I need say nothing.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/nov/07/manchester-city-huddersfield-three-hat-tricks" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... hat-tricks</a><br /><br />-- Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:51 pm --<br /><br />By Tony Adcock
It sounds crazy, but we could easily have lost that match. For the first 20 minutes Huddersfield played really well and had a few chances, and we struggled. They were the better side, and then Neil McNab scored the first goal against the run of play and they just collapsed. They decided to play a high line and hope to catch us offside, but we had a couple of pretty quick strikers in Paul Stewart and David White and it all went wrong for them. They made their own downfall.
We just kept scoring goals - it was 10-1 in the end - but you don't think about their feelings. It's such a buzz - everything's clicking, your team are attacking and scoring, and you're just playing. Once that first goal went in, we just played to our potential. We had a good footballing side. The atmosphere was electric. When the game ended all the fans stayed on, celebrating the result, and you just didn't want to come off the pitch. You wanted to stay out there for as long as you could, soaking it all up. The noise was fantastic.
It was a great game for me. I'd come from a lower division - Mel Machin had taken a chance on me and it was brilliant to play for such a big club. I only wish I'd been there a lot longer, but that's football. I think I scored about nine goals in 18 games. Because of where they are now, one of the top clubs in the country, to be an ex-player is a good feeling. You know you played for a massive club.
We didn't do anything special to celebrate the result. Obviously the atmosphere in the dressing room was pretty good, everybody congratulating each other, but after the game you just do your normal thing. Maybe you go to the players' bar. At the end of the day it's just another match. You enjoy it, but you're already thinking about the next one.
I think I had the in-laws down at the time. We went out for a meal, but they had the highlights on the telly and I wanted to get back and watch it. We went out, enjoyed the moment, but then it was back to normal. We played Plymouth on the Tuesday in the Simod Cup and I got a hat-trick in that one, too. Then we played Reading the following Saturday and all the papers were talking about me getting a hat-trick of hat-tricks, but I never got a sniff.
People all want to know who got to keep the match ball, but the truth is none of us did. I had it for about 20 minutes but then the club said they wanted to keep it. I'm not sure if it's still in their trophy cabinet. But the three of us each got a ball anyway, and everybody signed it for us. I've still got it somewhere.
Then what happened
This remains the last time a league side scored 10 goals. Adcock works as a supervisor in an engineering plant.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/nov/07/manchester-city-huddersfield-three-hat-tricks" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/no ... hat-tricks</a><br /><br />-- Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:51 pm --<br /><br />By Tony Adcock
It sounds crazy, but we could easily have lost that match. For the first 20 minutes Huddersfield played really well and had a few chances, and we struggled. They were the better side, and then Neil McNab scored the first goal against the run of play and they just collapsed. They decided to play a high line and hope to catch us offside, but we had a couple of pretty quick strikers in Paul Stewart and David White and it all went wrong for them. They made their own downfall.
We just kept scoring goals - it was 10-1 in the end - but you don't think about their feelings. It's such a buzz - everything's clicking, your team are attacking and scoring, and you're just playing. Once that first goal went in, we just played to our potential. We had a good footballing side. The atmosphere was electric. When the game ended all the fans stayed on, celebrating the result, and you just didn't want to come off the pitch. You wanted to stay out there for as long as you could, soaking it all up. The noise was fantastic.
It was a great game for me. I'd come from a lower division - Mel Machin had taken a chance on me and it was brilliant to play for such a big club. I only wish I'd been there a lot longer, but that's football. I think I scored about nine goals in 18 games. Because of where they are now, one of the top clubs in the country, to be an ex-player is a good feeling. You know you played for a massive club.
We didn't do anything special to celebrate the result. Obviously the atmosphere in the dressing room was pretty good, everybody congratulating each other, but after the game you just do your normal thing. Maybe you go to the players' bar. At the end of the day it's just another match. You enjoy it, but you're already thinking about the next one.
I think I had the in-laws down at the time. We went out for a meal, but they had the highlights on the telly and I wanted to get back and watch it. We went out, enjoyed the moment, but then it was back to normal. We played Plymouth on the Tuesday in the Simod Cup and I got a hat-trick in that one, too. Then we played Reading the following Saturday and all the papers were talking about me getting a hat-trick of hat-tricks, but I never got a sniff.
People all want to know who got to keep the match ball, but the truth is none of us did. I had it for about 20 minutes but then the club said they wanted to keep it. I'm not sure if it's still in their trophy cabinet. But the three of us each got a ball anyway, and everybody signed it for us. I've still got it somewhere.
Then what happened
This remains the last time a league side scored 10 goals. Adcock works as a supervisor in an engineering plant.