[Lord Snooty]

March 21:

Born on this date in Coleshill, Warwickshire in 1957, was Lloyd Maitland. That makes him 65 today. He was a speedy winger and became the first black player to play for Huddersfield Town's first team when he made his debut in 1975 in a home game against Hereford United as a 17 year old. Sadly, the win didn't lift us off the foot of the 3rd Division and we ended the season getting relegated.

Lloyd scored his first goal in another home win just a few weeks later. That was against Southend United and it was a 4-1 win. Young Lloyd has his name registered besides some greats of the game who scored that night in Alan Gowling, Roy Ellam and Rod Belfitt. But, like I said, in the long run, it stood for nowt as we went down in last place.

His only other Town goal came in the next season, an away win at Workington and after 38 appearances for the club, he was transferred to Darlington in 1977. It was there in 1979 though that his career was brought to an end by a team mate's prank that went wrong and he ended up getting both legs broke after being run over by a car.

Before all that though, he was part of the Town's youth team that made it all the way to the FA Youth Cup Final in 1974, losing 2-1 on aggregate to Spurs.

Another player born on this date, much earlier though, was Joe Robson, who was born in Gateshead in 1903. he only played 31 matches for Town between 1930 and 32, but he managed to score 20 goals. A good strike rate by anybody's standards. Eighteen of those goals came in 1930/31 as Town finished 5th in the First Division, including two hat tricks. The first of those was against Blackburn Rovers in a 5-3 defeat at Ewood Park. The second one was a much better day for the bright blue n white. It was the 10-1 win at home to Blackpool, which was then and still is today, the club record league victory.

Before he came to Town, he played for Grimsby Town, scoring 123 goals in 161 games for the Mariners.

A bit later on in that season, we beat Sheffield Utd at Bramall Lane, 2-0 on this date in 1931. Joe didn't play in this one though. The number 9 jersey was worn by Dave Mangnall, who scored both the goals.

Talking of Sheffield Utd, in 1952/53 we finished as runners up to them in the promotion campaign, and on this date in 1953 we beat Southampton 5-0 at Leeds Road. We were in 2nd place already and would stay there right to the end of the season, finishing two points behind the Blades. Goals against the Saints in this match came from Vic Metcalfe (2), Tommy Cavanagh, Jimmy Glazzard and Len Quested.

We had another home win in another promotion campaign on this date in 1970. That was in the 2nd Division against Birmingham City. We were already top of the league and stayed there right to the end of the campaign. Jimmy Lawson scored both of the goals.

I'll finish with a defeat. It was against Fulham at home, so obviously a loss was on the cards. This one was in 2015, Chris Powell was in charge and we absolutely battered them for 88 minutes. We had 68% possession and 31 shots. There was so much happening in this game, have a read of the BBC report.....

Nahki Wells missed two penalties and referee Richard Clark was involved in a second-half red card mix-up as 10-man Fulham beat Huddersfield.

Alex Kacaniklic put the visitors ahead when his corner swung into the net.

Confusion reigned when Fulham's Cauley Woodrow was red-carded for a handball but after protests, Clark changed his mind and sent off Shaun Hutchinson.

Wells missed the resulting spot-kick and then hit the post with his second before Seko Fofana made it 2-0 late on.

It was the second red card controversy of the day after Neil Swarbrick sent off West Brom's Gareth McAuley instead of Craig Dawson in the match at Manchester City.

Swarbrick later apologised for the mistake but, unlike the incident at the John Smith's Stadium, it was not corrected during the game.

Woodrow was accused of the deliberate handball in the area, and the Fulham forward refused to leave the pitch, before eventually being dragged off by his team-mates.

But further protests saw Clark consult the fourth official and he then rescinded the red card, before sending Hutchinson off for the offence.

Wells finally took the penalty - but it was saved - and more drama was to come.

The former Bradford man had the chance to make amends from the spot again, after Sean Scannell was felled in the box by Ashley Richards, but it came off the woodwork.

The Terriers were already behind from a bizarre goal which Kacaniklic scored in the second minute, direct from a corner.

Keeper Alex Smithies and Mark Hudson were defending the near post but both seemed to freeze and it dribbled home.

Town looked likely to grab an equaliser but Ishmael Miller twice hit the post, while Jacob Butterfield struck the bar with a 20-yard effort.

And late in stoppage time, substitute Fofana finished off from a quick break to give Fulham their first away win in eight games, and moved them up to 20th in the table.

Huddersfield are now without a win in six games and slipped to 18th.

Huddersfield manager Chris Powell:

"This game never ceases to amaze me.

"After minute two and before minute 96 it was one-way traffic. We hit the post, hit the bar and missed two penalties. We just couldn't get the ball in the net.

"You cannot start games like we did, giving away cheap goals. It was just one of those days where their keeper made saves or managed to get something on it."

Fulham boss Kit Symons:

"It was probably the most bizarre game I have ever been involved in.

"We scored at the beginning and at the end and in between Huddersfield were by far the better side.

"Marcus Bettinelli made some great saves and we had some good defending and some poor defending. We had a man sent off - the wrong one to start with - and the six minutes at the end felt like an eternity."

I think this was when Fulham became our bogey team.