[Lord Snooty]

March 26:

It's a pity we don't have a game today as our record for games on this date is really good. We've won 11 out of the 16 games played, with 2 draws and 3 losses.

We also have a couple more FA Cup semi finals to talk about. First of all, we have the replay for the 1928 semi against Sheffield United that was played a couple of days ago. Town made two changes for this match, played at Goodison Park, with Bon Spence replacing Levi Redfern in defence and Johnny Dent taking over the centre forward role instead of George Brown.

A crowd of 53,749 went to the Everton ground to watch the game, which ended goal less after extra time and so another replay will be required. That will be in a week's time on the 2nd of April. That's another Monday, this one will be at Maine Road. Before that though on Saturday, it's the England v Scotland game at Wembley. Town will have five players in that game and will be expected to fulfill their Football League fixture on the same day, away at Bury.

How will that go then? We'll find out soon (if you don't know already  ).

The other FA Cup semi final that Huddersfield Town played on this date, was in 1938 against Sunderland at Ewood Park, Blackburn. Sunderland were the favourites to win, being higher in the league and having won the competition for the first time in the previous season. However, they were out done by our South African winger George Wienand, who by all accounts ran the Sunderland defence ragged.

Town won it 3-1 in front of a 47,904 crowd, with goals from Pat Beasley, Bobby Barclay and Willie MacFadyen and will play Preston in the Final on the 30th of April. Here's a bit of action from both semis.

So I said at the start of today's post that we had won eleven of the sixteen games played on this date. There's some big names been defeated too. First up, Manchester United were stuffed 5-2 at Leeds Road in the First Division in 1921. Jack Swann scored a couple of those, alongside strikes from Clem Stephenson, skipper Tom Wilson and Frank Mann, who would later go on to be a star player at Old Trafford.

Another big name beaten at Leeds Road were Liverpool in 1927. This was a 1-0 Town win with a goal from Billy Smith. But another strangely low crowd. Town were 2nd in Division One, it was a Saturday afternoon, Liverpool were the opponents, yet only 6,140 came out to watch it. I wonder why it was so low. Answers on a postcard to........

Strangely, we haven't played a game on this date since 1994, therefore no game at our new stadium. The last match was in the last season at Leeds Road and the opponents were Plymouth Argyle, who we beat 1-0 with the man, the myth, the legend Andy Booth scoring the goal.