Five or six years ago, the idea of a striker one day breaking Alan Shearer's seemingly untouchable record of 260 Premier League goals was almost unimaginable. But suddenly, two prime candidates have emerged in Romelu Lukaku and Harry Kane, strikers with almost a centenary of top flight strikes under their belts before the age of 25. Those potent returns are symptomatic throughout a division that's seeing scoring records decimated at an unprecedented rate; of the 20 clubs involved in the top flight last season, only four had record individual returns for a single season pre-dating 2009/10. It's quite staggering, especially when combined with the fact three clubs have scored more than 100...
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