It’s lazy stat gathering.
So many of the world population brainwashed enough to believe that before the inception of the Premier League, Champions League and football statistics, football didn’t exist.
On yesterday’s MOTD following the Highlights from the Bournemouth game they had a graphic showing the number of seasons players had hit 20+ goals in the premier league era. Shearer was top but had played a lot more seasons than Mo, who wasn’t that far behind.
Lineker then joked if they only had football in his day…
I think its even odder that the BBC joins in with ignoring the pre- premier league eras of football.
Gary’s final season in England was the last of the old first division. Prior to that he scored 20 league goals 6 times in the top division, despite having spent a couple of good years in the second division and 3 years of his prime in Spain.
Jimmy Greaves - 11 times. That includes 1 40 goals season, and another that doesnt include his 9 goals he scored in half a season for Milan before coming back to England at Christmas and scoring 20 goals in half a season
It really is absurd how much his feats are ignored in the present day conversations
Unwanted forward Rashford had a medical at Aston Villa before a loan move to the Midlands club, accepting he was not going to get picked if he stayed at Old Trafford.
The 27-year-old is only two goals off being United’s joint highest scorer this season, even though he has not played since 12 December.
No, I’m sure I saw something yesterday - it may have been Sky Sports News. Although perhaps I got the club wrong then if there are reports about Utd now?