9 Unfortunate Premier League Records No Player Wants
8. Most Times A Single Player Has Hit The Post
Hitting the post or crossbar can be frustrating for a player, especially at crucial moments when a goal is needed more than anything. Hitting the post can be the difference between victory or defeat, survival or relegation and even champions or runners-up. Despite this, the holder of this record probably isn’t concerned considering his impressive goal scoring tally despite being a proverbial post magnet.
Former Arsenal and Manchester United striker Robin van Persie has hit the post more times than any other Premier League player in history, having struck the woodwork 44 times.
But then, you can't hit the post without having a lot of chances, and RVP did score a lot too. In 280 Premier League appearances, he scored an impressive 144 goals, making him the highest scoring Dutch player in the league’s history (17 ahead of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink).
During his time in English football, van Persie won five Player of the Month awards, two Golden Boots, the 2012 PFA Player of the Year award, two Community Shields, the FA Cup and the Premier League. Van Persie left English football in 2015 when he was signed by Turkish side, Fenerbache. He returned to his boyhood club, Feyenoord, in 2018 before he announced his retirement from professional football a year later.