[Lord Snooty]

August 5:

Only two matches played on this date, official first team matches that is. Both ended in defeat as well. Let's hope we do better at Birmingham tonight.

The first Huddersfield Town match on this date was in 2006 away at Gillingham in League One. It wasn't a great start to the season for a Town side led by Peter Jackson. He had picked Matt Glennon in goal and he had been beaten for a second time in the 67th minute, at which time Jacko brought off Danny Schofield and replaced him with Chris Brandon.

Town rallied and pulled one back in the 81st, through Gary Taylor-Fletcher, after Pawel Abbott had replaced Andy Booth up top, but it wasn't enough and we left the Priestfield with sod all.

Then in 2019 we had the final game of the first round of matches as Sky Sports chose us for the Monday Night Football slot for our home game with Derby County. It was our first Championship game after a couple of seasons in the Premier League and it got off to a terrible start.

We still had Martin from Wakefield Jan Siewert in charge (not for much longer) and Phillip Cocu was taking charge of the Ramsbottoms for the first time.

Two Town debutants, Kamil Grabara and Tommy Elphick conspired to cock up, giving Tom Lawrence the chance to lob the ball into the empty net. And than Lawrence made it 2-0 a couple of minutes later, dancing through some tentative Terriers tackling and curling one in.

We had a lifeline soon after though when Juninho Bacuna was fouled in the area and Karlan Grant scored from the spot. But it was a poor performance despite Elias Kachunga almost grabbing a late equaliser.

The players and management were booed off at full time, but all the Sky talk was about whether or not Wayne Rooney would be signing for Derby.