[Lord Snooty]

June 2:

Not one, but two international caps for Ray Wilson of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town today. Having lost our opening game against Hungary in the 1962 World Cup in Chile, Ray played again in the next game, which was played on this date at the same ground the Estadio Braden in Rancagua. The opponents this time were Argentina.

We had a Russian referee for this game and he gave England their second penalty in two matches after 17 minutes, which was put away again by Ron Flowers to give the Three Lions the lead.

The Argies had Antonio Rattin in their line up, who would controversially get sent off in the next World Cup against England in four years time, but he stayed on the pitch in this one. It was England who went further into the lead just before half time when one of the future Cup winners, Bobby Charlton scored.

It was 3-0 to England in the 67th minute, with Jimmy Greaves scoring to wrap up the victory, pictured below, before Jose Sanfilippo gave the South Americans a late consolation.

That moved England above Argentina into second, behind the Hungarians, with one group game to go, against Bulgaria.

Then twelve months later in a friendly international in Leipzig, Ray Wilson of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town gained his 20th England cap, against East Germany, on this date in 1963.

Peter Ducke scored for the Germans, before Roger Hunt equalised. Then Bobby Charlton won it for England, scoring in the 70th minute.

The game was played at the Zentralstadion, which was rebuilt in 1997 and is now known as the Red Bull Arena.

Today's Town legend birthday is one of the name's that isn't always the first name mentioned when listing names from the Mick Buxton era. That's probably because he didn't score many goals, but he was one of the best midfielders around. A tough tackling ball winner from Port Talbot, who goes by the name of Steve Doyle.

He was born on this day in 1958 and so is 64 today and was given his first professional contract at Preston by Bobby Charlton. After eight seasons at Deepdale, Buxton signed him for Town and he was just about ever present in the next few seasons. One of the best free transfers ever, he was instrumental in the 1983 promotion to the 2nd Division and by the time he left for Sunderland, he had played 187 times for the Terriers.