Roger Hunt, in recent years, had a favourite chair in his living room

公開日:2021/10/14 / 最終更新日:2021/10/14

Roger Hunt, in recent years, had a favourite chair in his living room.

He would spend most weekends perched on it, studying and marvelling at the Premier League’s sharpest shooters.

He adored Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, two men who do what all great strikers must do and plunder goals on a regular basis.

Hunt was enthused by the guile of ‘s and the cunning of , the Leicester totem.

Roger Hunt, who has died at the age of 83, was the original master of goalscoring – and remains Liverpool’s all-time record league scorer – but he marvelled at modern strikers too

Hunt had a rocket shot and is seen scoring for Liverpool against Inter Milan in May 1965

In his later years, Hunt would watch Liverpool and marvel at Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane

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‘He loves them all,’ his wife, Rowan, told the Liverpool Echo in December 2019. ‘Goalscorers… it’s his heaven.’

It was heaven because he was a master of the craft.

He marvelled at the current generation because it took him back to the time when he was doing it so successfully, he conquered the world with England in 1966.

Though it is more than 50 years since Hunt last played for Liverpool, an idea of the role he plays in this club’s history is the fact he set the standards – in so many ways – to which every other striker who has followed has had to aspire.

Jurgen Klopp, the current manager, was so in awe, he wrote to Hunt – whom The Kop dubbed ‘Sir Roger’ – on his 80th birthday to express his admiration for https://tranhmaihuong.com/tranh-go-cuu-hac-du-xuan-duc-dep/ all he achieved.

Nobody has managed to eclipse Hunt’s tally of 244 league goals for the club, only Ian Rush has bettered his all-time haul of 285 in 492 appearances.

Harry Kane (left) and Jamie Vardy (right) were two more modern strikers Hunt admired

Hunt scored 18 goals in 34 outings for England, including this one against Northern Ireland in a European Championship qualifier at Windsor Park in October 1966.

England won 2-0

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