[Lord Snooty]

January 23rd:

Jimmy Robson, who I wrote about in the Burnley match thread, was born on this date in 1939. He was of course, a Burnley legend, with his goals helping them win the title in 1960. Later in life, he came to Town as a coach for Mick Buxton and had one match as caretaker manager when Steve Smith resigned and before Malcolm McDonald was appointed.

He died in December and at that Burnley Cup match, he was given a minute's silence before the game.

I have to mention that man Dave Mangnall again for his exploits in 1932. On this date, we beat QPR 5-0 in the 4th round of the FA Cup, 5-0 at Leeds Road. This was his 10th goal in 5 successive matches on his way to a club record of scoring in 11 consecutive matches.

Dave scored twice in this game with Charlie Luke also getting two and Austen Campbell one.

Dave is 10th in our all time record scorers list. Charlie is 29th equal alongside Phil Starbuck.

Odd stat. we have only played once this century on this date and that was a 1-2 defeat at Brighton in 2016. We have never played a game at the John McAlpharm Stadium on this date either.

We had a 3-3 draw at the Victoria Ground in Stoke (not Hartlepool) in the 4th round of the FA Cup in 1971. Frank Worthington, Les Chapman and Brian Mahoney scored in that one. The replay is coming up on the 26th, see how that goes soon.