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Article: Christmas reject; Jeffers back at Charlton as Rangers lose patience.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2005
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Byline: DUNCAN CASTLES
NOBODY wants an unwanted present returned at Christmas. Feel then for Alan Curbishley, who woke up yesterday morning to find a striker-shaped package from Glasgow sitting disconsolately on his doorstep.
Francis Jeffers had been Curbishley's gift to Rangers - an [pounds sterling]8million onetime England international once spoken about in the same breath as those other striking sons of Merseyside, Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney.
Like Rooney, he had been the teenage darling of Goodison Park and then lifted out of Liverpool by one of the Premier League's true title challengers. The pair even made their England debuts together, ...