[Lord Snooty]

January 27th:

Huddersfield Town of the Premier League faced Championship side Birmingham City in the 4th round of the FA Cup on this day in 2018. We were on a poor run of form, with our only win so far in this month being the 2-1 win at Bolton in the previous round. But it was our brave lads who took the lead in the 21st minute when Steve Mounié headed home from a Flo Hadergjonaj cross. Chris Löwe and Collin Quaner had chances to increase the lead but we went in at the break 1-0 up.

Steve Cotterill, the Blues boss, had his team fired up at half time and they came out and equalised soon after. It was, of course, Lukas Jutkiewicz who scored it. He then had another one in the net, but it was chalked off for offside. David Wagner sent on Joe Lolley and he almost won it in the last minute, but he fluffed it.

So, it's all down to St Andrews on Feb 6th for the replay and the right to host Manchester United in the 5th round.

We were giant killed on this day in 1934. A crowd of 28,423 turned up at Leeds Road to watch Town, who at the time were 3rd in the First Division, play Northampton Town of Division Three South. Town had beaten Plymouth Argyle 6-2 in the previous round and so nobody arrived at the ground that day expecting anything but another massive Town win. What they got was the shock of the round as the Cobblers came away with a 2-0 win.

Squad rotation hadn't been thought of back them and so it was just one change from the team that drew at Bellend Road with Leeds Urinals the previous Saturday. And that one change was the return of first choice left back Reg Mountford for reserve Dick Witham. So a proper shock then.

Reg Mountford