ON THIS DAY

The quickest-ever hat-trick in the Premier League was scored by Southampton's Sadio Mané on Saturday May 16th 2015. His three goals were scored in 2 minutes 56 seconds in the 6-1 defeat of Aston Villa at St Mary's. The Senegal international's 176 second record beat the previous best which had stood for nearly 21 years - Robbie Fowler had scored all of Liverpool's goals in their 3-0 victory over Arsenal at Anfield on Sunday August 28th 1994 in four minutes 33 seconds.

West Ham United set a new world record! Each fan who attended West Ham's last Premier Division match of the 1998/99 season, against Middlesbrough, at Upton Park on Sunday May 16th 1999 was given a bubble-blowing pot by kit supplier Fila and 23,680 of them blew bubbles for 1 minute to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Just two days after winning the FA Cup the Wimbledon's 'Crazy Gang' hit the headlines again. In a testimonial for one of their cup-winning team, Alan Cork, most of the players 'mooned' at half time. It saw Wimbledon being charged by the FA for bringing the game into disrepute - the club were fined £5000 and each of the players involved £750.

The 1986/87 FA Cup final was something of a 'David v Goliath' encounter between Tottenham Hotspur - who had previously played in seven FA Cup finals and won them all - and Coventry City who were playing in their first final. It proved to be one of the most entertaining finals. Clive Allen gave the Londoners the lead after just two minutes, Dave Bennett equalised five minutes later, Gary Mabbutt restored the Spurs lead just before half-time with Keith Houchen levelling things up again in the second half. Extra time brought the winning goal with Gary Mabbutt getting his second goal of the match - an own-goal giving Coventry victory! To add insult to injury brewers Holsten, the Spurs kit sponsor, were obviously delighted at the publicity they would be getting at the high-profile cup final. But a manufacturing problem meant that half the Spurs shirts supplied for the final had the Holsten logo on it.....and the other half didn't! Links - FA Cup results 1986/87 , Spurs results 1986/87 . other football Whoops moments.