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Milburn quickly became a hero on parts of Tyneside once League Football returned after World War II in 1946.

He played 395 games for Newcastle, and is the club's second highest league and cup goalscorer with 200 goals ; six goals behind Alan Shearer.

Shearer's European goals take his total to 206, there were no European games in Milburn's day, so he still remains the club's top goal scorer with 200 league and domestic cup goals, and 38 wartime match goals during World War 2, seeing his total record score 238 goals in 492 games.