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This game boasts the record of total number of goals scored in one half of Premier League football (nine), and by one team in one half of Premier League football (eight, by Tottenham). The highest scoring game is Portsmouth's 7–4 win against Reading at Fratton Park on 29 September 2007. [1]
Most career top-flight goals: 357, Jimmy Greaves (516 matches, for Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United, 1957 to 1971) Most consecutive top flight league matches scored in: 15 Stan Mortensen for Blackpool 1950–51 [ 53] Most league goals in a season: 60, Dixie Dean (39 matches, for Everton, 1927 to 1928)
The motif of the England national football team has three lions passant guardant, the emblem of King Richard I, who reigned from 1189 to 1199. [106] In 1872, English players wore white jerseys emblazoned with the three lions crest of the Football Association. [107] The lions, often blue, have had minor changes to colour and appearance. [108]
First player to score a hat-trick Digger Brown or Howard Vaughton, 18 February 1882, 13–0 vs. Ireland [note 67] Oldest player to score a hat-trick Gary Lineker, 30 years, 194 days, 12 June 1991, 4–2 vs. Malaysia Youngest player to score a hat-trick Theo Walcott, 19 years, 178 days, 10 September 2008, 4–1 vs. Croatia
Top 50 all-time top scorers. All time record goal scorer Jimmy Greaves who scored 357 goals in 516 matches. He is the record holder of top scorer awards with six and record league goalscorer for Tottenham Hotspur still, with 220. The Football League Division One from 1888 through to the end of the 1991–92 season and now the Premier League ...
Football is the most popular sport in England, [ 2] where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game. With over 40,000 association football clubs, England has more clubs involved in the code than any other country.
The English football champions are the winners of the top level league in English men's football, which since the 1992–93 season has been called the Premier League. Following the codification of professional football by the Football Association in 1885, [ 1 ] the Football League was established in 1888, after meetings initiated by Aston Villa ...
The following is a list of footballers who have scored at least 200 domestic league goals in English league football. This includes the appearances and goals of former players in the Premier League and The Football League . Players who came up just short of the 200 mark include Clive Allen, Chris Chilton, Peter Doherty, Gary Lineker, Jack Smith ...