THE unfortunate trend in football management nowadays is that if you don’t win for five or six games, nobody looks at what you’ve done for a football club.

It’s just a case of getting results. Results are the key to the job of management.

Sometimes you earn that leeway with what you’ve done behind the scenes.

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And what Gary Bowyer has had to do behind the scenes at Blackburn – getting the finances down, pulling in and getting rid of players, and now juggling with this embargo – has been far from straightforward.

But at the end of the day it’s his job to pick the 11 players on a matchday he thinks are the strongest to get a result. They play to his tactics. They are his players, his team.

So when results do not go your way, there will be pressure, especially at the start of a season.

Blackburn supporters were looking for a little bit of a change from last season – a positive change – but so far they have not seen one.

They’re still waiting for that first result, which will hopefully lift the season, and they’re getting frustrated.

And we saw that on Saturday night when that rumour that Gary had lost his job spread like wildfire.

Bolton on Friday night is a big game.

But, when you’ve not won in five games, at any stage of the season it would be a big game and it would be a pressure game.

Gary has just got to set his team up to go and win the game and hopefully they will come out with a result.

And, if it doesn’t happen, then you’re on to the next game. That’s the thing about football, and the Championship in particular, you have games on top of games right away.

So as soon as one game is finished, you’ve got to forget about that defeat and start preparing for the next game, whereas fans don’t do that.

The fans mull over a defeat, as they’re not happy, whereas everybody else around the football club has moved on. That’s hard to take as a supporter.

But that’s just what you’ve got to do, particularly as a player.

They’ll have seen the speculation about Gary, there’s no doubt about it.

But unless Gary has walked in and said, ‘right boys, I’m under pressure from Venky’s’, which I can’t imagine he will have, then they’ll have just got on with their business.

They’re professionals and they’ll get their heads down, graft and try and get a result on Friday.

Am I confident they will? Always, at Ewood.

But as I’ve said before, Blackburn too often play like broken windscreen wipers. One works but the other doesn’t.

That needs to change on Friday and if it does, I think they’ll get the win they need.