5 Premier League records that may never be broken

#4 Most headed goals in Premier League - Peter Crouch, 53 (Aston Villa, Southampton, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Tottenham Hotspur & Stoke City)

Peter Crouch

There have been a lot of prolific goalscorers in the Premier League, but Peter Crouch stands apart from them having scored almost half of his all top-flight goals through headers.

Usually when on the pitch, he used to be the tallest guy around and that naturally gave him an advantage in the air and boy, did he make the most of it.

In his career spanning nearly over two decades, the former Tottenham Hotspur youth player scored an astonishing 53 headed goals before retiring from professional football this July.

53 – Peter Crouch scored 53 headed goals during his Premier League career, the most of any player. Indeed, he is the only player in the competition’s history to score 50 or more goals with his head. Artistry. pic.twitter.com/2hhoh0DwJN

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) July 12, 2019

He had scored at lease one headed goal for every team he had played for in his career, including the England National Team, but he failed to find the back of the net for the last club he played for (Burnley) in the sparse six appearances he made for the club.

Nonetheless, he earned a place for himself in the famed Guinness World Records magazine in 2018 for his head-turning aerial ability.

Alan Shearer, who has the most goals of any player in the league, managed 46 headed goals, even though 87% of his goals were from inside the box. That just gives us an idea of how difficult it is to direct a ball into the goal, especially when you have defenders throwing their bodies at you.