Other homegrown goalscorers heroes?

[kursaal]

Trying to think of other homegrown goalscoring heroes for top flight teams,

Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler spring to mind.

Academy produced scorers who scored for fun.

 

[Marty]

Man United have had a few way back when. Bobby Charlton of course scored around 250 goals for them.

But it is a rarity. I tried to look up a few names now but all the ones I checked started their careers at a different club from the one you associate them with.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Such players used to be rife, here's a few who played their most games and scored their most goals for the teams they began with. Back then in the late 70's early 80's, those teams were who they were mostly associated with, today, with the passing of time, managerial careers, those same names maybe not so much* but what interested me is that a lot more teams 'grew' their own, maybe not to the levels of a Harry Kane but to at least the sort of numbers that'd have them linked to moves elsewhere every week in today's market

*Trevor Francis didn't play that many times for Forest but scored the winner in a European Cup Final so maybe he's better known for that to the whippersnappers, or even for being a manager/pundit

Trevor Francis started at Birmingham
Geoff Hurst at West Ham
Tony Cottee at West Ham
Gary Lineker at Leicester
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge at Bayern Munich (thrown in for a laugh)

But look at modern football and as has been said................

Anyway, at the very least this is a nice little stroll down memory lane for the old farts on SC

 

[TheChosenOne]

Such players used to be rife, here's a few who played their most games and scored their most goals for the teams they began with. Back then in the late 70's early 80's, those teams were who they were mostly associated with, today, with the passing of time, managerial careers, those same names maybe not so much* but what interested me is that a lot more teams 'grew' their own, maybe not to the levels of a Harry Kane but to at least the sort of numbers that'd have them linked to moves elsewhere every week in today's market

*Trevor Francis didn't play that many times for Forest but scored the winner in a European Cup Final so maybe he's better known for that to the whippersnappers, or even for being a manager/pundit

Trevor Francis started at Birmingham
Geoff Hurst at West Ham
Tony Cottee at West Ham
Gary Lineker at Leicester
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge at Bayern Munich (thrown in for a laugh)

But look at modern football and as has been said................

Anyway, at the very least this is a nice little stroll down memory lane for the old farts on SC

“Befnal” boy Mark Falco, scored quite a few but was often in the shadow of a pair of our strikers in the early 80’s whose names escape me

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

“Befnal” boy Mark Falco, scored quite a few but was often in the shadow of a pair of our strikers in the early 80’s whose names escape me

haha, he was decent, I had a lot of time for him
Luther Blissett at Watford is another, there's loads from that period of time

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

“Befnal” boy Mark Falco, scored quite a few but was often in the shadow of a pair of our strikers in the early 80’s whose names escape me

Come to think of it, didn't he score a winner (on the turn) against Bayern Munich to help knock them out of Europe?

I remember losing 1-0 out there and one of their players, might have been their captain, Paul Breitner, said something along the lines of 'job done', the arrogant fucks got shown the way home at the Lane that night.

 

[kursaal]

Such players used to be rife, here's a few who played their most games and scored their most goals for the teams they began with. Back then in the late 70's early 80's, those teams were who they were mostly associated with, today, with the passing of time, managerial careers, those same names maybe not so much* but what interested me is that a lot more teams 'grew' their own, maybe not to the levels of a Harry Kane but to at least the sort of numbers that'd have them linked to moves elsewhere every week in today's market

*Trevor Francis didn't play that many times for Forest but scored the winner in a European Cup Final so maybe he's better known for that to the whippersnappers, or even for being a manager/pundit

Trevor Francis started at Birmingham
Geoff Hurst at West Ham
Tony Cottee at West Ham
Gary Lineker at Leicester
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge at Bayern Munich (thrown in for a laugh)

But look at modern football and as has been said................

Anyway, at the very least this is a nice little stroll down memory lane for the old farts on SC

Going back even further, local Lad Jackie Milburn scored 177 times for Newcastle during his 14 years at St James' Park.

 

[UncleBuck]

Only other one I can think of is Luther Blissett at Watford, started in their academy, then first team, went to AC then back to Watford after a season in Italy.

 

[Dazza71]

Rashford has 123 goals for Man Utd and at 25 should score over 200 by the end of his time there.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Stanley Matthews with Stoke? Not a striker but was the original football megastar.

 

[aliyid]

Lesser known guy from Spanish league called Messi joined Barca youth team at 13

 

[Gassin's finest]

Lesser known guy from Spanish league called Messi joined Barca youth team at 13

He wasn't from Barcelona tho. The thread is about local boys done good, I assume.

 

[Nine while nine]

The closest we have to Kane, I guess, is Les Bennett.

Born in Wood Green, he joined Spurs as a junior, but then didn't make his debut for seven years because of the War.

Went on to score 117 goals in 294 appearances, which put him 3rd on our all time list when he moved on, and 13th in our all time list now.

He helped lead us to the second division title in 1949-50 and league title in 1950-51.

As Julian Holland writes in his classic book 'Spurs'...

Bennett's is essentially a football of improvisation. Few inside forwards today can so throw a whole defence out of countenance with a single turn. Bennett is a player not to beat a single half-back but a whole team.

Sounds like he'd have been well worth watching...

 

[ljinko888]

Brian Clough born in Middlesbrough. Scored 204 goals in 222 games for Middlesbrough. Got his only two England caps for them despite never playing in the First Division.

 

[LSUY]

Does Teddy Sheringham count? Millwall apprentice who went on to score 93 goals for them. He's from the same city as Millwall but London tends to get broken up in a way other British cities don't. Does a North East Londoner playing for a South East London club count as a local lad?

 

[kursaal]

Does Teddy Sheringham count? Millwall apprentice who went on to score 93 goals for them. He's from the same city as Millwall but London tends to get broken up in a way other British cities don't. Does a North East Londoner playing for a South East London club count as a local lad?

Yes I'd say Teddy counts.

 

[kursaal]

Glasgow born Kenny Dalglish in his 8 years at Celtic scored over a 100 times.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Does Shearer at Newcastle count, despite his professional career starting in Southampton? Otherwise he's as Geordie as you get.

 

[Trix]

Roy Race 501 apps 436 goals.

 

[kursaal]

Does Shearer t Newcastle count, despite his professional career starting in Southampton? Otherwise he's as Geordie as you get.

Yes he can be included.