Even as their six-match winning run came to an end in an underwhelming manner Blackburn Rovers still had reason for satisfaction, climbing into the Sky Bet Championship’s automatic promotion places.
This was the sort of day for getting the job done by whatever means possible, and Tony Mowbray, the Blackburn manager, was not too disappointed with a scrappy goalless draw against a dogged Huddersfield Town side with growing promotion ambitions of their own.
Mowbray’s chief frustration, instead, was with the performance of Keith Stroud, the referee. He denied Ben Brereton Díaz a penalty in the first half after a collision with Matty Pearson that began outside the penalty area and ended inside it, and later gave Duane Holmes, the Huddersfield forward, a yellow card for