Dimitar Berbatov's scintillating hat-trick for Manchester United against Liverpool on Sunday was significant, if not immense, for all sorts of reasons. And it takes its place in the pantheon of outstanding trebles in English football history - hat-tricks whose impact went beyond the sum of the three strikes because of the context in which they were scored.
Some contributed to vital victories or rescued seeming lost causes, others set remarkable records, yet others simply took the breath away with their rapidity, quality, audacity and improbability…
Goal.com UK recalls 10 of the greatest (plus some others worthy of football jerseys
honourable mentions). But we recoignise that such a list is unavoidably subjective, so invite readers to nominate other hat-tricks they feel deserve to be in the top 10 (and why) by using the comments box b closed in on the 1927-28 First Division title, he needed nine goals from the last three games to beat the record of 59 goals in a season set by George Camsell one year earlier. He scored two against Aston Villa, then four at Burnley, as Everton clinched the title before the final match, at home to Arsenal.
But 21-year-old Dixie still needed three to set a new record for most League goals in a single season. With a trademark header and a penalty, he equalled Camsell's record. Then with eight minutes of the campaign remaining, he soared to complete his hat-trick with an emphatic header, breaking the record outright with his 60th league goal of the season. It was his most memorable of 37 career hat-tricks.
World Cup for the country. Controversy still rages about the veracity of Hurst's second - the shot that bounced down off the underside of the bar in extra-time - but the goal stood, and the West Ham striker removed all argument about the result by hammering home his third and England's fourth so late that some people were already on the pitch, thinking it was all over.
strong defensive solidity but were blown away by the precocious Robbie Fowler, who destroyed them with a dazzling three goals in four minutes and 33 seconds.
The Reds won 3-0 to maintain a 100 per cent start to their season, and Chargers jersey
Fowler's treble remains the fastest in Premier League history.
Spurs were trailing 2-0 to the Saints at The Dell in an FA Cup fifth round replay when manager Gerry Francis sent on substitute Rosenthal in the 44th minute with the instruction to "take the initiative".
The Israeli transformed the match, galvanising Tottenham's hitherto toothless attack. He fired home two goals to force extra-time, then completed his hat-trick during the additional half-hour to give Spurs the lead.
Southampton were so shell-shocked that Teddy Sheringham, Nick Barmby and Darren Anderton were able to add the icing to Rosenthal's cake in a 6-2 win.
performances the Toon Army had ever seen. Against their illustrious Catalan opponents, they touched heights few had believed they were capable of, with maverick Colombian Tino Asprilla the catalyst.
He converted a penalty before adding two fine headers — a result of unfathomably high leaps into the air — from the outstanding Keith Gillespie to send Geordies into dreamland.
Barcelona came back late in the game to make it 3-2, but the night belonged to Asprilla and his three trademark somersault celebrations.
Arsenal were two down against Gianluca Vialli's highly-fancied Chelsea with a quarter-of-an-hour remaining at Stamford Bridge. The Blues hadn't conceded a goal at home all season, but Nigerian forward Kanu struck what most imagined was a consolation effort in the 75th minutes.
Nine minutes later he'd netted an improbable equaliser. Then in injury time, he Bears jersey
pounced on a mistake by Albert Ferrer to seize possession, side-stepped onrushing goalie Ed de Goey and, despite the presence of Frank Leboeuf and Marcel Desailly on the goal-line, chipped both from what seemed an impossibly acute angle to make it 3-2 to the vistors.
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