{"id":101749,"date":"2021-10-14T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=101749"},"modified":"2021-10-14T05:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:00:33","slug":"roger-hunt-in-recent-years-had-a-favourite-chair-in-his-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=101749","title":{"rendered":"Roger Hunt, in recent years, had a favourite chair in his living room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p>Roger Hunt, in recent years, had a favourite chair in his living room.<\/p>\n<p>He would spend most weekends perched on it, studying and marvelling at the Premier League&#8217;s sharpest shooters.<\/p>\n<p>He adored Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, two men who do what all great  strikers must do and plunder goals on a regular basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hunt was enthused by the guile of &#8216;s  and the cunning of , the Leicester totem.<\/p>\n<p>         Roger Hunt, who has died at the age of 83, was the original master of goalscoring &#8211; and remains Liverpool&#8217;s all-time record league scorer &#8211; but he marvelled at modern strikers too<\/p>\n<p>         Hunt had a rocket shot and is seen scoring for Liverpool against Inter Milan in May 1965<\/p>\n<p>         In his later years, Hunt would watch Liverpool and marvel at Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane<\/p>\n<p>   RELATED ARTICLES                <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Share this article<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>314 shares<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He loves them all,&#8217; his wife, Rowan, told the Liverpool Echo in December 2019. &#8216;Goalscorers\u2026 it&#8217;s his heaven.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> It was heaven because he was a master of the craft.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is more than 50 years since Hunt last played for Liverpool, an idea of the role he plays in this club&#8217;s history is the fact he set the standards &#8211; in so many ways &#8211; to which every other striker who has followed has had to aspire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jurgen Klopp, the current manager, was so in awe, he wrote to Hunt &#8211; whom The Kop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.b2bmarketing.net\/en-gb\/search\/site\/dubbed%20%27Sir\">dubbed &#8216;Sir<\/a> Roger&#8217; &#8211; on his 80th birthday to express his admiration for  <a href=\"https:\/\/tranhmaihuong.com\/tranh-go-cuu-hac-du-xuan-duc-dep\/\">https:\/\/tranhmaihuong.com\/tranh-go-cuu-hac-du-xuan-duc-dep\/<\/a> all he achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernmom.com\/?s=managed\">managed<\/a> to eclipse Hunt&#8217;s tally of 244 league goals for the club, only Ian Rush has bettered his all-time haul of 285 in 492 appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>         Harry Kane (left) and Jamie Vardy (right) were two more modern strikers Hunt admired<\/p>\n<p>         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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>England won 2-0<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div class=&quot;art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS sport&quot; data-version=&quot;2&quot; id=&quot;mol-5aa39e50-2069-11ec-ac97-a7217b60c8a8&quot; website KING: Roger Hunt marvelled at Salah, Mane, Vardy and Kane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Hunt, in recent years, had a favourite chair in his living room. He would spend \u2026","protected":false},"author":31266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101750,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101749\/revisions\/101750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}