[Lord Snooty]

November 5:

It's Bonfire Night and a day to remember, remember. Well not on this date in 1994 it wasn't.

This was the Neil Warnock promotion season and we were on a 13 match unbeaten league run, after we'd lost the first game at the Alfred McAlpine Stadium against Wycombe. We'd done so well, we were top of the league at the start of play, but on this day, it all went wrong.

We went to Bootham Crescent to play York City and were one-nil down early on, with Paul Baker scoring for the Minstermen. It got even worse before half time when Tom Cowan got sent off for a wild tackle. And even worse when Glen Naylor made it 2-0 just before the break.

It was 3-0 in the second half, as future Town striker Paul Barnes scored, but the worst part of all came as we faced a corner in front of the Town fans behind the goal. Some f***ing idiot threw a firework. Not one of those stupid flares they get now, but a proper, old school banger.

It hit Iain Dunn and went off in his face. How he escaped without serious injury or being blinded, is a miracle. Or at least a very lucky escape.

Some Town fans really are dickheads!

Fortunes were reversed in 2018. It was our second season in the Premier League, David Wagner was still the boss, but we were not getting the results this time, despite some decent performances. We'd gone ten league games without a win, with the only points gained were from draws with Cardiff, Everton and Burnley.

Christopher Schindler had scored the goal in that draw at Turf Moor and it was he who headed us in front from a corner in this game on this date at home to Fulham. He scored it but the pedantic panel gave it as an own goal by Timothy Fosu-Mensah.

Nah! Schindler, mate!

That was the only goal of the game and it was a good win to commemorate the third anniversary of Wagner's appointment, on this date in 2015. Not only that, the three points got us off the bottom of the Prima Donna league table, above the Cottagers and Cardiff, level on points with Newcastle.

At last, things are looking up. Next up, a home game with West Ham and a visit to Molineux. Oh aye, we've turned the corner now.