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Mike Walters

Erling Haaland beaten to five-goal record by 61 years as Ray Crawford responds to haul

Erling Haaland may have turned the Golden Boot into a one-Norse race, but his five goals for Manchester City in a Champions League tie was more old hat than Charlie Chaplin's bowler.

Seven decades before Haaland's bunch of fives against Red Bull Leipzig, Ray Crawford became the first player to achieve the feat for an English club in the European Cup. Back in 1962, when Sir Alf Ramsey had led Ipswich Town to the title, the Tractor Boys announced themselves in Europe with a 10-0 win against Maltese fall-guys Floriana in the preliminary round.

Crawford, now 86, scored five of them as Ipswich completed a 14-1 stroll on aggregate, and Haaland's rampage against Leipzig jogged his memory about the night he became first among equals.

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