Rover and Out – Who next for Blackburn Job

By: Rob | December 16th, 2008

So Blackburn Rovers have given Paul Ince the boot, just months into his unsuccessful tenure as Blackburn Rovers coach. The reason’s are simple enough – he’s not winning, and hasn’t been doing anywhere near as well as Mark Hughes was doing last time around.

The big question then, is who is going to jump off the managerial merry-go-round next and take the job of keeping Blackburn in the top flight? A few big names have already been linked in the press. Sam Allardyce apparently ruled himself out due to his connections with Blackburn’s rivals, Bolton. Roy Keane has obviously been talked about as he is currently without a job. Alan Curbishley could also be in the frame, as he has been out of work since leaving West Ham at the start of the season.

But the favourite, oddly, is the man I nominated as one of The Worst Managers the Prem has seen. Former Blackburn boss Graeme Souness is apparently in the frame.

I have to say,I think it’d be a terrible mistake getting Souness in. People are talking about him giving players a kick up the arse, which he is good at, but I would imagine Paul Ince would have been capable of that. You can’t bring in a man with very little tactical nouce, a history of upsetting players, and a string of useless buys in the transfer market, when you’re in trouble. Can you?

Perhaps he’ll prove me wrong, you never know. I do think Blackburn should look elsewhere. Other than my doubts about Souness himself, I do have doubts about going back. Just ask Kevin Keegan. It also seems quite pointless to sack one mad mindfielder-turned-manager for another, slightly more experienced one.

Souness last spell at Rovers yielded good and bad. He won them promotion back to the Prem, and the Carling (Worthington as it was then) Cup. But he sold Duff to Chelsea, alienated Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke and David Dunn, and unfortunatly lost Matt Jansen to a Motorbike accident. His replacements for the players that he lost were uninspiring to say to least.

So, Blackburn fans, and everyone else, who do you think will take over? And who should?