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FRANK WORTHINGTON
 
  757 League games - no other striker has surpassed that total  
  In 1978/9, Frank collected the coveted Adidas Golden Boot award, notching up 24 goals with Bolton Wanderers to be the First Division top goal scorer.  
 
Frank scored three hat tricks in his football career -
 
 
December 2nd 1972 - Leicester v WBA        (Div 1)
 
 
January 19th 1974 - Leicester v Ipswich        (Div 1)
 
 
August 23rd 1985 - Tranmere v Cambridge   (Div 4)
 
  Frank played for 22 consecutive seasons in the Football League, although he never got to play in a Wembley Cup Final; being a semi final loser in 1968 with Huddersfield in the League Cup and twice in the FA Cup with Leicester (1974) and Southampton in 1984.  
  He ended his career in the top flight with an 8 - 2 win over Coventry on 28th April 1984, scoring his 150th goal; it was the biggest victory in his football career. Finally, in 1988, Frank quit the professional game and turned out for several non league club, before developing his After Dinner Speaking.