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PETER CROUCH: Sorry Cristiano, but standing up front just isn't cool any more... I fear for the No 9s like me - City, Liverpool and Chelsea's flying, hard-working wingers are now the fashionable goalscorers in this new era

All change with this column, folks. Goalkeepers are great and strikers consigned to a bygone era. Yes, you read that right and yes, I am still Peter Crouch. Promise.

It is not quite so straightforward obviously, but last week I dedicated a section of these pages to the excellence of Edouard Mendy and how goalkeepers are becoming even more important for potential title-winning teams.

Now, having watched Chelsea and Manchester City score 11 between them without a recognised frontman on Saturday, it does make you wonder if we can start labelling the strikers’ position as unfashionable at the elite level.