[Lord Snooty]

October 29:

On this date in 1991, Town legend Duncan Shearer scored twice at Leeds Road in a League Cup 3rd round match that Town played against Swindon Town. This was after the billiant 6-1 aggregate win over Sunderland in the previous round. The sad part about this match though was that big Dunc was playing for Swindon.

Gary Barnett scored our goal in a disappointing 4-1 defeat against a team who were in a higher division than us at the time.

Back in our first ever Football League season, we had the first of our many wins over the years at Molineux against the Wolverhampton Wanderers. It was game no 8 in our FL life and it wasn't just a win, it was a big win, a 3-0 win, setting a new away win record, which would last until next January when we beat Stockport County 4-1.

Henry Hamilton, who scored our first ever FL goal, got the first of these three on this date in 1910. Sandy McCubbin, a striker from Greenock who we signed from Morton, got the second. The third goal was a penalty from William Bartlett, who came from the Wednesday and later went to play for Linfield.

On this date in 1921, in our second season in the First Division, we completed our second league double over Arsenal. We'd beaten them twice by a scoreline of 3-0 both home and away in the season before the war. They were elected into the First Division as a thank you for what the Royal Arsenal had contributed to the war effort, rather than winning promotion. They weren't all that good back then, but they must've noted the name of our manager, Herbert Chapman, after we beat them 3-1 at Highbury, to back up the 2-0 win we'd had at Leeds Road in the previous weekend's game.

Scorers at Highbury were Frank Mann, Colin McKay and a penalty scored by Clem Stephenson.

Eleven years later, Chapman was now the Arsenal manager and we had a fierce rivalry. But we weren't playing them on this date in 1932, today it's Derby County. They had the league's top scorer in Jack Bowers, who would go on to finish with 35. But it was an unfamiliar name who was the Town hero in this match at the Baseball Ground.

Frank Bungay was the name, a Sheffield born striker who had come into the team to replace Ernie Whittam at centre forward. The two of them were both getting a chance because of last season's 42 goal legend, Dave Mangnall being injured for the best part of the season.

Frank took his chance scoring twice in this 3-1 win at Derby, once in the next game in a 2-1 win at home to Sunderland and then in the next one after that, scored both goals in a 2-0 win at Birmingham.

That was his full total of goals for Town though and he eventually lost his place to Jack Smith and was transferred to Southend United. after that he went into the non league scene, having a successful amateur playing career, in particular with Boston United. He had a club scoring record for them in 34/35, scoring in each round of the FA Cup from the preliminary round to the 2nd round proper, scoring in each round, a total of 15 goals in 9 games.

And finally today, one from the current century. This was in the promotion season of 2011/12 when on this date in 2011 we won away at Yeovil Town. It was match 41 of the run of 43 unbeaten regular league matches and was heading for another draw until another unfamiliar name scored.

It was Anton Robinson, scoring in the 80th minute, his first goal for the club after he'd signed from Bournemouth after playing for them against us in the Play Offs of the previous season.