[Lord Snooty]

September 6:

Huddersfield Town, under the leadership of Mick Buxton, had won the 4th Division title in 1979/80, but had struggled to get going in the next season. After an early League Cup exit to Blackburn and a league defeat at Chesterfield, we had got draws at home to Carlisle and Blackpool followed by a 0-0 at Rotherham. But on this date in 1980, we really got our act together and hammered Reading 4-1 at Leeds Road.

And I missed it. 

I was on my way back from a holiday in Cornwall. I ought to take more holidays. We always seem to win when I do.

Anyway, despite the exciting season just gone, this was still only Division Three and crowds weren't averaging five figures yet. Only 7,312 turned up for this. But those of us who missed it, got to see it the next day on Yorkshire TV's Sunday Soccer programme.

The first goal was a calamitous cock up by the aptly named Steve Death in the Reading goal. Pronounced dee-ath, he dropped the ball, unchallenged, into his own goal from a corner. I can't remember in what place Reading scored but our second was scored by Micky Kennedy from the penalty spot. The third was a volley from a corner clearance, by Micky Laverick. And the fourth was a near post header from a left wing David Cowling cross, by Brian Stanton.

The third and fourth goals are on YouTube. Couldn't find the full YTV highlights.......

Back in 52/53, the season after our first ever relegation, we were top of the 2nd Division and unbeaten after the first four games when our neighbours from Barnsley came to Leeds Road on this date in 1952.

Andy Beattie had joined the club as manager in the dying embers of the last season and he was to get our fantastic football club back up to Division One again. He did it with only using 15 players throughout the season and this was the fifth game without any team changes.

Poor Barnsley left with a great big 6-0 walloping! Jimmy Glazzard scored his fifth and sixth goals of the season. Vic Metcalfe also scored a couple, including a penalty. Willie Davie and Len Quested got the others. A bumper crowd of 33,157 came out to see this one.