[Lord Snooty]

June 26:

On this date in 1954, Huddersfield Town had two players playing for England in the World Cup in Switzerland. They were, as you probably know by now, Ron Staniforth and Bill McGarry.

This was the quarter finals and sadly, England went out, losing 4-2 to Uruguay at St. Jakob-Park, in Basle. The South Americans scored early on, but Nat Lofthouse equalised. Uruguay then took the lead again to go to half time 2-1 up. They made it 3-1, before the Preston Plumber, Tom Finney pulled one back. But it was game over after 79 minutes as Uruguay went 4-2 up.

Meanwhile on the same day, the highest scoring World Cup match was being played. The hosts Switzerland, lost 7-5 against Austria.

Here's highlights of the England game. Ron is no 2 and Bill no 14.

Moving forward to 2018, we have Town players in action at the Russia World Cup on this date. Mathias Jorgensen played the full match against France, while Jonas Lossl took up his customary position on the bench. The Danes only needed a point to qualify for the next stage, which they did, drawing 0-0.

And that result would've been a disappointment to Town's Aaron Mooy and his Aussie mates, who needed to win and hope the Danes lose. But despite Mooy playing the full game, on the back of playing a fantastic season in the blue n white of Huddersfield Town, the Australians lost 2-0 to Peru and finished bottom of the group.

Legendary Welsh goal machine, Iwan Roberts was born on this date in 1968 in Bangor, so today is his 54th birthday.

He signed for Town at the start of the 1990/91 season, brought in by Eoin Hand to replace Craig Maskell. We paid a record fee for him as well, but it was just the money we had received for Maskell from Reading. We bought him from Watford, where he had been given his debut by Graham Taylor, by which time he had already had his two front teeth knocked out. He scored his first professional goal in a First Division match against Manchester Utd at Vicarage Road, the only goal of a 1-0 win. Taylor left though for Aston Villa and the Hornets got relegated. Iwan took the plunge, dropping yet another league to join us in the 3rd division, in order to get regular first team football.

His first Town goal came at Leeds Road against Bolton Wanderers, a 4-0 win in which Keith Edwards scored the other three. As well as Edwards, Iwan had plenty of striking experience alongside him in Peter Withe and then Frank Stapleton which helped develop his ruthless streak in front of goal.

He finished that first season as joint top scorer with 14, joint with Kieran O'Regan. But the next season, playing alongside Phil Starbuck and Iffy Onuora, he slammed home a post war record of 34 as we made it to the Play Offs for the first time. It would've been 35 but had one chalked off after the one he scored against Blackpool in the Autoglass Trophy got fogged off at half time. He also scored twice in a famous League Cup victory over first division Sunderland, beating them 4-0 at home and 6-1 on aggregate.

Sunderland got their revenge though, stealing our management team. Legendary Town boss Mick Buxton had come out of retirement to assist Ian Ross, but at the end of the season, after Iwan had once again top scored with 15, the Mackem's lured Buxton back to the north-east and he took Ross with him.

Neil Warnock came in and for some reason didn't fancy Iwan. He was sold to 2nd division Leicester City in November and replaced with Exeter's Ronnie Jepson. Iwan left Leeds Road having scored 68 goals in a Town shirt, putting him 12th= in our all time goal scoring charts, level with Kevin McHale.

He had already been capped for Wales when we signed him from Watford and he played five times for them as a Huddersfield Town player. He wore the red shirt against Austria, Argentina, Japan (getting sent off), Albania and Moldova.

He had good times with Leicester, not so good with Wolves, but then became a legend at Norwich.