[Lord Snooty]

October 9:

Happy birthday today to Jon Russell, who's 22 today, having been born on this date in 2000, in Hounslow. He's been this season's scapegoat, which is a real shame. That anybody has to be a scapegoat at all, but for the fact that he had such a brilliant half a season earlier this year after breaking into the team.

Come on, Jon lad. Prove them all wrong.

On this date in 1991, 3rd Division Town played 2nd Division Sunderland in a League Cup 2nd round 2nd leg game at Leeds Road. We'd beaten them 2-1 in the 1st leg at Roker Park and so we would've been confident of holding on for a famous win. A crowd of 11,178 came out to see this one, more in hope than expectation, even though we were 4th in the table.

But for a change, those hopes became real as we smashed the Mackems 4-0 on the night and 6-1 on aggregate. Iffy Onuora opened the scoring. Iwan Roberts scored twice and Gary Barnett got the fourth.

Finish off today with a defeat. A famous defeat. A defeat at home to Manchester United, on this date in 1971. Famous because it was the last time that the brilliant icons of the 1960s, Bobby Charlton, George Best and the ex Town star Denis Law, all scored in the same game.

A crowd of 33,458 turned up to see this, the biggest Leeds Road crowd of the season, following two wins on the trot against Leeds Urinals and Nottingham Florist, but it was a 3-0 defeat for us.

Manchester United didn't come back and play in Huddersfield for another 46 years, but we certainly made up for this defeat. More of that in a couple of weeks time. In the meantime, have a watch of this terrific trio tearing us apart again.

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