"This was," John Aizlewood would write in the Sun the next day, "one of those games. No goals,

little quality, but plenty of determined endeavour and enough for both managers to take comfort.

"Smashing," declared Brian Kidd, the Blackburn Manager. "I can't fault the players." Rangers

manager Gerry Francis, with presumably just as much to crow about in a 0-0 draw, cooly

refrained from dubbing the result 'smashing', with shows character, I think.

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