[Lord Snooty]

January 31st:

Of the eleven matches played by Huddersfield Town on this date, three of them have been against Leeds United. We won twice and lost one. All of them have been home matches.

The first one was in 1925 at Leeds Road. It was only five years since Town had been saved from an unwelcome takeover bid from the newly formed Leeds United, after Leeds City had been disbanded. Since then of course, in such a short space of time, Town had become Champions of England. We duly thrashed the bastards 2-0. Legends of the club, Billy Smith and George Brown scored the goals.

Times were hard though. The General Strike was looming on the horizon and crowds at Leeds Road were still not brilliant and only 10,500 turned up to watch this one.

A few years later in 1931, we were still one of the top clubs in the country, but still only 13,044 spectators came to see us thrash our neighbours again. This time we beat them 3-0 with Bob Kelly scoring one and Joe Robson getting two.

Bob Kelly

Fast forward to 2015. We are now not the best team in the land anymore and most certainly them Beeston bums are definitely not, but we got a crowd of 20,029 into the John Smith's Stadium to watch them beat us 2-1. Harry Bunn scored our equaliser and as the game was running out as a 1-1 draw, Leeds sub Billy Sharp got his usual goal against us, deep into time added on.

Worse than that was the sickening sight of Tommy Smith being stretchered aff following a head injury whilst they were scoring and later, the Yorkshire Air Ambulance landed on the pitch to take him to the LGI.