Golden Boots!!!!

Thought I'd include a picture of my own Golden Boots, as a slight ode to soulgirl's Shiny New Shoes.

These were bought for $40(thats a little less than 20 quid in todays climate). In my debut performance, last week, I helped my new team to a 5-4 win and managed to score a hat-trick. We're talking about the Beautiful game here, for those not in the know.

Golden Boots indeed!!!!!!

I've been checking out the history of the term hat-trick, and I was under the impression it came from the early days of football, when the men would toff their caps at anyone who scored 3 goals and declare it a great feat or trick. Having checked it out on yahoo answers, this explanation was given.

It comes from the English game of cricket and refers to a bowler who takes three wickets with three successive balls. For those more familiar with baseball, this is an impressive achievement, similar to a baseball pitcher striking out three batters in a row, but much less common. It seems to have been the custom in the nineteenth century for such a paragon of the art to be awarded a new hat by his club as a mark of his success. However, it is sometimes also said that the phrase alludes to a distinctly more plebeian reward in which the bowler was permitted to take his hat around the crowd for a collection (not necessarily a bowler hat, of course: that was named after a couple of completely different chaps, Messrs Thomas and William Bowler, hatmakers). Hat trick was first recorded in print in the 1870s, but has since been widened to apply to any sport in which the person competing carries off some feat three times in quick succession, such as scoring three goals in one game of soccer.

Any other thoughts blippers???