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What is Hattrick?

it's when you score three goals in football

You sure ask a lot of questions :P

And a fiver to the person who can tell me why it's called a hat trick [I already know :P]

Hat trick comes from cricket . A cricket bowler who got rid of three batsmen on three balls in a row would have a new hat bought for him by his teammates.

..you'v got my address for my Fiver! :D

Thank god for wikipedia:
Hat Trick
Hat Trick is a term from cricket and means three wickets taken on successive balls bowled by a given bowler. They need not be in the same over. Showing keen understanding of various principles, wickets on four consecutive balls is called a double hat trick. It originated in 1858 when a cricket player took three wickets with consecutive balls and was given a new hat by his club as a reward.

The term has been usurped into other contexts. If someone scores three goals in a soccer game they are said to have scored a hat trick, even if there were intervening goals scored by other plays.

In North America, "hat trick" is usually associated with hockey (ice hockey in particular); though it is often used in soccer as well. (Hat tricks in hockey are far more common). In the context of hockey, any combination of goals/assists (an assist is a play which leads directly to a goal) which adds up to three is considered a hat trick. No need for them to be consecutive, or scored against the same goalkeeper.

In ice hockey, assists don't count -- a single player must score three goals in a game. If the player scores three consecutive goals, with no player on either team scoring an intervening goal between his first and third goal, it is called a "natural hat trick". It is traditional for the fans to throw their hats out on the ice when a player scores a hat trick.


Maybe one should add that it is at least discussable if hattrick just means a player scores 3 goals. In Germany the official way of defining hattrick is that the 3 goals must be scored without intervening goals scored by other players (no matter which team they are in) and they must be scored in on half. Ok we have very few official hattricks.....

haha... unlucky! i beat you :P

I was always told it was when someone scored three goals, the crowd passed a hat around and they each put some money in :P

Nick, I'll send you the fiver in exchange for some new Stateless stuff ;)

hehe.. we havn't been recording much recently... its a quiet time of year uz of exams and stuff. We did a few tracks about a month ago, but our bass player hasn't got his ass into gear to burn them onto CD for me!

Honestly! Bass players, eh? It's always them or the drummers :P Thought of a new name yet?

erm.... no! we'll get one when it becomes a problem... ie if a) we get massive b) the other stateless get massive.. probably the latter! ...but yeah, we do need a new name at some stage.

Call yourselves "The Shining Source" and spread the good word wherever you go ;)

I didn't know because I am not one to enjoy sports, I only watch the Super bowl because I get a lot of food too.

God bless America.

Greedy bastard, at least have him bless europe too