George Robledo: Newcastle great with a record beyond Salah and Henry

Born in Chile, shaped by poverty and hard graft, the prolific inside forward holds a scoring record unbroken to this day

It was a question that had everyone in the room stumped, almost to the point of silence. “Who holds the record for the most league goals scored by an overseas player in the top flight of English football in a single season?”

I felt as if I should know the answer, having written about sport for the vast majority of my adult life. But I didn’t. There I was, appearing as a guest at the Brighton branch of Sporting Memories, a UK charity which encourages older people to meet and reminisce through talking about sport, and I’d seemingly been exposed as a total fraud.

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