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Gray borrows blueprint to aid great escape

When Eddie Gray became caretaker manager of Leeds United and began remodelling the team he used Blackburn Rovers as his prototype. No, not Graeme Souness’s sorry crew of 2004 but Kenny Dalglish’s Championship-winning class of 1995. « They played the high-tempo way I believe the game should be played and we have to play if we are to stay in the Premiership, » said Gray.

It explains why his side’s triumph can i put my canada goose jacket in the dryer here on Saturday seemed studded with little ironies; why the team attacking with real width, using crosses as lethal weapons and ruthlessly squeezing midfield space looked strangely familiar.

Jermaine Pennant might have been Stuart Ripley rampaging down the right, Seth Johnson could have passed himself off as Tim Sherwood and, although Newcastle fans will regard this as heresy, Mark Viduka at times offered a realistic impersonation of Alan Shearer in his Ewood pomp.

They even had a Scottish centre-half who might, at a pinch, have been a young Colin Hendry. When Gray exchanged Michael Bridges for Steven Caldwell in a January loan swap with Newcastle he knew what he was doing because, while Bridges struggles to regain fitness, Caldwell appears increasingly assured.

« Steven Caldwell was very important today, » reflected Gray. « He won a lot of key headers. » Caldwell also used his forehead to score Leeds’ second-minute opener, capitalising on slapdash home marking buy canada goose jacket in canada buy canada goose jacket london by rising to meet Gary Kelly’s far-post cross and head beyond Brad Friedel. Tellingly, that goal originated with Pennant’s strong run down the right which earned the corner, taken short, preceding Kelly’s can you machine wash canada goose jacket centre.

Blackburn’s manager insisted that while his players’ contribution « lacked quality » the requisite « effort was there » but Souness, whose side are now level on points with Leeds and deep in relegation danger, did not look entirely convinced by his words. « We were very, very nervous and it showed, » he added. « We are outside the bottom three on goal difference and there’s no magic pill I can give people in training. »

If Rovers were really trying so hard how come the impressive Alan Smith homesite, Johnson and James Milner were allowed yards of space in which canada goose coat $5000 no credit check signature loans to advance and pick their spot before unleashing menacing shots which variously grazed the authentic canada goose outlet upright, struck the bar and were tipped to safety?

Should Garry Flitcroft and company stand off equally generously at Fulham tonight, Rovers could well find themselves trapped in a lift plummeting towards the basement.

The surprise was that Leeds did not score again until the 89th minute when Pennant’s run amazon canada goose jacket and low cross resulted in best canada goose jacket womens Viduka sidefooting home. Significantly, Souness, for whom Craig Short headed what can hardly be termed a consolation goal in stoppage time, insisted that Viduka and canada goose coat 1000 calorie diet Smith represented « the big difference » between the teams.

« They are two proper, proper players, » he enthused. « And as I’ve told my squad, you’re either a proper player or someone who throws in the towel. » Confronted by the apparently irrepressible Pennant, indications were that Steven Reid and Michael Gray, namely the left side of Souness’s ensemble, belonged to the latter camp and no one was surprised when Paul Gallagher replaced Reid.

Down the right, Brett Emerton disappointed again and, on the rare occasions when he supplied the 55,000-a-week Andrew Cole, the striker’s reflexes were not sharp enough.

Meanwhile Johnson was permitted to dominate authentic canada goose outlet online central midfield in a way that partially explains why Blackburn have not won a Premiership game at Ewood since November.

« No disrespect but I expected to pick up three points here, » said Gray. « We’ve got quality, we’ve got belief and we can score goals. We’ve given ourselves an opportunity. »

The borrowing of that nine-year-old Blackburn blueprint may yet preface one of football’s more unlikely escapes.