Cherno Samba retires after modest career but as a Championship Manager legend | Nick Ames

The former Millwall prodigy was scarcely seen at senior level but statistical quirks in the popular computer game saw him become a cult hero

Depending on whose numbers you believe, he made anything between 50 and 100 appearances in his senior career. His CV includes Millwall, Cidiz, Plymouth, FC Haka, Panetolikos, FK Tonsberg and the Gambian side Samger FC. He won youth caps for one country and four senior caps for another, scoring once. The statistics are, using the measures by which anyone can assess itinerant footballers who prowl the world for work, nothing at all remarkable.

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