The team at the bottom of the Premier League at Christmas always goes down (apart from West Brom in 2005, but lets not let facts get inthe way of a good argument).So what are the chances of Rovers bucking the trend? 50/50 according to new a sistant manager, Eric Black
Anthony Mack Jersey (no relation).With sixteen games left, its probably a bit too early to start making bold predictions, but (and I cant believe Im about to write this) Rovers will survive just.A quick study of the bottom fives remaining fixtures gave me a bottom three of Wigan, Wolves and QPR, with Rovers escaping by a single
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In the spirit of not making bold predictions, Wigan will go down. They got lucky last season,
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