This Day in History: 2022-12-22

Nr. 371

FOG ROBS DENIS LAW OF DOUBLE HAT-TRICK JOY (1961)

On 28 January 1961 Manchester City were leading Luton Town 6-2 in an FA Cup fourth round tie when, with just 20 minutes remaining, the game was abandoned due to heavy fog. This was particularly painful for the Scottish international striker Denis Law, because he had scored all six of City’s goals and achieved an incredibly rare double hat-trick. The goals were cruelly wiped from the records due to the game being called off before full-time and to make matters worse City lost the rearranged game 3-1, although Law did score once again.

Denis Law trots away after beating Luton goalkeeper Jim Standen to score the first of his soon to be disallowed 6 goals.