HERE'S A FEW MORE FIRSTS - Mirror Online News HERE'S A FEW MORE FIRSTS ERIC CANTONA was the first player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, when Leeds Utd beat Tottenham 5-0 on August 15 1992. Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email ERIC CANTONA was the first player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, when Leeds Utd beat Tottenham 5-0 on August 15 1992. EFAN EKOKU of Norwich City was the first player to score four goals in one Premier League match. ANDYCOLE was the first player to score five goals in a Premiership match, for Manchester United v Ipswich in the 1994/95 season. The final score was 9-0, which is also a Premiership record for the biggest victory/defeat. LES FERDINAND scored the Premiership's 10,000th goal in Tottenham's 4-0 win over Fulham in December 2001.

THE OLDEST PLAYER to play in the Premiership was Manchester City goalkeeper John Burridge who was 43 years, 4 months and 26 days when he came on as a half time substitute for Manchester City v Newcastle United on April 29, 1995. TOTTENHAM goalkeeper Erik Thorstvedt became the first Premier League substitute when he replaced Ian Walker in the first Premiership season in 1992. SWINDON TOWN were the first team to concede 100 Premiership goals iwhen they were relegated in 1993/94. Like us on Facebook Football Day by Day - August August Football is a 365 day a year game. A day by day reminder of some of the famous, record-breaking or bizarre things that have happened in the month of August over the years. Index Football On This Day – 1st August 1996 Women’s football finally found its place in world football with the final of the first Olympic women’s football tournament - hosts USA beat China 2-1 in front of 76,489 to take gold.

Football On This Day – 2nd August 1999 ‘Le Sulk’ was on his way from Highbury, Nicolas Anelka moving to Real Madrid in return for Davor Šuker and around £20m. But Arsenal’s big transfer news was to come the following day….. Football On This Day – 2nd August 2014 Despite a poor 2013/14 Manchester United helped set a new record on a pre-season tour of the USA at the start of the 2014/15 season. The crowd of 109,318 for their match against Real Madrid at the Michigan Stadium (nicknamed the Big House) was the record for a football match – sorry, ‘soccer’ match – in the United States….and United won 3-1. The previous record was 101,799 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena when France beat Brazil to take gold in the 1984 Olympic final. Football On This Day – 3rd August 1999 Thierry Henry joins Arsenal from Juventus for £11m – Arsène Wenger’s best Arsenal signing?

4th August Football On This Day – 4th August 1938 Welsh International Bryn Jones joined Arsenal from Wolves for a fee of a little over £13,000. It was a British record fee at the time but only got a brief mention in the national papers - a far cry from the column inches given to the moves of Gareth Bale or Cristiano Ronaldo! Football On This Day – 4th August 2010 An unusual pre-season friendly was played at Goodison Park - Everton v Everton. In 1909 a group of teenagers in Chile formed a football club and named it Everton after our Everton who had toured South America that year. As a delayed part of their centenary celebrations they made a pilgrimage to Liverpool to play a unique match against their namesakes. The English Everton beat the Chilean Everton 2-0 to win the Brotherhood Cup in a match that was shown live on TV in Chile. Football On This Day – 5th August 1970 The penalty shoot-out arrived in English football. The Hull City v Manchester United pre-season Watney Cup semi-final ended 1-1 at the end of extra time and so for the first time it was the turn of penalties.

George Best became the first player to score in a penalty shoot-out and Denis Law the first to miss one – but Manchester United won 4-3. Link - The Watney Cup Football On This Day – 6th August 1977 After having made 472 League appearances for them Spurs let 32-year-old goalkeeper Pat Jennings move to rivals Arsenal for £45,000 believing his best years were behind him. Over the next 8 years he made another 237 League appearances for the Gunners! Football On This Day – 7th August 1968 While most of us were still preoccupied with bucket and spades Leeds were on their way to winning their first European competition. Leeds entertained Ferencváros of Hungary in the first leg of the 1967/68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final held over to the beginning of the 1968/69 season and played on this day in 1968. Mick Jones scored the only goal of the match and with the second leg in September finishing goalless the trophy went to Leeds United.

