Blackburn manager Steve Kean has one game to save his job at Ewood Park

Blackburn's Indian owners, Venky’s, were already concerned by Kean’s failure to inspire an upturn in results at Ewood Park and the limp 2-1 home defeat to West Bromwich Albion has done nothing to allay their fears.

It is understood they are now being advised by Pini Zahavi, the agent, about possible replacements for the beleaguered manager.

Despite being handed an improved contract by Venky’s last month, Kean’s grip on the job has been loosened in recent weeks with Rovers losing four of their last five games in all competitions.

The Scot has been the subject of a sustained campaign of supporter hostility and although Venky’s chairman, Anuradha Desai, has so far given strong public backing to Kean, who replaced the sacked Sam Allardyce 12 months ago, that support is now on the wane.

Desai is not expected to attend the board meeting on Wednesday, but representatives of the Indian family will be present, with the owners likely to participate in the discussions via conference call facilities.

Former Blackburn manager Mark Hughes has been installed as favourite to succeed Kean by bookmakers, but Graeme Souness, Avram Grant and Rafael Benítez are also likely to come under consideration should Venky’s swing the axe this week.

Their performance against Albion suggested Rovers’ players already consider themselves doomed.

Eleven months ago, Kean had issued an impassioned defence of Roy Hodgson after Rovers crushed his Liverpool side.

Two days later Hodgson was sacked; now, thanks to Peter Odemwingie’s late winner, he could have delivered an equally fatal blow to Kean.

“I think the Blackburn team itself is doing remarkably well – and so is the manager – because they are not getting the support they would like and yet the team still keeps going,” Hodgson said, adding that the money in football has served to breed an impatience amongst spectators.

“We see more dissatisfaction among crowds now showing a lack of patience, a lack of sympathy, a lack of empathy, maybe than we did many years ago.

“I think that is something we’ve shared with other forms of entertainment.

"Maybe in the past we were shielded a little bit more.

"But there is no doubt that it [money] is going to attract a certain amount of jealousy from people, especially in these very hard times when a lot of people are finding it hard to make ends meet.

“It might not be nice but the fact is it is what it is and we shouldn’t be making too many negative comments about the people who are doing it because most of us understand that we are the privileged ones and we are being supported by people who, at the moment, are often in quite underprivileged positions. And we have to accept that.”

Kean was typically phlegmatic afterwards, talking about how his focus is already on Bolton.

One of the reasons why the Scot has been dealt with so much angst has been his consistent rebuttal of the fact that his team is a mess.

A recent win over Swansea was a mask. They are rotten.

Hodgson may think it is a social issue, but Kean’s unpopularity is a football results based matter.

Since taking charge last December, Blackburn have played 37 games, achieving just 32 points.

Many of their problems lay in defence where they have failed to keep a clean sheet in 18 – their worst run in the top flight since a club record 27 matches 80 years ago.

Kean did admit one thing, however. “I need to get points,” he said.

James Morrison, who opened the scoring with the sweetest of volleys before Scott Dann’s equaliser, believes that the lugubrious atmosphere inside Ewood Park “definitely helps the opposition” and Blackburn defender Chris Samba was stark in his appraisal.

“We are so low,” he said. “As a team we have not proved we are good enough to stay in the league at the moment.”