[Lord Snooty]

December 8:

We had a tempetuous game with Swindon Town on this date in 2004. It was at the County Ground and Andy Woolmer the referee had a busy night. It was a League One encounter with Peter Jackson still in charge having led us to promotion at the end of the last season.

At this stage of the campaign we were comfortably mid table, but Swindon had been a tricky place to go in recent years for the Terriers. We won this one though.

Jacko had more or less the same team that had won in Cardiff, with just Chris Brandon added to the squad as well as Junior Mendes from the defeated Mansfield team, who was on the bench for this one.

The Robins had ex Town hero Steve Jenkins in their side, as well as former loanee, Jerel Ifil. Town scored first in the 19th minute through Pawel Abbott, then increased the lead in the 34th with Brandon on target and it was 2-0 at half time.

Things got a bit tasty after the break and Mr Woolmer started showing cards. Firstly, he sent off Ifil for a second yellow. He'd been on loan at Town from Watford a couple of years earlier. Then just as we were nicely seeing things out for a 2-0 win, he went and gave Lee Fowler a red one, a straight red one.

Typical Town conceded almost immediately with a goal from Grant Smith. But thankfully we held on for the three points, which took us up four places to tenth.

A more recent Town win came on this date in 2020 against Sheffield Wednesday. It was the first season with Carlos Corberán as Head Coach and of course, it was behind closed doors due to the pandemic. So we were all sat at home watching and it was probably the best performance so far with yond Spaniard in charge.

There were loads of Town connections in t'Owls team. Tom Lees, who had already scored two own goals for Town, was in their defence. Up front they had ex Town junior Josh Windass and on the bench they had Jordan Rhodes, Izzy Brown and Elias Kachunga. A great line up. Unfortunately for them, they had Tony Pulis in charge and were bottom of the Championship table.

Only one of Town's starting XI is still presently at the club, Jonathan Hogg. The rest were the likes of Ramarni Edmonds-Green and Josh Koroma who are both away on loan, Ben Hamer was in goal, Pipa was still here, as were the bromancing florists Harry Toffolo and Lewis O'Brien. Carel Eiting was here on loan from Ajax. Whatever happened to him?

Up front we had Fraizer Campbell and on the wing the much maligned Isaac Mbenza. Have I missed anyone? Oh yes, big Naby Sarr at the back. It was a sensational start and we went ahead in the 11th minute with the in form Koroma scoring. And it was Josh's trickery which won us a free kick on the edge of the area after 24 minutes had gone.

Mbenza had been utter garbage since he turned up in our second Premier League season, but since Carlos and the Spanish contingent had turned up, young Isaac had suddenly learnt how to take a fantastic free kick. And he did again, perfectly placing the ball in the top bins, left hand side. 2-0 and looking good.

We were looking so good in fact we should've been further ahead before the break. Should've definitely been further ahead in the second half when the clumsy Dominic Iorfa brought down supersub Juninho Bacuna in the box. Mbenza and Koroma both fancied taking it, but bumbling Bacca stepped up and sent it wide.