The goals of Mohamed Salah have dried up since Liverpool from Europe almost slid in the bag with the competition title.
Those eight days ago against Tottenham, number four of five in one day of pure joy on Anfield, was his 28th Premier League goal of the season and yet his first for seven weeks.
It will not bother the champions. It may not bother Salah. Another title medal is on the road and a new contract is signed. But with only three to play, that dry spell can retain a record that has been for more than 70 years.
George Robledo from Newcastle scored 33 league goals in 1951-52, most in a top season by an overseas registered and born abroad.
At that time there were four games for a season, but the endurance of the album is surprising if you think of the goals looted by world -class attackers such as Thierry Henry and Luis Suarez since the Premier League became really worldwide.
Erling Haaland came in with 36 in his first City season in Manchester, but is excluded from a technical way because he was born in Leeds.
Robledo was born 99 years ago in Iquique, in Noord -Chili, although raised from the age of six in South Yorkshire.
His mother Elsie worked as a personal assistant of the wife of a rich British chemical engineer who worked in the mining and sodium nitrate industry in the Atacama desert where she met his father, Aristides.
They got married and had three sons. And the family was all on board the Reina del Pacifico who had sailed from Valparaiso to Liverpool when Aristides from the ship struck a pretension that he was going to buy cigarettes. He did not return.
They sailed the boys without him and Elsie, George, Ted and Walter in West-Melton, a small town in the Dearne Valley, a region that was famous in the post-war era for his coal and a rich production line of football talent.
George worked in the pits and played for Barnsley in the old division two, where his exploits as an inside soon attracted interest from larger and richer clubs.
Newcastle won the fight to sign him because they were willing to sign Ted. They paid £ 26,500 for the couple. George was always considered more naturally gifted, but his younger brother developed into a very good wing half. Their story is no secret. Perhaps, as I was familiar with the name, the origin and status of it as another pearl of Trivia.
George was the first South American to appear in a FA Cup final in 1951. Ted was the second in 1952 when they both started the final against Arsenal, and George went in the only goal. Ossie Ardiles and Ricardo Villa were the third and fourth, 30 years later.
The complete Robledo story, however, as told by Spencer Vignes in postcards from Santiago, published by Bitback, reveals so much more. It restores the mysterious disappearance of Ted at sea, suspected murdered at the age of 42 and the late twist of a secret brother or sister. Moreover, there is a wonderful wealth of details to enjoy, picked up much of it from letters and postcards sent by George, who turned out to be just as productive with a pen as he was with a ball.
He wrote to friends in Barnsley when he moved to Newcastle and wrote to friends in Newcastle when he left them for Colo-Colo in Chile.
Colo-Colo was so overwhelmed with requests for signatures they produced in mass postcards with a photo of George to simplify the process, but he not only scribbled a signature, he wrote messages and if someone written back, he would write again.
Vignes discovered connections in South Yorkshire and Tyneside still cherish bundles with hand -written correspondence of one of the few real stars of world football.
Robledo was just as much product of English football as Chilean football, but he had no doubt which country he would represent when international recognition became a possibility.
George won his first cap for Chile during the World Cup final in 1950, played in a group game against England, although he hardly had a word Spanish and spoke English with a strong Yorkshire -accent.
Once back in Chile, where he met his wife Gladys, he refused the opportunities to return to clubs in England. He lived there until his death in 1989 at the age of 62.
It goes without saying that his story fades as football seasons rattle past, only again inflamed when his performance is about to be surpassed.
So, in the most beautiful way, it can live for a long time. Salah can stay in the conversation for a little longer without 33 goals and the legend of George Robledo.
Five things I learned this week
1. If the winner of Evanilson at Arsenal is channeled in his elbow, Bournemouth will feel that they owe happiness. They have wiped out seven goals this season. It is hardly surprising fans suspect that civil servants find it easier to rule against 'Kleine Oude Bournemouth'.
Evanlison only played because a profession destroyed his red card from the Manchester United game, when the time needed to make the wrong decision was the time to be added to give an equalizer in the 96th minute.
2. Eric Dier was surplus for the requirements in Tottenham, not fast enough to tackle a highline defense, but his third goal in four games led to a comeback from Bayern Munich near Leipzig. The results on Sunday mean that he and Harry Kane are now Bundesliga champions. Life after Spurs, who knew it?
3. Cardiff won none of the six under their first manager of the season and none of the three under their third. In the 37 games in between, Omer Riza gathered 41 points, a relationship that would have held them if they had sustained more than 46 games. Riza picked them up when they were at a low point, gave them a fight and plundered him and sank back to the bottom. Some clubs get what they earn.
4. No play-offs to read, but we have to cheer their heroic efforts in crisis and hopefully something expensive than promotion is going on with the end of the Dai Yongge era.
5. Burton Albion completed a big escape in League One, but to survive stories it is difficult to beat Boston United, who won nine of the last 12 under Graham Coughlan. From 12 points on Drift in March, they will enter the last match in Maidenhead on Monday with the status of the National League.