The 2002 Worthington Cup Final was played between Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, on Sunday, 24 February 2002. Blackburn won the match 2–1.

Blackburn opened the scoring with a goal from Matt Jansen, but Christian Ziege soon equalised for Spurs. Andrew Cole scored the winner in the 69th minute with a typical instinctive strike after mistakes in the Spurs defence. Les Ferdinand could have made the match square after a close one-on-one chance with Friedel, but failed to make anything of it. In the final minute Teddy Sheringham controversially had a claim for a penalty turned down by referee Graham Poll.

[edit] Match details

24 February 2002 14:00	Blackburn Rovers	2 – 1	Tottenham Hotspur	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Attendance: 72,500 Referee: Graham Poll (Hertfordshire)
	Jansen  25' Cole  69'	Report	Ziege  33'

Blackburn Rovers

Tottenham Hotspur

BLACKBURN ROVERS: GK 1 Brad Friedel RB 14 Nils-Eric Johansson CB 28 Martin Taylor CB 3 Henning Berg (c) LB 5 Stig Inge Bjørnebye RM 18 Keith Gillespie 75' CM 8 David Dunn CM 12 Mark Hughes LM 11 Damien Duff CF 10 Matt Jansen 74' CF 9 Andrew Cole Substitutes: GK 13 Alan Kelly DF 2 John Curtis MF 15 Craig Hignett 75' MF 16 Alan Mahon FW 17 Yordi 74' Manager: Graeme Souness

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR: GK 1 Neil Sullivan RB 18 Ben Thatcher CB 6 Chris Perry CB 26 Ledley King LB 3 Mauricio Taricco 79' RM 7 Darren Anderton CM 8 Tim Sherwood CM 14 Gustavo Poyet 84' LM 23 Christian Ziege CF 10 Teddy Sheringham CF 9 Les Ferdinand Substitutes: GK 13 Kasey Keller DF 30 Anthony Gardner MF 29 Simon Davies 79' FW 11 Serhiy Rebrov FW 16 Steffen Iversen 84' Manager: Glenn Hoddle

[edit] Road to Cardiff

[edit] External links

• BBC match report

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