STEVE KEAN has hit back at claims that his Blackburn players have given up in the race to beat the drop.
After last weekend's ­woeful 2-0 defeat at Spurs in which Rovers failed to ­register a single shot, Kean's side looked to be going down without a fight.
But the boss defended his under-fire players ahead of tonight's must-win clash against Wigan at Ewood Park.
Rovers must take three points to have any chance of survival.
But the Scot revealed his men are playing through the pain barrier in their desperate battle to stay up.
Kean revealed that ­Bradley Orr, Yakubu and Gael Givet are all ­struggling with injuries.
He said: “There's a number playing with ­injuries. There's Yak with... read more