[Lord Snooty]

February 27:

Dave Mangnall had taken his run of scoring in consecutive matches to 11 when Town lost against West Brom at the Hawthorns on Feb 20th. That run came to an end on this date in 1932 when he failed to score in the FA Cup quarter final match against Arsenal. In total he had scored 19 goals in those 11 matches and he would go on to continue the run of scoring in successive league games, but for now, the run in all competitions was over.

The match itself isn't remembered for his run coming to an end though. It is known for the attendance, a record for Leeds Road of 67,037. And it's said that there were about another 10,000 locked out, who went to watch the match from Dalton Bank. I had relatives there, who told me all about it when I was a kid and an old bloke I used to talk to in the pub a few years later who was there as well. Said he couldn't see a bloody thing.

Anyway, we lost the match against the Arsenal, who of course were managed at the time by Herbert Chapman. He was probably a part of the reason for the huge excitement surrounding the game. He was of course the man who took us on the great championship winning days of the 20s and had beaten us with his Arsenal side in the 1930 Cup Final. So there was a bit of a rivalry there.

The score was 1-0 to the Ars-e-nal, with centre half Herbie Roberts getting the goal, his only goal of the season.

Here's a picture of our wonderful old stadium, filled to the rafters, on this day 90 years ago.

George Cook, who played inside left in our Triple Championship winning seasons in the 20s, was born on this date in Evenwood, County Durham in 1895. He was a late starter to professional football, signing for 2nd Division Rotherham County when he was 27. After one season, he signed for Town in 1923 and by the end of the season, he had won a Football League title. He scored 9 goals in the season, but most importantly, two of those were in the final game, a 3-0 win at Leeds Road against Nottingham Forest, which sealed the title win.

He scored another 9 goals in the next season as we retained the title and followed that with 14 in 25/26 as we became the first team ever to win the League three times in a row. Of those 14 goals, two of them were against Leeds in a 4-0 win at Bellend Road and another two in a 5-0 win at Old Trafford against Man Utd.

But then midway through the next season, he was sold to Aston Villa, with his last Town goal being scored in a 2-0 win over Spurs at Leeds Road.

Another club legend born on this day was Jimmy Nicholson. Born in Belfast in 1943, he's 79 today.

He was of course the skipper of the 1969/70 2nd Division championship winning side and played his part in our subsequent 1st Division seasons. Signed from Man Utd in 1964 by Tom Johnston, he went on to play 310 games for us and scored 28 goals.

Known as the King of Huddersfield, he was also our most capped player, earning 31 caps for Northern Ireland, plus another 10 he got while at Man Utd. The first of those came when he was just 17, playing against Scotland at Hampden Park.