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Gabby Agbonlahor is such a loyal one-club man that should he be granted a testimonial the opponents will probably be Aston Villa reserves or his old youth team Great Barr Falcons.

Agbonlahor, who made his claret and blue debut eight and a half years ago, will have given a dozen years service if he sees out his new four-year contract extension.

The Brummie striker divides opinion.

There are those who love the boyhood Villa fan for staying true to his roots, continually pledging his future to B6 and never having his head turned by rival clubs.

Then there are those who believe a player with his pace and power should be troubling opposition defenders – and the goals and assists statistician much more regularly.

Either way, Agbonlahor is Villa’s record Premier League scorer with a tally which now stands at 68 goals, following his strike in last month’s home win over Hull.

Here, with the help of the 27 year-old frontman himself, we pick out five of Agbonlahor’s most memorable top flight efforts.

1) Blues 1 Villa 2, St Andrew’s, November 11, 2007

The Battle of Brum was finely poised at 1-1 after Mikael Forssell’s equaliser cancelled out Liam Ridgewell’s own goal – before a thrilling last-gasp smash and Gab.

With abuse from the Blues fans ringing in his ears, Agbonlahor hacked Agent Ridgewell’s header off the line at one end, before racing down the other to beat his former team-mate to Ashley Young’s cross to nod in a dramatic winner, much to the delight of the travelling Villa fans.

Gabby says: “The goals against Blues - they were big goals. Those goals are massive for me personally as a Villa fan and for the fans. When I came up from the youth team we were getting a few bad results against Blues and it was nice to come in and do my bit to help change that.

2) Blues 0 Villa 1, St Andrew’s, September 13, 2009

The scourge of St Andrew’s left it late again, heading the decisive goal on 85 minutes, to seal a 1-0 victory over Villa’s fierce rivals on enemy territory after John Carew helped on Ashley Young’s cross.

Gabby says: “They were the most important - the Blues games - because the buzz you can from those goals is more than any other goal really. Each time I can remember the celebrations with the fans and those memories will live with me forever.”

3) Villa 2 Fulham 0, Villa Park, August 30, 2009

We’ll be doing John Pantsil’s favourite Premier League goals for Villa another time, but after the Fulham defender’s o.g. put the claret and blues in front, Agbonlahor sealed a comfortable victory for Martin O’Neill’s team.

During a match in which fellow academy graduate Ciaran Clark made his first team debut, Agbonlahor stole the show when he dispossessed Jonathan Greening 40 yards out and stormed forward before letting fly with a left foot rasper.

Gabby says: “There was a game against Fulham at home where I scored with my left foot from long range.

“From what I remember of it I just thought ‘why not?’ and I must have hit the right part of the ball and it flew in. It was early in the season so it was a nice one to get my goals going for the season to give me some confidence.”

4) Villa 3 Blackburn 1, Villa Park, August 20, 2011

Alex McLeish’s home debut went better than initially feared, especially when Agbonlahor got the ball rolling with arguably his most aesthetically pleasing Prem goal in claret and blue.

Bursting down the left, the Brummie striker’s quick feet tied Michel Salgado in knots before he curled a sublime finish into the far corner from the edge of the penalty area.

It was his 50th Premier League goal and an impressive strike, before Emile Heskey and Darren Bent also scored to seal a convincing win.

Gabby says: “Blackburn at home the one that went in the top corner. It was one of those where players have got used to me running down the line so I tried to cut in and take a quick shot and it went in the top corner. It was in the first-half and it was still 0-0 so it proved to be important too.”

5) Arsenal 0 Villa 2, Emirates Stadium, November 15, 2008

Agbonlahor has scored some big goals for Villa against some big opponents including Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

He has notched the only Villa winner at Old Trafford in the last 30 years and scored against Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea in a Villa Park victory as well as socring at Anfield and Stamford Bridge.

But he rates his strike at the Emirates above those goals. Agbonlahor had already pressured Gael Clichy into heading an Ashley Young cross into his own net and then he secured a memorable win by latching onto Martin Laursen’s clearance, holding off William Gallas and firing past Manuel Almunia.

