Darren Huckerby
For a while no summer would have been complete without a rumour linking Darren Huckerby to our club.
Fans were divided on whether they thought he was a mediocre player or just a really bad one; few wanted to see him in the Hoops.
Yet for reasons passing understanding this was one of those tales that purely and simply wouldn’t go away.
He played for a number of English clubs both before and after those summers of fun, with six clubs in seven years purchasing him and us linked with him at nearly every juncture. When he went to Leeds for £6 million that was the only time when he might have been said to be outside of our reach financially, and even then there was talk about it.
By the team he reached Norwich, where he spent five years, we were being linked with him in every single summer window.
It got ridiculous.
No transfer period was complete without his name coming up at least once. It was almost as if he and his people were determined to keep this one circulating. Maybe he was using us to get good deals from other clubs. Maybe he actually fancied a move here and was advertising his interest.
Maybe it was just typical Scottish lazy journalism.
But this was a story that went on and on and just wouldn’t go away.
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