Difficult to say how much we develop forwards or they just occur. Very few top top strikers have been produced in England in recent years. Luck has much to do with it. Gykores looks like he’s going to be big - we just took a poor decision on him. Maybe Ferguson will come good again - he’s only a...
Ferguson isn’t likely to skip over a defender’s thigh on the half way line and zoom off to score, nor was Ward ever going to bully a centre back.
Different Gravy.
I can see why, but Shearer was just extraordinary. I remember seeing him play for Southampton against our youth team after he had already scored a hat trick for their first team, he was just sensational and ran the game scoring at least three. Shearer was eased into their first team over a...