[Lord Snooty]

December 15:

On this date in 2008, Huddersfield Town appointed one of it's greatest managers of recent times, Lee Clark.

He never achieved the greatness that that opening statement suggests, but his win rate of 48.59% is only bettered by the 1920s thrice champions managers, Herbert Chapman and Cecil Potter. Not even David Wagner or Mick Buxton come anywhere near that.

What was also great about Clark's managerial reign was the fast, attacking style of play he brought to the club, along with finishers who could find the net on the end of those attacks. The likes of Jordan Rhodes the younger, Lee Novak, Gary Roberts, Anthony Pilkington and Theo Robinson, an electric paced frontline.

Every manager since, though some have achieved greater things than Lee did, have all mostly bored us to death with slow paced, negative football. His team made it to three Play Offs in a row, even though Simon Grayson had taken the reigns by the time of the third one, it was his team.

And of course, in that time we had the brilliant unbeaten league run that set a new Football League record.

What do you think of Clark's time in charge? Great times or great mistake?

On this date in 1923, Huddersfield Town hadn't yet won a single Football League championship. But now with Herbert Chapman in charge, that was all about to change. Today, he took his Town team down to Highbury to play Arsenal, a team he would also win the league with.

The Gunners were managed by Leslie Knighton, the former Town caretaker manager and it was Chapman's current team that won this one. It was a 3-0 win, with Charlie Wilson scoring a hat trick, making it six goals in three games for him. He finished the season as top scorer with 20.

The win moved us up to 2nd in the league. Exciting times down Leeds Road. Next week, Arsenal come up north to see if we can do the double over them.