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WEEDING OUT THE FLOWERS MYTH

JIMMY PIERCE says one of the heroes of Blackburn’s title triumph is remembered for all the wrong reasons

Flowers in a tasteful kit for Rovers

Cfootballers stir the same emotions in others as they do in me, I regularly ask friends for the first thing that comes into their head when I mention various obscure 1990s footballers. It’s one of my favourite pastimes.
URIOUS as to whether certain former
The beauty of the question is that it asks its recipients, often without realising, to summarise a footballer’s legacy in a single word or short anecdote. That the response h...

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