The Rovers Return

David Dunn scores Rovers' first.

What a result.

Granted, Bolton were shocking, just awful, but two goals, a clean sheet and three points later, Rovers now sit in 11th place, just one point off the top half of the Premier League.

Indeed, if we take a point at Fulham on Wednesday night in our game in hand, we go above Burnley and into 10th place.

Back to the game, and we dominated from start to finish. Ending the away match-losing streak in style.

David Dunn’s goal was one of the best team goals you are likely to see. Robbo catching the Bolton cross, before releasing Di Santo with a superb throw. Dunn, in the meantime, set off running from the edge of the Rovers box, and Di Santo passed to Roberts on the edge of the box. With his back to goal, Roberts held off the defence, while Dunn continued his run. At the perfect moment, Roberts played it just in front of Dunn, who sublimely slotted the ball into the top corner. Fantastic. A real joy to watch.

The second was also a joy to watch, but for obvious different reasons. One of those huge slices of luck that hardly ever happens to us. As a lack of communication saw Jaaskelainen come running out of his box while Sam Ricketts headed it back into an empty net!

The three points and a solid win should do a lot to stem any worries over our fortunes this season.

Yes, we had, before yesterday, lost five consecutive away games, a 100 per cent losing streak on our travels this season, but let’s look at those matches.

Sunderland, Everton, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United. The latter aside, Sunderland have shown themselves to be a very good side this season, and the 3-0 defeat at Everton was a very bad day at the office – which we all have.

As well as ending a bad run and moving us up in the table, the result gives us back-to-back wins. If we can follow that up with a positive result at Fulham on Wednesday, by positive I mean a point, and a win at home to Stoke on Saturday, we can really turn our season around!

In the meantime, I’m off to buy some altitude sickness pills…