City Hat-tricks+ reference list

That can't be right. Steven Torpey got a hat trick ???????

 

Nice one RCB. Let's hope you have more to add to the list before the end of the season.

 

All 40 yarders with his left foot.

 

Yep was my first season and I remember it!

 

Great piece of research!

 

80-81 Harry Green. We always knew him as Rodney, I’m sure.

Edit

Just checked
His middle name was Rodney and used it himself as opposed to Harry.

 

Reckon I saw 7 of them.

 

In the game against Bournemouth on 24.1.70 we were 6-0 up at halftime. I'm pretty sure Bobby Ham scored a hat-trick in the first half. The visitors had a 16 year old keeper making his debut. He was repaced at the interval and we won 8-1.

 

Correct Dubois. As a primary school kid, fairly new to supporting City through my Dad and Grandad, I thought this is what happened every week! A joy of a day...and then I quickly discovered over the coming seasons...and years...and decades.. that this was one of our rare City hay days. But hope springs eternal! Stevenage was the most exciting game I've seen us play for a goodly long while.

 

We are lucky to have you amongst our number River City Bantam. I know I'm not alone in really appreciating your stats work.

 

When I was a little kid I remember sitting on the pavement watching Bobby Ham and the rest of the team walking into VP on a match day. I hadn't realized he was so tiny - and he was wearing a copper colored bri-nylon roll neck shirt. But to me he looked like a God. A couple of weeks earlier he'd scored one of the goals that gave us a totally unexpected 2-2 draw against Tottingham Hotspur in the FA Cup third round. Listened to the full match radio commentary the following week in the replay when we lost 5-0 and was in tears. As you do. As a kid. And hey, now and again since with City as an adult.

 

I was there

 

I knew Bobby as an acquaintance in later life and he was still wearing those polo neck jumpers. His son, Richard, lives about 80 yards from my house.

 

I thought Bruce Bannister's hat-trick against Wrexham must have been in our 7-1 FA Cup victory but I see that that was on 9 December 1967, a couple of weeks later. In that game the Wrexham players became increasingly annoyed with the ref, as well as being soundly thrashed, and it all boiled over when City were given a free kick, just outside the area in the D. Almost the whole Wrexham team, including the keeper, rushed towards the ref to protest and he retreated to the corner of the box. With them all surrounding him he blew his whistle for the kick to be taken and we just passed it into the empty net. A priceless memory.