![]() It would have been more too, were it not for some creative negotiation tactics. Five years later, Arsenal made him the first £10,000 player. David Jack (257 goals)īolton legend Jack was the first man to score at Wembley as the Trotters lifted the 1923 FA Cup. ![]() ![]() And some people say footballers lack smarts! 6. Following service in the trenches, and with a pile of defenders run ragged in his wake, Buchan went on to write for the Daily News, commentate for the BBC and eleven co-founded the Football Writers’ Association. Why, we hear you ask? Well, because as well as being a goalscorer of the highest order – the man notched 209 times for Sunderland and a further 49 for Arsenal in a career interrupted by WWI – but because he’s also a passionate football writer too. Here at FFT, we love Charlie Buchan more than most.
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