After this afternoon's Goal-a-thon we have reached the dizzy heights of 82 goals scored in the League.
This got my little grey cells thinking, "Have we scored scored one hundred goals in a single season?"
As far as I can tell we........ have! Just once.
Way back before some of you were born we scored 106 goals in a single season (65/41).
1895-1896 we got our first, and so far only century of goals:
It was the old Second Division, finishing 1st, but what made this even more astonishing was the fact that the season was over a miserly 30 games.
On a side note we did beat a certain Newton Heath 7-1 at home, but we won't talk about the return fixture's result (2-5)
We did come close in the 1961-1962 season with 99 (68/31), again finishing 1st in the Second Division, but this time it was over a whopping 42 games.
So with 8 games to go, and 18 goals to score we rally have a good chance to reach that mighty achievement of netting 100 goals in a single season.
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lfchistory.netWith the remaining 8 games (below) I can envisage we may struggle to keep scoring for fun in every game, but with an average of 2.25 goals per game needed we could do this.
Liverpool v Sunderland
Liverpool v Tottenham
West Ham v Liverpool
Liverpool v Man City
Norwich v Liverpool
Liverpool v Chelsea
Crystal Palace v Liverpool
Liverpool v Newcastle
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