Rovers contain swine flu threat

Blackburn believe that the swine flu outbreak within the club is under control.

Rovers looked far from under the weather in their 5-2 Carling Cup victory over Peterborough last night, despite the build-up to the match being dominated by talk of their players suffering with the virus.

On Monday Sam Allardyce confirmed that three unnamed members of his squad had come down with swine flu and that it had been within the camp for a number of days.

But there was little evidence of any ill effects amongst those playing in last night’s match – including suspected victim David Dunn, who came off the substitutes’ bench – and afterwards assistant manager Neil McDonald said there were no new cases to report of players having fallen sick.

“It’s under control. We had a squad up on Monday and everyone came through from that squad which was great,” McDonald said.

“We will monitor it on a 24-hour basis. Everyone seems okay.”