[Lord Snooty]

March 6:

More FA Cup games from the past to report on as we count down the hours to our much anticipated 5th round match at the City Ground for the right to play Liverpool in the quarter finals. First up, a quarter final match from 1920 at Leeds Road against............ oooh, Liverpool.

Town were 3rd in the 2nd Division and would finish the season getting promoted. Liverpool were at the top end of the 1st Division and would end 1919/20 in 4th place. We, of course, had just avoided going bankrupt and stolen lock, stock and barrel by the newly formed Leeds United. There was much excitement around and after the season started with a crowd of 5,000 in Leeds Road for the visit of Clapton Orient, there was a new stadium record of 47,527 in there for this one.

Did our brave boys win? Of course they did, with goals from Jack Swann and Sammy Taylor earning a 2-1 victory and a first ever FA Cup semi final for the club. That's to be played on the 27th of March at Stamford Bridge against Bristol City.

Jack Swann

At the back end of the decade, in 1929, we were once again in FA Cup quarter final action. This was the replay for the match we had the other day, against West Brom. Having drawn 1-1, they came up to Leeds Road on the Wednesday afternoon and Town beat them 2-1. Goal scorers on this occasion were Alex Jackson and Bob Kelly, taking Town through to our fourth semi final.

That semi will be on the 23rd of March, at Anfield, against Bolton Wanderers.

If you want some more good omens for tomorrow night, in 1971 we won away at Nottingham Forest. This was in the 1st Division and was a 3-1 win with Frank Worthington, Jimmy Nicholson and Brian Mahoney on target. A repeat scoreline would be very nice indeed.