[Lord Snooty]

July 14:

Another game, another blank! On this date in 2020, Town played another of the post lockdown matches. And failed to score again.

This one was away at Sheffield Wednesday, just a few days after their legendary manager Jack Charlton had died and so the game had a minute's silence before kick off. Well the entire match had a 90 minutes of silence as there was nobody there and not much to shout about anyway.

Jonas Lossl was the man of the match, but Town should've won it late on when Fraizer Campbell fluffed the easiest of all chances to give us all three points. We had to settle for one though and it moved us onto 48 points, three above the drop zone.

The bottom five positions were unchanged after the latest round of games, but Hull look like they could be doomed. They lost 8-0 at Wigan, who moved onto 57 points and definitely won't be getting relegated............

Today's birthday is that of young James Vaughan. It's absolutely donkey's years since he became the youngest ever scorer in the Premier League, which is why you may think he's older than he actually is. He was born in 1988 and is only 34 today.

That goal was scored when he was 16 years and 271 days old in 2005, against Crystal Palace, beating James Milner for the youngest PL scorer and Wayne Rooney for the youngest Everton scorer.

He had seven seasons at Goodison, with loans out at Derby, Leicester and Palace, but it was from Norwich that he first came on loan to us in 2012. It was a season long loan, scoring his first Town goal down at Ipswich, which went down well as a Norwich City employee. The locals had the last laugh though as Vaughaney went and missed a penalty.

He finished that season as our top scorer. One of those goals was a classic winner at Bellend Road against the Leeds Urinals and he then came back to sign a permanent deal in the summer. He top scored again, including a hat trick in a 5-1 hammering of Bournemouth.

After playing for us, he went around the lower leagues for a bit, never really hitting the back of the net too regularly and last season, he decided to pack in.

On this date in 1993, Town's manager Ian Ross walked out. Letters were written to the Examiner. Friends discussed things amongst each other in the pub. Questions were raised in works canteens. Piss taking articles were written in Hanging On The Telephone. In other words, social media went into meltdown!  

Can you imagine what the social media would be like if a Town manager walked out nowadays?

Anyway, it turned out that Ross had gone to be assistant to Mick Buxton at Sunderland, a role reversal of the season that had just finished, with the Great Buxtonio coming back to assist Rossy in Town's relegation battle, a relegation battle coming on the back of a failed Play Off campaign.

Can you imagine what the social media would be like if a Town team ended up in a relegation battle after a failed Play Off campaign nowadays?

So who's free and who do we fancy to take over? Ron Atkinson? George Graham? Ian Porterfield? Steve Coppell? Examiner says, expect somebody in place tomorrow. Oooooh!