ROVERS' all-time leading League goalscorer Simon Garner has finally hung up his prolific boots -- from competitive football at least.
Garner, who scored 168 League goals for Blackburn between 1978-92, was still knocking them in last season for Ryman League Third Division outfit Flackwell Heath.
But at the age of 40, the former Ewood favourite, who scored 192 goals in total for Rovers before joining West Brom and then Wycombe Wanderers, won't be starting the new season with the High Wycombe club.
"I was still scoring goals but it got to the stage the morning after when I was far too stiff," said Garner, who's now making his living as a painter and decorator.
However, it isn't quite the end of the road for the man who found the back of the net more than 200 times in his professional career and helped Rovers win the Full Members Cup in 1987 and promotion to the Premiership in his last season at the club.
"I'll still play in charity matches and who knows, I might do a Frank Sinatra and make a comeback," he added.
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