[Lord Snooty]

February 10th:

On this date in 1934, Billy Smith played his final game for Huddersfield Town. It was his 574th match for Town, his 521st league game. The match was against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane and we won it 4-1. And did he score in it? Of course he did.

He scored twice actually. His 125th and 126th goals, which at the time had him 2nd in the all time goal scorers chart, behind George Brown. He's now down to 4th, as in the following 88 years, only Jimmy Glazzard and Andy Booth have managed to overtake him.

Having played his first game in 1913, I wonder how many matches he would have played in and how many goals he would have in his total, if the war to end all wars hadn't interrupted his early career.

The other two goals in the match were scored by Willis Vaughton and Charlie Luke. Vaughton, in contrast to Smith, only played twice for the club and this was his only goal.

Thirteen years before all that, in 1921, Billy scored in a 2-1 win over Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, with Ernie Islip getting the other goal.

Just for a change, instead of a picture of the great man himself, here's his great grand-daughter Mollie at this season's kit launch.

We reached the 5th round of the FA Cup in 1951, but lost on this date, away at Wolves 0-2. And it's Wolves who gave us a damn jolly good thrashing in our most recent game on this date, back in 2015. That was at our John Smith's Stadium and was the night that Rajiv van La Parra destroyed our feeble defence.

It was also the night that Conor Coady scored his first goal for Wolves. The daft ha'porth was still a Huddersfield Town player then though. 

Benik Afobe scored as well that night. Again, this was not for us but for them. It was James Vaughan who scored the Town goal, but we were already 3-0 down when he scored. Nouha Dicko scored the first and last goals of the game as the Wolves ran out 4-1 winners.

They beat us in the next season as well but after that, we have won the last five matches against them.