[Lord Snooty]

July 17:

On this date in 2020, town avoided relegation by beating 2nd placed West Bromwich Albion 2-1 at the John Smith's Stadium. Unfortunately, the win had a double edged sword feeling about it as it also meant that Leeds United were promoted.

It was a cracking game, played behind closed doors due to the pandemic which was going around at the time and it was two goals from loanees that did the trick. First up, in the 4th minute, young Chris Willock, who had been on loan at WBA earlier in the season, poked home following a poorly defended free kick.

The Baggies equalised just before half time through an offside goal, but then in the 86th minute following some great work by Lewis O'Brien, Emile Smith Rowe slid the ball past the England goalkeeper Sam Johnstone to send the crowd wild muted applause from the handful of people there.

West Brom thought they'd blown it with only one game left and the best part of the night was seeing serial shitbag, Charlie Austin blubbing his eyes out.

They needn't have worried though. Brentford bottled it on the last day.

As for Town, we moved six points clear of the drop zone, with a better goal difference than all the bottom three, who all had only two games left and with Wigan getting a load of points deducted as well, we were allowed a wee celebration.

Talking of celebrations. The Leeds fans did their usual trick. The country was still in lockdown, but they all gathered at Bellend Road anyway, smashing up their own players cars that were parked there.

That was a long season and it almost lasted over a year. Twelve months earlier, on this date in 2019, we had a notorious pre season friendly game. It was the start of our first season back in the Championship after two seasons in the Prima Donna League and we still had some of our star players knocking around. We even still had Jan Siewert as Head Coach.

The kit launch had just been done as well and at this friendly match, away at Rochdale, we played in the new Paddy Power kit. It didn't start well with the Dale scoring early on. But Town came back and equalised just before half time with Elias Kachunga heading in from a cross by Alex Pritchard.

Town then took the lead in the second half with Jonathan Hogg intercepting a pass and cooly driving the ball past the keeper like the top goal scorer he is.

And it was Hoggy who set up the next goal, this time for Josh Koroma to score in the 63rd minute. That was the end of the scoring as Town won 3-1. Sadly, this would be one of the last times we saw Aaron Mooy in a Town shirt and it had to be a stupid shirt that ended up causing us to be fined fifty thousand pounds by the miserable twats at the FA for breaching regulations.