[Lord Snooty]

September 1:

Two birthdays today, both centre backs, one a club legend, one not so sure about. It's Michael Hefele, who is 32 today and Will Boyle is 27.

The Hef was born in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, in Bavaria, in 1990. He played for SpVgg Unterhaching, a Bavarian team. Then he went to another Bavarian team in SpVgg Greuther Fürth. They were in the Bundesliga, but got relegated to Bundesliga 2 while Hef was there and he only made one appearance in the top tier.

From there he went to Saxony and played for Dynamo Dresden, who had slipped down to the third tier of German football. Hef became captain of the club and got them promoted as champions in the season before his career went big time by signing for English sleeping giant, Huddersfield Town.

He made 35 starts for us with another 13 sub appearances, scoring five goals. But all five goals were memorable. The first one came within ten seconds of coming on as a sub on his debut, famously scoring from 40 yards with his arse at Villa Park. That was coming off the bench as an emergency striker. His next two came in the same circumstance, coming off the bench at half time to play up front in an FA Cup game at Rochdale.

He got another league goal, away at Barnsley, a bullet header from a corner. And then came the Heffing Dream goal, when he scored a late winner at home to the Champions of Europe and swore live on Sky Sports in the after match interview.

He also took a brilliantly struck penalty at Hillsborough in the semis of the Play Offs and one not so well at Wembley.

Sadly, he spent most of the Premier League debut season injured and only played once in the PL and even more sadly, went off to play for the Tree Stumps. He had three years there, stealing a wage off the unworthy shitehawks by spending his entire time there on the treatment table.

And then, on the 26th of July last year, the Heffing dream re-emerged when he came back to Huddersfield and although not in the team, his mere presence in the stadium inspired the Town to reach Wembley.

Will Boyle was born in Garforth in 1995 and is 27 today.

After leaving Town in 2017, after loan spells away at Kidderminster, Macclesfield, York and Kilmarnock, he signed for Cheltenham in January 2017, a couple of days after the Hef had just scored twice at Spotland.

He had six seasons at Waddon Road, winning promotion with them in 2021. At the end of his contract, he was surprisingly signed on back at Huddersfield.

Still unsure on whether this was a good signing. Time will tell. In the mean time.......