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Hello there.

I'm writing an article about Paul Warhurst (it's a kind of Where Are They Now? thing) and I want to get fans' memories about him as a player. Any memories/stories you have - good or bad - please post them here. Doesn't even have to be a story/memory as such, could just be your general view on his time at Blackburn. Especially good would be any personal memories you have of meeting him/seeing him around - stuff like that.

I'd want to use some of the your quotes for the article, which will appear on the Yahoo Football website next week. So if you don't want your comments to be used then let me know, and they won't be.

I should point out I'm not a Rovers fan, I'm actually a Hammer. Feel free to abuse me for this!

Cheers,
Kevin

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K-Hod World Cup

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He lobbed Peter Schmeichel the year we won the league, other than that I can only really recall him being injured a lot, and my Dad telling me he was a 'utility player' and it confusing me!

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Great player. One of the few I've seen play that could play in any position and look like a natural. Centre half, centre forward, central midfield he was completely at ease where ever he played. He had pace, two good feet, decent heading and tackling ability, good control and passing skills. Rovers played in him in midfield and he was looking a perfect fit there when he broke his leg. Just one of the long list of serious injuries we had to surmount at that time. It was a tragedy for the player and the club that he never properly recovered from that leg break.

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Before injuries he was a class player. Utility Player didn't do him justice. He had good feet and could literally play any where on the field, but did his best work up the field.

A very good player, but as Khod said he got injury prone.

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I'm with Tyrone. He would have been an England regular without his injuries. Pace, vision, and could score. He was just getting into his stride when he broke his leg. Then Rovers bought Batty to replace him, who was brilliant. He came back and broke it again during the 1994/95 league winning season. It was curtains after that.

Did he score a hat trick for Wednesday that night? He ran Rovers back line ragged.

He was a very smooth player. I wouldn't know who to compare him to. There is nobody around today like him. The closest I can think of would be Roy Keane without the aggressiveness, but with more pace.

He always wore Puma King's and long sock tie up's.

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I recall him and David Batty deliberately hitting balls into a brass band who were playing in front of the Blackburn End during the pre-match warm up. I think this was in the season after we won the league. Childish in the extreme.

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Didn't get the best of him I felt. Could have been a far more successful player had he not been so injury prone.

I had a look on You Tube and there's very few clips of his Rovers goals. Majority are from his Sheff Weds days. But I do recall some crackers.

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Always remember thinking he was a cracking player at Sheff Weds so was delighted when we signed him. Very good footballer but I wasn't sure were KD was going to fit him in. He plonked him in midfield and he didn't disappoint, shame the injury struck him down just when he was finding his feet as I've no doubt he'd have had a good career with us.

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I had a look on You Tube and there's very few clips of his Rovers goals. Majority are from his Sheff Weds days. But I do recall some crackers.

Think he only scored 3 or 4 for us.

I do remember the euphoria when he signed for us. Loads of Warhurst shirts around Ewood for us to only see him what felt like a handful of times.

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Wednesday had Warhurst and David Hirst in their team - both were brilliant players and both were very prone to injury. Neither reached their potential unfortunately.

It may have been a battle between Shearer and Hirst for an England jersey at times if he hadn't suffered his injuries. Another cracking centre forward was Hirst.

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I remember comparing him with Marc Atkins in a conversation with another fan at Ewood, It could have been in our Premier League winning season,when we beat Liverpool3-2 at home in front of a crowd of 30,263-the biggest for close on 3 decades. Most fans liked Warhurst because he could literally play any position right-back to outside-left,very unusual. Played in this game in midfield deputising for the suspended Tim Sherwood. Team: 1. Tim Flowers:20.Henning Berg,2.Tony Gale,5.Colin Hendry.6.Graeme le Saux: 7.Stuart Ripley.22.Mark Atkins.24.Paul Warhurst.11.Jason Wilcox. :9.Alan Shearer.16.Chris Sutton. Goals from Atkins,Sutton(2).

The numbers represent the club squad numbers for the season.

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Thanks to Sheridan and waddle he helped the Owls destroy rovers at ewood in 1993 as a make shift striker in the league cup semi. I was gutted when we sold him to rovers as he had just broken into the England squad as a striker. He was rapid

That was a barnstorming performance by Weds that night, aided somewhat by Dalglish throwing in his two new foreign signings straight in at the deep end in Rovers defence :blink:

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I remember comparing him with Marc Atkins in a conversation with another fan at Ewood, It could have been in our Premier League winning season,when we beat Liverpool3-2 at home in front of a crowd of 30,263-the biggest for close on 3 decades. Most fans liked Warhurst because he could literally play any position right-back to outside-left,very unusual. Played in this game in midfield deputising for the suspended Tim Sherwood. Team: 1. Tim Flowers:20.Henning Berg,2.Tony Gale,5.Colin Hendry.6.Graeme le Saux: 7.Stuart Ripley.22.Mark Atkins.24.Paul Warhurst.11.Jason Wilcox. :9.Alan Shearer.16.Chris Sutton. Goals from Atkins,Sutton(2).

The numbers represent the club squad numbers for the season.

That was a hell of a period at Ewood with Liverpool and United back to back (and Newcastle away before that)

Still remember the United and Arsenal consecutive home games in 98 with bloody Fettis in goal.

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Warhurst and Shearer are the only two players I considered a cut above the rest at Ewood in ability.

He had real class. His back was so straight he looked like he had a piece of square hardboard rammed down between his shirt and his back.

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