[Lord Snooty]

March 23:

Born on this date in 1930, in Doncaster, was Len White. I have mentioned him recently as the man who stopped us reaching the FA Cup semi finals in 1955 by scoring a last minute equaliser for Newcastle at Leeds Road. He, like many other players who turned out for Town, started off his working life darn t' pit and playing football for the pit team. That was Upton Colliery, but soon got his break at Rotherham United.

From there, he went to Newcastle for the rather large fee of £12,500 and became a part of a highly rated Geordie line up and a strike partner for Jackie Milburn. He went on to get an FA Cup winners medal in 1955, after knocking Town out and he and Milburn were the top two in the Newcastle all time goal scorers chart, with Wor Jackie on top with 200 and Len in 2nd with 153. They have both since been overtaken by Alan Shearer.

Len dropped down a division in 1962 to come and play for the Town and he kept up a decent strike rate. He made his debut in the bright blue n white in Feb 62 at Walsall. He didn't score, but did score in the next four. He bagged a brace in a win at Norwich, one in a 2-1 home win against Leeds, one at Bristol Rovers and then another two in a win at home to Stoke.

He scored twice in his last Town game before moving off to Stockport. That was in a 3-2 win at Maine Road against Man City and in total he scored 39 times for the club.

He died in Huddersfield in June 1994, round about the time that the old ground was dying as well.

On this date in 1929, we lost in the FA Cup semi finals. After beating West Brom in the last round, we faced Bolton Wanderers at Anfield and we lost 3-1. Alex Jackson got the goal, his fifth of the campaign.

Not many other outstanding matches on this date and it's twenty years since we actually had a game. That was back in 2002 at the Alfred McAlpine Stadium against Northampton Town. The Terriers won it 2-0 and Leon Knight, who was on loan from Chelsea, scored them both. That was the fourth win in a row and had us up to 5th in Division Two (now known as League One) and we would make it to the Play Offs at the end of the season.