Blackburn to play on despite swine fluBlackburn Rovers have insisted their League Cup tie against Peterborough will go ahead as planned on Tuesday despite three players at the club, as well as staff members, suffering with swine flu swine flu n. A highly contagious form of human influenza caused by a filterable virus identical or related to a virus formerly isolated from infected swine. . Rovers manager Sam Allardyce <noinclude></noinclude> Samuel "Sam" Allardyce (born October 19 1954 in Dudley, West Midlands) is an English former professional football player and current football manager. He is currently the manager of Newcastle United of the English Premier League. revealed Monday the virus had struck prior to last weekend's 5-0 thrashing by Premier League leaders Chelsea but refused to name the players involved. Asked if Christopher Samba Christopher Samba (born March 28, 1984 in Créteil, Paris, France) is a football player. Despite being French by birth, Samba represents the Congo national football team at international level. and David Dunn David John Ian Dunn (born December 27, 1979 in Great Harwood, England) is an English footballer who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers as a midfielder. Playing career Blackburn Rovers , who missed the Chelsea match, were among the affected, Allardyce said on Monday: "It's definitely swine flu - you've speculated on the names and I'll leave it at that. "We have had one more case this morning, one more player and there are a couple of staff. "Other than that, the others that we left behind are recovering well but not available for tomorrow (Tuesday)." Blackburn would have required special dispensation DISPENSATION. A relaxation of law for the benefit or advantage of an individual. In the United States, no power exists, except in the legislature, to dispense with law, and then it is not so much a dispensation as a change of the law. from the Football League to postpone the tie against Peterborough but they insisted Monday they had no qualms about going ahead with the game. Rovers club secretary Andrew Pincher said: "There has been speculation in the national media following confirmation of sickness within the camp, but we can reassure all supporters that the tie will go ahead as planned." Last weekend's French League match between Marseille Marseille or Marseilles City (pop., 1999: city, 797,486; metro. area, 1,349,772), southeastern France. One of the Mediterranean's major seaports and the second largest city in France, it is located on the Gulf of Lion, west of the French Riviera. and Paris Saint-Germain was postponed after three players from the capital club contracted swine flu. 
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