Nathan Blake: 'Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers is a massive game'

Nathan Blake describes tonight's match between Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers as a "massive game".

By Liam Apicella, Features Editor

Published: December 20 2011 | 16:15

Last updated: December 20 2011 | 20:10

Former Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers striker Nathan Blake has described tonight's meeting between the two teams as a "massive game".

The clubs currently occupy the bottom two positions in the Premier League table and even a win tonight would not lift either out of the relegation zone.

Blake believes that the loser of the match could well be demoted to the Championship.

"It's a massive game anyway, but I can never remember there being so much emphasis on it," Blake told BBC Sport.

"I think the winner can go on and get out of trouble. Whoever loses, I can see it being a long season."

Blake scored 48 goals for Wanderers before signing for Blackburn in a £4.25m transfer.

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Premier League Table

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Sunderland	15	9	4	2	25	11	14	31
2	Sheffield United Sheff Utd	15	10	3	2	19	7	12	31
3	Leeds United Leeds	15	8	5	2	24	9	15	29
4	Burnley	15	7	6	2	18	6	12	27
5	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	15	6	7	2	16	9	7	25
6	Watford	15	8	1	6	23	22	1	25
7	Middlesbrough	15	7	3	5	23	17	6	24
8	Millwall	15	6	5	4	18	13	5	23
9	Blackburn Rovers Blackburn	15	6	4	5	19	17	2	22
10	Bristol City	15	5	7	3	20	19	1	22
11	Swansea City Swansea	15	5	4	6	11	10	1	19
12	Derby County Derby	15	5	4	6	19	19	0	19
13	Stoke City Stoke	15	5	4	6	18	19	-1	19
14	Norwich City Norwich	15	4	6	5	23	22	1	18
15	Sheffield Wednesday Sheff Weds	15	5	3	7	17	25	-8	18
16	Oxford United Oxford Utd	15	4	5	6	17	18	-1	17
17	Coventry City Coventry	15	4	4	7	20	21	-1	16
18	Plymouth Argyle Plymouth	15	4	4	7	15	26	-11	16
19	Hull City	15	3	6	6	16	20	-4	15
20	Preston North End Preston	15	3	6	6	15	23	-8	15
21	Luton Town Luton	15	4	3	8	17	26	-9	15
22	Cardiff City Cardiff	15	4	3	8	14	23	-9	15
23	Portsmouth	15	2	6	7	16	28	-12	12
24	Queens Park Rangers QPR	15	1	7	7	12	25	-13	10