Savage, Savage what's the score?

WHO needs Michael Ricketts when you score four goals without him?

World Cup winner Youri Djorkaeff was outstanding and made sure Monsieur Duggary, his mate, did not take any points from the vital bottom of the table clash.

Jay Jay Okocha, Bernard Mendy, Ricardo Gardner, Per Frandsen and Delroy Facey all produced the goods to pull Steve Bruce's Birmingham into the battle at the bottom.

Players like Lily Savage, oh, sorry Robbie Savage, and Jamie Clapham should not deserve a second bite of the cherry as we had already trounced them 5-0 against Leicester and 4-1 against Ipswich Town.

Firstly Ricardo Gardner delivered a poor cross but a poor player met it in Birmingham's Kenny Cunningham and the ball was directed past Ian Bennett to put Wanderers ahead.

Unfortunately, Savage scored a tap-in when our defence was not concentrating as was the case for most of the first half.

Henrik Pedersen, who was not on top of his game but still more loyal than (sorry, forgot his name), put Wanderers ahead after Djorkaeff produced fantastic skill against Bruce's poor defence and Ian Bennett fumbled his shot for Henrik Pedersen to capitalise.

Bolton's defence was still not in top gear and allowed Christophe Duggary past them to enable Clinton Morrison to hit the ball under Jussi Jaaskelainen who did not have many saves to make but made some vital catches.

The game was then played in midfield and the hero of the day, Facey, came on for the out of sorts Pedersen, sorry Ped no offence.

Soon after Youri volleyed one home after Okocha set up the French wonder.

Then to kill the game off Okocha smashed in a shot from 30 yards which hit the post and super sub Facey was on hand to tap the ball past Bennett. The two sentences on my mind at that point were: 'Michael Ricketts who are you' and 'Savage, Savage what's the score'.