SPAOTP's Advent Calendar: Day 2

It's Day 2 of our Advent Calendar and today, in a nod towards last year's 'Twelve Graphs of Christmas' series, we bring you a graph showing the number of hat-tricks scored in the Premier League since its inception.

As you can see, there have already been seven hat-tricks scored this season (up to December 2nd 2009*) and strangely the same teams keep cropping up - Hull twice, Liverpool twice, Portsmouth twice, Tottenham three times (and Defoe twice), Burnley twice, Wigan twice... definitely a pattern emerging if you ask us...



Hat-tricks so far during 2009/10 Premier League season:

1) Jermain Defoe, Spurs (v Hull City, 1-5)
2) Yossi Benayoun, Liverpool (v Burnley, 4-0)
3) Robbie Keane, Spurs (4 v Burnley, 5-0)
4) Fernando Torres, Liverpool (v Hull, 6-1)
5) Aruna Dindane, Portsmouth (v Wigan, 4-0)
6) Jermain Defoe, Spurs (5 vWigan, 9-1)
7) Wayne Rooney, Man United (v Portsmouth, 1-4)

The Friday List of Little or No Consequence #65

Hat-Trick Heros
The Only 8 Hat-Tricks Ever Scored At The European Championships

1. Dieter Muller (for West Germany v Yugoslavia, 1976)
2. Klaus Allofs (for West Germany v Netherlands, 1980)
3. Michel Platini (for France v Belgium, 1984)
4. Michel Platini (for France v Yugoslavia, 1984)
5. Marco Van Basten (for Netherlands v England, 1988)
6. Sergio Conceicao (for Portugal v Germany, 2000)
7. Patrick Kluivert (for Netherlands v Yugoslavia, 2000)
8. David Villa (for Spain v Russia, 2008)