10-03-2022, 09:01
March 10:
We had a very frustrating game on this day in 2018. It was the one at home to Swansea in the Premier League when we absolutely stuffed them 0-0.
They had Jordan Ayew shown a straight red card by referee Michael Oliver after only 11 minutes for a studs up tackle on Jonathan Hogg and from then on, it was all Town. Attack, after attack, after attack. But could we score? Could we knickers!
The stats are ridiculous. Town possession 81%. Shots 30, only 4 on target though. Woodwork hit 4 times. Their manager, Carlos Carvalhal, who had been the Wendy boss when we beat them in the Play Offs less that 12 months earlier, celebrated at the final whistle as though he had just won the Champions League.
We had the last laugh though. We stayed up and they went down.
The manager who was in charge when we won our first promotion in 1920 from the 2nd to the 1st Division was Ambrose Langley and he was born on this date in 1870. He took on the job when Arthur Fairclough had gone to Leeds in December 1919. By the end of the season, he had guided the club to it's first FA Cup Final (beaten by Villa) and our first promotion (runners up to Spurs).
He was the one who persuaded Herbert Chapman to come to the club as his assistant and it was Chapman who took over the managers job when Langley resigned in March 1921. His record as Town manager is one of the best. In terms of games won, his win percentage of 50.77% is second only to Cecil Potter, the manager who took over when Chapman left for Arsenal.
One more record that Langley still holds is the longest run of consecutive league victories. That stands at eleven. The final eight matches of 1919/20 and the first three of 1920/21.
Before all that though, he played over 300 games for The Wednesday, winning an FA Cup winners medal in 1896 and two League titles in 1903 and 1904.
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And finally, a happy 21st birthday today to Matty Daly. Born in Stockport in 2001, he is currently out on loan at Bradford City. Poor lad!
He made his debut in the Premier League for Town as an 18 year old, coming on as a sub for Hoggy against Watford at the JSS and I remember shouting "you greedy twat" at Steve Mounie when instead of passing to the unmarked Daly in a great position to score, he turned back the other way and made a complete arse of himself.
Anyway, he did score his first goal for us a while later, back down in the Championship in a crucial win away at Charltion, scoring in injury time to give us the three points.
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We had a very frustrating game on this day in 2018. It was the one at home to Swansea in the Premier League when we absolutely stuffed them 0-0.
They had Jordan Ayew shown a straight red card by referee Michael Oliver after only 11 minutes for a studs up tackle on Jonathan Hogg and from then on, it was all Town. Attack, after attack, after attack. But could we score? Could we knickers!
The stats are ridiculous. Town possession 81%. Shots 30, only 4 on target though. Woodwork hit 4 times. Their manager, Carlos Carvalhal, who had been the Wendy boss when we beat them in the Play Offs less that 12 months earlier, celebrated at the final whistle as though he had just won the Champions League.
We had the last laugh though. We stayed up and they went down.
The manager who was in charge when we won our first promotion in 1920 from the 2nd to the 1st Division was Ambrose Langley and he was born on this date in 1870. He took on the job when Arthur Fairclough had gone to Leeds in December 1919. By the end of the season, he had guided the club to it's first FA Cup Final (beaten by Villa) and our first promotion (runners up to Spurs).
He was the one who persuaded Herbert Chapman to come to the club as his assistant and it was Chapman who took over the managers job when Langley resigned in March 1921. His record as Town manager is one of the best. In terms of games won, his win percentage of 50.77% is second only to Cecil Potter, the manager who took over when Chapman left for Arsenal.
One more record that Langley still holds is the longest run of consecutive league victories. That stands at eleven. The final eight matches of 1919/20 and the first three of 1920/21.
Before all that though, he played over 300 games for The Wednesday, winning an FA Cup winners medal in 1896 and two League titles in 1903 and 1904.
And finally, a happy 21st birthday today to Matty Daly. Born in Stockport in 2001, he is currently out on loan at Bradford City. Poor lad!
He made his debut in the Premier League for Town as an 18 year old, coming on as a sub for Hoggy against Watford at the JSS and I remember shouting "you greedy twat" at Steve Mounie when instead of passing to the unmarked Daly in a great position to score, he turned back the other way and made a complete arse of himself.
Anyway, he did score his first goal for us a while later, back down in the Championship in a crucial win away at Charltion, scoring in injury time to give us the three points.
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