Liverpool legend Roger Hunt actually did become the club's leading goalscorer in front of Anfield fans even though nobody knew it.
Back in January 1969, Hunt is believed to have netted his 234th league goal for the Reds against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge which took him past Gordon Hodgson's previous record.
But Liverpool historians, LFCHistory, have altered the records after seeing footage of a game against Tottenham in 1965/66 when a goal was awarded to Hunt.
It has been decided that the goal on that occasion was an own-goal from Spurs' Ted Clayton from Willie Stevenson's initial effort meaning Hunt has had a goal taken off his final tally.
However, it means that 'Sir Roger' took the record at Anfield two weeks later when he netted against Sheffield Wednesday which has now been marked into the annuls of Liverpool's proud history.
"You have no idea how hard it was for me to set things in motion about taking a goal away from Roger Hunt, a man I only saw play six times apart from in his own Testimonial Match but who was a man I idolised during my teenage years," LFCHistory historian, Chris Wood, told the Liverpool Echo.
"I still remember the adulation he deservedly received when he scored at Stamford Bridge in January 1969 to break (as was thought at the time and for many years afterwards) Gordon Hodgson's League scoring record for Liverpool Football Club, a record which had stood since 1935.
"But when I saw the BBC's footage of Liverpool's home match against Tottenham on the 49th anniversary of the date on which that match was played (12th March 1966), I knew I had to do something.
"All the people who work for the LFCHistory website have a duty to report the facts as accurately as we can.
"But I remember at the time he broke Hodgson's record that Hunt made some comment that he would have rather have done it in a home match. Now we know that he actually DID break the record in a home match! So, albeit nearly half a century later, he did get his wish."
