[Lord Snooty]

October 30:

Dave Hickson was born on this date in 1929 and became an Everton legend who had two spells at Goodison Park sandwiched between a couple of seasons at Leeds Road. The most famous day in his Everton career was in the FA Cup of 1953 when they were in the 2nd division and drawn at home to play Manchester Utd. The game attracted almost 78,000 people to Goodison and Hickson scored the winner, covered from head to toe in his own blood following a clash which gave him a gash above his eyebrow, reports saying that his shirt was as red as the opponents red shirts.

He joined Town for a couple of seasons in 1955 and scored the goal for our last ever win over Everton in 55/56. We got relegated at the end of that season though but in the opening game of the following season he scored in front of the Kop in a Town 3-2 win over Liverpool at Anfield.  

After a couple of seasons with us he moved back to Everton, then a couple of seasons after that he moved across the city to join rivals Liverpool, who weren't much of a rival back then but a struggling 2nd division team about to be revived under the management of Dave's former Town boss Bill Shankly.

When Dave left Anfield, he went to Cambridge City, Bury and then completed the Merseyside triangle ending his playing career at Tranmere Rovers.

Later in life he returned to Goodison Park working in an ambassadorial role on matchdays.

He died in 2013, aged 83. Being such famous personality in the city, his funeral service was held at Liverpool Cathedral.

Dave's Town record was 30 goals from 61 matches.

Another one who had a decent scoring record for the Town was George Brown and he scored a hat trick on this date in 1926, against our dear neighbours, the Leeds Urinals. It was the tenth game in an unbeaten league run of 16 matches as we were trying to add another league title to the three we had just won in a row.

It was played at Leeds Road in front of a crowd of 29,679 and we won it 4-1 to move into 6th place in Division One. Sam Wadsworth scored the other goal for us and George's goals came during a sequence of scoring in six consecutive matches, scoring eleven times. He top scored in the season with 28, but sadly Town didn't win the title, finishing as runners up, five points behind Newcastle United.

Leeds finished 21st and were relegated.

Ninety five years later, another prolific goalscorer was at it again. It was on this date in 2021 that Jonathan Hogg scored his fifth goal in nine years for the club. It was the winner in a 1-0 win against Millwall, a header from a perfectly placed Sorba Thomas corner kick.