[Lord Snooty]

May 3:

On this day in 1924, Huddersfield Town Association Football Club won it's first Football League title. We won it with the smallest margin in FL history. It was on Goal Average and ours was 1.818, but Cardiff City's was only 1.794. Had it been on Goal Difference, as in modern day football, the title would've gone to them, but that's how it was and the history books say we won it.

We both had the same goal difference, but they had scored one goal more. However, goal average favoured the team who had conceded less, rather than the team that scored more, so they changed it in the 1970/80's around about the same time that they introduced three points for a win.

Anyway, Cardiff have only themselves to blame as they were in control of their destiny going into the final round of games. They had to beat Birmingham and the job would be done. They didn't. They drew 0-0 and missed a penalty.

Town though, won 3-0 at home to Nottingham Forest. George Brown scored one of the goals and George Cook scored twice, with Cook scoring the goal late on that altered the course of history and started off the first title for this great club of ours, which would then go on to be the first to win the title three times in a row, a feat that has been equaled but never bettered.

That was our first league title, on this day in 1980 we won our fifth and to date, our last one. This wasn't the First Division though. This was the Fourth Division title, which was grand after our years in the basement league.

This was the final league game of the season and the visitors were Hartlepool United. We had just taken over at the top of the league from Walsall on goal difference. They had to win against Newport and hope that we didn't.

Town had also scored 99 goals in the 45 games played so far, already a club record, we were hoping to become the first team since the 1960s to score a hundred in the Football League. A crowd of 16,807 turned up for this one, second highest behind the visit of Walsall a couple of weeks earlier, but most were disappointed come half time when the Monkey Hangers were leading 1-0, scoring after 38 minutes and 46 seconds.

Mick Buxton gave the lads a proper roasting at half time and the terrific Terriers came out all guns blazing. Ian Robins equalised after 47 minutes and 12 seconds and that was the 100th league goal done. But we also wanted the title and roared on by the crowd, they only went and did it.

It was a bit of a scrappy goal after 79 minutes and 30 seconds, scored in front of the Cowshed, bundled in by Robins to send the crowd wild.

Full time came and Town had won 2-1 and were champions. A draw would've done anyway as news filtered through that Walsall had lost at home to Newport, who had secured their promotion as well. Newport finished 3rd, with Portsmouth in 4th. The team to miss out was Bradford City, who would've gone up with a point, but lost 1-0 at Peterborough.

The triumphant Town team then came out to celebrate and do a lap of honour. Here's a picture of those celebrations and can you see how I knew the goal times?

There were more celebrations on the Leeds Road pitch on this date in 1986. It wasn't our lads though. It was our visitors Wimbledon who were popping the champagne corks after beating us 1-0 with a Lawrie Sanchez goal, to win promotion to the First Division. Remarkable that they had only been in the Football League for nine seasons.

Here's another look at that famous old scoreboard. It's had a lick of paint since the last pic.

There were more away fans celebrating at our place back in 1998. At the McAlpine Stadium this time and it was the Port Vale fans who were cock-a-hoop. We had secured our 2nd Division status a couple of weeks earlier by beating West Brom, completing what became known as the Great Escape. So in effect, our lads had reached the Swiss border and were sat in a cafe next to Lake Geneva, eating chocolate and admiring the cuckoo clocks, when the Vale boys came to Town.

They needed to win and hope that others didn't. Their worries were eased very early on, maybe the first minute if I remember rightly, and they went on to beat us 4-0. Defeat would've sent them down as the others around them all won. One of those others to win was Manchester City. They won 5-2 away at Stoke, but got relegated anyway. That once great football club was relegated to the 3rd Division. Will they ever recover?

Enough of away fans celebrating at ours. Let's finish with us celebrating away. On this date in 2014, Town won 4-1 away at Watford. It was the end of the season and there was nothing at stake, but it was the best performance of a drab season under the management of Mark Robins.

It was goal less at half time, but the second half became memorable for the performances of two players in particular. We had been promised big things from Joe Lolley, who had signed from Kidderminster in January, but this was his first league start. A minute after half time, he got his first Town goal. Not only that, he set up another two. Those two were scored by Danny Ward and he completed his hat trick in the 87th minute to put Town 4-0 up.

That was the last hat trick scored by a Town player before Danny did it again this season down at Reading. He was out of contract, but this earned him another 12 months, which sadly didn't go that well.

And another player out of contract and let go by Robins, was Peter Clarke, who 8 years on, is still playing. He was on the bench but the fans were pleading with the boring bastard of a manager to get him on for one last show. He eventually relented and with chants of "If Clarkey scores, we're on the pitch," on came Captain Fantastic with six minutes left.

He didn't score but the referee decided that that cheating twat Troy Deeney had been tripped by him and so the last thing Peter did in a Town shirt was give away a penalty, which Deeney got up and scored to finish the game at 4-1. The bloke just can't help it. It's instinct. Even with his team 4-0 down in the last minute of a meaningless game, he still can't stop cheating!

Anyway, 4-1 to the Mighty Terriers, sets us up nicely for the next season.