Maik Taylor - Made some decent saves, and overall ok.
Tebily - Typical Tebily performance... tough tackling, no nonsense aggression, and moments of madness.
Clapham - In my honest opinion, really beginning to get shown up at this level - especially with some woeful distribution.
Upson - Generally ok, but anyone hoping to represent their country at Euro 2004 needs to do better than he did for the goal.
Martin Taylor - Shaky at times, but wait until next season before judging - he's hardly been given an oppurtunity to settle into the team or one position this season.
Johnson - Good hard-working display, with a terrible finish and an assist to boot. Others should take a leaf out of his book at times.
Savage & Clemence - Same as last few games - non existent.
Lazaridis - Saw plenty of the ball, but his compatriots Neill and Emerton coped with him well.
Forssell & Morrison - Both quiet, but both had next to no service.
SUBS:
Hughes - Final appearance for the club, and showed signs of running the game, but just lacked the capacity to really impose himself - how fitting? Great servant to the club though.
John - Pretty terrible, to be honest, but once again, he scored a goal, and you can't argue with scoring goals. Blackburn R. 1 Birmingham C. 1 Cole 24 John 83 Starting line-up Sub'd Enckelman Johansson Gray 1 (88) Short Andresen 2 (45) Flitcroft Tugay Douglas Reid 3 (45) Stead Cole Substitutes Sub'd Neill 3 (45) Emerton 2 (45) Gallagher 1 (88) Yelldell Jansen Competition Barclaycard Premiership
Saturday 15th May 2004Match Statistics 10 Goal Attempts 10 5 On target 4 5 Off target 5 0 Woodwork 1 6 Corners 8 13 Fouls 12 3 Offside 2 Cards shown Referee Gallagher, D
OxfordshireAttendance 26070 Starting line-up Sub'd Taylor, Mai Taylor, Mar Tebily 1 (60) Clapham Upson Clemence 2 (57) Savage Lazaridis Johnson Forssell Morrison Substitutes Sub'd Hughes 2 (57) John 1 (60) Bennett Cisse Cunningham