[Lord Snooty]

January 17th:

On this day in 1968, after beating Wolves, Norwich, West Ham and Fulham, Tom Johnston led his Huddersfield Town side down to Highbury to play Arsenal in the first leg of our first and only League Cup semi final.

George Graham, ex Town full back Bob McNab and John Radford scored for the Gunners, but it wasn't all over yet as Trevor Cherry and Colin Dobson scored for the Town (don't know what order the goals came in) and the match ended 3-2 to the Arse.

So all to play for in the 2nd leg. On the same night, the other semi final first leg was played at the Baseball Ground, where Leeds Urinals beat Derby County 1-0. Could we possibly turn this tie around for a West Yorkshire derby at Wembley?

Find out on February the 6th.

We have a Town legend's birthday today. Stood at 16th in our all time goalscoring records list, with 63 goals from 234 (+ 8 subs), it's Mark Lillis. Born in Manchester in 1960, he's 62 today.

I remember his debut. It was my first time going to an away game on my own, without my dad. I went on the official Supporters Club coach and it was Newport County in the old 4th Division in 1978/79. He was a midfielder then, taking the number 4 jersey following an injury to Ian Holmes. He played 11 games that season, but oddly none in the 79/80 promotion season.

He was later converted to a central defender by Mick Buxton, but following a striker crisis, brought on by the retirements of Steve Kindon, Peter Fletcher and Ian Robins, Mark was thrown in up front and never looked back. He was absolutely brilliant!

He scored 20 goals in 82/83 as he and Colin Russell (16 goals) fired us up to automatic promotion.