[Lord Snooty]

June 3:

On this day in 1959, Denis Law of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town gained the 4th of the six caps he got playing for Scotland as a Town player. He went on to total 55 in his career.

This was a friendly match away at Portugal in the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon. Andy Beattie was the Scotland manager. The former Town boss was in his second spell as national boss after he fell out with the SFA during a disastrous 1954 World Cup campaign. He was now manager of Carlisle United and doing the Scotland job part time.

Anyway, Portugal won 1-0 with a first half goal from Matateu.

He's here. He's there. He's every f'kinwhere.........

Terry Graaaay. Terry Graaaay.

And on this day in 1954 he was born in Bradford. Terry Gray, the leading scorer in our 1975/76 season, the first ever one we had in Division 4, is 68 today.

He could've had a different life though, as a tennis player. He played at Wimbledon in the boy's championship when he was 15. But he chose football and signed for Town in 1972 in the 2nd Division. He didn't make his debut until we were in the 3rd Division, a 5-2 defeat at Southend, when he was thrown in at left back to replace the injured Paul Garner.

Despite the defeat, Ian Greaves kept him there, a striker playing as a defender, for the next game at home to Brighton, managed by Brian Clough. He scored his first goal later in that season, a 1-0 home win over Grimsby and established himself in the side towards the back end of the next season.

In the next season, he scored twice in a memorable FA Cup victory over Fulham at Craven Cottage. That was the Fulham team who had England veterans Bobby Moore and Alan Mullery in and had made it to the Final in the previous season.

But then after scoring 19 goals, he broke his leg in a match at Hartlepool and was never the same again. He was out for nearly twelve months, but did score a hat trick in a 4-0 win at Scunthorpe when he returned.

Mick Buxton came in as manager, having been coaching at Southend and one player from there he wanted was Micky Laverick and so offered Terry in a swap deal, which was accepted. And so he left Leeds Road with 41 goals to his name and is currently in 41st position in our all time goal scorers chart. Hopefully Danny Ward will knock him down to 42nd early in 2022/23.

And one of our current squad has a birthday today. Romoney Crichlow was born in Luton of all places, in 1999 and is 23 today. He came to Huddersfield from Enfield Borough in 2017 and suffered tragedy whilst out on loan at Hartlepool when his mother was murdered in Barbados.

He came back from the Pool and made his Town debut. His second game was a man of the match performance in front of the Sky cameras against Nottingham Forest at an empty John Smith's Stadium, the one we won 1-0 with a Fraizer Campbell stunner. He couldn't hold down his place though and went out on loan to Swindon and then Plymouth, against who he had scored his first Town goal in the FA Cup in the previous year.

Now there's a huge Naby Sarr shaped hole in next season's squad. Will young Romoney be the one to fill it?