Make mine a treble
It's been a question plenty of Blues fans have been pondering: who scored our last hat-trick at the highest level?
David Geddis some went for. No, that was the season when Blues were promoted.
Keith Bertschin? Close. He scored hat-tricks in 1979-80 but in the old Division Two.
Got to be TF then? Almost. Trevor Francis, in 1976-77, scored trebles when Blues were indeed in the top-flight.
That season there were four hat-tricks in fact. Kenny Burns got the other two, including four goals versus Derby County in the October.
But the person who netted three goals at the highest domestic level for Blues before Mikael Forssell was . . . Tony Evans.
It was the fifth league match of the 1981-82 season when the little striker registered all three against Manchester City at St Andrew's.
Neil Whatmore was alongside him, and the Blues team also had Mark Dennis, Colin Todd, Archie Gemmill plus Dutch duo Bud Brocken and Tony van Mierlo in the ranks.
Jim Smith left as manager that February and Ron Saunders took over.
Liverpudlian Evans finished with 15 league goals and one from the League Cup.
A former electrician, he moved to Crystal Palace in 1983 and also had spells at Wolves and Walsall.
Below are all the hat-trick heroes from Evans to Forssell.
Mikael Forssell v Spurs, 4-1, Premier League, March 1, 2007.
Gary McSheffrey v Preston, 3-1, Championship, December 9, 2006.
Tommy Mooney v Norwich, 4-0, Division One, December 8, 2001.
Marcelo v Bradford, 4-0, Division One, October 20, 2001.
Paul Furlong v Stockport, 4-1, Division One, January 27, 1998.
Paul Furlong v Stoke, 7-0, Division One, January 10, 1998
Jonathan Hunt v Norwich, 3-1, Division One, August 26, 1995.
Jonathan Hunt v Crewe, 5-0, Division Two, November 1, 1994.
Jonathan Hunt v Peterborough, 5-3, Auto Windscreens Shield, September 27, 1994.
David Geddis v Portsmouth, 3-1, Division Two (old), April 13, 1985.
Mick Harford, Derby, 4-0, League Cup, October 25, 1983.
Tony Evans, Manchester City, 3-0, Division One (old) September 19, 1981.
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