Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL
Jon Dahl Tomasson quit as manager of Blackburn Rovers in frustration at budget cuts and botched transfers.
“I said to the club that this is a different situation, this is not what I signed up for,” he explained in the wake of last Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to QPR.
But it was, really. Whatever the promises made to Tomasson, a decade of remorseless austerity under the Venky’s should have told the Dane that ambition is absent at Ewood Park.
There was never any chance that the £18m received from Crystal Palace for Adam Wharton on transfer deadline day was going...