Robert Earnshaw (born 6 April 1981) is a Zambian-born Welsh international football player. He is a striker presently playing for Nottingham Forest. He is the only player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two (or the divisions under their previous names), the League Cup, the FA Cup and for his country at International level.
Earnshaw, nicknamed "Earnie", was born on the outskirts of the north central Zamb...
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Robert Earnshaw (born 6 April 1981) is a Zambian-born Welsh international football player. He is a striker presently playing for Nottingham Forest. He is the only player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two (or the divisions under their previous names), the League Cup, the FA Cup and for his country at International level.
Earnshaw, nicknamed "Earnie", was born on the outskirts of the north central Zambian mining town of Mufulira on 6 April 1981. When he was five, his family moved to Malawi where David Earnshaw took charge of another coal mine and his youngest son began school. Again, the family's stay was to be a short one. In September 1990, following the death of her husband, Rita moved the Earnshaw family to Bedwas, a small Welsh town to the north of Cardiff, where they lived initially with her sister. Earnshaw still has a house there.
"It was the first time I had been away from Africa." he recalls. "It was just completely different,...
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