...because we need to split a match ball in half at Hartlepool tonight:

Hartlepool 3
Porter 53
Porter 82
Porter 90

Swindon 3
Cox 5
Cox 39
Cox 52

I wonder how many times this has happened before?

Watford 6 v 3 Grimsby - Ramage and Connolly both got hatricks for Watford.
http://www.bsad.org/9596/reports/grimsbyh.html

think its usually the first player to get three that gets the ball...

Mick Quinn & John Aldridge both scored a hat-trick in a surreal 6-6 ZDS game under Ossie Ardiles ...

didnt 3 Man City players score three each in a 10-1 mauling of Huddersfield back in the 1980s?

Bah.

You can shove your fucking 'Supermac' up your arse...

David Kelly & Andy Cole both got 3 in a 7-1 demolition of Leicester during our promotion season ...

Kelly was the first to get there and was also immortalised in song the night the championship was celebrated after being shown live on the ITV network...

David Kelly David Kelly
Scored a hat-trick on the telly

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didnt 3 Man City players score three each in a 10-1 mauling of Huddersfield back in the 1980s?

Tony Adcock, Paul Stewart, David White. Plus Andy May and Neil McNab.

think its usually the first player to get three that gets the ball

Usually, but not always. I was at a game in 1989 when Thistle were 2-0 and then 4-2 up against Albion Rovers, and still managed to lose 5-4.

John Flood of Thistle completed his hat-trick first, but Colin Cougan of the Wee Rovers took the match ball as Floody understandably didn't want a memento of the game...

Yeah I reckon Joel Porter didn't have to fight Simon Cox much for tonight's match ball.

I wonder what Big Dave's Gussett thought about that result...

Let's just say that I was one step ahead of your invitation to "get a knife". Fucking football - despite the frequent disappointments it dishes out, it never fails to come as a complete surprise when my team sink to fresh but familiar depths. I'm less pissed off at the result than at my own disappointment at it. Essentially, I'm pissed off about being pissed off. Fuck it all to hell.

Your beloved Terriers could do Swindon a favour next weekend. By bending us over your collective knees and administering an aggresive thrashing upon out pink, exposed, buttocks, it might just force our chairman into action. Poor old Malpas isn't equiped to get us out of the pickle he's creating. Time for a change.

Joe Harper scored a hat-trick in the 1975-76 Scottish League Cup Final final., but was overshadowd by Dixie Deans treble in Celtic’s 6-3 win over Hibs.

ale wrote:

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Mick Quinn & John Aldridge both scored a hat-trick in a surreal 6-6 ZDS game under Ossie Ardiles ...

this was the second game i ever watched (the first being a trip to boundary park to watch mark stimson piss away two points with a last-touch-of-the-game own goal, new years day 1991).

it was on this new-fangled satellite television business, and it sadly convinced me that football was the most exciting thing on the surface of the planet. 3-3 at the end of normal time, another six goals in extra time. a whip-cracker!

for years i thought my memory was playing tricks on me (i didn't think to look at zds cup scores!) anyway, it turned up in the guardian's the knowledge as such:

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Dave Perrett and Paul Smith both remember Tranmere's titanic 6-6 tussle with Newcastle in the Zenith Data Systems Cup, perhaps the Mickey Mouse of all Mickey Mouse Cup tournaments.

The game saw 12 goals, two hat-tricks (from Micky Quinn and John Aldridge), an amazing extra-time recovery from Newcastle (then managed by one Osvaldo Ardiles) as they came from 5-3 down to 6-5 up, as well as two penalties in the final minute of extra-time (the first to put Newcastle ahead, the next to put Tranmere level) before Tranmere finally won 3-2 in the penalty shoot-out.

This was one of the first games on Sky, and, as a producer at Sky commented after the match, "Things can only go downhill after this."

Brighton and Cheltenham are following a similar path at the moment. Symmetrists everywhere must be hoping for a third from Cheltenham's Murray. Latest score:

Brighton 3
Murray 1
Murray 7
Murray 47

Cheltenham 2
Murray 2
Murray 45+2

Edit: Gallinagh, you've ruined everything!

Brian Deane and Tony Agana both scored hat tricks for Sheffield United against Chester City in a 6-1 win. One in the first half and one in the second, very neat.

Granted this isn't quite as impressive, but rather than two players scoring three goals, there was a match yesterday in Argentina which saw three players score two:

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Lanús (E. Salvio 8, 30; J. Sand 28, 85) 4 Argentinos Juniors 2 (N. Pavlovich 22, 36)

Same thing happened at Le Stade de Gigg on Satdee. Kyle Wilson and Chris Baguley scored twice for FC United, and Lee Thompson scored two for Witton.