[Lord Snooty]

November 28:

Archie Taylor, who played in our first ever Football League match in 1910, was born on this day in Dundee in 1879. So he would've been 30 when that first FL game was played, a 1-0 win at Bradford Park Avenue.

Before that, he played for Dundee, then came south to play for Bolton Wanderers in the First Division of the FL. Only got three games there though and dropped into the Southern League with Bristol Rovers, then Brentford and then West Ham, before going back to Scotland and a brief spell with Falkirk. He then signed for the new boys of the Football League, Huddersfield Town, playing in 29 league games and 5 FA Cup games for us.

But then he went and signed for our neighbours, Barnsley. He was made captain and wrote his name in Oakwell legend as the first and so far only man to lift the FA Cup for the Colliers. That was in the 1912 Final replay at Bramall Lane when they beat West Brom 1-0 after extra time. He also played in the first game which finished 0-0.

We have another of the current squad with a birthday today. The scorer of one of our most celebrated Play Off goals, Tom Lees, who of course was credited with the Nahki Wells goal at Hillsborough. 

Tom was born in Birmingham in 1990 and so is 32 today. He started his career with Leeds Utd, scoring another own goal for Town whilst with them.

But after playing for two of our local rivals, all was forgiven last season when he looked nothing like the dummy who'd been given the run around by Town attackers over the years and was one of our best players in that almost successful season.

Happy birthday, Tommy lad.

This date in 1959 was a good day and a bad day for Huddersfield Town. It was a good day as we beat Liverpool 1-0 in a Second Division match at Leeds Road with a Les Massie goal. But a bad day as this was when the Liverpool chairman, Tom Williams, made the approach to Bill Shankly offering him the manager's job at Anfield.

Shanks joked about it afterwards. "How would you like to manage the best club in the world," Williams asked him. "Why? Is Matt Busby retiring?" Was Shankly's witty response.

He had become disillusioned with the lack of ambition from the Town Board and with the potential for success at Liverpool looking more and more appealing, he resigned from his post at Leeds Road a few days later and the rest is history.