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CHARLIE BUCHAN: ST
Charlie Buchan is the Red and White Army`s second greatest goal scorer with 209 goals in 379 league appearances, giving him an average of a goal every 1.8 games. Signed in 1911, Buchan`s arrival was glamorously acknowledged through his picture featuring on a cigarette box! The 6-foot 1 attacker will mostly be remembered for winning the First Division title with the lads
in 1913, and also for reaching the 1913 FA Cup final against Aston Villa, which we lost 1-0 thanks to a goal by Tommy Barber. More success would follow for the Londoner, as for seven of his nine seasons with Sunderland, he would be our leading scorer.
BOBBY GURNEY: ST
After being spotted by Charlie Buchan in 1925 playing for, in those days, highly sought non- league team Bishop Auckland, Bobby Gurney signed for Sunderland. But Gurney would
only make his debut a year later against West Ham, scoring in a 3-2 defeat. Gurney`s best goalscoring season came in the 1930-1931 season, netting 33 goals. Notable statistics include ten hattricks, and also the fact that he remains only one of the few players to net five goals in one game for the Black Cats. The local lad bagged 228 goals in 388 appearances
for us, an average of a goal every 1.7 games, resulting in him being the current all-time record goal scorer, across all competitions, for the club. This was made all the more impressive, seeing that he had to score with 18 pieces of pigskin stitched together...
NICK SHARKEY: ST
Nick Sharkey played 99 times for the lads, scoring 51 times between 1960 and 1966, an average of a goal every 1.8 games. Sharkey
was a product of the famous Sunderland youth system, which had produced some fantastic talents through the 1950s and was key in forming Alan Brown’s squad during his tenure. Sharkey became pro in 1960 after being at the club for two years as a trainee and would be debuted
So, a forward line to destroy any team, with ample goal scoring back up from midfield, defence and even keeper!
by Brown at the age of just 16. He wouldn’t break into the first team until late 1962 though as he’d previously been an understudy for Don Kichenbrand, Ian Lawther and of course, and probably most notably, Brian Clough. In March 1963, Sharkey netted 5 goals for Sunderland in one game, a 7-1 demolition of Norwich, a feat shared with his fellow front men Charlie Buchan and Bobby Gurney.
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