THIRTEEN TO GO

Well done Wayne! Scoring last night against CSKA Moscow gave Wayne Rooney his 237th goal for Manchester United and he chases another Bobby Charlton record.
Charlton scored 249 times for his only club in 748 games. A lot of games! compared to Wayne's 496. This goal brings Wayne level with Dennis Law who completed his total in 404 games, with some well known United players now left in his wake.

Jack Rowley comes 4th with 211 goals in 424 games, Rowley was known as the Gunner (and so was his brother Arthur also a competent goalscorer-434 goals in 619 games).
Jack first played for Wolves in 1935, his local club, then with Bournemouth and Boscombe in 1937, soon making his debut for United v Sheffield Wednesday and then notching 4 against Swansea in his second game. He was picked 6 times for England and scored 6 times. In his career Rowley played 504 times with 238 goals.

After his spell at United with Matt Busby, when he played in the 1948 Cup Final, scoring 2 in a 4-2 win over Blackpool, then quite a respectable First Division club, in 1955 he took on the managership of Plymouth Argyle, went to Oldham Athletic twice, Ajax in 1963-4, Wrexham, Bradford Park Avenue retiring in 1969, passing away in 1998.

George Best is ranked 5th= with 179 in 470 matches along side Dennis Viollet who equalled this total in only 293 games,

Viollet played at United, winning the League championship  in 1956 and 57 and then went to Stoke City (207 games/66 goals) having survived the Munich Air Crash. He only represented England  two times with one goal in the 1960-1 season. He later played and coached in the USA and played finally for Witton Albion and Linfield. He died in 1999.
Daughter Rachel was a British number 1 tennis player.