

The club's motto is "Arte et Labore", which the club translates as "By Skill and Hard Work" in Latin.

 

 


Players

  • Hope Akpan