[Lord Snooty]

September 4:

The club record for consecutive league wins currently stands at eleven. That record has stood since it was set on this date in 1920. It includes eight straight wins in the previous season, the promotion from Div 2, and the three wins from the start of our first First Division season.

The game that brought us to the figure of eleven was a 1-0 win against Preston North End at Leeds Road and it was Frank Mann with the goal, scoring from the penalty spot, putting the Town top of Division One.

The eleven games were a double over Stoke (1-0 away and 3-0 at home), 4-1 at home to Barnsley, a 5-1 win at home to Stockport, a 2-0 win at home to Wolves, a double over Nottingham Forest (both 2-1 away then at home), a 4-2 home win against Lincoln City. Then in the new season, three 1-0 wins, away at Preston, home to Burnley, then home to Preston to complete the sequence which came to an end with a defeat at Burnley.

On this date in 1933, ex Town assistant manager Leslie Knighton was manager of Chelsea and he brought his team up north to face Huddersfield Town at Leeds Road. Town were managed by Clem Stephenson and finished the previous season in 6th. Chelsea had had a season of turmoil, with Knighton publicly falling out with former Town star Alex Jackson, who by this time had departed Stamford Bridge.

Some things never change and Chelsea even back then were the big spenders. As well as the huge wages they had been paying Jackson, they also had his fellow Scottish internationals Hughie Gallacher, Alec Cheyne, Willie Ferguson and Tommy Law. Despite all this, they struggled, finishing the last season in 18th, just avoiding relegation.

And when they came up here, that turmoil just got worse as our lads sent them packing with a 6-1 spanking! Dave Mangnall opened the scoring, Charlie Luke got our second, Wilf Bott one, George McLean got two and Austen Campbell scored the sixth. It was a quite low crowd to watch what ought to have been a high profile game, but it was played on a Monday afternoon with a one o'clock kick off and only 7,523 were there to see it, as Town moved up to 5th.