It all stems from Championship Manager 00/01 in which Samba could be picked up for peanuts at the beginning of the game. He would grow into a fearsome striker and now his name rolls off the tongue ...

Samba’s story is full of these head-spinning moments. He was outrageously good as a schoolboy, scoring 132 goals in 32 games in his early teens. A skilful striker who liked to drop deep to ...