Darren Smith's hat-trick for Stirling Albion helped secure his side the points against Montrose on Tuesday, but where does it stand in the history books?

He struck his goals in 42, 45+2 and 46 minutes, making it a six-minute treble. The club themselves are saying it was scored in four minutes, but regardless of how you count it, it wasn’t quite fast enough to earn a new record.

Delving into the archives, Scotland has seen its fair share of fast hat-tricks over the decades and for more than 50 years now the country has been home to the fastest in the world.

Tommy Ross netted three goals in just 90 seconds against Nairn County in November 1964. Ross County won the match 8-1 and it’s there for all to see in the Guinness World Records.

Missing out on the title by just 16 seconds, Tommy Bryce came close to knocking Ross off the top in 1993.

He scored a hat-trick for Queen of the South in one minute 46 seconds in a 6-0 win over Arbroath and later told the club’s official site “I didn’t realise at the time that it was that sort of time frame because you get so caught up in the heat of the game. I vaguely remember the goals.”

Seven years later Celtic’s Mark Burchill recorded the fastest hat-trick in European football, hitting three against Jeunesse Esch in 180 seconds.

It was the first-leg of a UEFA Cup fixture which Martin O’Neill’s newly acquired side went on to win 7-0 and 11-0 on aggregate.

Going back a bit further to 1959, Ian St John scored his fastest hat-trick in two minutes, 30 seconds. The Motherwell striker, who was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2008, put Hibs to the sword in the process.

Further afield Eduardo Maglioni scored three goals in just one minute, 50 seconds for Independiente when they took on Gimmasia de la Plata in March 1973.

In Ireland, Jimmy O'Connor netted in two minutes, 13 seconds for Shelbourne v Bohemians in November 1967.