Fulham history-maker Aleksandar Mitrovic is proving his Premier League doubters wrong

I officially declare this the best weekend of sport so far this year.

Manchester City versus Liverpool in the Premier League, the genuine possibility of a grey winning the Grand National and the Masters at Augusta throwing up an outside chance of one of the greatest-ever comebacks.

Add in the opening games of the Major League baseball season, F1’s Australian Grand Prix and Champions Cup rugby, and there’s a case to be made for the introduction of an intravenous Red Bull drip.

Which is why, even to me, it’s baffling I’m devoting an entire column to Aleksandar Mitrovic.

Think about it, though. What can I tell you about Snow Leopardess that the racing media hasn’t already? And as for Tiger Woods, he is experiencing wider coverage right now than the O2 network.

However, I realise I need to reel you in early, or you will turn the page quicker than I can type ‘Becher’s Brook’, so here goes.

Mitrovic has scored more Championship goals on his own this season than the entire squads of Hull, Peterborough or Barnsley.

His 38 in 37 games has already smashed the rebranded Championship record of 31, set last season by Brentford’s Ivan Toney, but football existed before that, so let’s go in for some old-school mind-blowing.

Only one player post-1960 has scored more second-tier goals in a campaign — Guy Whittingham with 42 for Portsmouth in 1992/93.

The big Serb has seven games left to score five goals and, thus, draw level with Tommy Johnston, who scored a combined 43 for Leyton Orient and Blackburn in 1957/58. If he roughly keeps up his current rate, and manages a goal a game, he will finish level with Sheffield Wednesday’s Derek Dooley, who bagged 46 in 1952, and behind only one man ever — George Camsell, who scored 59 in the 1926/27 campaign