fullname youthclubs years youthyears clubs caps birth_place goals totalcaps position birth_date totalgoals article_title name
john william bashley collins queens park rangers 1950 1969 -- 1971 1971 -- 1973 -- 1959 1966 -- 1967 1967 -- 1969 1950 -- 1959 queens united park rangers oldham athletic reading luton town cambridge 172 39 85 42 97 chiswick , london , england 46 33 28 10 16 435 inside left 10 august 1942 132 john collins -lrb- footballer , born 1942 -rrb-
 john collins
john collins -lrb- footballer , born 1942 -rrb-

john william bashley collins -lrb- born 10 august 1942 in chiswick , west london -rrb- was an english former footballer who scored 108 goals from 417 appearances in the football league in the 1960s and early 1970s , playing as an inside left for queens park rangers , oldham athletic , reading , luton town and cambridge united .
collins came through the youth ranks at queens park rangers , turned professional in 1959 and made his debut in a 1 -- 0 win against barnsley in april 1960 .
he went on to play 172 league games for rangers , scoring 46 league goals , then transferred to oldham athletic in 1966 and later had spells at reading , luton town and cambridge united .
he became a cult hero at qpr after famously scoring a hat-trick of headers in a game versus hull city .
collins also scored a fourth , although this was discounted by match official cedric tomlinson .
ken wagstaff of hull later described the performance as : `` a hatrick of headers - that 's certainly something i 'd never be able to do . ''
