Premier League's Top 5 free-kick takers in recent years

Premier League best free-kick takers
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3) Robert Snodgrass: Norwich, Hull and West Ham

Robert Snodgrass free-kick goal
Snodgrass has scored six free-kick goals with a conversion rate of 20%

Perhaps not as illustrious a player as the other big names on this list but Robert Snodgrass has had his moments in the Premier League. The 29-year-old Scottish winger first played in the Premier League when he moved to Norwich City from Leeds United and has since played for Hull City (including a season in the Championship) and now West Ham.

In truth, he has missed out on two seasons in the Premier League after a dislocated kneecap at the start of the 2014/15 season saw him miss the entire campaign. It eventually became a period of 16 months before he was back on the pitch in the Hull kit.

His 95th-minute free-kick against Burnley last season is one of the most memorable in recent times. Having scored a hat-trick for Scotland in a World Cup qualifier just days prior to this game, he explained how he knew he would score against Burnley. “Shaun Maloney came over and asked if I fancied it, and I said 'yes'.”

But he wouldn’t stay at Hull long enough to help them avoid relegation, preferring to make a Premier League switch to West Ham in the January transfer window – a move that did not go down well with Hull fans who gave him a lot of stick when the two sides met again.

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