Thank goodness for a chance to focus on some actual football talk for a change. In case you'd forgotten we have a match tomorrow. Well, as long as the snow doesn't get in the way. I feel very fair weather saying this but I think I'll probably account for one of the empty seats at London Road given how bad the roads have been in Bucks today.
Peterborough United were a rather late entry into the world of football. They weren't formed until 1934 and didn't get admitted to the Football League until 1960 when they were elected in the place of Gateshead.
They won the Fourth Division in their debut season and so met us for the first time the following season in the Old Division Three when they beat us 3-2 at the Vic and 4-3 at home in the space of 6 days. Another double over us followed in 1962/3 and it wasn't until we met in an FA Cup First Round replay in November 1963 that we won for the first time beating them 2-1.
Our record has never really recovered from that rocky start and so the stats read won 9, drawn 6, lost 13, scored 39 and conceded 47. At London Road in the 13 games we've played there we've won 3, drawn 4 and lost 6 scoring 17 goals to their 26.
The last meetings were over ten years ago in the short lived reign of Kenny Jackett. We drew 0-0 at home, lost 1-0 again at home in the southern area semi final of the Associate Members Cup (Football League Trophy, Auto Paint Daf Shield thing) and lost 2-1 in Cambridgeshire with Tommy Mooney scoring the Horns goal.
Peterborough are currently bottom of the Championship having only won twice in the league all season, both coming before they took the odd decision to sack Darren Ferguson. The best results the former Kettering Town manager Mark Cooper has achieved are the 2-2 draws at home to Middlesbrough and Swansea, and a 0-0 at Ipswich. Last Saturday at Coventry they came back level after being 2-0 down but conceded again a minute after getting the equaliser and so lost 3-2.
The only ex-Hornet currently on the Peterborough playing staff is Toumani Diagouraga. However the mutual friends list includes an interesting dinner party mix of Aidy Boothroyd, Ken Charley, Eric Steele and Worrell Sterling.
