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Scottish hat-trick heroes

11 hat-tricks have been scored against England over time, and the first five of these came from Scotsmen!

John McDougall scored Scotland’s first ever hat-trick in a 7-2 win over the Auld Enemy in 1878, and George Ker got the second when the Scots won 5-4 in 1880.

Just a year and a day later, John Smith scored three in a 6-1 thrashing of England, but the Scots then had to wait another 19 years for their next hat-trick against their neighbours, when Robert Smyth McColl, who netted three hat-tricks in the space of 13 months for Scotland, put three past the Three Lions in 1900.

Alex Jackson then made it five successive Scotsmen to net a hat-trick against England in a 5-1 win in 1928.

Although there hasn’t been any since, could a member of this Scotland side make it six?