Link - Leeds United results in Europe Football On This Day – 7th August 1978 To celebrate their centenary Manchester United played Real Madrid on this day in 1978. Sammy McIlroy and Jimmy Greenhoff scored two apiece as the Spaniards were beaten 4-0 in front of a 49,397 Old Trafford crowd. The only United player in the team who had played in the European Cup final ten years earlier - goalkeeper Alex Stepney - made a penalty save early in the second half. Football On This Day – 9th August 1996 Plymouth Argyle signed 38-year-old goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar on a 12 month contract despite the Zimbabwe international facing court proceedings for match fixing. Argyle’s manager Neil Warnock said ‘I realise he has got problems but what matters most is what he does on the pitch.’ He played in 36 of Plymouth’s 46 Second Division matches in 1996/97 and was later cleared of match fixing.

Football On This Day – 9th August 1997 Macclesfield Town made their debut in the Football League, defeating Torquay United 2-1 at the Moss Rose ground. Link - a full history of Macclesfield in the Football League Football On This Day – 11th August 1991 At Matt Busby’s Testimonial match George Best appeared alongside Nobby Stiles, Bill Foulkes and Pat Crerard in a 7-a-side match between ex Manchester United and City stars which ended 3-3. In the main match Manchester United drew 1-1 with Jack Charlton’s Republic of Ireland side – 33,412 were at Old Trafford to pay tribute to Sir Matt. Football On This Day – 11th August 1991 The most bizarre postponement? The Worthington Cup (League Cup) tie between Torquay and Portsmouth scheduled for Wednesday August 11th 1999 was called off because of...a total eclipse of the sun!

No the problem wasn't that everything was going to go dark but the police deciding that they didn't have the manpower to police both the match and the influx of visitors expected in the area to witness the eclipse. The eclipse couldn't be put off - so the match was! Football On This Day – 12th August 1976 Fulham announced that they had signed George Best and Rodney Marsh. With Bobby Moore already at Craven Cottage the dream was surely one of promotion. The reality – they were almost relegated, finishing just one point outside the Second Division relegation zone. Football On This Day – 12th August 1978 League champions Nottingham Forest beat FA Cup holders Ipswich Town 5-0 which was to be the highest winning margin in a Wembley Charity Shield match. Football On This Day – 12th August 1995 On the opening day of the new League season two goalkeepers scored goals – Chris MacKenzie (for Hereford v Barnet) from an 80-yard downfield punt and Roger Freestone (for Swansea v Shrewsbury) from the penalty spot.

Football On This Day – 12th August 1996 After the shortest reign of any Highbury boss – just 47 matches – Arsenal sack manager Bruce Rioch. Johan Cruyff was the favourite to replace him but instead in September Arsenal would appoint an unknown Frenchman, Arsène Wenger. Football On This Day – 13th August 1997 It was a proud day for Derby County when they staged the first Premier League match at their new Pride Park ground. The match against Wimbledon was abandoned in the second half when the floodlights failed! Football On This Day – 14th August 1971 After moving from Scunthorpe United in May Kevin Keegan made his League debut for Liverpool on the opening day of the 1971/72 First Division season, scoring after 12 minutes of the 3-1 win against Nottingham Forest at Anfield. Football On This Day – 14th August 1980 One of the more unusual fixtures was staged at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground - a cricket match!

Essex borrowed the ground - and importantly the floodlights - to host the first senior day-night match played in England with the West Indies providing the opposition in front of a crowd of 11,073. An artificial pitch was laid but a football pitch is not the ideal shape for cricket. Being long and thin it was an easy matter to hit sixes to the short boundaries - Graham Gooch hit a century in just 77 minutes and in one 18-minutes spell Viv Richards scored 53 runs. Link - football and cricket Football On This Day – 15th August 1973 When Wolverhampton Sunday League side Oxbarn decided on a pre-season jaunt to Germany in August 1973 they wrote to the mayor of Mainz asking him to arrange a friendly against a club of similar standing to them. A match was arranged but something got lost in translation and believing the visiting club was Wolverhamption Wanderers the friendly was arranged against a local German League club. The Oxbarn side realised something was wrong when they saw the stadium they were to play in and the crowd that were there. They lost 21-0.

