Roger Hunt, MBE is an English former footballer who played as a forward. He spent eleven years at Liverpool and was the club’s record goalscorer with 286 goals until that number was surpassed by Ian Rush. Hunt was a member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. He was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Roger Hunt, MBE is an English former footballer who played as a forward. He spent eleven years at Liverpool and was the club’s record goalscorer with 286 goals until that number was surpassed by Ian Rush. Under Bill Shankly, Hunt won two league titles and an FA Cup. Hunt was a member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. He played in all six England games in the tournament, scoring three times. He was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Hunt played for Stockton Heath, Bury, Stockton for a second time, Devizes Town and Stockton again before manager Phil Taylor signed him for Liverpool on 29 July 1958. He made his debut and scored his first goal for the club on 9 September 1959 in a Second Division fixture at Anfield against Scunthorpe United; Hunt scored in the 64th minute to give the Reds a 2–0 victory.
This goal was the first of many – he went on to score 286 goals for theClub, 245 of them in the league, which remains a club record. Hunt appeared in 41 of the 42 league games and scored 41 goals in season 1961–1962. His goals helped propel Liverpool to a comfortable eight point title win over runners-up Leyton Orient and included five hat-tricks, coming against Leeds United, Walsall, Swansea Town, former club Bury and Middlesbrough. In 1965 he was instrumental in the side winning the FA Cup for the first time.
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