Chopper

Last updated : 17 September 2009 By Les Roberts

I struggle to tell the two apart sometimes as, judging by some of the challenges he puts in, Lucas Neill also likes a bit of torture!

Nevertheless, the 31-year-old former Blackburn and West Ham man is, apparently, at Finch Farm undergoing a medical as the Blues try to get in some cover for the injured Phil Neville.

Neill is currently without a club after rejecting a one-year extension to his deal with West Ham in the summer and so we'd be able to sign him, for nothing, even though the transfer window is closed.

Neill started his career at Millwall before moving to Blackburn for a fee of around £1 million in the summer of 2001.

He left Ewood Park, under a cloud so it seems, in 2006 and, despite interest from the shite, decided upon a move to Upton Park, costing the Hammers £1.5 million.

So, if we do sign him, he could be in the squad to face his former club, Blackburn Rovers, and will probably have to 'run a gauntlet of hate' - whatever one of them is - from the 16 or so travelling fans!