There's Only One Simon Garner
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Simon Garner is football's archetypal cult hero. A drinker and a heavy smoker with a reputation for preferring a bacon butty and a lie-in to training, he liked nothing better than to talk football with Blackburn Rovers fans over a pint (apart from sometimes winding up Burnley fans). On the pitch, he was a gifted striker who became Rovers' all-time top goalscorer, playing under legendary managers Howard Kendall, Jim Smith and Kenny Dalglish. Simon went on to play for Ossie Ardiles at West Bromwich Albion and Martin O'Neill at Wycombe Wanderers, where he also became a popular figure among the fans. This new edition details how Simon managed to wangle a second testimonial and includes a handful of anecdotes that have not appeared in print before.
Simon now lives in Berkshire but still has a column in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, covers Blackburn matches for BBC Radio Lancashire and sometimes covers First and Second Division matches for Sky Sports.Simon's ghostwriter, Richard Slater, worked for seven years at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and has done freelance work for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday. He now owns Slater PR. He lives in Blackburn.