[Lord Snooty]

August 7:

On this date in 2010, Town got off to a cracking start to the 10/11 season with a brilliant 3-0 win away at Notts County. A perfect start to a season that would end in disaster at Old Trafford.

But let's not dwell on that. We had just failed one Play Off campaign by wussing out at Millwall, so we were hoping for an automatic spot this time. Lee Clark was still boss and he had been busy in the transfer market and gave debuts in this game to Scott Arfield, Joey Guðjónsson, Gary Naysmith and Jamie McCombe. Another debutant was Joe Garner, who could've walked to the match, having signed on loan from Nottingham Forest.

County had Lee Hughes in their line up, who had not been out of jail long for causing death by dangerous driving, and he naturally got lots of abuse from the Town fans in a crowd of 10,342. At least half of that figure were ours.

Garner was outstanding in this match, causing havoc amongst the County defence, but it proved to be his best match in a Town shirt. His loan lasted til the end of the year but he never scored in 19 games for us, which is odd because he's scored tons of goals wherever else he's been. Anyway, he was on fire in this one and Town were two up at half time with goals from Anthony Pilkington and Jordan Rhodes.

Pilks got another one in the second half and 3-0 was how it finished.

On this date in 2004, we had our first game back in League One following our Play Off penalty shoot out victory in Cardiff against Mansfield. It was an away day at Stockport County and another one where at least half the crowd were from Town. That was an attendance of 7,473 and we had just one debutant in this one and that was Junior Mendes who we knicked from the Stags.

The Terriers took the lead just before half time with Tony Carss on target. However, County had goal machine Luke Beckett in their team and he equalised soon after the break and by the 68th minute were were behind. Manager Peter Jackson went for broke, taking off defender Efe Sodje and bringing on Pawel Abbott. Old reliable Andy Booth equalised three minutes from time, but we didn't settle for the draw because in injury time, Pav powered home the winner to send us potty.

Gong back a bit further, Jacko had been sacked by brainless Barry Rubery, who brought in broken nosed burke, Steve Bruce to replace him. He'd spent a pot load of dosh bringing in old has been Scott Sellars, flying Greek winger Georgios Donis and Leeds reject Clyde Wijnhard.

And what a load of old rubbish they were on this date in 1999 as we got the Bruce era off to a pathetic start down at QPR. We were 2-0 down by the time Clyde managed to pull one back, but it was such an underwhelming performance and Rangers got another to make it 3-1.

Let's just hope this isn't the shape of things to come in the next few weeks.

And finally, a happy birthday to Birmingham's Juninho Bacuna. He's 25 today, having been born on this date in 1997 and almost scored the goal of the century against us on Friday night.