[Lord Snooty]

January 22nd:

Well it's a good day for Huddersfield Town to have a match. We are unbeaten on this date since losing 1-0 at Arsenal in 1972. And that's the only defeat we've had.

One interesting match among the series of games on this day was in 1938, when we played Notts County at Leeds Road in the 4th round of the FA Cup. This was the year we made it all the way to the final of course. We won the game 1-0, but the name of the scorer is one I'd never come across before. He only played 4 times for us and this was his only goal. His name was Jack Beattie.

He was an inside forward from Aberdeen and although he only played three league games for us, his career total was just under 300. He started out at Aberdeen, then came down south to Wolves. After that he played for Blackburn, then Birmingham, then us. After his time at Town, he went and played for Grimsby Town, but then the war came along and he never played again when the game started up again.

He died in Wolverhampton in 1992, aged 79.

Birthday boy today is Theo Larayan Ronaldo Shadiki Robinson, currently languishing in the 4th Division with Bradford City. He was born on this date in 1989 and so is 33 today. So he was still nobbut a kid when he came to us in 2009 and made his debut at Southend on the opening day of the 09/10 season. He came to us from Watford, for whom he made one Premier League appearance.

On that debut, he didn't look very good and the game changed when he went off and another young lad called Jordan Rhodes came on and scored the equaliser. He did score his first Town goal though in the next game, a 3-1 win at home to Stockport County in the League Cup. He followed that with two goals in the 7-1 win against Brighton and two goals in the remarkable League Cup match at Newcastle. He scored 13 goals in that first season as he, Rhodes and Lee Novak formed a fantastic attacking line up, with Gary Roberts and Anthony Pilkington supplying the ammo.

Bradford are the 16th club he's played for and the 16 goal tally he had for us is only bettered by the 18 goal haul he had for Derby County. Whilst at Derby, he gained 7 caps for Jamaica, even though he's a Brummie.