August 28 – Fergie Gets Pally and Folwer Gets Three

Fergie buys another piece of the jigsaw as Robbie Fowler bags the Premier League’s quickest-ever hat-trick.

1994 – Fowler Gets His Hat-trick On

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. Really all about it here.

1989 – Fergie Gets Pally

AT the start of his reign Alex Ferguson was scratching his head and trying to figure out how to deliver the League title back to Old Trafford for the first time since 1967. As he often does, he decided that he needed to throw money at the problem and today in 1989 he broke the English record between two English clubs by paying £2.3m for Middlesbrough centre-back Gary Pallister. Click here for the whole story.

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