Zimbabwe: Zim Stars in Exclusive Club
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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.
Football: Hat-trick in 44 minutes - All Whites striker Chris Wood makes English Premier League history
25 Apr, 2021 06:45 PM
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All Whites striker Chris Wood has made history in the English Premier League after going on a goal-scoring spree in the first half of Burnley s match against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Monday.
Three goals in his side s first 44 minutes against Wolves made Wood the first Kiwi to score a Premier League hat-trick, with New Zealand now the 46th different nation to be represented by a hat-trick scorer in the competition.