Blackburn Rovers blog: Entertainment or three points? (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Blackburn Rovers blog: Entertainment or three points?

2:00pm Tuesday 15th December 2009

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What an exciting weekend!

Jo wins X Factor (Everton will surely miss him); Ryan Giggs wins Sports Personality of the Year (well let’s face it, he’s been a fantastic footballer but he’s long been in need of a personality); and to top it all Hull and Rovers draw 0-0 at the KC Stadium.

Tiger Woods may have spent the last week apologising, but Rovers missed a golden chance to leave the Tigers of Hull feeling sorry for themselves.

A third goalless scoreline in the league, which means four Premier League matches without hitting the onion bag, confirms the improvement in our defence, but how frustrating that we seem incapable of converting decent chances to goals.

Just remind me what was different when we put three past Chelsea in the Carling Cup game?

Oh yes, we started with three forwards. I’m sure that had nothing to do with it.

Before someone points out we also conceded three and in the Premier League you still only get one point for a 3-3 draw as for 0-0, I’d just like to reflect on how entertaining that game at Ewood was, and ever so tentatively suggest that being entertained is one of, perhaps even the main reason most of us go to football matches.

On the other hand, if you’re asking would I rather have been higher up the MOTD running order because we’d lost 4-3 in a highly entertaining encounter I’d have to say ‘no’, so maybe I should just gratefully accept the point and move on.

And move on we do to play a Birmingham City side tonight who must be gasping for air as they find themselves in an unaccustomed position in the top half of the table on the back of a run of four straight victories.

That’s just the sort of run that Rovers would have enjoyed had we been able to score the odd goal now and again.

The Midlanders are hardly prolific themselves but Lee Bowyer appears to have been “doing a Dunny” for them, notching some important winners.

Their defence has been solid too so anyone wanting a flutter on the score would be sorely tempted to call it another 0-0.

It’s an even hotter bet that the X Factor winner’s record will unfortunately be the Christmas number one.

It’s called ‘The Climb’, and if Rovers are to take the message from it and start climbing away from the danger zone, a win at Birmingham tonight would be the perfect place to start.

Otherwise strong rumours of Sam’s interest in bringing in James Beattie or even Ruud van Nistelrooy will gather momentum.

Ironically there was a Croatian striker whose surname begins with K on the scoresheet (twice) for a northern side this weekend.

Somebody unkindly suggested that Slaven Bilic might be dyslexic and it’s actually Klasnic of Bolton who is the future of Croatian football.

Come on Mr Kalinic prove them all wrong!

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