[Lord Snooty]

November 2:

On this date in 2004, we had our second trip in four days to see the illuminations and watch Town play at Bloomfield Road against Blackpool. On the Saturday, we went there and drew 1-1 in the league (3rd tier) and then on Tuesday night, on this date, we went back there for an LDV Vans Trophy match. The crowd for this one was about half the size of the league game, in which Andy Booth had scored for us.

Matt Blinkhorn gave the Seasiders a 1-0 half time lead, but shortly after the break, John McAliskey equalised for the mighty Terriers. A minute later though, we were down to ten men when Efe Sodje got himself sent off. Manager Peter Jackson was so incensed by this that he later stripped Efe of the captaincy and gave it to young Jon Worthington.

So we're a man down, but soon after, we're a goal up. Danny Schofield went and put us 2-1 up. But typical Town, we let them back in with Blinkhorn getting his second of the night.

And that was that, a 2-2 draw. Straight to penalties? No. And this game is a great reason for not going straight to the shoot out and playing the extra 30 minutes instead, because we had five goals in extra time.

Only one of them was for us though. 

Future Town striker, Keigan Parker scored in the 97th minute, Jamie Burns scored in the 100th and Daniel Coid made it 5-2 in the 105th. Were we downbeat? No. Just before the turnaround, Adnan Ahmed got his first goal for us. Two more goals to take it to penalties. Come on!

Nah! Burns got another and we lost the match 6-3.

On this date in 2010, we had another victory over at Hillsborough against the Wendy's. We had just taken Benik Afobe on loan from Arsenal earlier in the day and he went straight into the squad, with a place on the bench. By the time he got on in the second half, we were two goals to the good.

The first one was scored from a direct free kick by Graham Carey, who we had on loan from Celtic. The second one was scored by Anthony Pilkington, which if I remember correctly was one of his long range specials.

Young Benik came on, in place of another loanee in Joe Garner and looked to be a great prospect. Where is he now?

On this date in 2019, Town went down to London to play Brentford at Griffin Park, the ground where we had one of the best moments of the 1990s. Sadly, this was our last visit there, before they moved to a new soul less place with no pubs on any of the four corners.

Danny Cowley had taken over from Jan Siewert as manager and after winning his first game down at Stoke at the beginning of October, things had progressed so well that Danny only went and won the Manager of the Month award. So the next game being this one, did we get the old curse? No way, Pedro. We only went and won it 1-0, with a goal from Karlan Grant that gave us this iconic pose in front of the Town supporters behind the goal.

And finally today, happy 21st birthday to Morley born, Josh Austerfield, who was born on this date in 2001. He's currently playing for the Huddersfield Town C team, aka Harrogate Town.

It's his second season on loan there, having only two appearances in the Terriers' first team, both embarrassing cup defeats. Let's not go there.

Watching him on YouTube for the B team during lockdown, I thought he looked good and will one day make a great player for us. What do you think? Good enough? Better than the lads in his position at the moment?