[Lord Snooty]

September 23:

Three League Cup ties against teams from higher divisions to write about today.

Having beaten 2nd Division Sunderland in a two legged first round of the League Cup, 3rd Division Town played Premier League Blackburn Rovers at Leeds Road in the 2nd round 1st leg on this date in 1992. They had star names in their line up, the likes of Alan Shearer, Roy Wegerle, Tim Sherwood, Colin Hendry and a young lad called Lee Makel on the bench. We had Tony Elliott in goal, Neil Parsley at right back, Peter Jackson was the skipper and Iwan Roberts and Iffy Onuora were up top.

In the dugouts, two Liverpool legends. Kenny Dalglish for them and Ian Ross for us. The game finished 1-1 with Iffy scoring ours and Shearer getting theirs against the run of play.

The second leg at Ewood is in a couple of weeks time. Has the potential to be a classic that one. In the meantime, if you've 20 minutes to spare, have a watch of the highlights of the first leg, where the commentator says the classic line; it's hard to tell which is the Premier League team here.

Moving on six years, skipper Jacko was now manager Jacko and after a 1-1 draw in the 2nd round 1st leg with Everton, we traveled to Goodison Park for the 2nd leg, on this date in 1998.

We were bang in form and top of the 2nd tier, which was known as Division One at that time and a huge following went to watch this. That huge following went potty as Marcus Stewart opened the scoring in the first minute.

It was a cracking game, but the Toffees, with young Danny Cadamarteri up front alongside big Duncan Ferguson, came back into it and were ahead at the break through goals form Olivier Dacourt and Marco Materazzi.

Materazzi got red carded in the 70th minute and so we played against ten men for the last twenty, pushing for the equaliser, which sadly didn't come.

Here's Stewy's goal.

Moving on five years, Jacko was still there as manager, but only after he'd been sacked by numpty new owner Barry Rubery and returned to the club as saviour once again after the club had been in administration. We were in Division Three, the 4th tier, playing Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on this date in 2003, in a 2nd round match, which by now were just one legged games.

They were in the 2nd tier and were good enough to reach the Play Offs that season.

It started well for Town with Tony Carss scoring a brilliant free kick in the 2nd minute. It was 2-0 in the 20th minute, again a brilliant goal, this time from the tricky feet of young Jon Stead, who would go on to play for Sunderland without adding to this goal at the Stadium of Light.

Kevin Kyle, who we had had on loan, pulled one back five minutes later, a header from a corner. That was the score at half time, 2-1 to the Terriers.

In the 54th minute, confusion. Good work from Danny Schofield and Jon Worthington gave Andy Booth a headed chance which was blocked on the line by Ben Clark. Andy Holdsworth followed in though and scored from six inches. What was the ref doing though? He never signaled for a goal, just got his red card out to send Clark off. The Town players were baffled. Goal or penalty, what's it to be ref?

GOAL! 3-1.

Unbelievably it went 4-1 three minutes from the end, when Boothy charged down a clearance to put himself in the clear and blast the ball past the keeper. Absolute limbs!

Kyle made it 4-2 in injury time and didn't bother to celebrate. Up next? We've beaten Derby and Sunderland. A glamour tie? Oh, Reading away.

Anyway, another video to watch. Better on mute though, there's a horrible musical soundtrack for some strange reason. Enjoy!