If there is one thing that is coming to characterise this Derby squad, it is players stepping up in the hour of need.

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