[Lord Snooty]

January 9th:

Born on this day in 1925 was Len Quested. Being born then meant that when he should be starting his career as a professional footballer, the war was still on. He was in the Royal Navy on the H.M.S. Golden Hind, based in Australia. After the war, he returned to play for Folkestone Town, his home town club. Then he landed his big move, to Fulham, where he played for four seasons before joining the mighty Huddersfield Town in 1951, in exchange for Jeff Taylor.
He missed most of the relegation season with a broken leg, but in the following promotion season, he was one of the famous back line that remained unchanged, playing every game of the season. The others were goalkeeper Jack Wheeler with Ron Staniforth, Laurie Kelly, Bill McGarry and Don McEvoy.
Having earlier married an Aussie, they moved back down under when he retired in 1957 and he spent the rest of his career in coaching. He died in Queensland in 2012.

And a couple of FA Cup games to mention. In 1962, we won a seven goal thriller at Leeds Road, beating Rotherham 4-3. Les Massie, Kevin McHale (2) and Jim Kerray (who died a couple of months ago aged 85) getting the goals.

Two years previous to that, in 1960, we played First Division giants West Ham United at Leeds Road and drew 1-1 in front of 30,526 spectators. A young lad called Denis Law scored ours. How did we get on in the replay? Find out on the 13th.