Best goal scoring defenders

[stonerblue]

Tommy Booth by a mile. He scored 36 goals for City - 25 League, 5 FA Cup, 3 League Cup and 3 European games.
And of course he got the vital late winner v Everton in the 1969 semi, and got up to nod the ball down for Dennis's overhead kick in the LC Final v Newcastle.
An underrated star, in my opinion.

That's a great post

 

[M16 citeh]

Roberto Carlos was a novelty for me growing up to the point where I even played as a left back and took right footed free kicks. Played more like dunne at left back though tbh haha

 

[Zapcity]

Tommy Booth by a mile. He scored 36 goals for City - 25 League, 5 FA Cup, 3 League Cup and 3 European games.
And of course he got the vital late winner v Everton in the 1969 semi, and got up to nod the ball down for Dennis's overhead kick in the LC Final v Newcastle.
An underrated star, in my opinion.

 

[Zapcity]

Tommy Booth by a mile. He scored 36 goals for City - 25 League, 5 FA Cup, 3 League Cup and 3 European games.
And of course he got the vital late winner v Everton in the 1969 semi, and got up to nod the ball down for Dennis's overhead kick in the LC Final v Newcastle.
An underrated star, in my opinion.

 

[Zapcity]

The one I remember most was at Peterborough in the FA Cup, as I had started going to away games then. Packed in like sardines in the away section behind the goal that day!!

 

[uwerosler28]

Daniel Van Buyten racked up 60 goals across his career

 

[yankblue]

Ironically enough - Stuart Pearce throughout his career, although not necessarily with us. A characteristic he continued with in management.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

If we’re not limiting this to City players. Emlyn Hughes. 49 goals in all competitions for Liverpool. Some important ones, too. Had a wicked shot from outside the box.

 

[Stephen230]

If we’re not limiting this to City players. Emlyn Hughes. 49 goals in all competitions for Liverpool. Some important ones, too. Had a wicked shot from outside the box.

If you’re talking non City, I’d be surprised if any defender has ever beaten Steve Bruce’s 19 in a season in ‘90-‘91.

Can think of quite a few strikers who haven’t beaten it in fact.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

If you’re talking non City, I’d be surprised if any defender has ever beaten Steve Bruce’s 19 in a season in ‘90-‘91.

Can think of quite a few strikers who haven’t beaten it in fact.

That's an astonishing stat for a single season, which I confess I was unaware of. I see that he scored a very handy twenty-nine for the Gills during his time there (in about two hundred appearances). Eighty-one over his whole career. Not bad for a central defender!
Going back to Hughes. He died of a brain tumour at the age of fifty-seven, something which I was also unaware of. Moore of course died at fifty-one, as everyone knows. And our very own Nelly Young died at sixty-six. These people are sort of the gods of the stadium when you're a kid. You just don't think of them as being subject to destruction. It's deeply shocking.
Being now well beyond the age of all of those, I just regard every single day I wake up alive and in relatively good health as riches beyond compare.