[Lord Snooty]

November 25:

Today's the day. Having started playing football at school, on this date in 1967 my dad decided to take my seven year old self to my first ever Huddersfield Town match, at home to QPR and if you look at the programme picture below, you'll see I saw two of the greatest players of the next decade in my Leeds Road debut. Though we probably didn't know it at the time, but what a couple of stars 19 year old Frank Worthington and the slightly older Rodney Marsh turned out to be.

It was the first league meeting of the two clubs, us having spent most of the time in Division One and they in the 3rd Division South. The Hoops had had a little time in the 2nd Division after they won promotion under the management of Dave Mangnall in the 40s. Had to get him another mention.

They were back up again after winning the 3rd division title and had showed the footballing world how good they were by winning the League Cup at the back end of that last season. That was a remarkable come back, overturning a first half 2-0 deficit to win 3-2 against West Brom. Marsh got one of those goals. Roger Morgan and Mark Lazarus scored the others and they both also played in today's game.

Town were in 13th in the league at the start of play and won this one 1-0. It was the fantastic Frank who got the winner. And I was hooked. My dad took me as often as he could, but sadly I never got to see any of our League Cup run to the semi finals.

Queens Park Rangers had the last laugh this season though. The won promotion as runners up to Ipswich.

Here's that programme.......

On this date in 2018, we went down to Molineux to take on Wolves, our Premier League bitches!

Having started the season without a win in the first ten games, David Wagner had finally turned the ship around and a win against Fulham followed by a draw with West Ham had seen us rise from the foot of the table. This was a Sunday lunchtime Sky Sports special though and when the Saturday games had been played, we had dropped back down to the bottom.

This one however, was something else. The best team performance in our short two season spell in the Prima Donna League, with the lads having enjoyed a sunshine training break in Marbella in the international break, really playing some fantastic football. It helped that today we were playing Wolverhampton, having done the double over them in the promotion season and beating them 10 times in the last 12 games, we were definitely their bogey team.

And how the Wolves fans wailed about it after we stuffed them again.

"We shouldn't be losing to rubbish like Huddersfield!"       

We got off to a flyer. In the sixth minute, a good exchange down the left hand side between Philip Billing and Erik Durm, set the German left back loose to play a perfect pass to Aaron Mooy, who coolly slotted the ball home from the edge of the area.

The brilliant bald headed beauty added a second, scoring direct from a free kick in the second half, expertly bending the ball around, rather than over the wall and we won the game 2-0. But it was such a dominating performance, Wolves couldn't have complained if we had scored six or seven. We were that good.

Steve Mounié had his best game since that debut down at Selhurst Park. Little Alex Pritchard played like the player we thought we'd signed in the first place. Jonathan Hogg was once again being raved about by the fans, saying he ought to be in the England squad. And the boy Billing. Absolutely brilliant. His goal line clearance was out of this world.

You don't believe it? If you're bored with all this World Cup crap on tv today, have a watch of the full 90 minute playback......

The three points not only took us off the bottom of the table, but got us as high as 14th, overtaking Fulham, Cardiff, Southampton, Burnley, Crystal Palace and Newcastle United.

So we've got our bad spell out of the way, now let's keep it going. Up next, a very winnable home game when Chris Hughton brings Michael Oliver his Brighton team up to the John Smith's Stadium.

What could possibly go wrong?