[Lord Snooty]

June 22:

On this day in 1966, Mexico were on their way to England to take part in the World Cup. They stopped off in Belfast for a match against Northern Ireland at Windsor Park.

Huddersfield Town's captain, Jimmy Nicholson was in the Norn Iron line up and he only went and scored in the first minute. The Mexicans equalised in the second half, but then three late goals gave Jimmy Nic and his pals a comfortable 4-1 victory.

Mexico were in England's group for the World Cup and didn't qualify for the next stage, losing 2-0 to England, but getting draws against France and Uruguay.

Ellis Hall, who played in Town's first ever Football League match in 1910, a 1-0 win away at Bradford Park Avenue, was born on this date in 1889. He was born in Ecclesfield in Sheffield.

He was one of four brothers, one of who was Harry Hall, who was also on Town's books and made his Town debut four games later. Ellis had signed on in the summer, transferring from Stoke. He had a couple of seasons at Leeds Road before moving to South Shields, teaming up with his other two brothers, Ben Hall and Fretwell Hall.

After the war, Ellis played for Hamilton Academical and Halifax Town. He died in 1949, aged 60.

Goalkeeper Danny Ward was born on this date in 1993, making him 29 today. He was born in Wrexham. He is of course, the number one goalkeeper for his country, though he has been sharing it with Wayne Hennessey. Both of them will be looking forward to playing in the World Cup later this year.

Danny is rightfully a Town legend, with his penalty saves at Hillsborough and Wembley getting us promoted to the Premier League. But in reality, he has wasted most of his career by being back up keeper to lesser talented keepers at Liverpool and Leicester, which has meant that at 29 years old, he has only 73 league games on his stats.

More than half of those were in that season he had on loan with us and he had a half season with Aberdeen in the season before. His Premier League total is a ridiculous two for Liverpool and one for Leicester.

What do you make of him? Should he look for a move where he's getting first team games? Or should he carry on living the Life of Riley, getting a huge pay packet for doing sod all?

Whatever he does, he will still be a Town legend for this moment when he saved from Fernando Foristieri.

And finally today, we have the birth of the greatest goalscorer in Huddersfield Town history. That's George Brown, who was born on this date in 1903 in Mickley, Northumberland.

George, known as Bomber Brown, is the all time leading goalscorer for the Town and has been since he scored his 159th goal for us in April 1929 against Leicester City. I can't see that being overtaken in my lifetime, unless Jordan Rhodes gets a shift on this season.

His first Town goal came as part of a brace against WBA in a 2-3 defeat at the Hawthorns on New Years Eve 1921 and was followed two days later by another in a defeat against Man City at Maine Road. He scored his fourth goal in three games a couple of weeks later when the Baggies came to Leeds Road and Town won 2-0. This all came shortly after he came to Leeds Road during a miners strike (he worked at Mickley Colliery) and asked Herbert Chapman for a trial.

The following season again he only made a handful of appearances, playing alongside Charlie Wilson, who he would eventually replace as centre forward. He scored 6 goals in 12 games that season. The next season though, with Wilson again leading the line, George chipped in with 8 goals in 22 matches as Town won the first of three successive First Division league titles. And the most important of those came in a 3-0 win at home to Nottingham Forest, with George Cook scoring the 1st and 3rd goals, meaning that Town had pipped Cardiff City to the title on goal average, the tightest winning margin ever in the history of football anywhere on the planet.

Town retained the title in 1924/25 and it was Brown and Wilson chipping in with the goals again, Wilson top scoring with 24 and Brown with 20. George scored the first goal of the season in a 3-1 win up at Newcastle. He scored his first goal against Leeds Utd that season in a 2-0 win at home and scored a hattrick at Preston at the back end of the season as Town closed in on the title with a 4-1 victory. In the end, we won it by the enormous amount of two points, enormous that is, compared to the previous season.

In the summer of 1925 though, Chapman left for Arsenal, leaving Cecil Potter in charge. By the end of the season, Town had completed the hattrick of titles, beating Chapman's Arsenal by 5 points. And it was George leading the way. Wilson got injured early on and only played 4 matches. It was Brown who topped the goal scoring chart with a superb 35 goals, equalling the club record held by Sam Taylor. He scored in both matches against Leeds and scored hattricks against Everton and Man City.

In the next season, he only scored 27 as Town finished runners up to Newcastle. Three of those goals came in a 4-1 win over our local rivals Leeds Utd at Leeds Road. And it was 27 goals again in the next season as Town came runners up again, this time to Everton, who's striker Dixie Dean only managed to score 60 goals! No goals against Leeds in this particular season. They'd been relegated. He did score 4 goals in one match though, a 6-1 FA Cup victory over Spurs en route to his first FA Cup Final (he wasn't selected for the 1922 Final), which we lost 1-3 against Blackburn Rovers.

The following season was a bit of a come down for the Town faithful. We only finished 16th, but Brown scored another couple of goals against Leeds, this time in a 6-1 win at home. Only 15 league goals for him this time around, 23 in total as Town reached the cup semi finals. And that was his Town career over, with 159 goals in 229 matches.

He went on to Aston Villa next, scoring 79 goals for them in 5 years. Then to Burnley for a season, scoring 24 goals. Then it was to Leeds where he scored 19 goals in his one season there before moving to Darlington and becoming their player/manager. And when he finally hung up his boots, he had a total of 273 goals in 440 games. He also played 9 times for England, scoring 5 goals, one against Ireland on his debut, two against Belgium in a 9-1 win and two against France in a 6-0 win. Only 9 caps seems not a lot for such a prolific scorer, but he was up against the aforementioned Dixie of Everton.

After leaving the Darlo job, he got himself a pub in Aston, but then tragically at the age of just 44 he died after a short illness in 1948.