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'Ridiculous' Premier League hero smoked 80 fags a day but was 'f***ing brilliant'

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READ MORE: Ex-Prem ref admits officials may subconsciously favour players they like with decisionsTugay spent eight years at Blackburn Rovers between 2001 and 2009 after joining from Rangers.Manager Graeme Souness paid £1.3m for the Turkish international after working with him at Galatasaray.

An elegant player with an eye for a pass, he'd won the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Cup with Rangers then helped Blackburn to a League Cup victory at the end of his first season with the club, in 2002.Craig Hignett, who played for Rovers between 2000 and 2003, was gobsmacked by his ability - despite his unhealthy habit.He told the Undr The Cosh podcast: "He was silly.

If you look at Tugay, right, he smokes like a trooper - at half-time, he’d smoke - he's not fast, couldn’t run long distance, couldn’t head it - there were a lot of things he couldn’t do.

But he was f***ing brilliant. "It was ridiculous how good he was. His passing, never seen anything like it. His vision, his awareness of people around him, the way he manipulates the ball. "He was just…I mean, he could be looking over there and you’d make a run and he’d find you with a mad backheel or a little reverse pass.

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