George Robledo: Newcastle great with a record beyond Salah and Henry

It was a question that had everyone in the room stumped, almost to the point of silence. “Who holds the record for the most league goals scored by an overseas player in the top flight of English football in a single season?”I felt as if I should know the answer, having written about sport for the vast majority of my adult life. But I didn’t. There I was, appearing as a guest at the Brighton branch of Sporting Memories, a UK charity which encourages older people to meet and reminisce through talking about sport, and I’d seemingly been exposed as a total fraud.A few educated guesses had been made initially by the 20 or so members who’d gathered to hear me talk about my latest book before getting down to the far more serious business of their weekly Monday morning quiz.Thierry Henry? Cristiano Ronaldo? What about Dennis Bergkamp? Or Luis Suárez?One by one our quizmaster, the former England rugby union international, cricketer and BBC broadcaster Alastair Hignell, batted away each incorrec...