[Lord Snooty]

July 24:

On this day in 2019, Jan Siewert took his Huddersfield Town team to Doncaster to play the Rovers in a pre season friendly. He picked a side with a mixture of last season's Premier League failures and up coming stars. Players like Lewis O'Brien, Josh Koroma and Scott High were on the bench. Aaron Rowe started the game, as did Matty Daly and Rarmani Edmonds-Green.

But it was two of the PL boys who worked a wonderful opener for the Terriers. A superb pass from Collin Quaner invited Rajiv van La Parra to curl one into the corner of the net, which he did brilliantly. Top bins! A bit like the one he scored against West Brom in the PL.

Town went 2-0 up early in the second half with a brilliantly worked free kick from Reece Brown. He chipped the ball over the wall to Juninho Bacuna who had snuck in behind and he fired home a volley.

That's how the game finished. Two nil to the Town. Looking good for an immediate return to the Prima Donna League.

Born on this date in 1883 in Irvine, North Ayrshire was Andrew Armour, an outside right who played three seasons at Leeds Road before the First World War.

He made his debut for us though as a centre forward in a match at home to Burnley in 1911. He scored in a 1-1 draw and then scored again in the next game, a trip to the seaside to play Blackpool at Bloomfield Road. That was a 3-1 defeat and he was in his usual right wing position for the rest of the season, not adding to his goal tally in 19 matches.

He played every game but two in the next season, again only scoring two goals, but they were both against Yorkshire rivals. One in a 2-0 home win against Barnsley, but then scoring the only goal in the final match of the season against Leeds City at Leeds Road. A massive 8,000 crowd turned up to see our boys beat the team managed by Herbert Chapman and finish the season in our highest position at the time of 5th in the 2nd Division.

His third and final season saw him score three goals, against Bury, Fulham and Wolverhampton Wanderers, with his final appearance for Town being the last match of the 1913/14 season, a 1-0 win away at Leicester Fosse.

Despite him being an ever present in that season, he left to return to Kilmarnock for his third spell there. Why did he go? Possibly because he was 31 years old now and Town had a young right winger waiting to make a name for himself. That was Billy Smith.

Andy played a couple of seasons in the Scottish League, before joining up. He was a sergeant in the Royal Army Service Corps, signing on in June 1916 and playing when he could for Killie and also Clydebank. At this time he was married with a son.

He survived the war and later in life became a GP. He died in 1955, aged 71.

Here's a picture of the HTFC 1913/14 team with Andy on the front row on the outside left.