Fans' View by Dave Pritchard

AT the risk of starting with a clich, football is a cruel game.

The actions of 25 men should not spoil 20,000 people's weekends, but that is the way it is.

You will note I cited 25 men as having a say in the fans' weekends, not the 22 that are actually competing.

I am not going to launch into a rant about how it is all the referee's fault that Bolton did not collect all three points, but where he found the four minutes injury time I will never know, let alone the six minutes that he actually played.

As I said though, it is impossible to entirely blame the official, because Wanderers should have had the game dead and buried by half-time as they had at least three clear cut chances to put the game beyond Rovers' reach.

Youri Djorkaeff was unfortunately the main culprit, along with Jay Jay Okocha. Both missed chances that teams like Bolton cannot afford to miss. They just do not come along often enough when you are down at the bottom.

Blackburn had good chances, and hit the bar, but it appeared that the Wanderers defence would stand firm.

This was a far better performance than last week at Man City.

The players actually looked as if they cared whether we won or not. But in the end, Big Sam was correct when he said, in this paper during the week, that we needed to score twice to win.

We didn't score twice, and we didn't win. I'm off to fix my watch now, it appears to be fast. Perhaps I can borrow Alex Ferguson's stopwatch, that usually is a bit slower than everyone else's - even Neale Barry's.