Blackburn Rovers' Premiership memories were laid to rest in a bizarre ceremony at Bamber Bridge.
Hundreds watched as the blue and white coffin, dedicated to the club's time in the Premiership, was paraded through town and buried in style outside the Trades Hall, Station Road.
The ritual was the climax of a week-long ceremony, during which mourning fans were invited to pay their last respects as the coffin lay in state, covered in white lilies, at the Top House pub.
On Saturday, it was paraded through the town at the head of a procession of floats, surrounded by dozens of unofficial nuns, priests and bishops, before the burial service.
The coffin will not be seen again until Blackburn Rovers is either relegated to the Second Division or promoted to the Premiership.
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