Ian Concannon scored his 100th goal for Hungerford on Saturday when coming off the bench to score the much needed equaliser in the Fa Cup match against Moneyfields. Concannon has scored 100 goals in 105 competitive first team appearances since his arrvial to the club in 2007 and is the most prolific record the club has ever seen.

Even in his advancing years he is still scoring goals at a very good level of football.

Amongst his goals he is very much a clubman and his committment is second to none.

Concannons goalscoring record also expands to more than the 100 goals if you include the friendlies and reserve matches he has played in.

Below is Ian's record at Didcot Town, where he again in the clubs most prolific scorer in their history.

Ian Concannon: Club career 2001-2007 Apps 309; Gls 283

Ian Concannon was brought up in Didcot and was well known to the club when he moved to the Railwaymen in 2001.

As a youngster Concannon had impressed at both Reading and Oxford United. He was unfortunate not to be offered a trainee contract at the latter but, not deterred, he moved into local football. He played at Abingdon Town (briefly as skipper) and Oxford City before joining AFC Wallingford at the start of the 1999 season. It was at the Hithercroft that Concannon's remarkable goal-scoring started in earnest. Playing in the Combined Counties with AFC, Concannon top-scored over two seasons and notched 80 goals. Didcot fans even saw him playing against us in the Berks & Bucks Senior Trophy Final in 2001, one of his last for AFC, before a summer move to Abingdon Town. Within weeks of the start of the new season, however, Concannon was on his way to the Loop Meadow.

Looking back it was no great surprise that Conners got off to a scoring start, the winner, in a 2-1 Floodlit Cup win against Milton United. Four days later he scored a brace against Harrow Hill, and the first of his hat-tricks arrived just a week after he had joined us, at Southall Town in a 4-0 win. Incredibly this level of goal-scoring continued week after week, month after month, just about throughout his six seasons with the club.

Concannon's strength were his eye for goal, knowing and anticipating where the ball would finish in and around the box, and then having two great feet. He wasn't the quickest, strongest or the best in the air, but that didn't matter. Playing alongside a target man he didn't need these traits.

Records don't lie, and Concannon's goal-scoring statistics need to be scrutinised. They are as good as anyone playing at level 4 and 5 in the country in the first few years of the 21st Century. In six seasons he scored 283 goals. This haul was made up of 13 hat-tricks, he scored four goals in a game 6 times, five goals once and equalled the club record 6 goals in one game twice (both in the space of two months in early 2002).

With so many notable performances it's difficult to select particular games from his Didcot career, but there are a couple that stand out.

At the time the FA vase Quarter Final (on Saturday 5th March 2005) at the Loop against Bury Town was arguably the club's most important competitive game for decades (bigger games, admittedly, were just around the corner). Conners was simply excellent throughout, combining well with Stuart Beavon and Bradley Ward in and around the Bury box. After falling behind it was Concannon who scored a blistering volley to equalize, and then a typical Concannon strike to see us through in front of more than 1200 delirious supporters.

It must have been with great satisfaction that Conners regularly scored against all standards of opposition. For a while there was a notion, peddled almost exclusively from those outside the club, that he only scored against the poorer sides. He did, of course, famously score against against full-strength Premiership Reading side in a pre-season friendly for Didcot. But he also managed to score 20 goals in the club's first ever showing in the Southern League (a tally that saw him in the top 10 goalscorers that season). During that campaign he managed a memorable four-timer against SL Premier outfit Merthyr Tydfil in the Errea Cup. In essence, the criticism was without foundation and brief look at which sides and players he scored against would underline this fact.

Concannon was the Golden Boot winner (the award from the Hellenic League for top goalscorer) in all five seasons he played in the Hellenic League with Didcot. A record in itself.

His best years were almost certainly playing in tandem with Stuart Beavon. The pinnacle of their partnership was the FA Vase success in 2004-2005 when they literally terrorised opponents up and down the country. The following year they scored a combined total of exactly 100 goals between them (Concannon grabbing 60 of these) in a partnership that helped Didcot break all record in claiming the Hellenic Premier Division title.

The strength of the Concannon/Beavon partnership was that each one compensated for the other's weaknesses. Although neither had too many of those! Beavon was quicker, better in the air and worked tigerishly in harrassing opponents. Concannon was a better finisher, no question the best in the club's history, but he was also a very astute and intelligent footballer. A great provider of goals, as was Beavon, and perhaps surprisingly he was rarely greedy about goal-scoring. If someone was better placed, he would pass to them, and that is unusual for those with a prolific goal-scoring record.

At the start of the 2007 season, and after six years with the club, Conners moved-on initially to Witney United but shortly after on a permanent basis to Hungerford Town. With Ashley Vine and Michael Bartley moving to the club during the summer, he was no longer guaranteed a place in the starting line-up and the opportunity to earn a new club a promotion was too good to miss. He left on good terms both with the management and with supporters, a recognition from all that we were witnessing the end of an era of almost unprecedented success.

Concannon's place in Didcot Town's history is secure. If this football club lasts for another 100 years Ian Concannon will still be the record goal-scorer. And there is no doubt that Didcot supporters will reflect on his achievements, and that of his team-mates, for as long as the club exists.