[Lord Snooty]

June 28:

On this day in 2020, we played our second game after the Covid lockdown. It was away at the City Ground against "Yoooooouuuu Reds!"

Yes, those arseholes!

It didn't go well. Danny Cowley suffered the third defeat in a row for the first time in his managerial career, although these three defeats had been strung out over nearly four months. To make matters worse, this was live on Sky, seen by more people than would usually see it as we were all still stuck indoors.

The defeat put us into the bottom three and would've left Phil Hodgkinson wondering whether he was right to appoint Mrs Cowley's lads in the first place. But surely he wouldn't sack them yet. They've only been in the job two minutes and their remit was to avoid relegation, which with seven games left, was still looking likely despite the three losses.

The match itself was not too bad, despite the 3-1 scoreline. Not for the last time, we had a stonewall penalty turned down against the Trees, this time David Webb turning away appeals after Alex Pritchard was scythed down by Ben Watson.

Lewis Grabban, who seems to score against us every time, scored twice in this one. One just before half time and one just after. Andy King hit the post for the Terriers, but then Ryan Yates made it 3-0 in the 85th minute.

Three nil down, how could it get any worse? Well dozy prick, Juninho Bacuna, who'd just come on as a sub, got red carded for kicking out petulantly at one of the Tree stumps.

But then we got a lifeline. In the seventh minute of injury time, three nil down with a minute left, the referee finally decided we should be allowed a penalty when Fraizer Campbell fell over in the box. Cheers, ref!

Karlan Grant tucked it away and we all left the ground cursing our luck. No not really. Nobody was there, obviously.