the list of Premier League top goalscorers this season and he is only three behind the leader, Diego Costa, who at times appears to be on a one man mission to bring the title back to Stamford Bridge. That Defoe is so close to the likes of Costa, Alexis Sanchez and Zlatan Ibrahimovic rather encapsulates his superb season thus far.

Whilst those three take the plaudits, the Sunderland man continues to go under the radar, simply because he plays for a team at the wrong end of the table. If anything, that actually makes his performances stand out even further, considering he has had fewer attempts on goal (53) than both Sanchez (65) and Ibrahimovic (86), who play for teams whose average possession for the current campaign far exceedsSunderland's 43%.

10 - Jermain Defoe has become the 4th player to score 10+ goals in 10 different PL seasons (Shearer, Rooney and Lampard). Reliable.

But though Defoe appears to be in the midst of his best season to date, he recently became only the fourth player in the Premier League era to score 10 goals in 10 different seasons.

His longevity in the English game has been impressive and although he has failed to win any tangible honours so far in his career, his record is up there with some of the very best that the Premier League has seen.

Jermain Defoe has now scored 151 Premier League goals; moving ahead of Michael Owen in the all-time top scorers list. pic.twitter.com/Ehh9Wgty6r

Currently sat seventh in the all-time top scorers of the competition,