Football On This Day – 15th August 1992 The first matches in the Premier League were played on this day with Brian Deane scoring the first goal after 5 minutes, for Sheffield United against eventual champions Manchester United. Football On This Day – 15th August 2006 What might have been. West Ham’s Dean Ashton was picked to make his England debut against Greece in Steve McLaren first match as England but on this day in 2006, the day before the match, he broke his ankle in training and missed the rest of the season. He eventually played one match for England, playing the first half against Trinidad in 2008, but the following year he announced his retirement, aged just 26, because of the long-term problems associated with the ankle injury. Football On This Day – 16th August 1890 The first matches were played in the Scottish League with four matches played, Cambuslang hammering Vale of Leven 8-2 in one of them. Football On This Day – 16th August 1980 They say that more dreams are shattered after the first match of the season than at any other time.

Bristol Rovers didn't do too badly in their first Division 2 match of the 1980/81 season, drawing 1-1 with Orient (no Leyton in their name in those days!). Their problems started that evening though when a fire caught hold in the south stand of their Eastville ground, destroying the stand which housed the club offices and changing rooms. They were forced to play their next five matches on 'enemy' territory - Bristol City's Ashton Gate - and their season then went from bad to worse. They finished bottom and were relegated along with Bristol City who finished one place above them. Link - Bristol Rovers results 1980/81 Football On This Day – 16th August 2006 Steve McClaren took charge of his first match as England manager, dropping David Beckham for the friendly against European champions Greece at Old Trafford which England won 4-0. Football On This Day – 17th August 1964 Liverpool won 5-0 away to KR Reykjavik in a European Cup Preliminary Round tie - Liverpool's first match in a European competition.

Those were the days before clubs chartered aircraft for away European ties and they had a long-winded journey to Iceland. They flew from Liverpool to London, then from London to Prestwick in Scotland. Having a few hours to spare manager Bill Shankly put the players on a bus to show them the area he grew up in - and that included a visit to the Butlins holiday camp! And then more excitement with a flight from Prestwick to Iceland. Football On This Day – 17th August 1996 On the opening day of the Premier League season a young player by the name of David Beckham hit the headlines when he scored with a lob over Wimbledon goalkeeper Neil Sullivan which was hit from the half-way line. Two weeks later he made his England debut. Football On This Day – 18th August 1979 After 11 League matches at the end of the 1978/79 season without letting in a goal Reading and their goalkeeper Steve Death conceded the first goal in 1103 minutes of League football in the opening day Division 3 2-2 draw with Brentford at Elm Park. Ironically it was an own-goal from Reading defender Stewart Henderson.

Football On This Day – 20th August 1960 John Trollope made his Football League debut for Swindon Town in a 1-1 draw with Halifax Town. He went on to make 770 League appearances for Swindon, still the most any player has made for a single club. Football On This Day – 20th August 1971 Manchester United played a home match...at Liverpool's Anfield ground! Crowds problems had seen the FA close Old Trafford for the first two League matches of the 1971/72 season so on 20th August 1971 United played their first home First Division fixture of the season against Arsenal at Anfield. A 27,649 crowd saw Arsenal beaten 3-1. Three days later they completed their punishment with a home match at Stoke City's Victoria ground where a 23,148 crowd saw another 3-1 win, against WBA.

Link - Manchester United's results and table 1971/72 Football On This Day – 21st August 1965 In the Bolton v Charlton Second Division match Charlton goalkeeper Mike Rose was injured after 11 minutes and left the pitch. Full back John Hewie took his place in goal and Keith Peacock came on as substitute – the first sub in the Football League. At the time each club was only allowed one sub a match and then only to replace an injured player. Football On This Day – 21st August 1978 Jock Stein becomes manager of Leeds United, but moved on just six weeks later when he became the Scotland manager. Football On This Day – 21st August 1996 Alan Shearer made his home Premier League debut for Newcastle against Wimbledon on this day in 1996 – and of course scored. His late goal sealed a 2-0 Newcastle victory and he took the first step to achieving legend status at St James' Park. Football On This Day – 22nd August 1964 Match of the Day made its debut on the TV screens.

Only the highlights of one match was shown in those days and the BBC 2 audience for the first of those – Liverpool v Arsenal – was believed to be little more than the attendance at the match itself. Football On This Day – 22nd August 2007 Germany were the last side to defeat England at the old Wembley stadium and on this day in 2007 they became the first country to defeat England at the new Wembley. Frank Lampard scored England’s goal. Football On This Day – 23rd August 1958 A few firsts at Scunthorpe's first home League match of the season, a 1-1 Second Division draw with Ipswich Town. It saw Scunny's first ever match in the second tier of the Football League, their first League match as Scunthorpe United (they had previously been Scunthorpe & Lindsay United) and - for those of you interested in ground architecture - it saw the official opening of the first cantilever stand in British football.

