[Lord Snooty]

December 4:

On this date in 2005, Huddersfield Town were 2nd in League One under the management of Peter Jackson. The previous Saturday, we had beaten Nottingham Forest at home, but today was the distraction of the FA Cup. This was the Sunday lunchtime game, chosen by the BBC for live coverage and it was an away game at Worcester City.

It was, and still is, our only ever game against Worcester and the game was played at their old St George's Lane ground. They were in the Conference North and were very excited about the prospect of playing in the 3rd round. We all knew already who our opponents would be as the draw had been made the night before. The prize for today's winners would be a trip to Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea.

Worcester had one of our old players on their bench. That was Andy Morrison who was assistant manager to ex Bury and Blackpool striker Andy Preece, who was still playing and named himself amongst the subs.

We sat at home watching on the Beeb, cursing the bias of the commentator, Jonathan Pearce. The ref was biased as well. Danny Schofield had already been booked when he was bundled over in the penalty area in the 44th minute. Penalty ref!

Once again, a stonewall pen was turned down and to make things worse, Iain Williamson from Berkshire on the advice of his guide dog gave Danny a second yellow and so we had to play the whole of the second half with ten men. Absolutely shocking decision!

We weren't gonna give up our go at giving Chelsea a good seeing to and against the wishes of the BBC, we went and scored in the 61st minute. It was a cracker from Chris Brandon from the edge of the area, giving the keeper no chance. And that was the only goal of the game.

Did we win at Chelsea? No, but we gave them a scare, before losing 2-1.

Here's that Brandon goal......