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The Second Division season finished with Ipswich Town as champions and Middlesbrough as runners-up gaining automatic promotion to the new FA Premier League.This left Derby County and Blackburn Rovers, the two biggest spending teams in the division, facing each other in the one playoff semi-final, while the other was contested between Leicester City and a Cambridge United side who successful ...
Cambridge had returned to English football's second tier after an absence of seven seasons, following two successive promotions. Few expected Cambridge to succeed at a high level after their rapid rise, five years after having to reapply for Football League status, but Cambridge managed to make the play-offs for promotion to the inaugural Premier League season with a fifth-place finish - their ...
Blackburn Rovers: 1–1: Hull City: 20 August 1991 Bolton Wanderers: ... Bristol Rovers: 8 October 1991: 5–5 Cambridge United: 1–1: Manchester United: 9 October ...
After his appointment Blackburn climbed up the league table, but later lost six games in a row, causing them to fall out of the play-off places, but Blackburn fought back and a 3–1 victory at Plymouth got Rovers to the final play off place.
Blackburn Rovers: 3–2: Cambridge United: 6 January 1993 Crystal Palace: 3–1: ... while Sheffield Wednesday overcame Blackburn Rovers in the other leg by a similar ...
Blackburn Rovers had featured in the play-offs for three consecutive seasons between 1988 and 1990, including a 4–3 defeat by Crystal Palace in the two-legged 1989 final. [7] They had played in the second tier of English football since the 1980–81 season when they were promoted from the Third Division as runners-up, [ 9 ] and had not played ...
Southend United: 22 August 2001 2: Cambridge United: 1–1 ... Blackburn Rovers won the game 2–1. 24 February 2002. 15:00 GMT. Blackburn Rovers 2–1
In spite of Shearer being restricted to only 21 league appearances and 16 league goals after he snapped his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds in December, Blackburn finished fourth - just one point off UEFA Cup qualification. Blackburn's cup form nearly saw them qualify for Europe anyway, but they were knocked out of the ...