Greetings Poolies, it's Friday again so it must be Matchday!

Sadly Northampton Town's diary and that of my band have failed to synchronise meaning that I have still yet to visit the Sixfields Stadium for an actual match, my only appearance there being a seminar on road safety barriers over a decade ago!! Indeed last time I went to a Cobblers away match was in 1990 when they played on the old Cricket Field at the County Ground when our very own Paul Baker scored from just inside the opponents' half in a 3-2 defeat with a shot that would have been four all the way if the back of the net hadn't stopped it. So it's Pools World on the laptop for me tonight in the dressing room of the Borough Hall - I'm sure "Two Little Boys" will be wheeled out for an airing win, lose or draw!

As we fans suspected the introduction of Kevin Kyle signified the loaning-out of Richard Barker to his hometown-club, Rotherham United. Predictably "Sir Richard" notched within minutes of arriving on the pitch for the Millers and I reckon he will once again score a lot of goals in League Two, as he did in our promotion season two years ago. If the move does become permanent in the future, I'm sure Pools fans will have nothing but good memories of a fine player with a great attitude and the scorer of so many important goals for HUFC over the last three seasons, including of course the goal that actually won us promotion at Wycombe. Good luck 'Barks'.

I had a stroke of Poolie luck yesterday all down to the North-East wind! We were doing a job at Sedgefield during the day that had to be put on hold for a couple of hours due to the high winds, so that left us wandering around Sedgefield Car Boot Sale over lunch time. I was looking at a load of football books on a particular stall when a guy spotted my HUFC fleece. From a box in his car he produced the Neil Watson/Roy Kelly "Up The Pools" book that was printed when we won promotion in1991, and which I'd left in a cottage near Fort William in 1992! One pound coin later and I was re-united with what seemed like an old friend, cue much mickey-taking from the lads until I reminded them of the last time THEIR team, Newcastle United, had a promotion book printed it was on parchment!

Anyway, onto last week's Quiz Question and the player who appeared for Swindon in the 1969 League Cup triumph over Arsenal that later played for Pools. Well, it was Don Heath, a Stockton-born midfielder who I've since learned is a bit of a Pools fan!

This week's question asks what was unusual about Alan Starling's goal for The Cobblers against Pools in 1976? Easy!

Enjoy the game.

Phil Dunn.