[Lord Snooty]

May 9:

On this date in 2018, we won the solitary point required to ensure our survival for another season in the Premier League. It was a backs to the wall game against last season's champions, who had struggled to retain the title and anything but a win on this night would mean that they wouldn't qualify for a Champions League place for the following season. So they weren't just turning up and letting us have an easy point.

Chelsea dominated the game, but it was Town who took the lead. A brilliant tackle from Christopher Schindler on Willian and a superb long range pass from Aaron Mooy set Laurent Depoitre free. As the Blues keeper Willy Caballero came rushing out to stop the big Belgian tank, he actually shat himself when he caught sight of what was about to hit him.

The keeper couldn't stop in time though as he hit the immovable force and was sent spinning on his back like an upturned turtle as Depoitre walked the ball into the empty net to send the Town fans behind the goal into ecstatic celebrations and the thousands more back in Yorkshire watching on Sky.

Chelsea did pull a goal back shortly after when a clearance from Zanka hit Marcos Alonso on the nose and went in. A freak goal!

But it was an amazing save from Jonas Lössl that kept us in it, saving miraculously from an Andreas Christensen header, tipping the ball onto the post when it had already got past him. Wave after wave of Chelsea attacks were bombarding our area, but Jonas and the boys held on. We even had another chance for Depoitre, but Antonio Rüdiger conned a foul out of the ref.

The clock was running down. Chelsea were getting desperate. All of a sudden, Town sub Scott Malone was on for a one on one with Caballero but was disgracefully blocked by Rüdiger, who should've been booked but wasn't. Free kick to the Terriers on the edge of the Chelsea box. Mooy kicked it towards the corner flag and the final whistle blew.

Mayhem!

The result put us four points ahead of Swansea and condemned them to the Championship.

Go on. Have a watch of this....... 

In 1951, as part of the Festival of Britain, The Football Association organised a series of matches in the fortnight after the season's end. These were mostly against Scottish, Irish and Continental clubs. Town played two matches. The first of which was on this date.

The game was played at Leeds Road and the opponents were the Dutch club, PSV Eindhoven. Looking at the list of games played, it does appear to be a right old random selection of fixtures. One of the reasons given for us playing PSV was that our thrice champion full back of the 1920s, Sam Wadsworth, was at this time the PSV manager.

They brought us a gift as well. They gave us our first scoreboard. Not the one featured recently in the celebrations pictures I've posted, but an electric one. A proper fancy thing it was an all, by all accounts. Sadly though, it got burned down soon after in an arson attack.

Anyway, the game itself was a 4-1 win for Town with two goals from Albert Nightingale (pictured below), one for Jeff Taylor and one for Jimmy Glazzard.

We have a birthday today. Born on this date in 1940 in Eston in Middlesbrough, Colin Dobson is 82 today. He was part of our glorious 2nd division winning team of 1969/70 and was second top scorer that season, scoring nine goals, behind leading scorer Frank Worthington who got 19.

He played for Sheff Weds before us and scored 52 goals for them. By the time he left us to go and play for Bristol Rovers in 1972, he had also scored 52 goals for Town. That now has him in 21st equal in our all time goal scorers chart, level with Ernie Islip.