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 […]
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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.1
Rivaldo completes his hat-trick over Valencia, June 21st 2001 This new series features the greatest hat-tricks scored in football history. There have been some great hat-tricks scored over the years and so I thought it’d be a nice tribute to start a series about them. Greatest ever hat-tricks No.1 – Rivaldo (Barcelona) vs Valencia, La […]