It’s almost nine years since former Premier League champions Blackburn Rovers dropped out of the top flight, and in that time they’ve never really got close to getting back.
But as the 2020-21 season got underway, aided by the loan arrival of Liverpool starlet Harvey Elliott, there was a sense of hope at Ewood Park that the wait to return could be over.
Having followed the likes of Leeds United, Leicester City and Southampton by dropping to League One, Blackburn avoided what Leeds and now Sunderland have suffered by languishing down in the third tier in successive seasons, decisively coming straight back up at the first time of asking with an imperious 96-point haul in 2017-18.
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