The cantilever stand - a stand with no roof supports to block the view - was built on the cheap by a local steel company hoping to use it as a showcase for other clubs. It survived until the Old Show Ground staged its last match in May 1988 before the club moved to Glanford Park. The cantilever stand is pictured below during demolition of the old ground which was inevitably replaced by a supermarket. Football On This Day – 23rd August 1978 The summer signings by Tottenham of Argentine World Cup stars Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa meant an eagerly-awaited home League debut for the duo. A ticker-tape welcome and 47,892 fans were at White Hart Lane on this day in 1978 to give them that welcome. But visitors Aston Villa hadn’t read the script – Villa (the Aston Villa variety) beat newly-promoted Spurs 4-1. Football On This Day – 23rd August 1986 Hartlepool United’s Victoria ground hosted two League matches on this day in 1986.

In the afternoon Hartlepool entertained Cardiff in a Division 4 match (1-1 draw, attendance 2800) while in the evening neighbours Middlesbrough – whose own Ayresome Park ground had been closed by the Official Receiver because of serious club debts – borrowed the Victoria ground for their Division 3 match against Port Vale (2-2 draw, attendance 3690). Football On This Day – 23rd August 2015 The Major League Soccer meeting of LA Galaxy and New York City was hyped up as the 'British Invasion', the first meeting of Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard in the MLS. But as is often the case reality didn't match the hype - Gerrard played but Lampard didn't with Robbie Keane scoring twice in Galaxy's 5-1 thumping of NYC. Football On This Day – 24th August 1949 Bomb damage had seen Old Trafford closed for the first three post-war seasons with Manchester United setting up home at Manchester City's Maine Road ground. But against Bolton at the start of the 1949/50 season United came home and life at Old Trafford resumed.

A crowd of 41,748 saw United beat Bolton 3-0. Football On This Day – 25th August 1928 Arsenal (Division 1 at Sheffield Wednesday) and Chelsea (Division 2 v Swansea) became the first Football League sides to have numbers on their shirts to help identify players. Football On This Day – 25th August 1928 The opening day of the 1928/29 League season saw Bradford City beat Rotherham United 11-1 at Valley Parade – still Bradford City’s record League win and Rotherham’s record League defeat. Football On This Day – 25th August 1990 Eccentric was a word often used to describe the former Everton and Wales goalkeeper Neville Southall. One of those eccentric episodes came on the opening day of the 1990/91 League season when newly-promoted Leeds had taken a 2-0 half-time lead at Goodison. Rather than return to the dressing room Southall sat in the goalmouth throughout the interval.

There was speculation that he was fearful of a bollocking from manager Colin Harvey or that it was an incredible sulk but Southall later said he did it to 'clear his head'. Taking a Paracetamol would have been a cheaper option - Everton fined him a weeks' wages! Football On This Day – 25th August 1992 Just 10 days after the Premier League had kicked off Eric Cantona became the first player to score a hat-trick in the competition. The Frenchman - then a Leeds United player - scored three times in the 5-0 defeat of Tottenham at Elland Road. Earlier in the month Cantona had scored a hat-trick for Leeds in their 4-3 victory over Liverpool in the Charity Shield at Wembley. Football On This Day – 26th August 1995 It was touch and go whether Middlesbrough’s new ground would be completed in time but on this day in 1995 the Riverside Stadium hosted its first match, a 2-0 Premier League victory over Chelsea. Craig Hignett scored the first goal at the new stadium in front of a crowd of 28,286.

Fans were given a vote on the name of the new stadium at the last match at the old Ayresome Park ground with the choices available being the Middlehaven Stadium, Erimus Stadium and Teesside Stadium as well as the Riverside. Football On This Day – 26th August 1993 Despite guiding his side to a top ten place in each of his three seasons in charge Manchester City player-manager Peter Reid is sacked after City managed just a single point from their first four Premier League matches of the season. Football On This Day – 26th August 2014 On the same day they lost 4-0 at MK Dons in the League Cup Manchester United opened their cheque book to pay out a British transfer fee record of £59.7m for Real Madrid's Angel Di Maria. United had made an abysmal start to the season under new manager Louis van Gaal and perhaps David Moyes wasn't as bad a manager at Old Trafford as he had been made out.....and didn't the internet humour have a great time!

