People are only just realising meaning behind a hat-trick – and how it originates from different sport

SCORING a hat-trick is just about as good as it gets for any footballer, especially a striker.

Since its inception in 1992, the Premier League has been graced with some of the greatest goalscorers in the history of the beautiful game.

Some of the greatest goalscoring geniuses the game has ever seen have left opposition Prems defenders, as well as goalkeepers, embarrassed and red-faced with stunning individual performances to secure a haul of three goals.

Sergio Aguero - Manchester City's all-time leading goalscorer - knows a thing or two about Premier League hat-tricks with a whopping 12 to his name.

Erling Haaland picked up the mantle left by the Argentine when he arrived at the Etihad in the summer of 2022.

And the Norwegian has taken the English top flight by storm, scoring a whopping NINE hat-tricks for the Citizens.

But fans are only just getting to know the origins of that term, which doesn't come even from football.

The word actually comes from cricket, and there is a very good reason behind its inception.

The term was used when a bowler took three wickets from three consecutive balls.

The player's respective club would then give them a hat to celebrate the achievement.

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Football is filled with colourful terms that many are actually unaware of their origins.

The same goes for "nutmegging", which has a much more complicated history.

Haaland will look to take his hat-trick tally to ten when defending champions City kick off their pursuit of a fifth straight title against Chelsea on Sunday evening.