[Lord Snooty]

September 24:

On this date in 1910, Huddersfield Town had their first ever Football League home win. Having won the first FL game away at Bradford Park Avenue, the Town followed that with a home defeat against Burnley and then an away loss at Gainsborough Trinity. The opponents for this momentous occasion were our near neighbours, Leeds City.

It was a 3-2 win and the scorers were Sandy McCubbin, Henry Hamilton and William Bartlett.

Moving on a few years to a League Cup tie in the 1970s. A couple of weeks ago, we had a 2nd round match at Leeds Road against Leeds Utd, which was drawn and saw the sacking of Brian Clough in the following day. On this date in 1974, we had the replay at Bellend Road.

We had Leeds legend Bobby Collins as manager, they had Maurice Lindley in as caretaker. Collins made one team change, dropping Billy McGinley to the bench and bringing Phil Summerill in. Leeds were still full of internationals and brought in Duncan McKenzie into the line up in attack.

It was England's Allan Clarke who scored for the WhiteShite, but our leading scorer Alan Gowling equalised, just as he had in the first game. Full time came with the score at one each and so went to extra time. No more goals were scored and so the rules of the competition at the time meant that we went to another replay. Instead of a neutral venue though, the captains flipped a coin for home advantage, which Leeds won. And so we shall meet again at the Skip in another two weeks time on the Monday night of the week that the 3rd round matches will be played.

Yesterday we had the win away at Sunderland in 2003, today we did the same in 1991. This one was at Roker Park in the second round first leg and they were in the 2nd Division, whereas we were in the 3rd.

It was another famous win, in an era of not a great deal of success. It was a 2-1 win with goals from Simon Charlton and Phil Starbuck.

The second leg will be back at Leeds Road in a couple of weeks time.

On this date in 1994, we went to Valley Parade with a six match unbeaten run, for a 3rd tier encounter. It was 1-0 to Town at half time with a goal from Paul Reid, who we had just signed from them.

City equalised through Paul Jewell, but then Ronnie Jepson restored the lead. Chris Kamara then went and equalised again for the Bants. Up stepped Andy Booth to make it 3-2 and then did it again to make it 4-2. John Taylor scored to make it 4-3, but there was no cash in the attic for City. Unbelievable!

This win moved us up to 2nd in the table.