Archie Thompson is no stranger to racking up record amounts of goals in games. But now he is more than just the man who netted 13 goals in an international against American Samoa, he is the man who slotted five goals in an A-League Grand Final.
To put Thompson's achievement into context, rarely have players produced individual efforts such as this at the elite level in such an important contest. Never in the A-League's short history has anyone come close to scoring five goals, while only twice in the English Premier League has a played netted a handful.
Andy Cole did it for Manchester United in 1995, while Alan Shearer emulated that effort playing for Newcastle against Sheffield Wednesday in 1999. Frankie Bunn of Oldham scored six against Scarborough in a League Cup match in 1989.
But most of those results were achieved against vastly inferior opposition, not in the ultimate matches of the season, on the biggest stage there is for domestic football.
Only one player has scored five goals in a World Cup finals match - Russia's Oleg Salenko, who scored five against Cameroon in 1994, went onto to register only one more goal for his country.
Salenko became famous for that one deed in much the same way Thompson earned his notoriety for his 13-goal spree against American Samoa in April 2001.
It was a notoriety which never sat comfortable with Thompson. He wanted be much more than the flat-track bully, who plundered goals against hapless opposition. He returned to Australia looking himself much more than a one-hit wonder, and that he has certainly done.
He now has 23 goals from 33 A-League matches, an A-League champions medal, a Joe Martson Medal and a place in Australian sports history.
Kevin Muscat said after the game that Thompson's record will never be matched, and that in 100 years, people will look back and wonder. Given the giant steps football has taken in this country in the past 18 months, it's hard to imagine what the sport will be like in 2107, but if Muscat is right, the history books will record New Zealand-born Archie Thompson as one of Australia's all-time greats.