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    moh wrote:
    Lancs - pensioner wrote:
    RTID wrote:
    A Darener wrote:
    eloggy wrote: lets hope its not to bad we need a good start to the season
    No we need Kean out for a good start to the season.
    This is getting tiresome now. Kean is here for a few games at the start of the season at least. If we have a shocking start he has nowhere to hide this time and no more excuses. If we start the season with a similar team that went out today, it actually looks reasonably strong. Again, leaving Kean with no excuses if we are near the bottom after 5 or 6 games. Seems as if Nuno Gomes has settled in well and might bring a bit of class to our attack. Ribeiro might actually play a few games this season too. Murphy will control the pace and ask for the ball off the defence, something which was missing last season. To ape Kean, I'm seeing positives.
    God RITD your easley pleased, 18 months of sh-te a Relegation and all our best players sold, then we get a win against a two bit Greek side that gets in Europe every other season because there is no other teams of any sort over there and your seeing positives, go and by a season ticket then and watch another full season of crap football, but until that cretin goes I will stay at home thank you.
    Calm down mate, they wont force you to go to Ewood and others have a right to buy season tickets if they want to.
    Fair comment Moh, I just get so angry with this plonker in charge liying to us all the time and seeing our club being ransacked by everyone."
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FULL TIME: Blackburn Rovers 2 AEK Athens 1

2:54pm Sunday 29th July 2012 in Blackburn Rovers & Premier League Table & Results Photograph of the Author By Andy Cryer , Blackburn Rovers reporter

LEON Best was stretchered off for Blackburn Rovers in this afternoon's pre-season friendly as they beat AEK Athens 2-1 at Fleetwood.

Rovers' £3million summer signing went down holding his knee on 40 minutes and, after a five minute delay, was carried off the field.

He will undergo scans tomorrow as Rovers hope their £3million summer signing is not facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines. The early signs are understood to be promising.

Rovers led 2-0 at the break from a Nuno Gomes header and a brilliant Best curling strike with little happening after the break as Athens got back in the game.

Rovers struck the first blow on just six minutes as Nunes Gomes rose well at the far post to head home Marcus Olsson's left wing cross.

Leon Best had a goal ruled out for offside minutes later, after Gael Givet had headed against the bar, with Rovers dominating a tired looking Athens side.

The lead was doubled just before the half hour mark through a brilliant strike from Best. The striker latched on to a raking through ball from Murphy, to cut inside and bend a shot into the corner.

The positivity from the first half drained out of hosts on 40 minutes though as Leon Best was stretchered off with a serious looking knee injury.

A much-changed Rovers struggled to get going after the break and AEK Athens pulled a goal back through Nikolaos Kourelas, who got in behind Adam Henley, with 13 minutes remaining.

ROVERS: Paul Robinson (Jake Kean 46), Bradley Orr (Edinho 74), Josh Morris, Grant Hanley, Gael Givet (Scott Dann 46), Bruno Ribeiro, Danny Murphy (Jason Lowe 46), Paulo Jorge, Marcus Olsson (Fabio Nunes 74), Leon Best (Mauro Formica 40), Nuno Gomes (David Dunn 46) SUBS: David Goodwillie, Radosav Petrovic, Adam Henley, Ruben Rochina, Jason Lowe,

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