Willie Stewart was Newton Heath’s record goalscorer for the 1889-1890 season, netting ten goals in 19 games. In fact Stewart scored in the Club’s first Alliance game when Sunderland Albion were defeated 4-1 at North Road on 21st September 1889. Stewart had joined the Heathens a few weeks earlier from Warwick County.
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