[Lord Snooty]

April 20:

Not much to talk about today. We have a poor playing record for games on this date, winning only five out of the twenty matches, with two draws and thirteen losses.

The wins were against Leicester Fosse reserves in the Midland League in 1910, Wolves in 1954, Leyton Orient in 1992, all of those at home. The only away win was at Sixfields against Northampton in 2004 and the last one was in 2013 at home to Millwall in the Championship.

That Millwall victory was in our first season in the Championship as we know it now and we were struggling at the wrong end again. But two goals from Jermaine Beckford and one from James Vaughan had us believing again. Just two more games to come after this. A visit to Bristol City and a last day showdown with fellow strugglers, Barnsley. That could be a nail biter.

Of the defeats, the biggest one was in 1974. Three games from the end of the season and Town had finally halted the slide after two successive relegations from the 1st to the 3rd division. We were comfortably mid table when we traveled to Boundary Park to take on promotion chasing Oldham Athletic.

A massive crowd of 16,466 went to this one and saw the Latics hammer Town 6-0. Why have I chosen to mention this one? Well, a future Town hero scored a hat trick for Oldham that day. Ian Robins.

Oldham went on to be champions of Division Three. Town finished 9th.