Mark Pulling could be heading for the Guinness Book of Records after his amazing hat-trick for Worthing.

He has certainly made his own bit of folklore at Woodside Road after netting three times direct from corners in the same match.

In fact, the only person Pulling has not surprised is his football-playing brother Chris.

Rebels have told the Guinness Book of Records about their player's seemingly unique treble which clinched a 3-1 Ryman League win at Corinthian Casuals last Saturday.

The goals all came from vicious right-footed inswingers, though the keeper got a hand to the third.

Pulling hones his deadball skills in spare time working as a PE assistant at Hove Park School and has scored from corners before.

He revealed: "I did it a couple of times for Shoreham but I used to do it quite a lot for my school team. My mum told my brother I scored a hat-trick from corners and Chris just said 'Yeah he used to score from them all the time for the school'.

"Before I scored the first one I was just thinking 'Put it in the right area because if it comes off anyone's head it's going to go in the goal'.

"With the second I thought 'Let's give it a go and see if it goes in again'.

"I had two from the right as well with the outside of my right foot. That's what led to the third goal. The keeper tipped it over but I went over and took the next corner and it went in. It was a mad 20 minutes."

Pulling was told to put in extra work on his delivery by boss Alan Pook and it has clearly paid off.

He added: "We scored a good goal from a setpiece against Three Bridges recently.

"It was a header by Sam (Francis), a brilliant goal, and that was probably the best corner I've taken."

Pulling denied windy conditions helped him to his treble. In fact, the weather meant he had to change his delivery style.

He said: "The wind would have carried a normal corner out of play so I was striking it like a free-kick I was checking the papers on Sunday to see if anyone else had scored from a corner and there was nothing."

All the same, the wind had to be of some assistance, surely.

The Argus put that theory to the test by asking Pulling to try his luck from the corner flag on a relatively still night at Woodside.

The result? Without any warm-up he smacked his first flag kick against the post, fizzed the next across the face of goal and curled the third right between the uprights.

Not that it was all glory for the former Horsham and Wick man. He was taken off after his treble, then missed the midweek win over Bracknell through suspension.

Pook said: "I took him off because he wasn't having the best of games.

"It has got to be some sort of world record. I've been in football a long time and I've never seen anything like it. I've come across someone who has scored two but never a hat-trick and the manner in which he did it made it even more unbelievable."

Pulling's goals brought back memories of a similar strike by Spencer Mintram in an FA Cup tie at Bournemouth and have kept title hopes flickering in division one south.

Assistant-manager Danny Bloor, Mark Stevens and Steve Danahar have all become directors of Worthing. Darryl Plummer has been sent back to Southend after the completion of his loan spell.