Blackburn Rovers
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about the team
In the 1950s, Jack Walker was a sheet-metal worker who liked to spend Saturday afternoons at Ewood Park rooting for the Rovers team of Ronnie Clayton and Bryan Douglas. By the early nineties, he was a steel industry magnate with a personal fortune large enough to allow him to buy his favourite club. Within five years of him investing, Blackburn went from languishing in the old Division Two to winning the Premier League with a team managed by Kenny Dalglish, bulwarked by Alan Shearer, and that embodied the club’s motto: Arte et Labore. By skill and hard work.
facts
Founded:
1875
Nickname:
Rovers, The Blue and Whites
Ground:
Ewood Park
Manager:
Steve Kean
League:
English Premier League
Top Goal Scorer:
Simon Garner, 194
