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.

Wanderers star: Nathan Tyson's career took off at Wycombe. Photo courtesy of Action Images

 

Here blogger Tom Bowers, from away from thebrightlights.co.uk, selects Wycombe's five best No9s… and one to forget!

5. Jermaine Easter (2006-08)
A big part of Wycombe's recent history, Jermaine Easter had sizable boots to fill when he replaced the departing Nathan Tyson. After taking nearly three months to break his goalscoring duck, Easter shot to prominence in the 2006-07 season. The former Stockport forward scored in every round of the Carling Cup as the Blues enjoyed a fairytale run to the semi-final stage.

4. Nathan Tyson (2004-06)
Lightning-quick Tyson was a huge hit in south Buckinghamshire after joining from Reading, initially on loan, in December 2003. After Tony Adams tied him down to a permanent deal his career took off as he plundered 22 league goals in his first full season. Similarly prolific at the start of the 2005-06 campaign, interest from elsewhere was inevitable and Tyson soon moved on to Nottingham Forest.

3. Keith Searle (1969-75)
A natural goalscorer, Searle netted 124 goals in 249 appearances during his time at the club's previous Loakes Park home. Four Isthmian League titles came in that spell too, with Searle's final act in a Wanderers shirt being a late winner against Dagenham to clinch that fourth title on goal difference.

2. Mark West (1985-94)
A standout star in Wycombe's ascent to the Football League, West enjoyed a prolific nine-year spell with Wanderers. The locally born star scored 171 goals in 381 appearances, the most notable being the winner in the 1991 FA Trophy final against Kidderminster Harriers at Wembley. West was unfortunate to never play in the Football League, a mixture of injury and illness cruelly robbing him of the opportunity.

1. Paul Bates (1953-68)
Second on Wanderers' all-time scorers list, Bates hit 309 goals in 416 appearances at the club. High Wycombe born and bred, Bates was a part of the side that reached the 1957 FA Amateur Cup final and the former amateur international striker will forever have his name etched in Wanderers' folklore.

And the worst...
Craig Faulconbridge (2002-2005)
'The Falcon' swooped into Adams Park in May 2002 after being courted by manager Lawrie Sanchez for the entirety of the previous season. He arrived with a bold claim: "If you give me half a chance in the box, in the air or on the ground, nine times out of 10 I will finish it off."This proved to be unfounded, as he notched just eight goals in 69 appearances. In his defence injuries weren't kind to him, but a fruitless three seasons at Wycombe were ended following his release in May 2005.

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