Quiz! Can you name the top three finishers for the European Golden Shoe award since 1996/97?

Cristiano Ronaldo

Why have we started in 1996/97 you ask, banging your golden fist down on your golden knee? Well, that was the season that the European Golden Shoe – the award that’s given to Europe’s top league goalscorer – took on its modern form.

From this point, the goals were weighed so that they count for less if you banged them in an inferior league (according to the UEFA coefficient list). Basically so that they could stop giving the award to some Scottish Premiership predator and start giving it to a player who hadn’t bundled in hat-tricks against Kilmarnock and Motherwell to get there.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.