Football On This Day – 27th August 1986 Having lost their Eastville ground to the developers Bristol Rovers played their first match at their new home – non-league Bath City’s Twerton Park. The start of their Littlewoods Cup tie against Reading was delayed 15 minutes to allow all the 3,760 crowd to get in – Reading won 2-1. Football On This Day – 27th August 1988 Unfinished building work on the East Stand saw Tottenham’s first home League match of the season – against Coventry – postponed and delayed the League debut of a major Spurs summer signing – one Paul Gascoigne. Football On This Day – 27th August 1988 Tony Cottee needed to impress on his debut for Everton - his £2.2 million summer move from West Ham to Goodison made him the most expensive purchase ever by a British club. He did impress - scoring after 34 seconds and completing a hat-trick in the 4-0 defeat of Newcastle United. Football On This Day – 28th August 1982 David Seaman, one of England’s greatest goalkeepers, made his debut in the Football League.

Released by the club he had supported as a boy, Leeds United, without playing for them in the League he had joined Fourth Division Peterborough United in August 1982. He first League match was at Stockport’s Edgeley Park on the opening day of the 1982/83 League season – 2,003 souls saw Stockport and Posh draw 1-1. Football On This Day – 28th August 1994 Robbie Fowler scored what was then the quickest hat-trick scored in the Premier League, his three goals in the Liverpool v Arsenal match at Anfield being scored in just 4 minutes 33 seconds. The record lasted until Sadio Mané scored 3 in just 2 minutes 56 seconds for Southampton against Aston Villa in May 2015. Football On This Day – 28th August 2011 Manchester United beat Arsenal 8-2 in a Premier League match at Old Trafford, the first time Arsenal had conceded 8 goals in a League match since 1896.

Football On This Day – 29th August 1925 After just their first League match Burnley fans knew they were in for a tough First Division season – they lost 10-0 at Aston Villa. Burnley conceded 108 League goals during the season – but weren’t relegated! Football On This Day – 30th August 2004 Despite Newcastle United chairman Freddy Shepherd not wishing to be known as ‘the man who shot Bambi’ on this day in 2004 he sacked manager Sir Bobby Robson. The Magpies hadn’t won any of their first four Premier League matches of the new season. LUFCTALK | Leeds United Fans Forum Leeds United Fans Forum click here to close [x] This is a one-time notification: Like almost every other website, LUFCTALK.com uses cookies to power some of its essential features and to provide an improved user experience over time. Please click here to read more about what this means, or leave the site if you do not consent to it.

05 Dec 1959, Lincoln (England) Height England: 1 B, 1 U21 Club From To Apps Goals Sold for Leeds Career League FA Cup League Cup Europe Other Season Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals 3 Jabba's Comments Lee Chapman was a classic brave centre-forward for Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest and several other clubs. His early promise at Stoke included a hat-trick scored at Elland Road, and brought him national attention, but his arrival at Arsenal coincided with a period of intense factionalism within the club and the dismissal of Terry Neill and Chapman had a far from happy time at Highbury. Another move to Sunderland to link up with former Stoke boss Alan Durban turned sour when he too was sacked. He finally struck it lucky with his next move, linking up with Wilko at Sheffield Wednesday - the long ball game suiting the big striker down to the ground. Wednesday's lack of ambition was starting to drive both players and manager away, and Chapman left the club shortly before Wilko moved up the M1 to Leeds.

A move to Forest looked likely, but he ended up in the middle of France, playing for Niort, a club whose finances were shaky to say the least. After a short while, it became clear how much of a basket case the club was and Lee was back in England with Forest. Chapman was re-signed by Wilko halfway through the 1989-90 season, and his 12 goals helped make the difference between going up as champions instead of getting into the play-offs. His obvious contributions to the side that won the Championship in 1992 can't be overstated, and he finished as leading scorer each year before finally leaving the club in 1993. He did return to Leeds for a brief spell on loan, playing against West Ham and Liverpool in January 1996 - but that wasn't a totally happy comeback since he was red-carded by a cross-eyed ref who thought that he had deliberately aimed an elbow at a West Ham player as both men went for a 50-50 ball. Now retired from the game, he is an occasional summariser on the TV and owns several successful clubs and restaurants in partnership with his wife, actress Leslie Ash.

