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2010: Butterfield nets the perfect hat-trick

The first event of Crystal Palace's Moments of the Decade poll comes just five weeks into 2010, with right-back Danny Butterfield netting the fastest and most iconic hat-trick in the club's history.

Palace had just been plunged into administration and, to find the funds needed to survive, the club sold talismanic forward Victor Moses. Up front, then, Alan Lee was missing a partner when Wolverhampton Wanderers came to Selhurst for an FA Cup Fourth Round clash.

"In a training session with Neil Warnock," Butterfield recalled in an interview with Palace TV, "typical five-a-side - I played up front with Alan Lee and Neil, being Neil, said: 'We'll go with that tomorrow.