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Pat Hoban has equalled Owen Da Gama's long-standing record.
Pat Hoban has created history with Derry City already having become the first player since Owen Da Gama to score six goals in the first five games of a Premier Division season.
Hoban’s hat trick against Waterford at the Brandywell on Friday night doubled the former Dundalk man’s already impressive tally, with his start to life at his new club going as well as anyone could have hoped.
But Hoban has now ended a wait of over 36 years to achieve such a feat, with no Derry City striker scoring six so quickly since Da Gama in Derry’s first ever season in the top flight in the League of Ireland back in 1987/88.
Over the course of three games in September and October in 1987, Da Gama helped the Candystripes hit the ground running in the top flight, scoring two at home to Cork City, one away at Galway and a hat trick at home to Limerick. Da Gama went on to score 18 goals in total.
Hoban gets the chance to add to his total when Derry City travel to Bohemians next Friday night.
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