Over the past 130 years Burnley Football Club have had some sensational goalscorers, including in the 1890s Billy Bowes and Jimmy Ross. Richard Smith, a small and wiry centre-forward became the Club’s record goalscorer with 24 League goals from the 1907-08 football season. It was goalscoring phenomenon, Bert Freeman, who broke that record in the 1911-12 season with 32 goals. Then two seasons later he scored the winning goal against Liverpool in the 1914 Cup Final. In the early 1920s, Burnley had the likes of Bob Kelly and Joe Anderson before record goalscorer George Beel joined the Club in 1923. Beel broke many records at Burnley, including 11 hat-tricks and becoming top League goalscorer six times. He also scored a total of 188 goals from 337 senior appearances. His 35 League goals from the 1927-28 season still remains a goalscoring record for Burnley.Louis Page was also a prolific winger and will be remembered for the six goals he scored at Birmingham in April 1926. After World War II, it was Harry Potts who became top League goalscorer on three occasions, followed by Jimmy McIlroy in the late 1950s who scored 131 goals from 497 senior appearances. The forward line up from the 1960 League Championship winning side contained three natural goalscorers: John Connelly, Ray Pointer and Jimmy Robson who in the 1960-61 season scored a record 37 goals from four of the Club’s competitions. Willie Irvine equalled Jimmy Robson’s scoring record five seasons later. Andy Lochhead was the first Burnley player to score five goals twice whilst becoming leading League goalscorer on three occasions. Frank Casper also shared this honour a few seasons later. In the 1980s during a period when the Club were playing at a lower level, Irish international Billy Hamilton became top League goal scorer four times. Local born Andy Payton became the Club’s golden boy in the 1999-00 promotion season, when he scored a total of 27 League goals as well as becoming top League goalscorer on three occasions. Throughout the 2000s Burnley had Robbie Blake, Jay Rodriguez and Charlie Austin who scored a total of 28 goals from the 2012-13 season. This was followed by Danny Ings, Sam Vokes and Andre Gray from the 2015-16 promotion winning season, with 23 goals.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mike Prosser, plumber, heating engineer, author and football statistician from Essex, has supported Burnley Football Club since 1959. This publication is his third, following his last book ‘Burnley’s Goalkeepers Through the Ages’, and details 92 goal scoring legends throughout the Club’s proud history. This new book details their past, their time at the Club and their careers after the Club.
Publisher : Independently published
Publication date : 21 Oct. 2019
Language : English
Print length : 296 pages
ISBN-10 : 1698973799
ISBN-13 : 978-1698973791
Item weight : 549 g
Dimensions : 15.57 x 1.7 x 24.13 cm
