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A Liverpool star at the beginning of the 20th century, Sam Raybould was the first player in the club\u2019s history to score 100 goals.<\/p>\n
The attacker, who arrived from New Brighton Tower, required just 164 appearances to bring up his groundbreaking century of strikes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a dangerous player when in possession and backs who make mistakes might as well concede a goal straight away,\u201d newspaper reports from the time read.<\/p>\n
Raybould\u2019s team-leading 17 goals fired the Tom Watson<\/u><\/strong>-managed Reds to their first top-flight league title in 1900-01.<\/p>\n Another achievement followed in 1902-03 when he became the first Liverpool player to hit the 30-goal mark in a single season.<\/p>\n Raybould was then subject to a seven-month suspension after agreeing to a rule-breaking transfer to Portsmouth. The move down south fell through as a result.<\/p>\n His output was sorely missed at Anfield and a return halfway through the term could not prevent relegation to the Second Division.<\/p>\n The club did make an immediate return to the top flight and remarkably won it the following year, with Raybould scoring 30 times in the league across those two seasons.<\/p>\n He signed off in style at the club by delivering his 130th and final goal in his farewell appearance at the conclusion of 1906-07.<\/p>\n Presently, only 10 players have scored more for the Reds than Raybould.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Liverpool star at the beginning of the 20th century, Sam Raybould was the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}