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- Clubs and other sports - High times at Huddersfield - World Cup ...
... there is already a strong sense of deja vu. The threat of the sack looms large over new manager Garry Monk should Leeds lose to Yorkshire rivals HuddersfieldTown tomorrow.
The appointment of Monk ...
... s of the less than beautiful game.
Having achieved triple League success with HuddersfieldTown, Chapman turned his attention south – he dreamt of making then-trophy-less Arsenal the "Newcastle of the Sout ...
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After a year he was recommended for the commercial manager's job at HuddersfieldTown, where a derelict plot alongside the club's old ground was available but undeveloped. He went there to introduce m ...
... years to get back after going down again in 1997-98. Central defenders Gerry Taggart and Chris Fairclough were the scorers at Huddersfield. Striker John McGinlay was the division's top scorer with 24 go ...
... made by ICIS and sponsored by Huddersfield-based van hire firm Arrow Self Drive, was worn throughout 1997-98, the season of the club's famous FA Cup run. Emley no longer exist; the club moved to Wakefield ...
... n explains how Herbert Chapman hinted at what was to come by deploying his centre-half Tom Wilson in an unusually withdrawn role to win the 1922 FA Cup final for HuddersfieldTown. Bizarrely, the FA express ...
... goals in their defeat at Bolton. Other notable scorers included Lee Carsley for Blackburn, Ken Monkou and Marcus Stewart for Huddersfield, and Ricardo Gardner and Dean Holdsworth for Bolton. ...
... d down the England tours he was tipped for because they would have stopped him playing for HuddersfieldTown. Cricket interfered with his football anyway: he failed to nail down a regular place due to ...
... thanks to a 1-0 win at Huddersfield; the goalscorer Lawrie Sanchez was to get the winner in the FA Cup final two years later. A much-improved defence was crucial to their success with only 37 goals conceded ...
... great store by toothpicks which he chewed throughout each game. Fulham returned to the top level after a 33-year absence with a 2-1 win at Huddersfield in their 41st fixture; owner Mohamed Fayed was t ...
... second most expensive tackle in British football and legal history" after Muscat was ordered to pay costs and compensation amounting to £750,000 (a sum exceeded only by ex-HuddersfieldTown defender Kevi ...
... games being called off till January 3 and a trip to Huddersfield. That game ended in a 1-0 defeat and critics blamed a lack of match practice for the then automatic promotion chasers. Since then, however, ...
... n to see which Argyle turns up: it's the side that has beaten Sheffield Wednesday and HuddersfieldTown rather than the one that lost abjectly at Notts County and at home to Hartlepool. After initial spa ...
... the direction of Steve Bruce? After been sacked as Huddersfield manager in 2000, and out of a job, Bruce turned his talents to writing. Three football murder mystery novels appeared, Striker, Sweeper a ...
... ing.net HTFC World has been producing brilliantly illustrated match reports on HuddersfieldTown for well over a decade, and a recent upgrade to animation has only accentuated its unstintingly scathing comme ...
... g pro-rugby force at Stockport was previous chairman Brian Kennedy, who introduced the Sharks in 2003. There is a similar tale in Huddersfield where Town fan Dan Herd claims that Ken Davy, chair of b ...
... When Derby and Preston declined to follow up their interest, Rooney appeared in pre-season games for HuddersfieldTown, but manager Lee Clark decided he offered no improvement on what they already had. ...
... football world, we’re talking six degrees of separation. Charlie Adamson, Huddersfield Dear WSC You wouldn’t have thought there had been a World Cup going on this summer if you’d believed Sky. Another ...
... Egan reports on his blog. --- Getting shirty Notable kits of yesteryear HuddersfieldTown home, 1995-97 The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer was an overpriced, undersupported folly of a games console, so ...