The game is poorer without joyful Dack

Chris DunlavyA FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

IT TAKES a lot to upset the gnarled and phlegmatic figure of Tony Mowbray. The manager of Blackburn Rovers has seen much to engender perspective, within football and without.But as the bleak realisation hit home that Bradley Dack had torn his anterior cruciate ligament for the second time in 15 months during last Friday’s 1-0 defeat to Brentford, the 57-yearold looked close to tears.Dack, the “street footballer” who seemed destined for the Premier League, returned from his first rupture only in December.In his absence, B...

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