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3 mins: A high-tempo, highly scrappy opening. The plane carrying a message from Burnley fans has already passed Ewood Park – pictorial evidence attached.
1 min: Peeeeeeeeep! Wigan kick off, and immediately give the ball away.
The players are out. Kick-off comin' atcha!
"Win or lose, stay up or go down, surely Steve Kean will not be in charge at Ewood Park next season," observes John Ainsworth. "The big question is which of the top clubs will be competing for his signature? Sir Alex can't go on for ever (and he has been gushing in his praise for Kean), Di Matteo is only a caretaker and if Mancini doesn't win the title will there be a vacancy at City?" Interesting, John. I would have thought that Roman Abramovich would pay millions to make sure he gets the job at Old Trafford – the kind of fundraising scheme that the Glazers would surely be very keen on.
According to @06jsamsla on Twitter, Burnley fans have organised a plane with the banner 'Agent Kean: Mission Accomplished' to fly over Ewood tonight. That'll stoke things up nicely for next season's derby.
"I'm so excited for the Blackburn v Wigan MBM," writes Marc Howlett. Why thank you, Marc. "Really! I was vacationing in London seven years ago when Wigan got promoted. One of my favorite holiday activities reading newspapers. I enjoyed all of the 'Who are Wigan?' stories so much that I became an avid supporter. Seven years later, we're still in the Premier League. A win today will ensure our survival for another year. It's truly an astonishing feat for such a small club." I think most neutrals are hoping that Wigan stay up at the moment – they're run over the last month or so has been astonishing, and would have been even more so but for the poor performance of a linesman at Chelsea. Also Roberto Martinez deserves credit for not leaving for Aston Villa last summer, and the club for not sacking him last winter.
Tonight's teams are in! And they look something like this. Quite a lot like this actually. Exactly like this, in fact.
Blackburn: Robinson, Orr, Dann, Givet, Martin Olsson, Hoilett, Dunn, Lowe, Pedersen, Modeste, Yakubu. Subs: Kean, Formica, Petrovic, Nzonzi, Rochina, Marcus Olsson, Goodwillie.
Wigan: Al Habsi, Alcaraz, Caldwell, Figueroa, Boyce, McArthur, McCarthy, Beausejour, Moses, Di Santo, Maloney. Subs: Pollitt, Crusat, Ben Watson, Gomez, Sammon, Rodallega, Diame.
Referee: Mark Clattenburg.
Pre-match ramble: Wigan are bang in form, having won five of their last seven games to drag themselves from the very cusp of disaster to the very brink of security. Blackburn are bang out of form, having lost six of their last seven games to slip from the very brink of security to the very cusp of disaster.
So these are the facts: If Wigan win, their Premier League status is secure for another season. If they draw, only a last-day goal-difference turnaround of quite ludicrous proportions will relegate them. If they lose it'll go to the final day, when they've got the most winnable fixture of any relegation-threatened side. They aren't yet safe, but they're not far off.
If Blackburn win, and then win again at Chelsea on Sunday, they might just avoid relegation. If they drop any points at all in either game, they are doomed.
The final-day relegation-region fixtures, for your information, look something like this:
Chelsea v Blackburn
Manchester City v QPR
Stoke v Bolton
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