[Lord Snooty]

January 4th:

Not a lot to write about for this date, just a couple of personal ones. The first one is my first away game, which was an FA Cup 3rd round match at Bury, which my dad took me to in 1969.

I don't remember much about the match apart from the fact that we won. Looking up the result, I see that it was 2-0 with goals from Brian Hill and Jimmy Nicholson. I do remember standing down by the corner flag and there were a lot of people there. I couldn't see much of what was going on, probably because there were 14,251 crammed in to this little ground and I was a very small 8 year old boy.

So looking at the picture, we must've been stood at the bottom left of this picture.

So do you remember your first away game?



The other one is a trip to Cleethorpes in 2014 for an FA Cup match against Grimsby Town. Me, Chaffers and our nephew Paul went, got parked up and went to Steel's Corner House for fish n chips. They were absolutely scrumptious. 

Town were the favourites, being a Championship side playing the Mariners, who I think were in League Two at the time. They played way above that standard on the day and wave after wave of attacks gave them a deserved 1-0 lead at half time. We were sat right behind the goal that Town were attacking in the second half and got a brilliant view of the free kick Olly Norwood smashed in for the equaliser.

Typical Town conceded again straight away, so with time running out, it looked like another embarrassing, early exit from the Cup for the Terriers. But no! Up popped Martin Paterson in the 86th minute to equalise and send the game for a replay. Or was it?

No we got dead lucky when a feeble shot from somebody I can't remember was deflected into his own net by a hapless Grimsby defender and the mighty Terriers were through.