[Lord Snooty]

September 10:

On this date in 1930, two players scored hat tricks for Town in a First Division match that we won 6-0 against Manchester United at Old Trafford. This is still United's highest ever league defeat at home, with Liverpool coming ever so close last season, but only managing to score five.

The two hat trick scorers were Gerry Kelly (pictured below) and Alex Jackson. Kelly had signed from Third Division (North) team, Nelson and these were three of fifteen goals he scored for the Town.

Jackson was of course, a Town legend, who I've mentioned loads of times on here. His three took his tally to seven from the first four games of the season. Sadly though, they were his last goals for us and this was also his last match. He signed for big spending Chelsea, a move which went disastrously wrong for him and led to the premature end of his glittering football career.

We have played Leeds Urinals four times on this date. First in 1932, a 1-1 draw at Bellend Road, with Alf Young scoring for us. That was a First Division game. In 1960 we went there in a 2nd Division match and walloped them 4-1. Derek Stokes scored twice, one from the penalty spot, Chris Balderstone got one and the other was a Jack Charlton own goal.

Charlton had retired by the time the next one came along in 1974. Also on his way was Don Revie, who had left to manage England and had been replaced by Brian Clough as manager. Cloughie famously only lasted 44 days in the job before getting sacked. On his 43rd day, he took his team to Leeds Road for a 2nd round League Cup tie.

They were league champions at the time and every player was an international. All their big names played in this, including Trevor Cherry, Norman Hunter and Johnny Giles. We had been relegated to the 3rd Division, but still had some of our First Division team. Terry Poole was in goal, Geoff Hutt, Les Chapman, Bobby Hoy and Steve Smith all played in this.

We had Leeds legend Bobby Collins as our manager and it was Alan Gowling who scored our goal as we held the Champions of Europe to a 1-1 draw. No extra time or penalties, so it was all back to Bellend Road for a replay in a couple of weeks time.

Clough was sacked the day after this result.

And finally, in 2016. This happened. Take a bow, Aaron Mooy.

Back to the beginning again. On this date in 1910, Huddersfield Town played their first Football League match at Leeds Road. After winning the first match away at Bradford Park Avenue, Burnley came over from Lancashire to play this and stole both points in a 1-0 win for them. A crowd of 7,371 came to witness this historic event, as manager Dick Pudan (pictured below) picked an unchanged line up. Those who were there probably didn't realise how historic it would be at the time or that this stadium would hold a crowd of 67,000 in a few years time.