Jabba says: Cheers to Ralph of Pride of Anglia for the photos. Deni Marice says: He was a great player. I saw him when in Leeds 90/93 and I think he's good in the air and the shot is not too bad. As a tall player his speed is not too fast but his instinct as a striker is good. Brian Durrant from The Sick Parrot says: When Ipswich bought Lee Chapman, we were quite optimistic as he had played some fine games against us in the past. However he was now somewhat injury-prone and even when fit, was nothing like the striker he had been at Leeds. Tore Markussen says: The most brilliant I've ever seen Lee do, was taking down a high ball. It came from the center line.....far out to the left. He was standing on the 16m with his back to the goal. 4 defenders were also on a line outside the penalty area.

He turned to his left with the ball dead on his foot...gently he swung the ball towards the goal....he was now on the 11m mark...the defenders didnt know what hit em..and all of em were standing still...he hammered it in the goal.... It was an awsome goal...I can still see it in my head. WORLD CLASS! Dave says: Lee Chapman, like Brian Deane, must be one of the most under-rated players of the modern era. Never mind this fancy 'keep the ball on the ground stuff', if you've got players who are good in the air, play to their stengths. I used to see Lee play at Stoke and it was obvious he was eventually going to grace a top team - he did that at Leeds. Jan Egil from OSLO, Norway says: Every Leeds fan should love this guy and what he did for the club. If you haven't seen him buy yourself a video tape of him. A true GOALSCORER.

Jono says: Lee Chapman is without doubt the best centre forward ive ever seen at Elland road ive had a season ticket since 88 and would still have chappy in my team now if he was still playing it was the best day of my life when we brought him back on loan but that went sour due to a poor refereeing decision against West ham thanks chappy WE ARE LEEDS Elisabeth Craig says: Is Lee Chapman the son of Tony and Rita Chapman and brother of Nicky? If he is we knew him as a younngster in Cape Town where his Dad was playing alongside my husband and George Eastham. If it is the same Lee Chapman he will remember my Labrador, Katie. Jabba says: his dad was called Roy, so I guess it must be a different one! Mike says: Just listeninig to Lee Chapman on Century FM. Sounds a thoroughly decent and well-balanced bloke, and he was indeed a top player in his time. anon says: My dad dd not believe that lee played for leeds!!!!!! graham heraty says: what i do for a player lke this to be playing on sat against arsenal.

this is a true goalscorer and i dont no why he never played for england full team Jacqueline says: Did Lee Chapman score the first English Premiership hat-trick? Jabba says: nope - Eric Cantona was certainly the first Leeds player to net a hat-trick in the Premiership on August 25 of the first season in the home game against Spurs. Knut Fjellby says: A fantastic player. Almost as good as Svein Teigland. Niall says: Lee played out his career as a favour to Jan Molby at Swansea, then a fast-sinking 2nd side side in 1995/6. He gave a good return in a limited amount of end-seasons games, playing up front alongside Steve Torpey (now at Scunthorpe). A particular memory was Lee getting a goal at Wycombe and turning away to blow a kiss to his wife Lesley Ash, who was sitting in the stand. No pretensions about him, top bloke. Nattawan says: He sent me 2 letters (one with his pic)in 1993 and 1994 . What a wonderful thing .

I live in Thailand and he was in Leeds and Westham . I really want to know his current address or email address so that I can write him a letter to tell him that how I am . I have not wriiten him for nearly 10 years . Fred A says: Saw Lee play at for Leeds at Forest for Wilko's newly promoted Leeds, last game of the season. A cracker of a match, one of the most entertaining that I've ever been to: even though we lost 4-3 to an excellent Forest side, 2-0 down with only 15 minutes gone. The significant thing is that the Forest supporters were really giving Chapman some stick as a former player. He responded with 2 goals including his 200th career goal. Whilst probably not the most bewitching of players to watch, he did score some superb goals and his bravery and commitment to the cause were never in doubt: undeservedly the subject of derision simply for playing to his strengths and doing that to great effect for Leeds. A true Leeds legend. James Akinfenwa says: Saw him on TV....he was simply marvelous! Daryl Andrews says: he was terrible!

i fink he was 1 of the most overated players ever 2 play in english football, he couldnt turn and even 4 a big lummox he was pretty poor in the air! His passing wasnt particularly good neither was his shot accuracy. on the whole i think he is nothing more than a lanky streak of p***! Doc says: Was thinking about going to Chappo's new restaurant. I hear they have cracking ribs... hrs says: I often watched Lee Chapman during his time at Stoke. He was an important part of one of the better Stoke teams of the last 30 years, and formed an excellent partnership up front with Adrian Heath, who went to Everton. It was Stoke's loss when he went. This is a football forum dedicated to Leeds United FC fans. LUFCtalk is an online Leeds United fanclub featuring news, transfer discussions, match highlights, predictions and general football banter.