Gabby says: “It is hard to pick from all of them but mainly the ones that have been big goals such as the one at Arsenal away a few seasons back. To score in a win there is a brilliant feeling.”

When the 68 goals were scored and who against:

2005-06 (1 Premier League goal)

1 Everton 4 Villa 1, March 18 2006

2006-07 (9 Premier League goals)

2 Villa 2 Charlton 0 September 23 2006

3 Chelsea 1 Villa 1, September 30 2006

4 Liverpool 3 Villa 1 October 28 2006

5 Man Utd 3 Villa 1 January 13 2007

6 Villa 2 Watford 0, January 20 2007

7 Villa 1 Everton 1, April 2 2007

8 Blackburn 1 Villa 2, April 7 2007

9 Villa 1 Wigan 1, April 9 2007

10 Villa 3 Sheff Utd 0, May 5 2007

2007-08 (11 Premier League goals)

11 Villa 2 Chelsea 0, September 2 2007

12 Villa 2 Everton 0, September 23 2007

13 Tottenham 4 Villa 4, October 1 2007

14 Villa 1 Man Utd 4, October 20 2007

15 Blues 1 Villa 2 November 11 2007

16 Middlesbrough 0 Villa 3, November 24 2007

17 Wigan 1 Villa 2, December 29 2007

18 Villa 4 Bolton 0, April 5 2008

19 Derby 0 Villa 6, April 12 2008

20 Villa 5, Blues 1, April 20 2008

21 Everton 2, Villa 2, April 27 2008

2008-09 (12 Premier League goals)

22, 23, 24 Villa 4, Man City 2, August 17 2008

25 West Brom 1, Villa 2, September 21, 2008

26 Wigan 0 Villa 4, October 26, 2008

27 Villa 3, Blackburn 2, October 29, 2008

28 Arsenal 0, Villa 2, November 15, 2008

29,30 Villa 4, Bolton 0, December 13, 2008

31 Villa 2, West Brom 1, January 10 2009

32 Blackburn 0, Villa 2, February 7, 2009

33 Man Utd 3, Villa 2, April 5, 2009

2009-10 (13 Premier League goals)

34 Villa 2 Fulham 0, August 30 2009

35 Blues 0 Villa 1, September 13 2009

36 Villa 2 Portsmouth 0, September 19 2009

37 Blackburn 2 Villa 1, September 26 2009

38 Wolves 1 Villa 1, October 24 2009

39 Villa 5 Bolton 1, November 7 2009

40 Villa 1 Tottenham 1, November 28 2009

41 Man Utd 0 Villa 1, December 12 2009

42, 43 Fulham 0 Villa 2, January 30 2010

44 Villa 5, Burnley 2, February 21 2010

45 Villa 2, Everton 2, April 14 2010

46 Hull 0, Villa 2, April 21 2010

2010-11 (3 Premier League goals)

47 Wigan 1, Villa 2, January 25 2011

48 Blackpool 1, Villa 1, February 12 2011

49 West Ham 1, Villa 2, April 16 2011

2011-12 (5 Premier League goals)

50 Villa 1, Blackburn 3, August 20 2011

51 Everton 2, Villa 2, September 10 2011

52 Villa 1, Newcastle 1 September 17 2011

53 Villa 2, Wigan 0, October 1 2011

54 Villa 3 Norwich 2, November 5 2011

2012-13 (9 Premier League goals)

55 Sunderland 0, Villa 1, November 3 2012

56 West Brom 2, Villa 2, January 19 2013

57 Everton 3, Villa 3, February 2 2013

58 Reading 1, Villa 2, March 9 2013

59 Villa 3, QPR 2, March 16 2013

60 Stoke 1 Villa 3, April 6 2013

61 Villa 6 Sunderland 1, April 29 2013

62, 63 Norwich 1 Villa 2, May 4 2013

2013-14 (4 Premier League goals)

64 Southampton 2, Villa 3, December 4 2013

65 Villa 1 Swansea 1, December 28, 2013

66 Sunderland 0 Villa 1, January 1 2014

67 Swansea 4 Villa 1, April 26 2014

2014-15 so far (1 Premier League goal)

68 Villa 2 Hull 1, August 31 2014