Sergio Aguero, Luis Suarez and Edin Dzeko are among the strikers who can lay claim to making a big impact in 2011 after arriving in the Premier League. An unlikely addition to the list is Grant Holt, the Norwich captain whose long journey to the English top flight includes a spell in Southeast Asia.
Like Aguero, Suarez and Dzeko, Holt plays up front but that is where the similarities end. Holt is an unfashionable English forward who, until recently, was barely known outside East Anglia or the gritty towns of Cumbria and Yorkshire where he began his playing career.
Lacking in glamour he may be, but the barrel-chested 30-year-old has been clinically effective in Norwich's impressive return to the Premiership. His seven goals this season make him the equal-third top English-born scorer and have some Canaries fans calling for inclusion in Team GB for the London 2012 Olympics.
Last weekend, he made Dutch World Cup defender Johnny Heitinga look second-rate as he concocted a remarkable goal at close quarters as Norwich drew 1-1 with Everton at Goodison Park.
The previous week Holt scored with two headers to give the Canaries a largely unexpected 4-2 victory over Newcastle, who had gone the first three months of the season unbeaten.
Holt made it to the top the hard way. He began in non-league football with clubs like Barrow, Workington and Halifax Town and less than three years ago he was playing in England's fourth tier with Shrewsbury Town.