Steve Kean interview: Former Blackburn boss on life in the 'pressure cooker' there and finding succe

Steve Kean has been off the Premier League radar for a decade now so it was a surprise when Gary Neville namechecked him twice on Monday Night Football recently. The treatment of Steve Bruce harked back to Kean's own challenges at Blackburn Rovers.


There has been much sympathy for Bruce of late, a man with 1,000 games as a manager behind him. But this was Kean's first job in management. At the time, that was a reason for the opprobrium. Now it feels like a reason to reflect on how tough it must have been.

"It was only when I came out of it that I realised," Kean tells Sky Sports. "It was almost like the pressure cooker lid comes off and you decompress. You realise that mentally you are a bit battered by it. It took a few months for me to get my energy back, just mentally."

Kean took over from Sam Allardyce in December 2010 and while Blackburn stayed up in that first season, they were relegated in 2012 with the Scot departing in September of that year.

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