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Ryan Dabbs

‘As a youngster I had supported Liverpool, so to score a hat-trick against them at the Kop end was unbelievable but also a bittersweet moment as a fan’: Premier League cult hero on ending 33-year Anfield record

9 MAY 1994: GOALSCORER PETER NDLOVU OF COVENTRY CELEBRATES AFTER SCORING HIS SECOND GOAL, WITH TEAMMATES DION DUBLIN (LEFT) AND JULIAN DARBY IN THEIR FA CARLING PREMIERSHIP MATCH VERSUS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR AT WHITE HART LANE, LONDON. Mandatory Credit: Anton Want/ALLSPORT.

Liverpool hosted Coventry City in March 1995 the clear favourites for victory. After 90 minutes they were left licking their wounds, having fallen on the wrong side of a 3-2 defeat - courtesy of a Peter Ndlovu hat-trick.

The Coventry City and Premier League cult hero ran riot at Anfield that day, bagging a first-half brace to put the Sky Blues 2-0 in the lead at half-time. Liverpool hit back in the second half, but the Zimbabwean forward completed his hat-trick in the 85th minute with a jinking run before slotting past David James at the Kop end.

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