© LUFCTALK 2008 - 2017 Dream debuts and hat-trick heroes - FIFA.com Dream debuts and hat-trick heroes (FIFA.com) 13 Aug 2013 © Getty Images With competitive club football returning across Europe, FIFA.com’s latest stats review features a clutch of players who made spectacular impacts in various corners of the continent. 17 years and 196 days was the age at which Zakaria Bakkali became the youngest-ever player to score an Eredivisie hat-trick on Sunday. In doing so, PSV's Belgian winger smashed a record that had stood since 1966, when Ruud Geels (17 years, 235 days) scored all three for Telstar in a 3-1 win over MVV. Bakkali was making just his second appearance in the Dutch top flight but has already been called up to the senior Belgium squad by coach Marc Wilmots.

And while his treble was the unrivalled highlight of a 5-0 win over NEC, there were plenty of other causes for excitement in a PSV side that had a remarkable average age of just 20 years and 216 days. 7 goals in his last six appearances against Wigan Athletic is the record with which Robin van Persie emerged from Sunday’s Community Shield. The Manchester United striker struck twice at Wembley to strengthen the Latics’ status as his favourite victims as the Red Devils won 2-0 in the traditional English curtain-raiser. Van Persie duly became the first Dutchman to score in the Community Shield since Ruud van Nistelrooy 12 years ago, though he missed out on a hat-trick. The last player to manage a treble in this fixture remains Eric Cantona, who scored three of Leeds United’s goals in a memorable 4-3 win over Liverpool in 1992. 4 goals in Dublin’s Southside Derby saw St Patrick’s Conan Byrne inflict Shamrock Rovers’ heaviest defeat in 25 years.

The 28-year-old winger was responsible for all four of the game’s goals and, as well as enjoying the biggest individual haul of his career, he became the first St Pat’s player to score four in a League of Ireland match since Derek Carthy in February 1985. Byrne was also the first player to find the net four times against Shamrock Rovers, the Republic of Ireland’s record champions, in almost 38 years. This feat was all the more impressive as Rovers had gone into the match protecting a club record 18-match unbeaten run at their Tallaght Stadium. The defeat effectively ends their hopes of regaining a title for which rivals St Pat’s, a point clear of Dundalk with a game in hand, are currently favourites. 3 goals was the contribution Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang made to Borussia Dortmund’s 4-0 win over Augsburg in a spectacular Bundesliga debut. The former Saint-Etienne striker, who was already making history as the first Gabonese player to turn out in Germany’s top flight, became just the sixth player to score a treble in his first appearance in the division.

He is also the first to do so in over five years, since Martin Fenin made a similarly explosive impact on his Eintracht Frankfurt debut in February 2008. Dortmund, though, were not the only free-scoring team on the Bundesliga’s opening weekend. Newly promoted Hertha Berlin celebrated their return with a thumping 6-1 win over Frankfurt, their biggest victory since putting six unanswered goals past Borussia Monchengladbach in 2004. Both sides certainly contributed impressively to the Bundesliga’s highest-scoring Matchday 1 in two decades, with 37 goals registered overall. 2 minutes were on the clock against Guingamp when Andre-Pierre Gignac got Marseille’s season off to a flying start. However, while the French striker’s early goal was the joint-fastest goal on the opening Ligue 1 matchday since 2000, it was another OM player who stole the headlines. Dimitri Payet went on to find the net twice in the same match and, in doing so, became the first player to score a double on his competitive Marseille debut since Laurent Blanc in 1997.

All of the south coast giants’ goals at the Stade du Roudourou arrived in the first half, the first time they have enjoyed such a productive and prolific opening 45 minutes in over five years. Related Items

Question: Playing for Leeds United in August 1992, who became the first player to score a hat-trick in the Premiership?
Answer: Eric Cantona