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Article: Football: Garner's stirring story of the rapport artist Blackburn are not alone in paying homage to an enduring symbol of the past
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 24, 2002
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Every League club has a folk hero; a player who becomes at first a
favourite with the fans and then something more: a legend, a totem, a
symbol of everything supporters believe their club stands for. There
is Tosh Chamberlain at Fulham, Rodney Marsh at Queen's Park Rangers,
Peter Osgood at Chelsea, and at Blackburn Rovers, who visit Charlton
Athletic this afternoon, there is Simon Garner.
Even today, 10 years after he last played for the club, the chant
"There's Only One Simon Garner" still regularly echoes round Ewood
Park. Quite how a man who never even got a kick in the Premiership
could have become the club's spiritual mascot might seem a bit of a