However, it is notable that quite apart from last year's 4-1 victory - from which I imagine only Ten Burners and the now-prolific Mrs Doyle may start tomorrow (alas no Borrowdale or Michael Hughes, and no Dutch Elm Disease on the bench - he was to save his best for the 5th round farce against the Baggies) - several of our top flight meetings against Big Sam's new charges were high-scoring encounters.
One recalls the BBC's marvellous unbiased commentary on our scandalous 5-2 victory in January 1993 (Lee Hurst with an even better finish than his last minute cup winner for Cambridge) , the 5-o win at Highfield Road with an orange ball in December 1995 (they must have been bad - even Rennie scored), the 5-1 reverse at Ewood a few months earlier, and a 4-0 away defeat in January 1997.
I recall Julian Darby's brace in the early 90's (one from a piece of Leigh Jenkinson magic down the left-wing), which ended Rovers' title assault and led to Phil Neal's mirth-inducing claim that had he been signed earlier or avoided injury, said midfielder would have finished ahead of Ndlovu as leading scorer. Yes boss.
Personal memories of Ewood include drinking 2 bottles of Bulgarian wine on the club coach before a 2-0 midweek surrender in the League Cup, a great 2-1 victory to herald the post-Dublin era, and a 2-1 F.A.Cup victory in 1997, with Oggy saving a Sutton penalty to allow us to hang on.
Nothing against Roy Wegerle, but we also owe them for stealing one of our greatest ever players off us.
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