[Lord Snooty]

June 16:

On this date in 2018, three players from Premier League club Huddersfield Town were involved in the World Cup in Russia.

First up was Aaron Mooy, who played the whole game for Australia against France at the Kazan Arena. After a goal less first half, Antoine Griezmann scored for the French just after half time. Aston Villa's Mile Jedinak equalised, only for Paul Pogba to give France the victory late on.

That was in the afternoon. Later on that evening, in the same group, we had two players in the Denmark squad for their match with Peru. Neither Mathias Jorgensen or Jonas Lossl were in the starting line up, but the boy known as Zanka did get on as a second half sub.

The Danes won the game 1-0.

Back in 1954, Town had another representation at the World Cup in Switzerland, but not on the playing side. That was because our manager, Andy Beattie had been chosen especially for the job, to become Scotland's first ever team manager.

He had taken Town from a recently relegated club, to a promoted side, to finish 3rd in the First Division at the end of the 53/54 season. And on this date in 1954, his Scotland team were beaten 1-0 by Austria, in Zurich.

But that doesn't give the whole story. FIFA had allowed each country 22 players per squad, which sounds fairly reasonable. However, the SFA had decided just to take a squad of 13, so the dignitaries on the SFA board could take their wives with them instead. The rest of the squad would stay back in Scotland awaiting call up, should they be needed.

Beattie was livid about this and after the match, he walked out in disgust. Without him, they lost the next game 7-0 against Uruguay and went home without a single point.

Stan Ternent was born on this date in Gateshead in 1946 and is 76 today. He only had six months as Town boss and had 18 games in charge. His first job at the club was to release Chris Brandon and Danny Schofield, as well as current Wales boss, Rob Page.

He did bring some good players in, most notably Gary Roberts. Andy Butler and Jim Goodwin were also good acquisitions for the club and would stay here longer than he did.

The trouble with Turnip was that he didn't talk a good game and was brought in by the previous board, while Dean Hoyle was taking over. And it was Dean who got shut of him, bringing in Norwich City's assistant manager, Lee Clark.

It all started well for Stanley though, with a thumping 4-0 League Cup win over Bradford City, but after four league games without a win, Town were bottom of League One. The last straw was probably losing the Johnstone's Paint Trophy match at Darlington, whimpering out of such an important and prestigious competition didn't go down well. That was followed by a 5-3 defeat at Hartlepool and a 4-0 defeat at Peterborough, with Stan complaining that you can't play champagne football on brown ale money.

The minute he was out of the door, things started to improve and we had a famous win at Bellend Road.

So do you think Stan should've had more time, given his excellent record at Bury and Burnley? Or was Deano right to get rid and bring in Clark?