It was often pointed out about Jimmy Greaves that he could be anonymous for 89 minutes and then produce a bit of magic to score a goal. Seems as if JG was playing for us these days he wouldn’t be appreciated by some on here.
I am not, by the way, saying that Godden is in anyway as good as Greaves, it just seems to be the narrative of some people about Godden that, ‘yes he scores goals’(seems to be a grudging admittance of this) ‘but what else does he do?’ I also think the same people don’t notice or choose to ignore his contributions in games to the team.
He produced perhaps the pass of the season to set up Gyokeres against Fulham and again set him up Saturday with a superb piece of play. Two instances off the top of my head.
He is a very good Championship standard goalscorer who due to illness and injury has still to have a prolonged run in the team, yet he is still producing the goods. And yet some people still moan about him.