[Lord Snooty]

September 7:

On this date in 1935, Town went down to Griffin Park for our first ever league game against Brentford. They had been promoted to the First Division for the first time and excitement was high as a crowd of 33,481 crammed into the teeny tiny stadium. Must've been a proper crush that!

Len Butt and Charlie Luke spoiled the party though, scoring goals for Town as we won 2-1 and went top of the league.

Eleven years later, on this date in 1946, our brave boys went back down to Brentford in the first proper post war season. Another massive crowd turned up at Griffin Park. This time it was 31,264.

Brentford had beaten us a few times in the years after that first game and the war starting and they won this one as well, 2-0. I've only mentioned these two games because I found this image on Google Images.

Born on this date in the year 2000, it's a happy birthday today to Aaron Rowe. He's 22 today and he was born in Hackney.

Today's question is........ Where the hell is he?

[Lord Snooty]

Birthday boy's in the B team today.

[Lord Snooty]

An assist and a yellow card in the first half.

[Lord Snooty]

September 8:

Town had started the 1990/91 season badly. It was our third season back in Division Three following the relegation in 1988 and Eoin Hand, who had taken the manager's job after Malcolm Macdonald was sacked, was still in charge.

We had lost the opening two league games, at home to Southend and away at Swansea. We'd also lost both legs of a League Cup 1st round tie against Bolton Wanderers. So when the Trotters came to Leeds Road for a league match on this date in 1990, the result came as a bit of a surprise. Not surprising that we won. Statistically, we do win games every now and then, but the manner of the win and the scoreline was a huge surprise.

The major factor in this performance was the shoring up of the defence. And that was all down to the new signing, who had arrived at Leeds Road a couple of days before and was later to say that the moment he walked in the door, he knew this was the right place for him.

That was of course, the man, the myth, the legend. Peter Jackson.

I remember watching him in the warm ups, whilst thinking to myself, why have we signed on this Bradford reject? He was practicing headers and nutting the ball so hard back to the halfway line. Let's see how he gets on in the game.

Well, we kept a clean sheet, after shipping five against Bolton over the two League Cup legs, so that was a good start to the Town career of the man who would go on to be skipper, manager and ambassador of this great club.

It was somebody else's legend who stole the show though. Keith Edwards, the goal scoring machine of Bramall Lane, had just signed for us in the summer from a short stint at Stockport. Knocking on a bit by now (he retired at the end of the season), he turned back the clock to the man who scored 171 goals for Sheffield United, by scoring a hat trick for us in this one.

That added to the first Town goal for new signing, Iwan Roberts, gave us a fantastic 4-0 win.

Two birthdays today. Chris Powell, who managed the club for a season and a half in the middle of the last decade, is 53 today. He was born on this date in 1969 in Lambeth.

And our young Aussie u23 goalkeeper, Nicholas Bilokapic is 20 today. He was born on this date in 2002 in (according to Wikipedia) Australia. Very helpful there, Wiki, thanks!

He has only half a game played for the first team so far, but what a half it was. He kept a clean sheet as we beat Premier League Burnley in last season's FA Cup, replacing the injured Ryan Schofield.

Happy birthday, lads.

[WakeyTerrier]

I've a few games on this date, that Bolton one was one of them, the others were

Town 1 v 5 Shrewsbury Town 1984
Graham Cooper with the only goal for Town
I couldn't tell you who scored for Shrewsbury but I can tell you they repeated that score line in the reverse fixture
Att: 4,980

Crewe 2 v 0 Town 2007
Lee Barnard and Eugun Bopp with the goals for Crewe
Att: 5,164

England 2 v 0 Switzerland (EURO16 Qualifier)
Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney with the England goals
That Wayne Rooney goal made him England's all time goal scorer having edged past Bobby Charlton
Att: 75,751

and finally
England 1 v 2 Spain (Nations League)
Marcus Rashard putting England in front on 11 minutes
Saul with the equalizer on 13 minutes with the winner coming from Rodrigo on 32minutes
This was England's first ever Nations League game
Att: 81,392

[Lord Snooty]

That Shrewsbury game was horrendous. Mick Buxton brought us some great times, but whenever we played the Shrews, it was disaster every time.

[Lord Snooty]

September 9:

On this date in 2019, following the sacking of Jan Siewert, potless Phil Hodkinson appointed the one we've all been wanting. I say all, I mean me. You may agree or not, but that man was the former boss of Concord Rangers, Danny Cowley. I'd said after the defeat to Lincoln in the EFL Cup that Dan was the man. Him and lil bruv would see us out of the deep do do's we were in.

We were next to the bottom of the league, level with Stoke on one point. All three games under the caretakership of Mark Hudson had been lost and that run kept going for Danny boy. His first two ended up in defeat, but then came an unbeaten run which saw him pick up the Manager of the Month award and we were up and running.

