Pompey Hall of Fame 2016: 'Farmer's Boy' Billy Haines
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Channel: Portsmouth FC · 2016 · Sports
In the run up to Friday's Gala dinner event at Fratton Park, we run through all four inductees into the Pompey Hall of Fame 'Class of 2016'. First up is prolific striker 'Farmer's Boy' Billy Haines, who scored 43 times during the 1926/27 campaign to hold the club record for most goals in a season for over 60 years. Arguably his most crucial strike came in the dying seconds against Preston at Fratton Park – his fourth of the match – which saw Pompey pip Manchester City to promotion by a goal average of just 0.006. It was one four hat-tricks he claimed that term. Between 1923 and 1928, Haines found the target 129 times in 179 appearances. In 1960 he was appointed president of Portsmouth Football Supporters Club – a position he held until he passed away in 1974. Read more at http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/article/blake-kemp-todorov-and-haines-enter-pompey-hall-of-fame-2863382.aspx#3r29f2EwPJjkCtAs.99 For more exclusive content, head to Pompey Player: http://www.player.portsmouthfc.co.uk/latest-news
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