CHRIS SUTTON: A show about football’s Hollywood role will be must-watch TV – Strikers play in the glory position, it’s no wonder Netflix want some of the action

Clive Allen scored 49 goals in the 1986-87 season and I marvelled at his scoring art. As a kid it was Trevor Francis for me, with a bit of Tony Woodcock and Garry Birtles.

Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush have to get a shout and then there are the videos of Jimmy Greaves and Geoff Hurst’s hat-trick. We’ve got to mention Roy of the Rovers too. Roy Race, now there was a goalscorer — so good, he had his own comic.

Yeah, I can see why Netflix want a series on strikers.

It’s the Hollywood role, the glory position, the money shot. When it works.

When I was a centre forward and made my transfers to Blackburn, Chelsea and Celtic (some worked out better than others), I loved the attention and the expectation. Clubs buy strikers to win trophies.

Erling Haaland (left) has been approached by Netflix for a fly-on the wall documentary series on goalscoring, with Mo Salah (right) also expected to be involved

I marvelled at Clive Allen scoring art, when h scored 49 goals in the 1986-87 season

Kenny Dalglish (left) and Ian Rush (right) are among English football’s greatest evert strikers

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I was asked to name my favourite last-minute winners on our It’s All Kicking Off podcast and I picked one of my own. ‘Having yourself, aren’t you?’ asked one of my mates. 

He’s right… but why wouldn’t I choose a moment that meant a lot to me, playing for Celtic. I loved scoring goals for Celtic, especially against Rangers.

I loved all of my goals, even one for Aston Villa that I am not entirely sure I touched.

Greaves did it playing on cow fields. His movement, his balance, his awareness. Watch those videos. Genius.

The best I played with? Alan Shearer and Henrik Larsson for being the most ruthless. Shearer had that mindset, that greed — in a good way.

I admired Thierry Henry, drifting in from the left with pace for a great Arsenal side

Alan Shearer was the best striker I played with, as we won the Premier League together with Blackburn in 1995 (above)

Henrik Larsson was more versatile and could play in different roles and link the play

I saw Henrik, my old Celtic team-mate, this week for a BBC interview. He was more versatile and could play in different roles and link the play. 

He was a brilliant finisher, too, mind. Players I admired included Didier Drogba, playing as a one-up, and Thierry Henry, drifting in from the left with pace and cunning, and my favourite partnership was Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole — marvellous.

I wonder who will be in the Netflix series. I’d like to know a bit more about Erling Haaland. They’d need to get him involved. Ollie Watkins? He’s having a fine season.

My Golden Boot in 1998 for being the top goalscorer in the Premier League is something that makes me very proud. I was no Greaves and my daughter is too young to remember and thinks I am just an average pundit, a dinosaur. But at least I can point to that.