It wasn’t Torquay – he scored a last minute looping header of a winner at home to Torquay in the league in 1996 to preserve our 100% home record & spark my one man pitch invasion but that was relatively early on in the season
he never got a hat-trick of hat-tricks either. he got 2 hat-tricks in consecutive matches (Leyton Orient & Darlington having just checked on the stats page) & the press started talking about a hat-trick of hat-tricks. That would have been in a game away at Doncaster which we lost 2-0 & i think Diaz got arrested for allegedly slapping a ball boy.
The only thing I remember about any of the goals in the 2 games he did get was that one against Darlington came from a quickly taken free kick following a back pass & the 3rd against darlington may well have been a header & he then ran half the length of the pitch in front of the St Andrew’s stand kissing the ball in his hand
How come I can’t remember something someone asked me to do at work 5 minutes ago yet i can remember all that useless $h!te????