[Lord Snooty]

August 26:

On this date in 1939, the dark clouds of war were gathering over the skies of Europe. The Germans had made a pact not to invade Poland, but Parliament had been recalled in Britain, as preparations for what seemed the inevitable were being made. Plans to evacuate children from the major cities were well underway. Army reservists and the civil defence were put on red alert, while the IRA kept up their sideline of terror on the home front with the bombing of Coventry, which killed five people and injured a further 70.

Meanwhile, the Football League started the new season as though none of this was happening and Huddersfield Town played their first match of the 39/40 season at home to Blackpool. Ken Willingham and Alf Young, who had been in the England team that had been forced to give a n@zi salute, both played in this one. As did future Town manager, Eddie Boot.

A crowd of 15,588 turned out at Leeds Road to watch as the Seasiders strolled away with both points, beating the Town 1-0.

On this date in 1992, Huddersfield Town were at home to Sunderland in the League Cup. We were in the third tier, know as Division Two then. Sunderland were a Premier League team. This was a first round second leg and I forgot to report on the first leg last week.

That was one of the greatest results of this time when we went to Roker Park and came away with a 3-2 win. England skipper Terry Butcher and Kevin Ball scored for the Rokerites, but we had goals from Phil Starbuck, Neil Parsley and Iwan Roberts to bring back home for this 2nd leg.

A disappointing crowd of only 6,737 came to this, but it was a tense affair which we lost 1-0, with Peter Davenport scoring. That took the game into extra time, but our brave lads held out for a famous win on the away goals rule.

Who've we got in round two? Just the Premier League champions, Blackburn Rovers.

We were all back up in the north-east on this date in 2009 for another League Cup match. This was in the 2nd round after we had beaten Stockport County in the first and now we had a visit to Sid James' Park to take on Premier League Newcastle United.

After making our way up a million flights of stairs, we eventually got sat down in the top tier of the Leazes Stand, with bats flying around our heads, awaiting kick off. It was a homecoming for Town manager Lee Clark, who had had seven years as a Newcastle player, but it was his old club that took the lead in the 36th minute.

However, Town were level within a  minute, when a long ball out of defence caught the home side flat footed and the speedy Theo Robinson got to the ball first and nutmegged the keeper to roll the ball into an empty net. It was 2-1 to the Terriers three minutes later, again Theo doing the damage. He had them beaten for pace once more, taking the ball around the keeper, Tim Krul, who brought him down. Penalty but no red card. Theo got up and gave us the lead.

We were going bonkers a minute after the break when Jordan Rhodes took the ball past Krul, who decided not to bring him down. It appeared as though Jordan had taken the ball too far, but he slotted it home from an impossibly tight angle and we were 3-1 up at a Premier League ground again.

Unlike the Sunderland game though, we didn't hold out for the win. Geremi pulled one back straight away and then the Prima Donna class cheating came into play. Shola Ameobi took a horrendous dive to win a penalty, stood up again and equalised.

Then another dodgy free kick, where a blatantly offside Ameobi headed back across goal for Kevin Nolan to win the game.

Ah well, we've had a nice day out and we've got Yeovil Town coming to ours on Saturday.