indeedido
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We have a class list of top scorers. I just look at League here.Absolutely no chance of that then. Was that top flight?
What is say, the top 5 or 10 LEAGUE goalscorers? Do you know? I've had a look online but dont trust many stat websites as they seem to have different stats.
1. George Camsell 325 in 418 league matches across the 14 seasons up until WW2. 233 of his goals were in the top flight.18 goals in 9 matches for England too and only 5 foot 6 tall! Durham lad.
2. George Elliott 203 in 344 league matches 1909-25. He would have bagged another 100 plus if not for WW1 and may even have troubled Camsell. Another striker only 5 foot 9 and all but a handful of appearances in the top flight. Would definitely have got more top flight goals than Camsell. A Sunderland/County Durham lad.
3. Brian Clough 197 in 213 league matches, in basically 5 seasons, all second tier. Our most prolific scorer in terms of goals per game by a mile. 5 foot 10 inch Yorkshire lad from Boro.
4. John Hickton 159 in 415 league matches. 38 goals in the top flight - when older, less prolific. Derbyshire lad. 6 foot.
5. Micky Fenton 147 from 240 league matches all in the top flight mainly from 1935 to just after the war. His career even more stunted than Elliott by war and WW2. Arguably robbed of 150 more by that war and a possible Boro title. Picked up exactly where Camsell finished.
6. Alan Peacock 125 from 218 league matches all in second tier across 7 seasons, playing alongside Clough in his 5 seasons. Unbelievable pairing. England international while at Boro, made his debut in 62 World Cup, scoring. Another Yorkshire lad from Boro. Imagine having two Boro born strikers playing in the same team and scoring 60 a season between them and still not going up!
7. Bernie Slaven 118 from 307 league matches across 8 seasons from 1986. 19 in 55 top tier appearances. 5 goot 10 Paisley lad. 6th top scorer overall with 146 including Cups.
So that is 7 over 100 league goals.
It's clear we have always had a prolific scorer at some point in every decade until this century.
Incredibly 5 of those 7 heroes were from within 30 miles of Middlesbrough.