SALUTING THE YAK

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Yakubu Aiyegbeni is one of the only three teenagers to have scored a hat-trick in the Champions League (19years 306days for Maccabi Haifa v Olympiakos in 2002), alongside Wayne Rooney & Raúl Gonzalez.……

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