Alex Richman’s hand flew straight up. “An answer I knew off the top of my head,” he exclaims. “Step forward teenage prodigy Jermaine Pennant, whose only goals for Arsenal weren’t just a hat-trick, but a first-half hat-trick on his league debut, against Southampton. He was never going to top that, really … ” Which football champions generate most Labour and Conservative governments? Read more Alright, alright but what about some more recent fun and games. “This actually Jacob Schum Womens Jersey occurred as recently as 21 May as teenage striker Scott Wright scored a hat-trick in Aberdeen’s 6-0 win at Patrick Thistle,” tells Ali MacManus. “A product of the Dons’ youth academy, these were Wright’s first and only goals for the club in only his second start after a handful of substitute appearances.” Step forward Tom Colyer with another tale. He references “the deadly former Arsenal man Yaya Sanogo”, as he bagged his only three goals for Charlton while on loan in a 4-3 defeat by Reading in 2015-16. “What a man,” he indulges. Further north Nick Moore has more. “David Ferrère has done this for Motherwell, scoring a hat-trick against Hibs in February 2002,” he says. “What made it even more incredible was that he came on as a second-half substitute and it was his debut. So all were scored within his first 45 minutes on the pitch.” “Former Slovenia international Robert Koren scored a hat-trick against Newcastle Jets in his first start for Melbourne City, and failed to score (or do much of anything, really) in any other game of his underwhelming stint in Australia,” argues Ciaran Hannigan-Purcel. “Twenty-six games in all, and just those three goalsWe have all heard the stories of the failed next big thing. Zakaria Bakkali still has time to readdress his rapid descent but Sean DeLoughry remembers him becoming “the youngest ever hat-trick scorer in the Eredivisie”. He was 17. “He scored three for PSV in a 5-0 win over NEC Nijmegen,” he recalls. “He soon fell out of favour and failed to find he net again before departing http://www.greenbaypackersauthorizedstore.com/jahri-evans-jersey-elite for Valencia in 2015.” The Belgian has scored just three goals since. Advertisement Here are a few more curious cases. Antonio Marreiros suggests Carlos Bueno, the former Paris Saint-Germain striker who went above and beyond the perimeters of this question in 2006-07 on loan at Sporting Lisbon. “In the time he spent at the club he scored four goals in 14 appearances, all the goals in the same match, a league game against Nacional da Madeira,” he offers up. “Weirdly enough, he scored all four goals in just 20 minutes.” An honourable mention must go to the former Norway international K?re Ingebrigsten, who struck three for Manchester City against Leicester City in 1994, courtesy of Steve Doohan. “A lightweight and underwhelming midfielder who only made six starts, he was part of a team who had been outplayed by their then-second tier visitors in a goalless opening 45 minutes,” he recalls. “However, he rattled in a second-half hat-trick to help his team win 4-1 in a game also memorable for a stunning 40-yard chipped strike by the similarly maligned Alan Kernaghan. They were to be Ingebrigsten’s only official goals during his brief stay in England. He had also scored against Ipswich Town in the Premier League five days earlier but in a classic outbreak of ‘Typical City’ the match was abandoned before half-time due to a waterlogged pitch http://www.sandiegochargersauthorizedstore.com/jason-verrett-jersey-elite with the Manchester club leading 2-0. That meant his ‘goal’ was expunged from the records.” More? “Chris Templeman marked his debut for Dumbarton with a hat-trick in a 3-1 victory away to East Stirlingshire on 18 September 1999,” writes Robin Paxton. “Then 19, Templeman went on to become a prolific goalscorer in the Scottish lower leagues (he was banging them in for Montrose in the season just ended). But these three goals at Firs Park were his only strikes for Dumbarton.” Here’s Duncan Monro. “I was in attendance for diminutive Frenchman David Ferrer’s debut where he came on as a half-time substitute for my beloved Motherwell,” he says. “He proceeded to bang in three practically identical goals, cutting in from the right wing and bending it around Hibs’ goalie, helping us to a 4-1 win (one of very few that season, where we finished bottom and were only spared relegation because the SPL deemed Falkirk’s stadium inadequate). Ferrer went on to make only a few more appearances, where I don’t recall him coming remotely close to scoring again, and he left not long after, following our descent into administration. Fortunately for the Fir Park faithful, it wasn’t all doom and gloom – it was James McFadden’s breakthrough season, and as such I remember it fondly.” Are Chelsea champions of the year-on-year football points swing? Read more Luca De Angelis, meanwhile, is back for round two. “Since I am a Bologna FC 1909 fan, I can remember this feat being accomplished by a young striker who played the game of his life against us,” he remembers. “In the last match of the 2010-11 Serie A season, Francesco Grandolfo – a promising 18-year-old forward, who had debuted two weeks earlier and had only played for a total of 45 minutes in two Amos Youth Jersey appearances as a sub before starting the match against Bologna – scored three goals for Bari in less than an hour (in the 28th, 46th and 54th minute). This was his third game of the season, and he played only six more Serie B matches for Bari in the 2012-2013 season, without finding the back of the net. Since January 2013, he has only played in the third and the fourth tier of Italian football.”
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