[Lord Snooty]

January 29th:

It's a happy birthday today to our 2008 Player of the Year, born in 1984, making him 38 today, It's Andy Holdsworth. According to Wikipedia, he is currently the Professional Development Phase manager at Sheffield Wednesday, but will always be remembered here for his goal against Leeds U-shite-d, in 07/08, which gave us our first win against the Beeston Bums for years.

He made 243 (+18 subs) in his Town career, scoring 8 goals.

Born on this date in 1891, was Charlie Slade. He played for Town in what is now called midfield, before during and after the First World War. He was a reservist for the Cavalry Regiment during the war and after he resumed his playing career, he even played a full game as goalkeeper. That was in an away game at Port Vale when Sandy Mutch got injured in the warm up and reserve keeper Edwin Davis hadn't travelled with the squad. He managed to keep a clean sheet in a 0-0 draw.

That was in 1920, our first ever promotion season and he also played for us in the 1920 and 1922 FA Cup Finals.

The Town manager at the time of that first Cup Final was Ambrose Langley and he died on this date in 1937, aged 66.

On this date in 1955, Huddersfield Town played an FA Cup match in front of a massive crowd of 21,908. Doesn't sound all that big, but it was a record crowd, and still is, for Torquay United's Plainmoor stadium. The game was an FA Cup 4th round match and Town won it 1-0 with a goal from Jimmy Glazzard.