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A Turkish delight

When Graeme Souness signed the then grossly under-appreciated Tugay Kerimoglu from Glasgow Rangers in 2001, the Scot said that he was the player he hoped he himself could have been.

Souness wasn’t always a good judge of a player, he did sign Ali Dia and once thought that Paul Stewart was an adequate replacement for Peter Beardsley, but, for spending the best £1 million Blackburn Rovers have ever spent, his team's supporters and adherents of the beautiful game are eternally grateful.

After eight years of Turkish Delight at Ewood Park, time has finally caught up with Tugay, who at 38, is the Premier League’s oldest outfield player. Sam Allardyce, the man who had the unenviable task of calling to a halt what has come to resemble an extended swansong.

Tugay, who enters his 40th year in August, will almost certainly hang up his boots after Sunday's match against West Bromwich Albion.

A range of passing from five yards to 50, Tugay has been called a pass-master, his team's midfield maestro. Put more simply, he is the greatest midfielder to ever wear the blue and white halves.

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A terrible twosome

18 April 2009

Aaron Mokoena and Keith Andrews are starting matches in tandem on a worryingly regular basis! It is no coincidence that Rovers, who last season had European aspirations, are now battling relegation.

The man for every occasion

09 April 2009

Is there another more versatile player in The Premier League than Michael Essien? I found myself asking that and other questions after Chelsea’s bludgeoning of Liverpool at Anfield on Wednesday.

Paul lynched!

15 December 2008

Paul Ince should have been sacked 12 minutes into his team's abject defeat at Wigan on Saturday.

Tony Pulis the apologist

29 November 2008

If Stoke City possessed a Latin-laced insignia it would probably translate as ‘by hook or by crook.’

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Arsenal
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Aston Villa
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Birmingham
0
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Blackburn
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Bolton
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Burnley
0
0
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0
0
0
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Chelsea
0
0
0
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0
0
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Everton
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Fulham
0
0
0
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0
0
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Hull
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Liverpool
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Man City
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Man Utd
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Portsmouth
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Stoke
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Sunderland
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0
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Tottenham
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0
0
0
0
0
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West Ham
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Wigan
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Wolverhampton
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