English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers sold to an Indian comapany. Paul Egerton-Vernon, chairman of Blackburn’s trustees who completed the deal said-”We are very pleased to be passing on the Rovers to the Rao family”. Venky’s the new owner bought the club in a 23 million pound deal. Venky’s have become the first Indian concern to own a Premier League side. The Rao family has an extensive range of business interests in India which includes their flagship company Venkateshwara Hatcheries. The company was established in 1976 and was mainly into poultry business. Later on it diversified into health care products, pet food, oil extraction etc. With this $36.66 million deal Venkys stepped into another area-Sports and entertainment.

A month of EPL and it looks like that the top 3 is going to be the same-Chelsea,ManU and Arsenal. While Chelsea has been off the blocks in a more than splendid fashion, ManU have faltered in the first few games,drawing 2 of the first 4 games
Big spending Manchester City have been a big disappointment at the start of the season,winning just one of their games. Roberto Mancini’s tactics of playing 3 men at the defensive mid fielders in every game so far has hardly worked for Manchester City. True …

                                           Jose Mario dos Santos Felix Mourinho is a Portuguese name very familiar in the football world. Mourinho born in 1963 was the son of portuguese footballer and started his career as a football player. But later switched his profession to managing clubs and now one of the most envied managers in the world. He is got a nick name “The Special One“, self proclaimed.Mourinho started his new passion as an assistant coach under the veteran Sir Bobby Robson in the portuguese club FC Porto.This was in early 90′s. …

The January transfer window has opened and it does seems at this early stages that the clubs are playing a waiting game and no one is really rushing into things. One confirmed high profile signing is Patrick Viera from Inter Milan to big spenders Manchester City. The talismanic midfielder, who has found chances hard to come by in Jose Mourinho’s Inter side,makes a return to English football. Viera as you all know was a very important figure in Arsenal’s ‘invincibles’ and we still believe that selling Viera was one of …

The 2nd week of action in the EPL saw Manchester United bouncing back from their upset at Turf Moor in emphatic style,with a 5-0 victory against Wigan.United’s struggle for goals was again seen in the first half,where Wigan had its fair share of chances to score too.But once the second half started,it was all United.
After Wayne Rooney scored of a Valencia cross to open the goal scoring spree in the 56th minute,Dimitar Berbatov added a second in the 58th minute to break Wigan’s hearts after having performed so well in …