Blackburn owners under fire after Appleton sacking
Appleton’s dismissal after just 67 days was confirmed yesterday in a short club statement. His predecessor, Henning Berg, managed ten days fewer at the helm before he, too, was fired.
Indian poultry firm Venky’s are now looking for a fifth permanent manager since their £23 million takeover of the club in November 2010.
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Hide AdRovers are currently 18th in the npower Championship, only four points above the relegation zone. Wayne Wild, the co-chairman of supporters group the Rovers Trust, said in a statement: “News of Michael Appleton’s sacking ought to come as a surprise, but sadly it does not.
“This is just the latest in a long line of incomprehensible and ill-thought out decisions that go back to the very start of the Venky’s ownership of Blackburn