7 EPL Golden Boot Winners that Salah has Surpassed this Season

#3 Kevin Phillips

The former Sunderland forward won the Golden Boot ahead of strikers like Alan Shearer and Dwight Yorke

Premier League (PL) Golden Boot winning season(s): 1999-2000.

Goals scored in the PL season 1999-00: 30

Hattricks in the PL season 1999-00: 1

Penalties scored in the PL season 1999-00: 6

Maximum goals scored in PL season 1999-00 against - Watford (4).

After finishing as Champions in the First Division in the previous season, Sunderland got promoted to the Premier League in the 1999-2000 season.

Amongst the three promoted teams, Sunderland proved to be the best. At the end of the season, they finished seventh in the league.

A significant contribution to their excellent form in the top division goes to their forward, Kevin Phillips.

Phillips' first contribution for the Black Cats was a brace scored in their 2-0 trouncing of Watford in the second week of the season.

Sunderland's performance kept improving as the season progressed and they kept pushing for a place in the European competition.

Phillips' best performance of the season came against Derby County where he grabbed a hattrick to rout them 0-5.

Phillips' terrific season not only helped him win the PL Golden Boot but he also won the European Golden Shoe (thereby becoming the first and the only Englishman, as of 2018, to win this award).

Newcastle legend Alan Shearer finished second behind Phillips with 23 goals.