ITS A HAT TRICK

https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/dont-leave-before-end.html

This blog above was about hat tricks, you know, when one player is a scorer of three goals in the same match. Some would like those goals to be consecutive and some are really fussy insisting that the perfect hat trick is right foot, left foot and head. Sadly I don't have any evidence of perfection....

Alan Shearer scored a hat trick in his full debut for Southampton against Arsenal on April 9th 1988 in a 4-2 win. At 17 years and 240 days he was the youngest to score a hat trick in the "top flight". He had scored in the previous two games.

The first Premier League hat trick was scored on August 25th 1992, ten days into the season. Eric Cantona playing for Leeds Utd, scored three against Tottenham in a 5-0 win at Elland Road. Earlier in the month Eric had scored three against Liverpool in a 4-3 win in the Charity Shield at Wembley.

Sadio Mane, another Southampton player (then), scored three in 2' 56" in a 6-1 victory against Aston Villa at St Mary's on Saturday May 16th 2015. 21 years earlier Robbie Fowler scored three times in 4' 33" on Sunday August 28th 1994 against Arsenal at Anfield.

Graham Leggatt of Fulham (below), a Scot, scored a fast hat trick of 3 goals in 3 minutes v Ipswich on Boxing Day 1963. The final score was Fulham 10 Ipswich 1. Two days later at Portman Road, Ipswich beat Leggatt's side  4-1 .

Ian St John did the hat trick in 2' 27" for Motherwell v Hibernian on August 15th 1959.

In September 1929, Joe Bradford of Birmingham City scored 3 hat tricks in 8 days against Newcastle Utd, for the Football League v the Irish League and against Blackburn Rovers.

Jimmy Harris was proud to score a hat trick for Everton in 1958-9 against Tottenham at White Hart Lane. I remember it well, because Spurs won 10-4. Here is Jimmy at WHL, scoring.

Gareth Bale created another record for Tottenham whe playing in a Europa League tie against Greek side, Asteras Tripolis, at White Hart Lane. He scored 3 before going in goal to replace Hugo Lloris who had been sent off.

Cliff Holton scored three for Watford against Chester on Good Friday 1960  and then on the following day (Saturday), he scored another hat trick against Gateshead.

Anything goes in South America! Indeed Paraguayan goalkeeper, Jose Luis Chilavert, playing for club side Velez Sarsfield in the Argentinian League, on 28th January 1999 scored 3 penalties against Ferro Carril Oeste in a 6-1 win. The first goalkeeper to achieve the hat trick. He scored 48 goals in 341 appearances for his club and 8 goals in 74 internationals. He also slotted a free-kick from his side of the half way line against River Plate.