[Lord Snooty]

April 25:

On this date five years ago in 2017, Huddersfield Town qualified for the Championship Play Offs for the first time. That was by beating Wolves at Molineux 1-0 with a goal from Chelsea loanee Izzy Brown. We'd been involved in loads of Play Offs before, but this was our first at this league level. Let's hope our second go in a few weeks time goes as well.

This win had us seven points ahead of seventh placed Leeds Urinals, who were looking like certainties to make the Play Offs not so long back, but are now staring failure full in the face.

Unlike the present season, we couldn't still make it into an automatic spot, because Newcastle had just taken that final promotion place the night before. Nonetheless, Town manager David Wagner was very proud of what his team had achieved so far.

"You cannot imagine how big this achievement is. The journey marches on into the play-offs.

"I'm happy for the chairman and everyone at this football club. We've all worked so hard to make this happen.

"We will now make the right decisions in the next two games to keep everybody fresh for the play-offs. Today we celebrate.

"We got together at the end to show our unbelievable togetherness for the fans. I'm very happen for them."

Oh how the Blackburn fans loved that.    

We have a 55th birthday today, that of the winger from the first Peter Jackson era, Paul Dalton, who was born on this date in 1967, in Middlesbrough. He signed in 1995 from Plymouth and he was one of the first signings for Brian Horton, who had taken over at the start of the season following Neil Warnock, who had left for Plymouth. So one of Colin's first jobs was to ship Dalton out to his old club.

He was a popular figure, a fan's favourite at Home Park, his face is on one of the murals around the stadium. He soon became a favourite at Town as well, scoring his first goal against Port Vale in the League Cup and then two against Birmingham City, who had just come down from the Premier League.

His most famous goal though was the one he scored in the Great Escape season against Stoke City when their keeper was up for a corner in injury time and he made a breakaway, with Jacko chasing him up the touchline shouting at him to shoot.