Potless became a prize prick, in my eyes, when he sacked the pair of 'em at the end of the season and despite them not exactly storming the league with Portsmouth, I still think we should've kept them on instead of bringing in a Spanish numpty from Leeds.

What do you think?

So from one manager who had under a year in charge, to one who had eight and a half years. That was Mick Buxton, who on this date in 1978 was in as caretaker after Tom Johnston retired.....again!

He'd been in charge last week for the home game with Reading that attracted a really low attendance of 2,951 for a 1-1 draw. The people must've thought something was in the air as the following week, on this date in 1978, an extra thousand turned up for the visit of Doncaster Rovers. And what they saw was the first win under the management of Mr B. It would be the first of 178 wins.

It was a 2-1 win with goals from Keith Hanvey and Paul Bielby scoring. But it didn't spark immediate success. Things got going though over the next few weeks as he started adding names that would become familiar over the next few years. Names like Malcolm Brown, David Cowling and Mark Lillis came in.

The brilliant strike partnership of Ian Robins and Peter Fletcher had to wait to get started though. Robins signed from Bury, but Fletch had got injured and so Buxton brought back Bobby Campbell, who himself went and got injured as well.

But by the end of the season, Robins/Fletcher was up and running, with 28 goals between them and that set us up for the biggy next season.

So only 4,038 came to see us play Donny at Leeds Road in 78. Back in 1952 on this date, we went to play them away and 27,614 came out to see this midweek match. Now if you ever went to their Belle Vue ground, you will know that that is a physical impossibility.

Anyway, we were top of the 2nd Division table, but could only draw this one, with Jimmy Watson scoring ours in a 1-1 scoreline.

Town would finish the season as runners up and gain promotion. Rovers finished in 13th, above the likes of West Ham, Everton, Brentford and Southampton.

Back in 1919, apathy was the order of the day. We were in Division Two and would end up winning promotion, but on this date, another poor crowd of only 4,000 came out to see the bright blue n whites beat Bury 5-0 and move up to 5th in the table.

Those four thousand folks saw Jack Cock become the first Town player to score four goals in a league game for the club. Frank Mann got the other. Happy days?

Well no. The club was about to go into turmoil, with Cock being sold to Chelsea sparking off scenes of panic, backstabbing and skullduggery.

[theo_luddite]

I remember hearing Bobby Cambell's leg go snap

[Lord Snooty]

Ooh aye.

[Lord Snooty]

September 10:

On this date in 1930, two players scored hat tricks for Town in a First Division match that we won 6-0 against Manchester United at Old Trafford. This is still United's highest ever league defeat at home, with Liverpool coming ever so close last season, but only managing to score five.

The two hat trick scorers were Gerry Kelly (pictured below) and Alex Jackson. Kelly had signed from Third Division (North) team, Nelson and these were three of fifteen goals he scored for the Town.

Jackson was of course, a Town legend, who I've mentioned loads of times on here. His three took his tally to seven from the first four games of the season. Sadly though, they were his last goals for us and this was also his last match. He signed for big spending Chelsea, a move which went disastrously wrong for him and led to the premature end of his glittering football career.

We have played Leeds Urinals four times on this date. First in 1932, a 1-1 draw at Bellend Road, with Alf Young scoring for us. That was a First Division game. In 1960 we went there in a 2nd Division match and walloped them 4-1. Derek Stokes scored twice, one from the penalty spot, Chris Balderstone got one and the other was a Jack Charlton own goal.

Charlton had retired by the time the next one came along in 1974. Also on his way was Don Revie, who had left to manage England and had been replaced by Brian Clough as manager. Cloughie famously only lasted 44 days in the job before getting sacked. On his 43rd day, he took his team to Leeds Road for a 2nd round League Cup tie.

They were league champions at the time and every player was an international. All their big names played in this, including Trevor Cherry, Norman Hunter and Johnny Giles. We had been relegated to the 3rd Division, but still had some of our First Division team. Terry Poole was in goal, Geoff Hutt, Les Chapman, Bobby Hoy and Steve Smith all played in this.

We had Leeds legend Bobby Collins as our manager and it was Alan Gowling who scored our goal as we held the Champions of Europe to a 1-1 draw. No extra time or penalties, so it was all back to Bellend Road for a replay in a couple of weeks time.

Clough was sacked the day after this result.

And finally, in 2016. This happened. Take a bow, Aaron Mooy.

Back to the beginning again. On this date in 1910, Huddersfield Town played their first Football League match at Leeds Road. After winning the first match away at Bradford Park Avenue, Burnley came over from Lancashire to play this and stole both points in a 1-0 win for them. A crowd of 7,371 came to witness this historic event, as manager Dick Pudan (pictured below) picked an unchanged line up. Those who were there probably didn't realise how historic it would be at the time or that this stadium would hold a crowd of 67,000 in a few years time.