[Lord Snooty]

December 7:

Laurent Depoitre was born on this date in 1988 and so is 34 today. He's a Walloon, having been born in Tournai, in the Wallonia region of Belgium. He's a big unit, a barrel chested, marauding attacker, the likes of which we hadn't seen down Leeds Road way since Steve Kindon woz 'ere.

If you look at his scoring record and the amount we paid for him, you could say he was a bit of a big fat flop. But of the six goals he scored, three of them were iconic goals of our Premier League life.

The one against Leicester when he outmuscled and left Harry Maguire for dead. The one against Manchester United and the one down at Chelsea. All memorable and will bring a big smile to the face of any Town fan.

He's back in Belgium now and still banging 'em in, playing a second spell at Gent in their top division. He's scored 12 already this season. Who have Belgium got that's better than he is? Roberto Martinez, you've only yourself to blame. 

On this date in 1991, we played in the 2nd round of the FA Cup, away at Rochdale. This was with Eoin Hand as manager, not Frank Stapleton as the YouTube caption said, nor in 1992 as the caption writer went completely offside. The Dale were being managed by former Town defender, Dave Sutton and had Town legend Malcolm Brown playing.

We'd beaten Lincoln United 7-0 at home, when Stapleton got his only goal for the Terriers. He was still here, but I think this was possibly his last game before taking the manager's job at Valley Parade. It was two of his strike partners who got our two goals. Iwan Roberts got the first and Iffy Onuora got the second as our brave lads won a gruelling match 2-1. Rochdale had a couple ruled out in the first half before going one nil up, but we fought back nicely in the second.

The win put us through to the 3rd round, where we were humiliated at home by Millwall.

If you've got a spare quarter of an hour, here's some home movie style footage of the Cup match.