Once again, apologies for the lack of a quiz for the Middlesbrough match due to a lack of time on my part and the football authorities taking ages to confirm that fixtures would be resuming on Tuesday.
Having embarked on our second longest away trip in midweek, we face what may be the third longest one (Hull’s probably a bit further I’d guess) this weekend when we go to Huddersfield who sacked their manager Danny Schofield yesterday after picking up just a single win and a draw from their first eight ;league games.
It always brings on an ominous feeling when a club makes a change just before they’re due to face us, but, last season’s added time defeat apart, Huddersfield has been a happy hunting ground for us in recent times. Also, we go there in better heart after a good win on Tuesday in which it’s easy to forget just how well we played in the first half because of something of a fade out by the team after the break.
Here’s seven questions on Huddersfield dating back to the sixties with the answers to be posted on here on Sunday.
60s. Possessing what I suppose could be called a contemporary surname, this Yorkshireman never left the county during his Football League career in which he only represented two clubs. However. Huddersfield were the filling in a sandwich so to speak because he began and ended his time in the domestic game at the same, rather colourful. club (he set a club record during his first spell there). When he left a deep pageant for Huddersfield, he began and ended a very brief international career, only for the Under 23 side, with a goals per game record which suggested he should have been given more chances at that level. A goalscorer on each of his club debuts, his record would make him much sought after these days, but, in an era where goals were generally easier to come by, it would have been classed as good, but nothing exceptional. He later played “abroad” for the Lilywhites and with another club which currently plays at Head in the Game Park, can you name him?
70s. Colin Baker, …………… and Paul Bodin. Who is the missing middle player in that Huddersfield related sequence and what links them?
80s. Name the FA Cup Final captain who was making a return to Cardiff nearly fifteen years after he was red carded while playing for Huddersfield at Ninian Park.
90s. His first England cap was in a loss to Brazil, he also has a draw against Wales on his CV ,along with a single international goal and, in 1982, he became the first player from his club at the time to be selected in an England squad for a World Cup Finals competition. Dwarfing all of this though was his appearance for Huddersfield at Ninian Park during this decade, who am I describing?
00s. Son of a much more famous father, every one of this Manchester born forward’s career appearances for Football League clubs were as a substitute, fourteen of them for Huddersfield during this decade. He never scored a goal and in later years, he was a co owner of a branch of Domino’s Pizzas which provided free food for a club which would have been big local rivals of the team he first played for – who is he?
10s. Named as “Football Ally of the Year” at the British LBGT Awards 2021, this player, who made a surprising move from one Premier League side to another during the summer, was in a beaten Huddersfield team in Cardiff during this decade, name him.
20s. “People’s” learning establishment initially remains as blank firing Cardiff and Huddersfield man goes for a Burton! (5.6)
Answers
60s. Derek Stokes began his career with Bradford City. Shortly after setting a club record by scoring in eight consecutive games, Stokes was signed by Huddersfield and netted sixty five times for them in one hundred and fifty three league games between 1960 and 1966 – he also scored twice in his one game for England’s under 23 team. Returning to Bradford City, he only stayed for a season before going to play in the Republic of Ireland, for Dundalk and Drogheda, until his retirement in 1970.
70s. City only won one of seventeen league meetings with Huddersfield during a period covering more than twenty years. Cardiff born Colin Baker was a scorer in a 2-1 win at Ninian Park on 19 November 1963 and Llanrumney’s Paul Bodin scored the opener in a 3-1 home win on 26 November 1983. In between times the only City win came in a very important game at Ninian Park 21 April 1973 when a couple of goals apiece from Andy McCulloch and Cardiffian Gil Reece sealed a 4-1 victory which went a very long way to keeping us up that season and sending Huddersfield down.
80s. Chris Marsden captained Southampton in the 2003 FA Cup Final against Arsenal and was sent off in Huddersfield’s 3-0 loss at Ninian Park in September 1988.
90s. Peter Withe was the first Aston Villa player to be selected in an England World Cup Finals squad in 1982 and eight years later, he was, from memory, playing at centreback for Huddersfield in a 5-1 win at Ninian Park in March 1990.
00s. Loa Macari’s son Paul was signed by his father when he was manager of Stoke and played three times for them as a sub before being released in 1998. Macari didn’t play a first team game for Sheffield United during a two year spell with them and signed for Huddersfield in 2001. He made fourteen sub appearance in league and cup for the Terriers before leaving the full time game in 2003 – the Stoke based branch of Domino’s Pizzas he co owned donated free pizzas to Port Vale during a time of financial hardship for that club.
10s. Connor Coady, who was loaned to Everton for the season from Wolves last month, was in the Huddersfield side beaten 3-1 at Cardiff City Stadium on August 16 2014.
20s. Oumar Niasse had short, goalless, spells with City and Huddersfield and played for Burton Albion last season.