Consecutive trebles

After Eoin Doyle scored his second hat trick in consecutive games for Chesterfield, a feat never before recorded for the club (according to wikipedia anyway!), we here at Irish Abroad towers wondered who was the last Irish player to record consecutive hat tricks?

Looking through the IA database we discovered that, in the history of the site, only one player has ever matched the Spireites' striker's achievement - while on loan from Arsenal to Falkirk, Anthony Stokes scored three in a 5-1 home win against Dundee on Saturday, 28 October 2006 before going on to notch a second treble a week later in a 3-0 win over Dunfermline Athletic at East End Park.

An honourable mention must go to Kevin Doyle who scored hat tricks in consecutive home games at the Madejski Stadium for Reading in 2008, first in a 4-2 win against Crystal Palace on Saturday, 30th August, which preceded another treble in an even more impressive 6-0 victory over Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday, 16 September. A 2-0 loss away to Ipswich, including a goal for fellow Ireland striker Jonathan Walters, split the home wins for the Royals.