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BIG BEN CLEARED TO PLAY

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The LeaguePaper Team
12 September 2021

INFLUENTIAL: Blackburn’s Ben Brereton has started the season well
PICTURE: Alamy

BLACKBURN Rovers received a boost ahead of yesterday’s game against Luton with the news striker Ben Brereton Diaz would be available for selection after all.
It had appeared as though the Chile international, 22, would have to sit out the home game – and Tuesday’s match against Hull – due to a five-day FIFA sanction.
Players travelling to red list countries in the international break would have had to miss games on their return because of the ten-day isolation period re...

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