If you consider Bale's China Cup hat-trick to have come in a friendly match (some do, some don't), then his treble against Belarus today was Wales' first hat-trick in a competitive fixture since September 1992, when Ian Rush scored three in a 6-0 win over the Faroe Islands.
And this was, I think, Wales' first hat-trick in a competitive away match since Cliff Jones scored three at Windsor Park in the 1963 Home Championship, back when the Northern Irish football team was still calling itself Ireland.
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