DAVID LEE WHEATLEY looks back at the career of a striker who held all the Spanish records until a certain Lionel Messi turned up

Athletic Bilbao legend Telmo ZarraHailed by many as the greatest striker ever to grace Spanish football, the late Telmo Zarra reigned supreme as the highest goalscorer in La Liga history until Barcelona’s phenomenonal Lionel Messi overtook the former Athletic Bilbao goal-machine at the top of the charts this season – with 270 and still counting at the start of April against Zarra’s 252.So who was Zarra? He spent a solitary season with s...