Championship

BLUNT BLADES DENTED BUT GAFFER JON IS LEVEL-HEADED

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The LeaguePaper Team
5 March 2023

Quickfire Pickering bags win
By Sam Jordan

BLACKBURN R 1
Pickering 5

SHEFFIELD UTD 0

STAR MAN

DOMINIC HYAM Blackburn

Star Game

FLYING START: Blackburn Rovers’ Harry Pickering celebrates scoring his early winner
PICTURE: Alamy

JON DAHL Tomasson played down Blackburn Rovers’ chances of promotion, despite an impressive victory over Sheffield United.
A win for the Blades would surely have extinguished Blackburn’s chances of gatecrashing the top two. But Rovers put in a performance of energy, discipline and verve to overpower their opponents.
The game wa...

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