On a sun-kissed August afternoon at Anfield, a quarter of a century ago, Robbie Fowler announced his exhilarating talent to English football.
Four minutes and 33 seconds is it all it took for a precocious 19-year-old from Toxteth to dismantle one of the most vaunted defences in the land.
Fowler's famous hat-trick has since been eclipsed by Sadio Mane, though his astonishing two-minute-56-second burst in May 2015 came against Tim Sherwood's dismal Aston Villa side.
Mane faced a 39-year-old Shay Given, Leandro Bacuna, Jores Okore, Ron Vlaar and Alan Hutton.
On that day 25 years ago Arsenal had David Seaman in goal and three-quarters of George Graham's famous 1989 defence in Tony Adams, Nigel Winterburn and Lee Dixon. The fourth member was Martin Keown.
By August 1994 Fowler was already a player brimming with potential. It had been a meteoric rise from scoring on his senior debut in September 1993 to then scoring all five in a League Cup win over Fulham just two weeks later.
His first league hat-trick came in just his fifth league appearance, against Southampton. He finished his debut season as the club's leading scorer ahead of the legendary Ian Rush.
But the events of that August afternoon were still a seismic shock in English football. This kind of thing simply didn't happen.
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Jamie Redknapp whips a free-kick towards the Arsenal area. Keown rises to clear the ball but mistimes his jump, allowing the ball to drop. It bounces inadvertently off Ian Rush and away from Dixon allowing an unmarked Fowler to lash home a first-time shot with that trusty left boot. He peels away in celebration, exuberant as Anfield adores him.
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Arsenal are reeling. Whatever fortune there was surrounding the first goal, it is all Liverpool for the second. Steve McManaman collects the ball inside his own half and is afforded the freedom of Anfield as the Gunners backline backs off, backs off and then backs off some more, allowing him to take the ball to the edge of their area.
He draws in Dixon, allowing Fowler to peel off the back off him. He needs just one touch to control it and open the angle to his stronger side before sweeping a low shot across Seaman into the bottom corner.
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John Barnes exchanges passes with Stig-Inge Bjornebye down the left-hand side. Barnes looks up and chips a delicate ball over Adams for Fowler to run onto. Arsenal's backline is high and Fowler is charging into the penalty area as he gets the ball under control.
Seaman is out early and smothers his first attempt but the bounces off the England goalkeeper. The covering defender, Keown, clatters into Seaman. Fowler belies his young years with the maturity of a seasoned goalscorer, controlling the ball on the touchline with his left before whipping it into the far corner as Winterburn charges across to attempt a heroic block.
'It was then that the God nickname began to stick,' remembers Fowler in his autobiography. 'My life had already changed but it gathered pace after that.'
He was already idolised at Anfield. Now he was worshipped.
And it provided one of the iconic Martin Tyler moments. As Fowler picked up the loose ball from Seaman's initial save and kept his head to bury into the far corner from an acute angle, the commentator boomed: 'He's away again, is this going to be the hat-trick? It could still be, IT ISSSSS!!'