The North London Derby takes place in an hour’s time, so I thought that it was appropriate to include a hat-trick from a previous match between Arsenal and Tottenham for this week’s Greatest Hat-Trick. On 23rd December, Arsenal travelled down the Seven Sisters Road to face arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane. A victory […]
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Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.11
Arsenal striker Nwankwo Kanu scored a fantastic hat-trick away to Chelsea on 23rd October 1999 There had been a torrential downpour on the day of the game and had left many areas of the pitch completely saturated. Puddles had even formed in small patches of the pitch, making it difficult for the ball to be […]
Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.10
Middlesbrough pulled off a shock transfer over the summer of 1996, signing Fabrizio Ravanelli from Juventus for a club-record £7 million. The signing turned a few heads as the Italian had won the Champions League the previous season. He had scored the first goal of the Final, which Juventus had won on penalties against a […]
Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.9
Imagine scoring a hat-trick in the FA Cup Final, only for one of your team mates to take the limelight? Well, that was the case for Blackpool’s Stan Mortensen in 1953. Blackpool had English football’s star player at the time, Stanley Matthews. He was 38 years old at the time and had yet to win […]
Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.8
This week’s ‘Greatest Hat-Trick’ comes from a Second Division match on 24th February 2004 between Bournemouth and Wrexham.It seems like a strange fixture to pick a hat-trick from, but all will come clear in a moment! Bournemouth were 3-0 up against their Welsh opponents when striker James Hayter came off the bench to replace Steve […]
Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.7
Arsenal manager opened his chequebook in September 1991 and signed Crystal Palace striker Ian Wright for a then-club record £2.5 million.Wright was told by Graham to expect a long wait on the substitutes bench as the club already had a few striking options in Kevin Campbell, Paul Merson and Alan Smith, winner of the golden […]
Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.6
This week’s ‘Greatest Hat-Trick’ comes from Matt Le Tissier for Southampton at home to Norwich on 27th February 1990. LeTissier was best known for his great skill and the wonderful goals that he scored for Southampton over the course of his career. The South Coast side was the only club that he ever played for, […]
Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.5
Paolo Rossi died on Wednesday at the age of 64. I wrote an obituary for him and this can be found here. The Italian striker scored a fantastic hat-trick for Italy against Brazil in the 1982 World Cup second stage against Brazil. The match is widely considered to be one of the greatest football matches […]
Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.4
I am writing about this hat-trick 23 years to the day since Dennis Bergkamp scored it. It could have featured as today’s ‘On This Day’ article but I felt that it was more deserving in the ‘Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks’ category. The hat-trick came in Arsenal’s fourth match of their 1997/98 season in a 3-3 draw […]
Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks No.3
I realised last night that I haven’t written one of these articles for quite a while now. This time, I think that it’s appropriate that I include Geoff Hurst’s hat-trick in the 1966 World Cup Final. My reasoning is that last Thursday (30th July) marked the 52nd anniversary since the greatest moment in English football history as […]