Stephen "Steve" Kean (born 30 September 1967) is a Scottish football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Blackburn Rovers in the English Championship. He was a winger, playing in Scotland, England and Portugal in the 1980s and 1990s, before becoming a manager.

Kean grew up in Cumbernauld, a new town on the outskirts of Glasgow, attending St. Maurice's High School. Upon leaving school, he joined Celtic as a professional, but was unable to break into a first team then dominated by Celtic legends Tommy Burns, Murdo MacLeod and Paul McStay.

He joined Swansea City on loan in 1987, at the same time as Chris Coleman. They formed a lasting professional relationship, which carried on after both of their playing days had ended.

Kean then played for Academica Coimbra in Portugal, making 12 appearances, and scoring one goal.

Since retiring from playing Kean has worked as a coach for Reading, Fulham, Real Sociedad and Coventry City, working as an assistant to Chris Coleman at Fulham, Real Sociedad and Coventry.

Samuel "Sam" Allardyce (born 19 October 1954), nicknamed "Big Sam", is an English football manager and former professional player. In June 2011 he was appointed as manager of West Ham United.

As a footballer he made over 400 appearances and played for Bolton Wanderers, Sunderland, Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion and Limerick. Moving into management he took charge of Limerick, Blackpool and Notts County before managing Bolton Wanderers from 1999 to 2007. Commonly known as Big Sam, he led Bolton to a League Cup final as well as guiding them to UEFA Cup qualification for the first time in their history.

Following a spell at Newcastle United from 2007 to 2008, Allardyce managed Blackburn Rovers from 2008 until 13 December 2010.

Allardyce was born in 1954 at a recently built council house in Ash Green on the Old Park Farm Estate in Dudley. He was the son of Robert Allardyce (1916–1989) and Mary Agnes Allardyce (1918–1991). He has an older brother, Robert junior, who was born in 1951.

Serbgeth ("Shebby") Singh is a football coach, television commentator, and former international football player from Malaysia.

Shebby started his football career as a defender for local team. He was part of the Kuala Lumpur FA team which won the Malaysia Cup three years in a row from 1987-9. He played nine years of international football for Malaysia, including playing in three Asian Games in 1982, 1986 and 1990, and was a South East Asian Games gold medallist in 1989.

His career in domestic football lasted eighteen years from 1978-96. He won every domestic honour, including the Malaysia Cup, Malaysian FA Cup and League Championship. He has played against the likes of Bayern Munich, Hamburg SV, Aston Villa and Newcastle. He was rated Man of The Match when facing Shrewsbury Town.

He is currently living in the Yishun district in Singapore.

Shebby Singh appears as a football analyst on the ESPNStar network. Premier League club Blackburn Rovers FC owners Venky's have signed Shebby Singh to get them ahead in the race to crack the Indian and Far East football market.

Anthony "Tony" Parkes (born 5 May 1949) is an English former professional footballer. After retiring, he became a coach. He was most recently caretaker manager at Blackpool. It was the seventh such role of his coaching career, having performed the role on six occasions for Blackburn Rovers. He currently works as a scout for Blackburn Rovers.

Parkes was a midfielder who started his career in non-league football at Buxton in 1969 before moving to Blackburn Rovers in 1970 where he spent the rest of his playing career. He played a total of 350 league games and scored 38 goals for Rovers before retiring in 1982.

After retiring Parkes stayed with Blackburn, joining their coaching staff under Bobby Saxton, where he became assistant manager. He stood in as caretaker manager for the club six times in less than 20 years. He took over from Bobby Saxton (December 1986-February 1987), Don Mackay (September–October 1991), Ray Harford (October 1996-June 1997), Roy Hodgson (November–December 1998), Brian Kidd (November 1999-March 2000) and Graeme Souness (September 2004) after their departures.

Jordan Luke Rhodes (born 5 February 1990) is an English-born Scottish international professional footballer who plays as a striker for Huddersfield Town in the Championship. Rhodes has represented Scotland at both U-21 level and as a full international.

Born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, while his father Andy Rhodes was playing for Oldham Athletic. Rhodes senior moved to Scotland later that year when he joined Dunfermline Athletic and stayed in Scotland until 1998 also playing for St Johnstone and Airdrieonians. There were breaks in the time Rhodes spent playing in Scotland when he had a loan spells at Bolton Wanderers and Scarborough. Thus Jordan Rhodes spent much of his childhood living and being schooled in Scotland, supporting Celtic. Initially he followed in his fathers footsteps and played as a goalkeeper as a youngster. It was in Cairneyhill, near Dunfermline where Jordan was coached by the influential Michael Boyle. Rhodes lists Boyle as one of the people that have shaped his style of play.