Bellamy the Blackburn ace as Savage sees red

Blackburn 3 Middlesbrough 2

Craig Bellamy proved to be the difference between the two teams, scoring Blackburn’s first and last as twice Boro pegged back their hosts but Savage’s sending-off was the talking point afterwards.

“It was going to happen one day. Chris Foy will go down in the record books,” was the midfielder’s assessment of the Merseyside official who brandished two yellow cards in the space of three second half minutes.