Good Things Came In Threes
Christmas Table That Provided A Real Treat
How’s this for an outbreak of strange goal-scoring patterns in Wolverhampton Wanderers’ colourful past? Over Christmas of 1966, at around the mid-point of the club’s goal-filled promotion campaign under Ronnie Allen, no fewer than five players netted three times. Two of them – Terry Wharton and Bob Hatton – delivered in the first team while John Farrington, Paddy Buckley and Alun Evans did likewise in the reserves.