[stuart.]

Hello

Who was the last Scottish player to score a hattrick in top flight English football?

Do you understand?

[Tom_Bro]

Kevin Gallacher for Blackburn Rovers vs. Aston Villa. A 5-0 win in January 1998.

[stuart.]

Nice one, did you register specially with the forum to tell me that? Thanks.

[Stevie Aitken's Love Child]

Found <this page> on wikipedia.

Who in the name of holy hell is John Hendrie?

This post has been edited by Stevie Aitken's Love Child: 24 October 2011 - 11:27

[Distant Doonhamer]

Stevie Aitken, on 24 October 2011 - 11:27, said:

Found <this page> on wikipedia.

Who in the name of holy hell is John Hendrie?

http://en.wikipedia....ki/John_Hendrie

[Stevie Aitken's Love Child]

Distant Doonhamer, on 24 October 2011 - 13:11, said:

http://en.wikipedia....ki/John_Hendrie

For a guy who scored a decent amount of goals at a decent level, I'm surprised that he was never capped. I had just never heard of him.

[Skyline Drifter]

Stevie Aitken, on 24 October 2011 - 18:22, said:

For a guy who scored a decent amount of goals at a decent level, I'm surprised that he was never capped. I had just never heard of him.

It was an era when we were still qualifying regularly for international tournaments (we were at the World Cups of 90 and 98 and the Euros of 92 and 96 though we missed the 94 world cup). We had a successful settled international squad and players like Gordon Durie and Kevin Gallacher playing at the top level in England plus the McCoists and Johnston's of the world up here. Also guys like Darren Jackson were ahead of him. Caps weren't thrown around like confetti as they have been in the last decade.

Hendrie was a decent striker, similar in many ways to John McGinlay of Bolton who did get a few caps, but just a wee bit earlier and also perhaps a guy seen as, like maybe Stephen Dobbie now, a wee bit lucky to have been in the right place at the right time to get promotion rather than a truly top level player.

[itzdrk]

stuart., on 23 October 2011 - 15:30, said:

Nice one, did you register specially with the forum to tell me that? Thanks.

[Monkey Tennis]

Skyline Drifter, on 24 October 2011 - 21:50, said:

It was an era when we were still qualifying regularly for international tournaments (we were at the World Cups of 90 and 98 and the Euros of 92 and 96 though we missed the 94 world cup). We had a successful settled international squad and players like Gordon Durie and Kevin Gallacher playing at the top level in England plus the McCoists and Johnston's of the world up here. Also guys like Darren Jackson were ahead of him. Caps weren't thrown around like confetti as they have been in the last decade.

Hendrie was a decent striker, similar in many ways to John McGinlay of Bolton who did get a few caps, but just a wee bit earlier and also perhaps a guy seen as, like maybe Stephen Dobbie now, a wee bit lucky to have been in the right place at the right time to get promotion rather than a truly top level player.

Add to that the fact that to play in the English top flight wasn't the same 'achievement' then that it is now.
Clubs then could pick from the best of British Isles' talent, but rarely recruited from further afield.

It meant that although you had to be a good player to get there, all the other players at that level were eligible for the same handful of national squads.
You could be a successful club player, without really coming close to caps.

Much of what Charlton's Eire did was tap into this seam of good, yet hitherto internationally unrecognised talent.

This post has been edited by Monkey Tennis: 01 November 2011 - 22:22

[trgf]

Stevie Aitken, on 24 October 2011 - 11:27, said:

Found <this page> on wikipedia.

Who in the name of holy hell is John Hendrie?

I'll always remember him making an arse of Schmeichel .

[EKACCIES]

Hamlton Accies Stephen Hendrie is nephew of both John Hendrie and former Villa player Lee Hendrie.