BLACKBURN Rovers chairman William Fox spelled out a warning to the big city outfits fancying a breakaway Super League, as he prepared to represent the Ewood club at crucial meetings in London.

Mr Fox, going to London with an "open mind," stressed the dangers of a breakaway as well as pledging support for those clubs that were to be left out in the cold, like neighbours Burnley and Preston.

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