Former Everton striker James Vaughan admits his time at Goodison Park was filled with both pride and pain.
Seven years ago the Birmingham born striker scored his first goal for Everton at just 16 years and 271 days old, netting his team’s fourth goal against Crystal Palace back in 2005.
With that goal, it inevitably drew similarities between himself, and another former 16 year old scorer, Wayne Rooney, however what followed unfortunately did not live up to the early hype that the goal had created.
Vaughan failed to live up to early potential on Merseyside due to an unfortunate amount of injuries that he picked up.
“Being Everton’s youngest ever scorer still makes me proud, Vaughan told the Liverpool Echo.
“I grew up at Everton after starting in the academy at the age of six, so to do that was a dream. I’d already been on the bench a few times before the Palace game and read in a paper that if I scored I’d break Joe Royle’s record as the youngest.
“When we were 3-0 up on the day I thought I’d get a run out.”
Vaughan was a prolific striker at Everton as he progressed through the ranks, but was not able to reproduce his form in the first team scoring just seven goals in 47 outings.
The striker is now 24 and is currently on loan at Championship side Huddersfield Town from Norwich – the club he signed for after leaving Everton back in the summer of 2011.
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