[Lord Snooty]

March 28:

Well here's one for our Herefordshire friend. On this date in 2009, we played our last ever match against Hereford United. It was played at Edgar Street, a League One match and Town won 1-0 with a goal from Michael Collins.

This was our centenary season and Lee Clark was in his third month in charge, having taken over when Stan Ternent had been given the boot by incoming chairman Dean Hoyle. We would finish the season in 9th, 8 points off a Play Off place, whilst the Bulls would finish at the bottom after a difficult campaign, the highlights of which were a 5-0 win against Oldham and a 2-0 win at home against the Champions of Europe, Leeds Urinals.

That was the most recent game on this date. The match furthest back in time was also played at a ground that is no longer a Football League ground. It was 1914 and the opponents were Glossop, with the match being played at their North Road ground, another ground that shared with cricket, where Derbyshire CCC sometimes played and still have 2nd XI games there.

They were originally known as Glossop North End, but dropped the North End bit to avoid confusion with another team called North End. And it was against Preston North End that the ground had it's record attendance, for an FA cup match just a few weeks before the Town match on this date. There were just under 11,000 for the Preston game but only 2,000 for the visit of Huddersfield. Anyway Town won 3-0 with Charlie Slade (pictured below) scoring twice, his first Town goals. And Frank Mann got the other.

Town ended the season 13th. Glossop finished 17th, just avoiding having to seek re-election. They finished bottom in the next season and were voted out.

On this date in 1992, we started off an 8 game unbeaten run that took us from outside the Play Off positions into them by the end of the season, finishing 3rd. The opponents for this one were West Bromwich Albion and we beat them 3-0 at Leeds Road with goals from Phil Starbuck, Chris Billy and an own goal from Gary Strodder.

That was an unsuccessful Play Off campaign, but we did have a win in a proper promotion season in 1970. That was down at Fratton Park against Portsmouth and we won this one 3-1. Frank Worthington scored his 16th goal of the campaign, Dick Krzywicki got his 2nd in two games and Roy Ellam got his second of the season.