The 2002 Worthington Cup Final was played between Blackburn Rovers

Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....

 and Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....

 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

Matt Jansen

Matthew Brooke "Matt" Jansen is an English footballer, who plays as a striker and currently plays for Chorley. He started his career with hometown club Carlisle United, and also played for Crystal Palace, Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers as well as a loan spell with Coventry City. He won six...

, but Christian Ziege

Christian Ziege

Christian Ziege is a former German football defender and midfielder. With the German national team, Ziege won Euro 96. An attacking left wingback, Ziege was considered a dead-ball specialist.-Club career:...

 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.

Match details

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EWLINE| BLACKBURN ROVERS: GK 1   Brad Friedel Brad Friedel Bradley Howard Friedel is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.... RB 14   Nils-Eric Johansson Nils-Eric Johansson Nils-Eric Claes "Nisse" Johansson is a Swedish football player who currently plays defender for AIK.Initially on the books at Bayern Munich, he moved to 1. FC Nuremberg in August 2000, before several clubs across Europe, including Blackburn Rovers, claimed special interest in the player... CB 28   Martin Taylor CB 4   Henning Berg Henning Berg Henning Stille Berg is a Norwegian former football player. He played as a central defender or right-back.He is one of only three players to have won the Premier League with two different clubs, the others being Ashley Cole and Nicolas Anelka .-Club career:Born in Eidsvoll, Berg played for...  (c) LB 5   Stig Inge Bjørnebye Stig Inge Bjørnebye Stig Inge Bjørnebye is a retired Norwegian footballer who played in Norway, England, and Denmark, most notably for Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers. His preferred position was left back, which he occupied for domestic clubs and the national team... RM 18   Keith Gillespie Keith Gillespie Keith Robert Gillespie is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays in midfield for Longford Town....   CM 8   David Dunn David Dunn David John Ian Dunn is an English footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Blackburn Rovers.-Blackburn Rovers:... CM 12   Mark Hughes Mark Hughes Leslie Mark Hughes, OBE , is a former Welsh international footballer. As an international footballer, he made 72 appearances and scored 16 goals.... LM 11   Damien Duff Damien Duff Damien Anthony Duff is an Irish footballer who plays for Premier League team Fulham and the Republic of Ireland national football team. With Ireland he has participated in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and helped his team qualify for UEFA Euro 2012... CF 10   Matt Jansen Matt Jansen Matthew Brooke "Matt" Jansen is an English footballer, who plays as a striker and currently plays for Chorley. He started his career with hometown club Carlisle United, and also played for Crystal Palace, Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers as well as a loan spell with Coventry City. He won six...   CF 9   Andrew Cole Substitutes: GK 27   Alan Miller Alan Miller (footballer) Alan John Miller is an English former professional football goalkeeper.Miller began as an apprentice at Arsenal in 1984. With them he won the FA Youth Cup in 1988, and won four caps for the England under-21 team... DF 2   John Curtis MF 15   Craig Hignett Craig Hignett Craig Hignett, , is an English former professional footballer who now works as an agent and a commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live...   MF 16   Alan Mahon Alan Mahon Alan Joseph Mahon is an Irish footballer who plays a midfielder and has been capped by the Republic of Ireland.-Early career: Tranmere Rovers and Sporting Clube de Portugal:... FW 17   Yordi Yordi Jorge González Díaz, aka Yordi , is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a striker.A journeyman, he amassed La Liga totals of 180 games and 37 goals in ten seasons, in representation of five teams , and 161/61 in Segunda División.In 2002, Yordi had a six-month spell in England, with Blackburn...   Manager:   Graeme Souness Graeme Souness Graeme James Souness is a Scottish former professional football player and manager.Souness was the captain of the successful Liverpool team of the early 1980s and player-manager of Rangers in the late 1980s as well as captain of the Scottish national team. He also played for Tottenham Hotspur,...		style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">	TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR:
GK	1	Neil Sullivan Neil Sullivan Neil Sullivan is an English-born Scottish ex-international professional Association footballer. A goalkeeper, Sullivan currently plays for Doncaster Rovers after signing on a permanent basis from Leeds United at the end of the 2006–07 season, following two loan moves to Doncaster...
RB	18	Ben Thatcher Ben Thatcher Benjamin David "Ben" Thatcher is a professional association football player, who is currently a free agent...
CB	6	Chris Perry Chris Perry (footballer) Christopher John "Chris" Perry is a former English footballer. He was a defender and retired from the game after having been released from Southampton.-Football career:...
CB	26	Ledley King Ledley King Ledley Brenton King is an English footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur. He is the longest serving player at the club and captained Spurs since 2005. He is currently contracted to Tottenham until 2012...
LB	3	Mauricio Taricco Mauricio Taricco Mauricio Ricardo Taricco is an Argentinian professional footballer and football coach who is currently assistant manager to Gus Poyet at Football League Championship team Brighton & Hove Albion. Taricco notably played Premier League football for Tottenham Hotspur, having also appeared for...
RM	7	Darren Anderton Darren Anderton Darren Robert Anderton is a retired English footballer who spent most of his career with Tottenham Hotspur as a midfielder. He played 30 times for the England national football team, scoring 7 goals.-Career:...
CM	8	Tim Sherwood Tim Sherwood Timothy "Tim" Sherwood is an English former professional footballer who was captain of Blackburn Rovers' Premiership title-winning side...
CM	14	Gustavo Poyet Gustavo Poyet Gustavo Augusto Gus Poyet Domínguez is a former Uruguay international footballer and current manager of English side Brighton & Hove Albion.During his playing career, Poyet featured for teams including Real Zaragoza, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur....
LM	23	Christian Ziege Christian Ziege Christian Ziege is a former German football defender and midfielder. With the German national team, Ziege won Euro 96. An attacking left wingback, Ziege was considered a dead-ball specialist.-Club career:...
CF	10	Teddy Sheringham Teddy Sheringham Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE is a retired English footballer, and the father of footballer Charlie Sheringham. Sheringham played as a striker, and had a successful career at the club level, winning almost every domestic honour available with his clubs, most notably the Treble with Manchester...
CF	9	Les Ferdinand Les Ferdinand Leslie "Les" Ferdinand MBE is a former English footballer. His playing career included spells at Queens Park Rangers, Besiktas J.K., Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers F.C., during which period he earned a number of appearances for England...
Substitutes:
GK	13	Kasey Keller Kasey Keller Kasey Keller is a retired American soccer player who last played for Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer....
DF	30	Anthony Gardner Anthony Gardner Anthony Gardner is an England international football defender, who plays for Crystal Palace. A tall centre-back, he has represented England and been bought and sold for millions in the domestic transfer market...
MF	29	Simon Davies
FW	11	Serhiy Rebrov Serhiy Rebrov Serhiy Stanislavovych Rebrov is a retired Ukrainian football forward turned midfielder, currently assistant coach at Dynamo Kyiv reserves team. Rebrov gained international fame as an attacking partner of Andriy Shevchenko at Dynamo Kyiv throughout the 1990s and remains top all-time scorer of the...
FW	16	Steffen Iversen Steffen Iversen Steffen Iversen is a Norwegian football player who currently plays for Crystal Palace. He has earned four Norwegian league championships with Rosenborg and one with Vålerenga....
Manager:
Glenn Hoddle Glenn Hoddle Glenn Hoddle is an English former footballer and manager who played as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, AS Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England....

External links

• BBC match report