[Lord Snooty]

August 23:

On this date in 1952, Huddersfield Town started their first Second Division season since getting promoted to Division One in 1920. That was of course, the season where we had to fight off a takeover bid by the newly formed Leeds United, who had taken over from the expelled Leeds City.

So who were the opponents on this opening day, thirty two years later? Leeds United.

They had John Charles in at centre forward, the Welsh international, who would finish the season as their leading scorer and later go and play for proper big clubs like Juventus, Roma and Merthyr Tydfil. We had Jimmy Glazzard, who was born in Normanton but never gained international honours because he was up against the likes of Nat Lofthouse and Jackie Milburn for that England no 9 shirt.

So which of the two big strikers came out on top in this match? It was of course gentleman Jim, who scored the only goal of the game in front of an opening day crowd of 35,230.

We won promotion at the end of the season, finishing as runners up to Sheffield United. Leeds finished 10th and would play another season in the Second Division.

Happy Birthday today to our former Head Coach, Jan Siewert. He was born in Mayen in 1982 and so it's his 40th today.

I think we've talked enough about him recently after he got sacked by Phil Hodgkinson just before his 37th birthday. He is, according to his Wikipedia page, Academy manager at Mainz, though that might not have been updated. Is he still there?