Past playersSam English

He broke Rangers' scoring record in the 1931-32 season with 44 league goals, but his accidental collision with Celtic goalkeeper John Thomson, on September 5, 1931, changed English's life forever.

Thomson's head collided with English's knee, which ruptured an artery in his right temple and led to Thomson's death.

Trying to overcome his part in the tragedy, English made a blistering start to his Anfield career and by the halfway stage of the league campaign he had already scored 16 times. But he only started eight matches during the second half of the season, scoring a further four goals.

Although not selected on the opening day of the following season, he then had a run of 11 consecutive matches, in which he hit the net three times, before losing his place in the side.

English's appearances after that were restricted and he played his final game for the Reds in the penultimate First Division fixture of the 1934-35 season, away to Tottenham Hotspur.

Despite being in and out of the team, he still finished with a good goals-per-game record of 26 strikes from exactly 50 matches.

English returned to Scotland with Queen of the South before finishing his career at Hartlepool at the age of 28. His Rangers teammate Bob McPhail paid him the ultimate praise: "Though I never played with the great Dixie Dean of Everton, I did play against him. I would have taken English before him."