If anyone needed evidence of why John Eustace’s “we don’t get too high or too low” mantra matters, here it was.

Forget jelly and ice cream, forget the cake, Blackburn Rovers had more corners than a Müller factory at their 150 th  birthday party. Among the esteemed guests, Colin Hendrie, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Tony Mowbray and David Dunn. An array of cultured footballing folk, invited back to Ewood Park.   But less welcome returns were made by John Eustace, and the band of former Blackburn players within his Derby side, whose job it was to sour the occasion. And that they did, surely sh

Lars-Jørgen Salvesen celebrates in front of the south stand after the final whistle (Photo: Joe Egerton). In the soggy conditions, it always felt as though someone was going to slip up.   When Ivor Pandur did, under pressure from Andi Weimann, enter Lars-Jørgen Salvesen. He’d only been on the pitch a matter of seconds, but the Norwegian composed himself quickly.   First a deft clip with his right boot. A second to breathe.   Then, as he lifted the ball over Pandur with his le