08-09-2022, 08:06
September 8:
Town had started the 1990/91 season badly. It was our third season back in Division Three following the relegation in 1988 and Eoin Hand, who had taken the manager's job after Malcolm Macdonald was sacked, was still in charge.
We had lost the opening two league games, at home to Southend and away at Swansea. We'd also lost both legs of a League Cup 1st round tie against Bolton Wanderers. So when the Trotters came to Leeds Road for a league match on this date in 1990, the result came as a bit of a surprise. Not surprising that we won. Statistically, we do win games every now and then, but the manner of the win and the scoreline was a huge surprise.
The major factor in this performance was the shoring up of the defence. And that was all down to the new signing, who had arrived at Leeds Road a couple of days before and was later to say that the moment he walked in the door, he knew this was the right place for him.
That was of course, the man, the myth, the legend. Peter Jackson.
I remember watching him in the warm ups, whilst thinking to myself, why have we signed on this Bradford reject? He was practicing headers and nutting the ball so hard back to the halfway line. Let's see how he gets on in the game.
Well, we kept a clean sheet, after shipping five against Bolton over the two League Cup legs, so that was a good start to the Town career of the man who would go on to be skipper, manager and ambassador of this great club.
It was somebody else's legend who stole the show though. Keith Edwards, the goal scoring machine of Bramall Lane, had just signed for us in the summer from a short stint at Stockport. Knocking on a bit by now (he retired at the end of the season), he turned back the clock to the man who scored 171 goals for Sheffield United, by scoring a hat trick for us in this one.
That added to the first Town goal for new signing, Iwan Roberts, gave us a fantastic 4-0 win.
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Two birthdays today. Chris Powell, who managed the club for a season and a half in the middle of the last decade, is 53 today. He was born on this date in 1969 in Lambeth.
And our young Aussie u23 goalkeeper, Nicholas Bilokapic is 20 today. He was born on this date in 2002 in (according to Wikipedia) Australia. Very helpful there, Wiki, thanks!
He has only half a game played for the first team so far, but what a half it was. He kept a clean sheet as we beat Premier League Burnley in last season's FA Cup, replacing the injured Ryan Schofield.
Happy birthday, lads.
![[Image: Klrwzqi.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/Klrwzqi.gif)
Town had started the 1990/91 season badly. It was our third season back in Division Three following the relegation in 1988 and Eoin Hand, who had taken the manager's job after Malcolm Macdonald was sacked, was still in charge.
We had lost the opening two league games, at home to Southend and away at Swansea. We'd also lost both legs of a League Cup 1st round tie against Bolton Wanderers. So when the Trotters came to Leeds Road for a league match on this date in 1990, the result came as a bit of a surprise. Not surprising that we won. Statistically, we do win games every now and then, but the manner of the win and the scoreline was a huge surprise.
The major factor in this performance was the shoring up of the defence. And that was all down to the new signing, who had arrived at Leeds Road a couple of days before and was later to say that the moment he walked in the door, he knew this was the right place for him.
That was of course, the man, the myth, the legend. Peter Jackson.
I remember watching him in the warm ups, whilst thinking to myself, why have we signed on this Bradford reject? He was practicing headers and nutting the ball so hard back to the halfway line. Let's see how he gets on in the game.
Well, we kept a clean sheet, after shipping five against Bolton over the two League Cup legs, so that was a good start to the Town career of the man who would go on to be skipper, manager and ambassador of this great club.
It was somebody else's legend who stole the show though. Keith Edwards, the goal scoring machine of Bramall Lane, had just signed for us in the summer from a short stint at Stockport. Knocking on a bit by now (he retired at the end of the season), he turned back the clock to the man who scored 171 goals for Sheffield United, by scoring a hat trick for us in this one.
That added to the first Town goal for new signing, Iwan Roberts, gave us a fantastic 4-0 win.
Two birthdays today. Chris Powell, who managed the club for a season and a half in the middle of the last decade, is 53 today. He was born on this date in 1969 in Lambeth.
And our young Aussie u23 goalkeeper, Nicholas Bilokapic is 20 today. He was born on this date in 2002 in (according to Wikipedia) Australia. Very helpful there, Wiki, thanks!
He has only half a game played for the first team so far, but what a half it was. He kept a clean sheet as we beat Premier League Burnley in last season's FA Cup, replacing the injured Ryan Schofield.
Happy birthday, lads.
![[Image: 2ZJuVRk.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/2ZJuVRk.gif)