Can McNulty Break The Scoring Records?

Last updated : 01 April 2018 By Jim Brown
Mark McNulty has emerged as the 20-goal striker that Coventry City fans have been praying for and his hat-trick last week took his total to 18 league goals and 21 in all competitions.
 
He is up there with the most prolific City goalscorers in the last 50 years. In league goals he has equalled Dion Dublin's best season in 1997-98, is two behind Adam Armstrong's 20 in 2015-16 and three behind the best since 1967, 21, held by Ian Wallace (1977-78) and Callum Wilson (2013-14).
 
Looking at goals in all competitions we might be looking at the highest scorer for fifty years. Since Bobby Gould got 25 in City's 1966-67 promotion season the highest scorers are:
 
23 Ian Wallace (1977-78)
23 Dion Dublin (1997-98)
22 Callum Wilson (2013-14)
20 Adam Armstrong (2015-16)
19 Terry Gibson (1983-84 & 1984-85)
 
McNulty has overtaken Gibson and Armstrong and must be favourite to overhaul Wilson, Dublin, Wallace and possibly even Gould.
 
The next target will be George Hudson's haul of 28 goals in 1963-64, then Terry Bly's 29 in 1962-63.