Not them again! Footballers who are bogey players for one particular club

“Some teams have their bogey player, who always seems to score against them. Which player has the most career goals against a single opposition, irrespective of who he is playing for?” asks John McDougall.

You won’t be surprised by most of the names on this list, but let’s start with a relatively unlikely nemesis. “David Nugent must be up there against Ipswich,” writes Elliot Rawstrone. “Fifteen goals in 18 games for Preston, Portsmouth, Leicester and Middlesborough.”

The other half of the Old Farm were famously terrorised by Luis Suárez. He scored 12 goals against Norwich, which puts him below Nugent – but, as Ian Burns points out, they came in only six games. And he didn’t score in the first one.

Romario can see Suárez’s record and raise it. In his time at PSV Eindhoven, he had it in for MVV Maastricht. He scored 13 in six games, including this beauty.

Romario scoring a beauty vs MVV Maastricht, 1991. pic.twitter.com/mVaViU0xXs

Ian Burns also highlights Wayne Rooney, who scored 15 times against four different clubs: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Newcastle and West Ham United. Everton’s greatest goalscorer, Dixie Dean, was even more indiscriminate when it came to putting the hurt on opponents. It’s hard to be 100% sure with pre-war stats, but we think he scored 20 goals against Aston Villa, Bolton and Newcastle.

Everton have been on the wrong end too, most notably when they came up against Ian Rush. He scored a whopping 26 times against them, including four in a famous 5-0 win at Goodison Park in November 1982 and two apiece in the FA Cup finals of 1986 and 1989.

Unsurprisingly, great goalscorers dominate the top end of this list. Harry Kane has scored 20 against Leicester, while Alan Shearer managed 21 against Leeds; Robert