This season Prostate Cancer UK is the official charity of The Football League. To celebrate, we've asked bloggers from each of the 72 clubs to count down their top five strikers to have worn the No9 shirt, in recognition of the fact that prostate cancer affects one in nine men.

Boro marksman: Carl Alford had two super seasons for Stevenage. Photo courtesy of Action Images

 

Here blogger Pete Hayman, of boroguide.co.uk, selects Stevenage's five best No9s… and one to forget!

5. Charlie Griffin (2009-11)
Griffin arrived at Stevenage with huge shoes to fill, following the departure of the prolific Steve Morison. History won't record Griff as having the same goalscoring impact, but he contributed to Boro's Conference-winning campaign in 2009-10 with 14 goals in 31 outings to become the club's first player to wear the No9 shirt in the Football League.

4. Jim Beech (1984-87)
In 1984, Stevenage opted to join the Servowarm League after a mere four years in the United Counties League. Within two seasons, promotion to Division One had been achieved, with the goals of Jim Beech an important factor. A prolific marksman in his own right, Beech also established formidable partnerships with Kevin Lowe and Steve Armsby.

3. Gary Crawshaw (1994-98)
After joining in time to help Boro win promotion to the Conference, Crawshaw was part of the team denied entry to the Football League in 1996. He does retain the honour of scoring against Newcastle United at St James' Park. If there had been goal-line technology, it would have sent the game into extra time. Because, Mr Shearer, it never crossed the line. 

2. Carl Alford (1998-2000)
Not the most agile of players, to underestimate Carl Alford's prowess would be to get it so wrong that Jeremy Paxman would be unable to patronise you enough. In two seasons, Alford became arguably the club's greatest marksman since Barry Hayles and forged a dream partnership with right-back Lee Harvey - enough to forgive him scoring against Boro for Yeovil in the 2002 FA Trophy final.

1. Martin Gittings (1980-95)
There's not much we need to say when it comes to Martin Gittings. During four separate spells, his potency for finding the back of the net - more than 200 goals in about 400 appearances - keeps him head and shoulders above the rest in the all-time records list. And his 44 goals during the 1991-92 season is also a club record. Like we said: potent.

And the worst…
Tesfaye Bramble (2007-08)
Boro have had their fair share of less-than-successful strikers over the years, but not all wore No9. One who did was Tesfaye Bramble, brother of Titus. He was restricted to just 13 appearances due to injury, although what he showed in the games he did play suggests Boro didn't miss out on anything.

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