[Lord Snooty]

February 11th:

Two big wins of the David Wagner era on this date.

First up, in 2017, we went down to Loftus Road and beat QPR 2-1. Izzy Brown and Nahki Wells scored the goals before Luke Freeman pulled one back. The win was a sweet one for Town fans as the knob who predicted we would be relegated, Ian Holloway had recently taken the R's manager's job. Far from being relegated, this win had Town up to 3rd, overtaking Reading and six points points behind 2nd placed Brighton.

As we all know, we beat Reading in the Play Offs and so twelve months on from beating QPR in the Championship, we faced AFC Bournemouth at the JSS in the Premier League on this date in 2018. It was a Sunday dinnertime kick off for televisual purposes and the poor old Cherries fans had had to set off in the middle of the night.

They must have been thrilled about their long journey to the north when in the 7th minute, the diminutive midfielder Alex Pritchard scored his first Town goal, after being set up by Steve Mounie. And it was Mounie who put us back ahead after AFCB had equalised, nodding home an Aaron Mooy free kick.

Mounie made it three in the second half, ridiculously later given as an own goal and then little Pritch was upended in the box in added on time and Rajiv van La Parra stroked in the pen to finish the match as a 4-1 Town win.

This win moved us out of the bottom three, overtaking Southampton and Stoke.