Chops' goals set new City record.JOHN Heyda, a Bluebirds' fan and statistician who lives in America, has worked out that Michael Chopra's sizzling six-goal start to the new season is a Cardiff City club record. No other player has ever scored six goals in the first three league fixtures - and scored on each occasion. Heyda's stats, featured on the Cardiff City Mad website, show that only one other player, Hughie Ferguson Hughie Ferguson (March 2 1898 – January 9 1930) was a Scottish footballer. He is only one of seven men in the entire history of the Football and Scottish Football Leagues to have scored 350 League goals, though he was never capped for Scotland and his winning goal for during the 1920s, netted six goals in the opening three matches - and five of those came in one game. Chopra is only the fifth player to score in each of the first three league matches - and none hit six goals. The others are Stan Cribbs in 1932-33, Jimmy Collins in 1939-40 (season abandoned due to WWII WWII abbr. World War II WWII World War Two ), Graham Moore
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