[Lord Snooty]

January 18:

Not much to report today. The most significant thing I can find about today is another win against Leeds.

This win was at Bellend Road in 1930 and completed the double for the season against the club who a decade earlier, had tried to take over ours. This was a 1-0 win, as was the win at Leeds Road. The scorer was the same for both matches, inside forward Harry Davies.

He had joined us from Stoke, having played seven seasons there. He had two seasons with us, playing in the 1930 FA Cup Final, before returning to Stoke in 1932. He scored over a hundred times for them over his two spells there, before joining Port Vale. For us, he scored 17 from 57 games.

The most recent match on this day was a 0-0 draw at home to Brentford in 2020. You have to go back a lot further for our last win on this date. That was in 1969 when we beat Bristol City at home 4-1 with goals from Jimmy Nicholson, Paul Aimson and two from Colin Dobson.