Source: PA
Kean: Seven cup finals await Rovers
Blackburn manager Steve Kean refuses to class Saturday's visit of fellow strugglers Birmingham as a "must-win" match in their bid to avoid relegation.
With just seven games remaining and the club two points above the drop zone time is running out for teams to safeguard their future.
And despite home matches being an obvious strength for Rovers - they have lost seven of the last 40 at Ewood Park - Kean stressed they cannot afford to pin their hopes on beating the likes of Birmingham and Bolton, with both high-flying Manchester clubs also yet to make the trip to east Lancashire.
"They are all massive games," he said. "When you get to this stage of the season I don't think you can say Birmingham is any more important than Bolton or Arsenal (last week) because then you get into the tendency of writing games off.
"We've also got Everton, West Ham and Wolves - they are all important and we have to be careful not to minimise the importance of any of them.
"The players know how important each game is and see it as seven cup finals rather than two against Bolton and Birmingham."
