Earlier this week we brought you Roman Pavlyuchenko’s Tottenham goals compilation; a triumph of quality over quantity.
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Now prepare yourselves for something quite different.
Darren Bent’s Spurs career isn’t remembered too fondly; lost in the orgasmic shuffle of Berbatov, Keane, Defoe and…Bent, who played his last game for Tottenham 11 years ago today.
But his goal record was not as bad as you might think – 25 in 75 appearances, of which 36 were as a substitute. He’s a 1 in 3 man. Defoe and Keane were 1 in 2.5, Pav a 1 in 2.7 guy. So Bent was not far behind and yet is not remembered with a fraction of the same affection.
And that might be because all of the goals he scored for Spurs were scrappy tap-ins, rebounds and deflections, as the below montage shows…
Proper striker’s goals; but a more boring collection you couldn’t wish to see!