RICKIE Lambert and Grant Holt go head-to-head this weekend with both men looking to become this millennium’s top scorer for a single season in the third tier of English football.
The Saints and Norwich hitmen, whose teams face each other at Carrow Road on Saturday, are joined by Jermaine Beckford of Leeds at the head of the League One top scorers chart this season.
Holt and Beckford have 18 league goals apiece so far while Lambert has 19 – 18 for Saints and one for Bristol Rovers.
That puts them within range of Rob Earnshaw’s 31 goals for Cardiff in 2002/03 – the most any player has scored in a single season in the third tier of English football since the turn of the millennium.
At their current scoring rates Lambert would reach 31 goals by the end of the campaign while Holt, Lambert’s former Rochdale colleague, would hit 28.
To have three players striving for such a record proves just how deadly those three strikers have been.
But the interesting contrast in styles will be on show this weekend when Saints travel to table topping Norwich.
Both Lambert and Holt have each made 28 starts for their goals in the league this season.
See today's Daily Echo for the full story
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