Levi Ball

Defensive Midfielder - Blackburn Rovers U20
20 Feb 2028
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Marked for Levi Ball

34 Edition

The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad22 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Levi Ball

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Blackburn Rovers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Pedrinho in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Blackburn Rovers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings22 Mar 2027

Dion De Neve runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match20 Mar 2027

Yuki Ohashi sends Blackburn Rovers past Portsmouth

It finished 1‑0, and it was Yuki Ohashi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Blackburn Rovers.

Squad22 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Blackburn Rovers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Iacovelli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings22 Mar 2027

A masterclass from Yuki Ohashi

Marked 8.15 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

Lewis Miller gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad22 Mar 2027

International break empties Blackburn Rovers

4 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

A satisfied Mark Phillips

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Mark Phillips could afford to be generous.

In brief

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33 Edition

The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Levi Ball

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Blackburn Rovers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Sam Morsy scores twice — 8.37

Two goals and a mark of 8.37 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad15 Mar 2027

A one-man rearguard from Balázs Tóth

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad15 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Blackburn Rovers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Todd Cantwell was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match13 Mar 2027

Sam Morsy the difference as Blackburn Rovers beat Queens Park Rangers

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sam Morsy. 3‑1 against Queens Park Rangers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Words exchanged at Blackburn Rovers

Iacovelli and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Andri Guðjohnsen was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.47. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Nobody could get near Pedrinho

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

No hiding place for Yuri Ribeiro

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yuri Ribeiro, and the manager let it.

In brief