[Lord Snooty]

June 10:

On this date in 1962, Ray Wilson of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town played another game in the Chile 62 World Cup. We had now reached the quarter final stage and the opponents were Brazil at the Estadio Sausalito in Viña del Mar.

It was the end of the competition for the English team though, being beaten 3-1 by the Brazilians. They were up against one of the greatest players of the game, the little bird, Garrincha. He scored twice to beat Walter Winterbottom and his team, his first coming in the 31st minute. Gerry Hitchens, the former Cardiff and Aston Villa centre forward, scored an equaliser seven minutes later. He was by this time an Inter Milan player and so became the first England player currently playing for a foreign team, to score for England at a World Cup.

Vava scored for Brazil soon after half time and Garrincha made it 3-1 just before the hour. The thing that the game is most remembered for was the stray dog that came on and ran around the pitch, pictured here chasing our Ray. Jimmy Greaves eventually caught the little intruder and got peed on.

Greavsie, always good for a laugh, remarked that it helped his game because he stank so much that none of the Brazilians would go near him.

So England were out and this was the last time that Huddersfield Town were represented at a World Cup until 2018 when we had four players in it.

Before we finish this section, I know you're all wondering what happened to the dog. Well, Garrincha took him and adopted him. I'nt that nice! 

A player who played for England in a previous World Cup whilst representing the Town was Bill McGarry. He played a couple of games in the 1954 World Cup and was born on this date in Smoke-on-Stench in 1927.

He played right half, signing for us in 1951 from Port Vale and when he left for Bournemouth, ten years later, he had played 381 times for the club. That now has him standing at 9th= in our all time appearances list, level with Steve Smith.

He was an ever present in the famous back line of 1952/53 when the entire defence played every game. They were Laurie Kelly, Don McEvoy, Len Quested, Ron Staniforth, and goalkeeper Jack Wheeler, alongside Bill, something that has never been done before or since. He was an ever present again in the next season as Town finished 3rd in Division One behind champions Wolverhampton Wanderers.

And it was with Wolves that he became successful as a manager. Before that though, he won the 2nd Division title for Ipswich Town in 67/68. Then in 1971, won Wolves the Texaco Cup (a competition involving sides from England, Scotland, and Ireland that had not qualified for Europe), beating Heart of Midlothian in the Final.

The next season he got them to the 1972 UEFA Cup Final, an all English affair, which they lost to Tottenham Hotspur. But then finally in 1974, he got the Wolves some proper silverware, winning the League Cup by beating Manchester City 2-1 at Wembley.

Later on, he managed Saudi Arabia and Newcastle Utd (way before the two were merged  ), then Zambia and finished his career back at Wolves before retirement.

He died in South Africa in 2005, aged 77.

Not done yet, we have a couple more birthdays. Lee Fowler was born on this date in 1983 and is 39 today. He was born in Cardiff and it was in his home city where he found fame in the blue n white of Huddersfield Town, scoring the winning penalty in the 2004 Play Off Final shoot out at the Millennium Stadium.

And Jacob Butterfield, born in Bradford in 1990 and is 32 today. He only had one and a bit seasons with us, but won the Player of the Season award for 2014/15.

He played for St Johnstone at the back end of last season. Not sure if he's still there though.

And we finish today with an obituary. the greatest goalscorer in Huddersfield Town history, George Brown died on this date in Birmingham in 1948, after a short illness. He was only 44.

In his time at Town he won the league title three times, won an FA Cup runners up medal and had 8 caps for England, scoring 5 goals. when he left to join Villa in 1929, he was and still is, our all time record goal scorer with 159. His league goals tally was 142, which he has since been joined on that figure by Jimmy Glazzard.

He was born in 1903, on June 22nd. I'll write a bit more on him then.