Five goals is more than Heskey will hit all year

Booking your flight in advance is a great way to make a saving on the money you spend but there are other benefits of booking early. He may not have put much money down but on Sunday, Jermain Defoe went a long way to booking his place on the English flight to South Africa come the summer of 2010.

Defoe would have woken up on Sunday knowing that strike rival Darren Bent had scored yet again for Sunderland. Bent has not exactly shone for England yet but his scoring record in the Premier League this season will definitely have caught Fabio Capello’s eye.

This meant that Defoe was needing something special to put himself back in the spotlight and that is exactly what happened at White Hart Lane. Wigan’s defenders put in a performance that could well see a few of them in the reserves but it still took the England striker to put the ball in the back of the net.

Which he did. Five times.

This is the second time that Defoe has scored a hat-trick this season but very few top flight players have struck five in one match. Defoe’s Sunday best saw him reach the heights that Alan Shearer and Andy Cole have managed since the English top flight became the all powerful Premier League.

Once again, it is advantage Defoe and if he can keep out of trouble and stay injury free, it would be an immense shock if the striker was not involved in the major football tournament next summer.

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