A Bite-Size Blackburn Preview
Welcome to flavour country, folks. Injury and crisis are the buzzwords of the day as the weekend approaches with our treatment room packed to the gunwales with sore limbs and first-teamers. Eleven in total, if you believe your sources. From Huddlestone to Van der Vaart we’re looking threadbare at best. While we pin our hopes on, well, pins getting Pavlyuchenko through the worst of it- with some eleventh-hour acupuncture on his troublesome back- it looks like Crouch, once again, will lead the line unassisted. A sentence not for the faint of heart.
Time, I guess, to put all this talk of squad depth to the judges. The names missing are numerous as they are significant, but still Blackburn should come to The Lane tomorrow as second favourites. Gareth Bale. Modric. In those two alone there’re enough creative embers to torch Allardyce’s mob a new one. It’ll do us no good to think otherwise. Salgado and Chimbonda will likely start as full-backs for Rovers- possibly wherein our best chance of getting in amongst them lies. The former Madridista was shellacked off the park by Bale in the corresponding fixture last year- not the first nor the last- and dear Pascal is an erratic sort at the best of times. Chocks away, I say. What we don’t want, and I can’t stress this enough, is aimless punts up toward Crouch when we all know Chris Samba will have him in his rather large pocket from the off. It just won’t do.
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