Having made his last-gasp transfer window move to Pompey in January 2008, it came as no surprise when Defoe rattled in goals for fun
One of the deadliest forwards in the English game, Defoe’s Pompey career got off to a blistering start, with goals in each of his first five home games after signing from Spurs in the January 2008 transfer window.
But then goalscoring has always been second nature to him: he’s averaged around one every other game in his career – including a post-war league record of 10 in 10 consecutive games while on loan at Bournemouth from West Ham in 2000/01.
Though his England career has been rather more fitful, he was on target twice in England’s summer tour success against Trinidad and Tobago – and now he has been teamed up with England colleague Peter Crouch at club level, both men will hope to give Fabio Capello food for thought by starring for an increasingly Anglophile Pompey side.