Which footballers have ended scoring droughts with a goal off their backside? | The Knowledge
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34-second readPlus: two political leaders at the same club game, a very long-term suspension and extremely quick equalisers Mail us with all of your questions and answers “Oli McBurnie is back in the Scotland squad,” noted John Cant last week.
“With his record of 16 appearances [now 20] and zero goals, he said in a recent interview, ‘a tap-in on Saturday or one that goes in off my backside would be lovely’.
The backside comes up often when players talk of breaking a goal drought – but has it ever actually happened?” We dreamed of a perfect answer to this question: a usually prolific striker enduring a barren run that ends when an errant clearance ricochets off their derriere and dribbles over the line at 0.00001mph.
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Plus: two political leaders at the same club game, a very long-term suspension and extremely quick equalisers Mail us with all of your questions and answers “Oli McBurnie is back in the Scotland squad,” noted John Cant last week. “With
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