MICHAEL SCOTT could be forgiven for being fed up at the sight of a fixture list.

But the Town fanatic who has just marked the club’s centenary campaign by attending exactly 100 matches – all by coach or public transport – can’t wait for 2009-10 to come around.

Town’s League I schedule has just been published, and the 53-year-old accountant from Mirfield is already doing his sums to see when ‘extras’ can be fitted in around his favourite club’s matches.

Scott, supported in his mission by wife Angela, missed only three of Town’s 50 competitive games last season, when his century began with Rhyl’s Intertoto Cup clash with Bohemians on June 27 last year and ended with England Under 19s’ meeting with Slovakia at Bradford on May 29.

The man who organises coach travel to away games for the Supporters’ Association aimed to take in non-Town games with as many links to the Galpharm club as possible, with Thomas Heary turning out for Bohemians in match number one, and last season’s Liverpool loan man Martin Kelly for England Under 19s when three figures was reached.

Town’s final match of the season, at Leyton Orient on May 2, was his 94th, and with matches running out, it was a race against time to make the ton.

“I tracked down rearranged matches at Bacup and Padiham, then saw Bury’s play-off semi-final second leg clash with Shrewsbury,” he explained.

“In that match Phil Jevons, who was on loan from Town at the time, missed a penalty during the game, while our old boy Danny Racchi also failed from the sport during the penalty shoot-out, which Bury lost.

“Then I went to the North West Counties League Cup final between New Mills, coached by ex-Town player Paul Kirkham, and Runcorn, before Yorkshire Main versus Calverton Miners’ Welfare in the Central Midlands League, then England Under 19s.

“It would have been lovely had Alex Smithies been playing in that one, but as we all know, he was ruled out through injury.”

One player who did catch Scott’s eye was two-goal Newcastle striker Nile Ranger, for whom the Town fan predicts big things.

“I saw him playing against our academy side up at Storthes Hall much earlier in the season, and he looked really sharp then,” said Scott.

“I can see him making a really big impact in the Championship next season.”

Southampton’s relegation to League I will give Scott the perfect chance to chalk off one of the seven Premier and Coca-Cola League venues he has yet to visit (the others are the new stadia at Arsenal, league new boys Burton Albion, Cardiff, Coventry, Manchester City and Shrewsbury).

And in total, he has now been to 254, with the 250 mark reached when Gateshead played Gainsborough Trinity in the Blue Square Premier on April 12.

Scott explained: “That one was a bit special in several ways, because Gateshead can be traced back to South Shields, the first team Town played in a competitive match back in 1908, while two of the strikers on show, Luke Beckett for Gainsborough and Lee Novak for Gateshead, were the old and the new as far as Town fans are concerned.”

As well as Southampton, Scott – whose century also included trips to Heckmondwike, Town’s first FA Cup opponents back in 1909, and Littletown’s Beck Lane, the former Town A team ground which was Heckmondwike’s home all those years ago – will be looking to add to his tally, but it will be selectively!

“I think I’ll go for quality rather than quantity,” said the man who first watched Town in January 1966 (the 3-1 Leeds Road win over Hartlepool in the third round of the FA Cup, a competition in which Scott watched matches in eight successive rounds, all at different grounds, last season).

“I’d love to go to Bologna and Sampdoria, the two teams we played in the Anglo-Italian Cup back in 1971, and Airdrie and Morton, the Scottish sides we faced in the Texaco Cup in 71-72, and I also fancy visiting Real Socieded and Athletic Bilbao, who we’ve played in friendlies in more recent times.”