Where does Billy Sharp rank?

[Silent Blade]

What's his penalty record here? I think he's had a fair few goals and misses. I think that I read once that Colin Morris had the record for both?

Morris took 54 pens, scored 42 and missed 12 (but did score some from the follow up)

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

104!

 

[adamawdhali]

 

[Geordie Blade]

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"League One at best" said the Derby fans!

 

[Balham]

What's his penalty record here? I think he's had a fair few goals and misses. I think that I read once that Colin Morris had the record for both?

If you can believe Transfermarkt he's taken 22, scoring 17 and missing 5. Overall his record is 32/41 so his time with us almost exactly mirrors his whole career.

League One 9/12
Championship 4/6
Premier League 2/2
FA Cup 2/2

 

[scouseblade]

In United's all time list of league goal scorers?

Anybody got the complete list?

I know where he ranks in all time English league scorers - 59th on the list. 234 league goals in 558 games. Incredible. And he is the only man to have scored 200+ who is still going. He is some way behind the leaders though

 

[Yogi]

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He’ll top that list comfortably by the end of this season if we continue to play the creative football we have been.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

And he is the only man to have scored 200+ who is still going.

Not technically true.

Jamie Cureton has scored more league goals than Billy and he's still playing, albeit in non league football.

He's currently the player manager of Enfield FC.

 

[Guesty]

If you can believe Transfermarkt he's taken 22, scoring 17 and missing 5. Overall his record is 32/41 so his time with us almost exactly mirrors his whole career.

League One 9/12
Championship 4/6
Premier League 2/2
FA Cup 2/2

Nicely done, thank you!

 

[scouseblade]

Not technically true.

Jamie Cureton has scored more league goals than Billy and he's still playing, albeit in non league football.

He's currently the player manager of Enfield FC.

Damn Wikipedia. Let me down again. Perhaps its football league who are still active.

 

[Revolution]

So that's 105 league goals for Sharp for us, moving him into the top 10 all time. Joint tenth, actually. He's tied with Joe Kitchen, a centre forward whose United career was largely in the pre WW1 years. He scored our third goal in the "Khaki Cup Final" v Chelsea in 1915 - a fine solo effort, by all accounts.

Harry Johnson 201
Alan Woodward 158
Keith Edwards 143/144
Jimmy Dunne 143
Derek Pace 140
Fred Tunstall 129
Billy Gillespie 127
Jimmy Hagan 117
Jock Dodds 113
Joe Kitchen 105
Billy Sharp 105
Jack Pickering 102
Alf Ringstead 101
Arthur Brown 100

 

[S64 Blade]

Some posters would play 1 league goal, since he joined Oli Burke, 0 league goals Rhian Brewster, 0 league goals since December 2020, Oli McBurnie; ahead of him though.

 

[drblade]

Joe Kitchen was another true Blade great who's stats do not reflect the fact that some of his greatest days were interrupted by the war.

His full official Blades league goal scoring record including the years he played for us during WW1:

League: 105 goals
WW1 League: 58 goals
Total: 163

Not his fault.

Not Billy's fault.

Both legends.

I feel blessed that in my lifetime, I have seen 2 Blade's in the company of our old boys.

Long may it continue, Billy. How many could it/should it, have been?

UTB.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Getting close now.

 

[Revolution]

Joe Kitchen was another true Blade great who's stats do not reflect the fact that some of his greatest days were interrupted by the war.

His full official Blades league goal scoring record including the years he played for us during WW1:

League: 105 goals
WW1 League: 58 goals
Total: 163

Not his fault.

Not Billy's fault.

Both legends.

I feel blessed that in my lifetime, I have seen 2 Blade's in the company of our old boys.

Long may it continue, Billy. How many could it/should it, have been?

UTB.

Having seen your comment I was inspired to check who else on the list missed part of their career due to the war and scored in Wartime competition. The players affected:

Harry Johnson - 25 goals in WW1 football (he was on active service for one season
Billy Gillespie- 19 goals in WW1 football (he was in active service most of the time)
Jack Pickering- 72 goals in WW2
Jimmy Hagan - 17 goals for us in WW2, and 50 plus as a guest for Aldershot, where he was stationed as a PT instructor

Jock Dodds was sold to Blackpool in March 1939 and was, I think, the top scorer in Wartime football. He scored over 200 goals for them during WW2.

 

[silver blade]

In United's all time list of league goal scorers?

Anybody got the complete list?

He is 3rd in the players list of championship scorers

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Having seen your comment I was inspired to check who else on the list missed part of their career due to the war and scored in Wartime competition. The players affected:

Harry Johnson - 25 goals in WW1 football (he was on active service for one season
Billy Gillespie- 19 goals in WW1 football (he was in active service most of the time)
Jack Pickering- 72 goals in WW2
Jimmy Hagan - 17 goals for us in WW2, and 50 plus as a guest for Aldershot, where he was stationed as a PT instructor

Jock Dodds was sold to Blackpool in March 1939 and was, I think, the top scorer in Wartime football. He scored over 200 goals for them during WW2.

Billy Sharp missed 5 years of his Blades career due to Kevin Blackwell's war on football.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Billy’s not done yet...Hope he’s done all his badges.

 

[I should coco]

So that's 105 league goals for Sharp for us, moving him into the top 10 all time. Joint tenth, actually. He's tied with Joe Kitchen, a centre forward whose United career was largely in the pre WW1 years. He scored our third goal in the "Khaki Cup Final" v Chelsea in 1915 - a fine solo effort, by all accounts.

Harry Johnson 201
Alan Woodward 158
Keith Edwards 143/144
Jimmy Dunne 143
Derek Pace 140
Fred Tunstall 129
Billy Gillespie 127
Jimmy Hagan 117
Jock Dodds 113
Joe Kitchen 105
Billy Sharp 105
Jack Pickering 102
Alf Ringstead 101
Arthur Brown 100

Any idea what the dispute is over Keith Edwards' 143 or 144 stat?

 

[Gavlar]

Any idea what the dispute is over Keith Edwards' 143 or 144 stat?

Var are still checking it.

 

[Blade1959]

Any idea what the dispute is over Keith Edwards' 143 or 144 stat?

Gillingham away 1983/84

 

[Revolution]

Any idea what the dispute is over Keith Edwards' 143 or 144 stat?

Gillingham away 1983-4.

Edwards shoots. Ball hits one of John Sitton’s legs (yes, that John Sitton) then the other leg, and goes in. Sitton standing in front of the goal. Recorded as an own goal, Blades fans who were there see it as an Edwards goal.

 

[Silent Blade]

Gillingham away 1983-4.

Edwards shoots. Ball hits one of John Sitton’s legs (yes, that John Sitton) then the other leg, and goes in. Sitton standing in front of the goal. Recorded as an own goal, Blades fans who were there see it as an Edwards goal.

Woody scored in the abandoned game at Coventry in March 1972. That is wiped off from his scoring records.

 

[BigBed]

Sharp ranks as the best we have, end of.

 

[Sandygate Blade]

106 goals now. Moves to 10th overall, no longer jointly.

 

[Davalon]

At home, in his bedroom, into a sock.

 

[Hull Blade]

Stick him in that DeLoreon and set the flux capacitor to 29/11/2011.
Ten more years of finding the onion bag, please.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Bladesman]

 

[DronnieBlade]

Can’t fucking spell either .

UTB