JERMAIN Defoe has had to put his celebrations on ice after it was discovered he had only equalled a post-War Football League goalscoring record.
The Cherries hotshot hit the target at Cambridge on Tuesday and thought he'd beaten John Aldridge and Kevin Russell's previous mark of netting in nine consecutive league games.
Defoe, on loan at Dean Court from West Ham, has now scored in ten out of ten Division 2 games for Cherries.
But the Association of Football Statisticians yesterday confirmed Saints striker Ron Davies and Manchester City marksman Billy McAdams also scored in ten consecutive league games, in 1966-67 and 1957-58 respectively.
That means 18-year-old Defoe has only equalled the post-War record.
Association of Football Statisticians secretary Ray Spiller said: "It was a Saints fan who rang me about it and he was right.
"If he hadn't have rung, we wouldn't have known."
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