Blackburn sold to Indian company

"We are very pleased to be passing on the Rovers to the Rao family," Paul Egerton-Vernon, chairman of Blackburn's trustees who completed the deal, said in a statement on the club website.

"We have been very impressed with their enthusiasm for the club and their plans and ideas for future investment to develop it further."

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