[Lord Snooty]

February 15th:

First of all, happy birthday to our young midfielder Scottish Highlands. Born in Dewsbury in 2001, making him 21 today, Scotty has a bright future ahead of him at Huddersfield Town, but may struggle to hold down a first team place if we go up again this season and bring in a load of top class, expensive midfielders.

Still to score his first goal for the Terriers, he has scored whilst out on loan. One at Concord Rangers and twice for Shrewsbury Town, one of them in the League Cup at Middlesbrough.

On this date in 2012, there were huge cheers in the offices of Radio Leeds as grumpy Town manager Lee Clark was sacked, despite having the best win rate as a Town manger since Herbert Chapman was here.

Nowadays Lee is in the Sudan Premier League, managing Al-Merrikh SC. But back then he was a highly rated manager and had been linked with many other jobs, dirty L***s included. So it was a big shock to anyone outside of the club when Dean Hoyle rang him up from his holidays to discuss last night's defeat at home to Sheffield United and instead of discussing what went wrong, he sacked him.

Was it the right thing to do? The club came in for some terrible stick from the media and people who knew nowt and should've kept their noses out. But their argument was, he took the club on a record breaking 43 match unbeaten run of "regular league games" and this decision was unfathomable. Well right or wrong, the club needs a new manager. The name of Simon Grayson has been bandied about.

Surely not.........

Do you think Dean was right to sack him?

As for matches played on this day. We beat Bradford City 2-1 at Leeds Road in the FA Cup 5th round in 1930 on our journey all the way to Wembley. Bob Kelly and Alex Jackson with the goals. Jackson keeping up his record of scoring in every round.

Not much else to write about really. The most recent game was in 2020 and a 1-1 draw at Derby County, the one with the late Harry Toffolo equaliser.

Back in 1977, a 4-1 win in the 4th Division at home to Hartlepool Utd saw us move up into 5th place. Kevin Johnson, Steve Baines and Martin Fowler scoring for us, as well as an own goal.

And in 2014, we had a good away win at Birmingham City, with Oliver Norwood and Adam Clayton grabbing the goals in this one.