Oldest player to score for us (trivia)

[ThatJa]

Just been playing Football Manager 2017 and I've got a player who's beaten the record oldest player to score a goal for me at 40 years 127 days. The previous record was 39 years 172 days.

Can anyone name the record holder for us?

 

[Blade for Sale]

Just been playing Football Manager 2017 and I've got a player who's beaten the record oldest player to score a goal for me at 40 years 127 days. The previous record was 39 years 172 days.

Can anyone name the record holder for us?

McCall?

 

[Dellas Cowboys]

the oldest looking player would have to be Alan Cork

 

[Silent Blade]

Stuart McCall v Preston in November 2003

 

[blade too long]

bill punton was 63 when he scored winner v owls

 

[Silent Blade]

bill punton was 63 when he scored winner v owls

 

[blade too long]

see how incontinent he was , all that toilet roll

 

[Grecian2000]

The "having to join the ball in the net" technique was a serious flaw in Bill's game and resulted in him scoring far fewer goals than he might otherwise.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Just been playing Football Manager 2017 and I've got a player who's beaten the record oldest player to score a goal for me at 40 years 127 days. The previous record was 39 years 172 days.

Can anyone name the record holder for us?

John Burridge?

 

[ThatJa]

Stuart McCall is indeed correct.

 

[gavtheblade]

Stuart McCall is indeed correct.

Gary speed must be close? ???

 

[Top Cat]

I stopped reading at "Just been playing Football Manager 2017"

Got any tactical nuances that Tufty should be aware of? Any players that you signed from Canvey Island who scored 50 goals last season?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Alan Cork was 103 when he scored v pigs at wembley, this is him night before in hotel.

 

[Silent Blade]

Gary speed must be close? ???

Billy Gillespie was 39 when he scored his last competitive goal for the Blades and Jack Pickering was 38 when he scored the winning goal to deny Stoke the league title. Speed's last goal for us was in the 5-2 win at Charlton in November 2008. He was 39 then and I think he was the third oldest behind McCall and Gillespie

 

[mancunianblade]

I stopped reading at "Just been playing Football Manager 2017"

Got any tactical nuances that Tufty should be aware of? Any players that you signed from Canvey Island who scored 50 goals last season?

FM is very advanced scout tool and the club could do a lot worse than using it to scout far off lands (actually being serious) we clearly can no longer afford a vast scouting network so why not

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....g/12/why-clubs-football-manager-scouting-tool

 

[Chali 2na]

I stopped reading at "Just been playing Football Manager 2017"

Why?

 

[coaxingstar71]

Beware of the bump....

Billy scoring yesterday got me wondering where he is on the list of Oldest Player to score for us.
He was 36 years and 308 days yesterday.

According to Silent Blade
1. McCall
2. Gillespie
3. Speed
4. Pickering

I think Jimmy Hagan was 39 years, 92 days when he scored his last goal for United in a 3-0 win against Liverpool on the 13th April 1957. I've just worked out that Speed was 39 years, 75 days when he scored at Charlton so Hagan would be above him.

I think Gillespie was 39 years, 122 days
I think McCall was 39 years, 172 days

Maybe if Billy signs a new 3 year contract, he might beat the record!

 

[programmechap]

Beware of the bump....

Billy scoring yesterday got me wondering where he is on the list of Oldest Player to score for us.
He was 36 years and 308 days yesterday.

According to Silent Blade
1. McCall
2. Gillespie
3. Speed
4. Pickering

I think Jimmy Hagan was 39 years, 92 days when he scored his last goal for United in a 3-0 win against Liverpool on the 13th April 1957. I've just worked out that Speed was 39 years, 75 days when he scored at Charlton so Hagan would be above him.

I think Gillespie was 39 years, 122 days
I think McCall was 39 years, 172 days

Maybe if Billy signs a new 3 year contract, he might beat the record!

The only one I could think of who might be ahead of Billy was Nudger Needham. He scored his last goal on 9 Oct 1909 when he was 36 years 262 days old , so Billy beats him!

 

[programmechap]

The only one I could think of who might be ahead of Billy was Nudger Needham. He scored his last goal on 9 Oct 1909 when he was 36 years 262 days old , so Billy beats him!

Joe Shaw got his last on 28 March 1964 aged 35 years and 277 days, so he's behind too. Thinking of more...

 

[programmechap]

Joe Shaw got his last on 28 March 1964 aged 35 years and 277 days, so he's behind too. Thinking of more...

Peter Withe 36 years 83 days for his last goal on 21 Nov 1987. Still behind...

 

[programmechap]

Peter Withe 36 years 83 days for his last goal on 21 Nov 1987. Still behind...

Found one! Keith Curle. 36 years 298 days when he got his only united goal on 8 Sept 2001.

 

[programmechap]

Sorry, make that 37 years 298 days. In at no 5

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Found one! Keith Curle. 36 years 298 days when he got his only united goal on 8 Sept 2001.

Versus Bradford City in a 2 2 at the Lane. Stuart McCall played for Bradford that day. He got a few rounds of 'Fat Scottish bastard' from the Kop.

 

[S64 Blade]

Beware of the bump....

Billy scoring yesterday got me wondering where he is on the list of Oldest Player to score for us.
He was 36 years and 308 days yesterday.

According to Silent Blade
1. McCall
2. Gillespie
3. Speed
4. Pickering

I think Jimmy Hagan was 39 years, 92 days when he scored his last goal for United in a 3-0 win against Liverpool on the 13th April 1957. I've just worked out that Speed was 39 years, 75 days when he scored at Charlton so Hagan would be above him.

I think Gillespie was 39 years, 122 days
I think McCall was 39 years, 172 days

Maybe if Billy signs a new 3 year contract, he might beat the record!

Ronnie Pickering played for United?

 

[Geordie Blade]

The only one I could think of who might be ahead of Billy was Nudger Needham. He scored his last goal on 9 Oct 1909 when he was 36 years 262 days old , so Billy beats him!

In 1909, life expectancy for a bloke was 55 years. That would make Needham's goal equivalent to a 54 year old today. Fair play to him!

 

[BushBlade]

In 1909, life expectancy for a bloke was 55 years. That would make Needham's goal equivalent to a 54 year old today. Fair play to him!

It’s not. Life expectancy has little bearing on ageing, it’s just a statistical calculation, skewed at that time by a high number of childhood deaths and industrial accidents.

(I’m guessing you know this and you were just joking).

 

[Nade]

In 1909, life expectancy for a bloke was 55 years. That would make Needham's goal equivalent to a 54 year old today. Fair play to him!

That's the kind of thinking we need more of when talking about these kinds of things.

Needham holds the record, then.

 

[El Volví]

I thought it would be Alan Cork seeing as he looked 75 when he played for us!