Newcastle hero Malcolm Macdonald explains brutal England snub after hat-trick
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dailystar.co.ukImagine Harry Kane sitting in the Wembley dressing room last November after scoring his third England hat-trick in the 7-0 demolition of Montenegro and being blanked by Gareth Southgate.
That is what happened to Malcolm Macdonald 45 years ago today when he became the first post-war England player to score five goals in a game, only for Three Lions boss Don Revie to ignore him afterwards.
It was not the first time Revie had snubbed him and came as no surprise to the Newcastle legend. “You have to go back to the previous game against West Germany,” said Macdonald. “I’d been left out of the previous three squads but there was a clamour for him to pick me because I was scoring lots of goals for Newcastle. “When I arrived at the hotel on the
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