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What REALLY happened to Ali Dia? FFT on the trail of the Premier League's worst player

What the hell happened to the Prem’s worst ever player? 20 years on from that 53-minute horror show, FFT hits the trail of football’s most unlikely cult hero...

On a bright, cold February morning, FourFourTwo pulls into the housing development that sits squarely on the site of Southampton’s former home, The Dell. There’s no-one around as we park in a space facing what used to be the Archers End of the famous old ground.

The four ‘Courts’ of the new development are named after the club’s most popular figures. At one end sits Rod Wallace alongside Mick Channon; in the other, Ted Bates next to Matthew Le Tissier.