Jack and Rose fail to renew their Rovers season tickets

While Sam Allardyce will be acquainting himself with the home dugout at Ewood Park this weekend, Paul Ince will perhaps be in hiding, doing a spot of shopping in Woolies.

Blackburn Rovers parted company with the Premiership’s first Black English manager on Tuesday and replaced him with England’s whitest manager on Wednesday.

But while the debate about whether Ince got a fair crack of the whip does the rounds, it is perhaps irrelevant as relegation for a club like Blackburn would be financially disastrous.

The brand the Premier League has created makes it near on impossible for young British managers and players to develop themselves in front of the watching billions and blood thirsty moneymen.

Gareth Southgate has weathered the storm and must be applauded by mixing foreign players with an impressive academy pool.

For Ince, bringing in a League Two journeyman in Keith Andrews may have been an indication that the young Rovers were not to be trusted.

But that cannot be the reason for his failure; inexperience, the lack of investment in a replacement for David Bentley, no resolution being found to defensive frailties and a distinct shortage of creativity can all be lamented for the team taking only three points from the last thirty three.

It seems to me Ince suffered from the impending end of the Mark Hughes era.

Sparky left to join Manchester City knowing many of his over performing stars were beginning to seek moves to bigger, more attractive clubs.

If this were the Titanic, Hughes could not be compared to the admirable Captain Smith. Instead he would have fixed up his grey bouffant and donned a dress in a gallant attempt to steal the spots of women and children on one of the lifeboats before navigating it straight to Eastlands.

But now it is Big Sam who faces the gargantuan task of keeping Rovers in the Premier League.

One of the few men to ever pull off the moustache, Allardyce will be looking to have the sort of impact Harry Redknapp has had at Spurs.

The worrying thing is he definitely has the ability. An inferior tactical nouse to any of managers at clubs near the bottom, Sam knows how to play against and grind out results against most opposition.

He’s also an expert at picking up a bargain in the transfer window.

If he can inspire his team of confidence struggling fellows to survival then it may save them the embarrassment of being bypassed by Burnley next season.