[Lord Snooty]

February 21st:

The FA Cup 3rd round (nowadays 5th) match at home to Plymouth Argyle on his date in 1920, was the first in an unbeaten run of games that would go to 15, ending with defeat in the FA Cup Final against Aston Villa. There were 35,000 people there to see this one, which Town won 3-1 with goals from Sammy Taylor, Charlie Slade and Jack Swann.

Liverpool at home in the quarter finals will be on the 6th of March at Leeds Road.

Sammy Taylor

On this date in 1989, we played Scarborough for the first time. This was in the Football League Trophy, known then by the name of the Sherpa Van Trophy. It was our first entry into this competition, having just been relegated to Division Three. After group games against Scunthorpe and Halifax, we beat Grimsby in the first round proper and so this was the Area quarter final when the Seadogs came to Leeds Road.

Neil Warnock, who had got Scarborough promoted to the Football League while being a chiropodist and doing the manager's job part time, had left earlier in the season to join Notts County. But that didn't stop them coming here and winning against a Town team managed by Eoin Hand. It was a 1-2 defeat for the Terriers, with Craig Maskell getting the goal in front of 4,665 spectators.

On this date in 2017, Town met Reading at the John McAlpharm Stadium on a Tuesday night in front of a crowd of 19,894. Ali Al Habsi saved a penalty from Rajiv van La Parra in the first half, so we should've all known a few months later what a good penalty saver he was.

But it was a Town win in the end with Phillip Billing snatching a late winner from a tight angle to give us our sixth league win on the bounce. In the table after this one, we were 3rd, they were 4th and well above Norwich in 7th. Surely we would both make the Play Offs.