Why have we started in 1996/97 you ask, banging your golden fist down on your golden knee? Well, that was the season that the European Golden Shoe – the award that’s given to Europe’s top league goalscorer – took on its modern form.From this point, the goals were weighed so that they count for less if you banged them in an inferior league (according to the UEFA coefficient list). Basically so that they could stop giving the award to some Scottish Premiership predator and start giving it to a player who hadn’t bundled in hat-tricks against Kilmarnock and Motherwell to get there.That said, even with that disadvantage, two players from Scotland’s top tier did brilliantly enough to...
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