Published 5 min ago We are part of The Trust Project What is it? Even in the era of wing-backs and central defenders having to pass the ball rather than blindly hoofing it forward, it’s still the primary job of defensive players to stop goals rather than score them. Yet there are few things that seals a defender’s hero status more than chipping in with a few. Take Steve Bruce, the former Manchester United captain who – through a combination of penalties and brave headers (he wasn’t born with that nose) – once scored 19 goals in a single season. (More of those unlikely individual campaigns here.) However, that was in 1990/91, before Sky Sports invented football (although Brucey...
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