Plus: four different players scoring twice, winning a competition after being reinstated and injured physios (revisited)
Plus: four different players scoring twice, trophy glory after being reinstated and injured physios (revisited)
Mail us with your all of your questions and answers
“QPR recently scored six goals against Pompey with three players scoring a double each,” begins Dan Trelfer. “This threw up a few questions.”
So it did. Let’s take Dan’s questions one at a time.
1) What’s the most number of goals a team has scored in a game without a player scoring a hat-trick?
Plus: more players ignoring tactical instructions, free-kick flurries and Wembley Stadium’s first resident club
Plus: high-ranking nations where Ballon d’Or winners have never played and an own-goal scoring hat-trick hero
Plus: long title droughts in capital cities, a meeting of (very) young minds and the ultimate pass master
Plus: high-scoring symmetrical scorelines, Scottish two-club title winners and an almost-one-club manager
Plus: scoring past three keepers in one day, highest ratio of European to domestic titles and a dream result
Plus: offside goalkeepers, long-distance English away-days and the Charity Shield curse
