[Lord Snooty]

September 29:

There was a great wailing and a gnashing of teeth in the city of Liverpool, well the red half anyway, on this date in 1981. That's because the ex Town manager and hero of Liverpool FC, the great Bill Shankly died.

He'd had a heart attack three days earlier and was admitted to hospital where his condition was said to be "not life threatening". However, he had another one, at 00:30 on this date and was certified dead at 01:20. He was 68.

Tributes poured in from across the globe. The Labour Party Conference held a minute's silence and Liverpool chairman, John Smith described him as "the most outstanding and dynamic manager of the century".

He managed Huddersfield Town following the resignation of his good pal Andy Beattie, from November 1956 to December 1959.

Many years later, in an attempt at corporate marketing, Town opened up a room which they labelled Shankly's Boot Room, but there is a more permanent shrine to the old boy at Anfield with the Shankly Gates.

A modern day Town hero was born on this date in 1994. Steve Mounié. He was born in Parakou, which is in Benin, which is in West Africa and he's 28 today.

He had three seasons with us and had one of the most memorable, nay sensational Huddersfield Town debuts in the history of the club, scoring twice in our Prima Donna League first game, down at the Palace.

Nineteen goals in 55 (+ 40 sub) appearances doesn't sound a great total for a striker who was our record signing, but just imagine how many he would've scored if he'd stayed and had Sorba Thomas or Danel Sinani crossing the ball in for him last season.

So today's question. Big Stevie Munster, legend or waste of money?

Upon the field of play, we beat Everton at home on this date in 1923 en route to our first ever league title. This was a week after we had drawn 1-1 at Goodison and this one was a 2-0 win with goals from George Brown and Clem Stephenson.


Gonna finish today with two heavy defeats. On this date in 1951, we had our record home defeat, which still stands today. It was a 7-1 defeat against Wolves. The daft thing is that we scored first through Vic Metcalfe, but then somewhat lost our way.

Jimmy Dunn got a hat trick, Jimmy Mullen scored twice and Johnny Hancocks and Jesse Pye got one each.


A couple of weeks ago, we beat West Ham in a League Cup 2nd round 1st leg, 1-0 at home when Alex Dyer scored. On this date in 1997, we went darn sarf to the smoke for the 2nd leg at the Boleyn Ground, full of hope, but not really much confidence. This was a team, managed by Brian Horton, that hadn't won a league game yet.

And we lost again. It was 3-0 to the Hammers and it was John Hartson who scored all three.

Horton's time at the club was nearly over.