Mutiny off the Port Bow!

Just weeks after taking over at Blackburn Rovers, reportedly new boss Paul Ince already has a player mutiny on his hands. Well according to that reliably horrendous publication The Daily Facist anyway. Word on the street is that he is already struggling to win over the players after disillusioning them “by the way he has tried to impose his personality on the club,” whatever that means. Some players are said to be “less than enthusiastic” about Ince’s old school approach to training, drastically different from Hughes's meticulous, scientific method, which probably translates as: ‘they don’t like having to actually run about and work hard for their £50,000 a week salary.’

David Bentley, who has since left the club for Spurs, is reported to have walked out of a training session in disgust not long ago after being ordered to do 20 press-ups as punishment for having his arms folded. Now while half of me is reminded of high school P.E. teachers throwing their weight around by Ince’s behaviour, the other half of me thinks that for the money they’re earning, these guys should respect authority and suck it up. It’s pretty pathetic to just arrogantly walk off over a punishment of 20 press-ups. Finally, the curse of mysterious anonymous source strikes again: “We've gone from a well-organised, well-drilled back-room staff to one that feels like it's been patched together,” someone known only as a ‘senior player’ described. “A lot of us wanted to give him a chance to see how it worked out, but it's not looking too good.” Odds on Ince being the first managerial casualty of 2008 are shortening as we speak…