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Rovers currently lie 12th in the table and visit Tottenham this weekend, where they will be looking for only their second away win in the top flight this season.

Reds boss Rafael Benitez ridiculed the tactics of his opposite number Sam Allardyce in Blackburn's 2-1 defeat at Anfield last month

The Blackburn Rovers midfielder has joined the Baggies for an initial month and is due to make his debut on Saturday against Queens Park Rangers, where he had a loan stint earlier this season.

Championship promotion hopefuls West Brom have taken Rovers' midfielder Steven Reid on a month's loan.

Blackburn defender Lars Jacobsen has undergone a hernia operation but is looking to be back in action in around a month's time.

Haydn Preece, the man in charge of youth development at Southport says that Blackburn's new young striker Zac Aley is one for the future.

A host of football superstars will tee off at the "Golf Champions of Football" in Portugal this June in support of 'Keep Your Eye on the Ball', an initiative run by The FA.

Neither have been complimentary about each other in recent years, going back to the Spaniard's first match against Bolton in August 2004 when Sami Hyypia sustained a broken nose in the opening minutes.