Zimbabwe: Zim Stars in Exclusive Club
Zimbabwe: Zim Stars in Exclusive Club
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Senior Sports Editor
WHEN Chris Woods produced a first-half blitz to power Burnley to a crushing victory over Wolves on Sunday, it brought New Zealand into an exclusive club of nations.
The countries whose players have scored, at least a hat-trick, in the English Premiership.
Only 46 countries, about a quarter of the number of the nations around the world, have provide a footballer, who has scored a hat-trick, in the league, with the globe’s biggest spectator patronage.
Woods, the gangly Burnley attacking spearhead, scored all his three goals, in the first 44 minutes, and became the first New Zealander, to score a Premiership hat-trick.