August 28 - Fowler Gets His Hat-trick On
England, Everton, Liverpool, Uncategorized August 28th, 2007
ROBBIE FOWLER. Scouser, joker, property magnate, race horse owner, footballer, goalscorer, award winning poet. Well ok, not the last one - not yet anyway - but goalscorer certainly, and it was on this day in 1994 that Fowler scored the fastest ever Premiership hat-trick for Liverpool against Arsenal.
It took the young front man just four minutes and thirty-three seconds to complete the feat - a record which still stands today, and one which we thought was worth commemorating by getting our illustrator Tom Plant to work his magic with Robbie’s image (above).
Frequently hailed as the best finisher of his generation by pundits who couldn’t think of anything original to say about him, Fowler did have a sense of humour. Following allegations about drug abuse from Everton fans, Robbie celebrated his goal against the Toffeemen by miming snorting cocaine along the white line of the penalty area. Not everyone was laughing though, and the FA fined Robbie £60,000 for bringing the game into disrepute. Spoil sports. I bet multi-millionaire Robbie was really gutted about that punishment.
Still, bulging the back of the old onion bag is what Robbie’s game is all about so witness the record breaking hat-trick below. And don’t forget to pop back tomorrow to see which player was more unpopular with the nation than Jade Goody after Celebrity Big Brother.
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August 28th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Poor defending
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