The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Tom Atcheson goes
Brentford paid $1.7M and Blackburn Rovers took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Balázs Tóth 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Vizela join the queue for Layton Stewart
Add another name to the list: Vizela have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Layton Stewart. The answer from Blackburn Rovers has not changed — yet.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Blackburn Rovers
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Oladapo Afolayan
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Richard Shaw joins the Blackburn Rovers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Shaw is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Steven Bailey steps up from the Blackburn Rovers academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Steven Bailey has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yuri Ribeiro falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Todd Cantwell takes the honours
Marked 7.70 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Blackburn Rovers had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
- Squad 5 new faces, and Blackburn Rovers are still learning each other
- Match Blackburn Rovers and West Bromwich Albion take a point apiece
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Blackburn Rovers