[Lord Snooty]

December 11:

The forgotten man of Huddersfield Town is 23 today. He's played 35 times for Town, but I had to look up where he is now because quite frankly, I'd forgotten. He's on loan at Hibs, for whom he hasn't made one appearance. Is he injured?

Who am I on abart? It's the goalkeeper Ryan Schofield. Remember him? Well he was born on this date in 1999 in Huddersfield and made his Town debut in a game against Middlesbrough. With first choice Kamil Grabara unavailable, manager Danny Cowley chose the 19 year old local lad ahead of Joel Coleman. And he kept a clean sheet in a 0-0 draw.

Since then, he's become notorious for a few calamaties and despite having a few absolutely brilliant games, notably against Watford at home, he has now become forgotten. Which is a big shame for the lad, as we all know, Town fans love one of our own.

Another birthday. Jimmy Lawson was born in Middlesbrough on this date in 1947 and is 75 today. He was a crucial member of our 69/70 Second Division title winning team, playing in 40 of the 42 matches that season. He chipped in with six goals in that campaign.

He'd signed for us from his home town club in 1968 and stayed on until 1976, by which time we had sunk all the way down to Division 4. Jimmy, along with Geoff Hutt, Terry Dolan, Terry Poole and Steve Smith, played for Town in all four divisions.

After he'd finished at Leeds Road, he was in both our apps and goals charts, in 35th now with 266 appearances and he's 31st equal in the goals chart with 46, level with Alf Lythgoe, George McLean and Danny Schofield.

He then popped down the road to play for Halifax Town, later as player/manager. He hung up his boots in 1979 and became a salesman.

Here he is playing against Pompey at Fratton Park in March 1970 in the iconic away kit with the red terrier emblem.

A few years before that and a few years before Jimmy arrived in Huddersfield, we played Coventry City away on this date in 1965. It was only the fourth time we'd played at Coventry and in this one we kept up our 100% record at Highfield Road.

This was a Second Division match with Tom Johnston as Town manager and following back to back wins, we had gone top of the table. The Sky Blues, with future MOTD presenter Jimmy Hill as manager, weren't far behind. We stayed top after this one, a 3-0 win, and we stayed in the top two, when only two went up, right up until the final fixture of the season, when Coventry came up to Leeds Road and beat us 2-0, knocking us down to 4th. They too missed out on promotion, finishing 3rd.

Anyway, 3-0 in this one, with Jimmy Nicholson, Allan Gilliver and Kevn McHale scoring.

Here's that red terrier again......