[Lord Snooty]

June 9:

Our young Welsh winger has a birthday today. No not Sorba Thomas, one even younger than him. It's Patrick Jones, who was born in that small village in the valleys called Stockport ( ) in 2003 and is 19 today. But if he's called Jones, he must be Welsh, yes?

Anyway, he played for his local team in North Wales, Ruthin Town and then Bala Town before joining Wrexham in 2017. After a couple of years there, he joined the Academy at Huddersfield, working his way up to the fringes of the first team squad, which culminated in an FA Cup debut in that behind closed doors game at home to Plymouth in January 2021. He almost scored after 4 minutes, but his shot was parried away for a corner. Romoney Crichlow then scored from the resulting set piece.

He kept his place for the next couple of first team games, making sub appearances in the Championship against Watford and Millwall as a 17 year old, before going back to the B team and getting a long term injury.

He has played at u17 level for his country.

On this date in 2018, Aaron Mooy of Premier League side, Huddersfield Town, played for Australia in an international warm up game for the up coming World Cup.

It was in Budapest against Hungary and the Aussies warmed up well by beating the Hungarians 2-1 with a late winner. And that's another Town connection, because the winner was an own goal from an ex HTFC player. That was Tamas Kadar, who came on loan to us from Newcastle in 2011, but got injured in his second game for us and was sent back broken.

He had worked his way up to be the captain of his country by this stage of his career, but his unfortunate own goal came in the 2nd minute of injury time and handed the Aussies the game, this after the Hungarians had equalised in the 88th minute.

Baldy old Mooy played the whole game, just a week before the Socceroos opening fixture in a week's time against France.