[Lord Snooty]

October 5:

Two Town players from the current squad have birthdays today and they are two players who used to be team mates at MK Dons. It's Lee Nicholls and David Kasumu.

Lee was born in Huyton on Merseyside on this date in 1992 and so is 30 today. As England's number 1, he should be celebrating his birthday with a call up to the England World Cup squad.

David is 23 today. He was born in Lambeth on this date in 1999, but identifies as Nigerian. Hope the poor lad can get celebrate properly and not have the sulks after getting a different kind of card from an over fussy ref last night.

In the 90s, we had back to back League Cup exits on this date. One going down in a blaze of glory and one, quite frankly, outclassed. Both with Neil Warnock in charge.

On this date in 1993, we went to Highbury to play Arsenal in a 2nd round 2nd leg game with a 5-0 deficit from the first leg. We set off like a team who thought they could overturn this impossible scoreline and took a 1-0 half time lead with a goal from Iain Dunn.

Only another four goals needed to force extra time. Could the greatest comeback in football history really be on?

No. Sky commentator, Alan Smith, equalised on the night and the match sort of fizzled out. But a draw down at Arsenal. Not bad, eh?

Twelve months on, on this date in 1994, we were much better than the team who got hammered 5-1 on aggregate by the Gunners and surely we will not suffer the same fate against Southampton, who at the time were really a one man team.

That one man was called Matt le Tissier, a lad from the Channel Islands, who grew up to be a bit of a dick. He had given the Saints a 1-0 lead from the first leg at Leeds Road. Surely we'll just kick him off the park and stroll it past the other ten donkeys.

The plan didn't work as we went down to play them at the Dell and lost 4-0 on the night, 5-0 on aggregate. That prick, le Tiss, took the piss, scoring all four on the night and therefore all five in the tie. I'm fairly sure that nobody else has scored five in a League Cup tie against us.

The Dell was one of the grounds I never got to. It always looked weird on telly. Did you ever go and what was it really like?