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Stadium: Ewood Park (31,367) Chairman: John Williams 2007-2008: 7th, Premier League Official Club Site:
Blackburn Rovers F.C.
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Blackburn Rovers are clubs that have known all about football's high and lows since their foundation in 1875. Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. It is one of only three teams to be founder members of both the Football League and the Premier League, the others being Aston Villa and Everton.
They rapidly appear as one of England's most powerful clubs and by 1928 Rovers had won the league championship twice and the FA Cup on six occasions. For the next sixty years, however, the trophy cabinet was bare and they remained outside of the top-flight - sinking to Division Three in 1971 - between 1966 and 1993. Not that promotion to the Premiership, via the play-offs, would herald an end to the club's topsy-turvy nature,
In 1992, Blackburn was promoted 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 league champions, having
spent millions of pounds on players like Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton But the
title winning team was quickly split up and, in 1999, the club was relegated.
They were promoted back to the Premiership two years later, just after Walker's
death, and have been in the top flight ever since. During this time they have
qualified for the UEFA Cup four times; once as League Cup winners, twice as the
Premiership's sixth-placed team and once via the Intertoto Cup. Now back in the
Premiership - and winners of the Worthington Cup in 2002 - Graeme Souness'
stewardship appears to have Rovers back on an even-keel despite battling to
avoid the drop in 2003/4.