Imperfect 10: strikers' suspect second spells

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Craig Bellamy's return to Anfield seems like a good deal for all concerned â Man City get rid of a player they don't want, Liverpool get a potential game-changer and the Welshman himself gets the chance to show off his improved golf swing.

But they say you should never go back, and the stats seem to back up the superstition. We analysed the goalscoring records of 10 Premier League-era strikers who'd gone back for more, and ended up scoring less (or, grammatically, fewer).

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Huw Davies

Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.