[Lord Snooty]

November 23:

Twenty one today, twenty one today. He's got the key to the physio's door...........

Happy 21st birthday to Tino Anjorin, our Chelsea loanee for this season. We seem to have at least one every season. He was born in Poole, on this date in 2001.

Also born on this date was the late great Frank Worthington. He was born in Halifax on this date in 1948, so would've been 19 when he scored for Town in my first match, which will be coming up on here very soon.

Described by Ian Greaves as "the working man’s George Best", he never reached his full potential for various reasons and although he did have a glittering career, it ought to have had more proper bling rather than just a couple of Second Division champions medals with us in 69/70 and Southampton in 83/84. Only eight England caps as well, scoring twice in friendlies against Argentina and Bulgaria.

Probably his best game in a Town shirt came in 1972, the 4-2 FA Cup hammering of the Hammers, when he tore their defence to pieces, a defence which included World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore. At the end of that season though, he was wandering off. Bill Shankly wanted him at Liverpool, but "high blood pressure" meant that deal fell through and he ended up in Leicester instead.

Twenty two moves later, he ended up back in his home town as player/manager of Halifax Town. Still playing at the age of 44. Wikipedia says he played 846 league games, but that's not all Football League matches, he did a few abroad as well. Hang on a minute, I'll just have a quick tot up.........

I get it to 757 Football League matches, including 171 for us. Add the Cup games on, that's 192, scoring 48 goals for the Terriers. Those 48 goals put him in 26th equal with David Cowling and Duncan Shearer.

His final years had him suffering from Alzheimer's Disease, which finally killed him last year, aged 72.

On this date in 2013, we had an away game at Sheffield Wednesday. All the talk beforehand was about a training ground bust up between Adam Clayton and Martin Paterson.

Paterson said they weren't playing tiddlywinks, when asked about it and he did wear a cast during the match after it was alleged that it was he who threw the first punch. The great part about it though, came in the 11th minute at Hillsborough when Paterson popped home the first goal. The celebration was legendary, as you can see in the picture, they recreated that training pitch punch.

Can't remember how they celebrated the second goal, but it was Clayton who scored it, making it 2-0 in the 68th minute. Connor Whickham made it 2-1 in injury time, but too late to give us any worries. All in the classy Covonia yellow kit as well.