[Lord Snooty]

August 29:

Charlie Morris was a Welsh international defender who played for Town in our very first Football League game in 1910/11. He was born on this date in 1880 and so would've been 30 at the time.

He started his career with Chirk, who at the time were one of the big clubs in Wales. He then had ten years at Derby County. The highlight of that time would be getting to the 1903 FA Cup Final. The low light would be losing that Final 6-0 to Bury.

He was at the back end of his career when he joined the Town, but he still managed to gain three of his 27 caps for Wales whilst with us, making him our first international player. They were all in the British Championships in 1911. A win against Ireland, a draw with Scotland and a 3-0 defeat to England at Millwall's brand new stadium, The Den.

Charlie only made 20 appearances for the Town, eventually losing his place to Fred Bullock. He then left us for Wrexham and then back to Chirk.

After football, he became a Methodist preacher in Chirk and it was there that he died aged 71, in 1952.

Kevin Johnson was born on this date in 1952 and so is 70 today. He was born in Doncaster and in an interview on the Parkinson show, Kevin Keegan revealed that our Kev was the one who kept him out of the Doncaster Schools team. He was that good.

Keegan of course, went on to be a star player for Liverpool and England. Johnson was playing for Hartlepool when Tom Johnston signed him for us in 1976. He stayed for a couple of seasons before having a fall out with old Tom and so ended up at Halifax Town. He won our Player of the Year award in 1977.

Here he is, front row, third from the right.

On this date in 1953, Town played the fourth game of the 53/54 season and remained unbeaten. This was the season after we had won promotion back to the top tier and after this one, a 5-1 win at home to Portsmouth, our brave lads stood at the top of the Division One table.

Yesterday's thread was all about hat tricks. Today's hat trick was scored by Jimmy Glazzard. It was the first of his hat trick of hat tricks that season, scoring three goals in the matches against Sheffield United and Aston Villa as well. The two other scorers in this match were Willie Davie and Jimmy Watson.