Adam Virgo

Lack of quality puts Rovers in real danger

by
The LeaguePaper Team
7 December 2025

Adam Virgo
BRIGHTON LEGEND AND TV PUNDIT

WHEN you walk into historic football stadiums, even if times are tough, you usually get a sense of past glories.
Even when Nottingham Forest were in League One, the City Ground had that feeling. There was a pride, an atmosphere and a belief that they could one day get back to winning titles and European Cups.
But when I went to Blackburn a week and a half ago, there was none of that. Ewood Park was like a graveyard. No hope, no atmosphere, no sense whatsoever that they’d once won the Premier League. to QPR, it wasn’t hard to s...

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