With the threat of relegation all but gone now, it would be nice to think City could sign off their home season on Sunday with a good performance and win over Neil Warnock’s Huddersfield. However, with the game now much more vital to the opposition than us, that may be an unrealistic thought given how poorly we’ve performed on our ground this season.
Huddersfield have the advantage of having three games left compared to the two most of the teams around them do and, by the time they get to play us, that will have become two matches in hand on the other sides at the bottom (they’ll also have not played for twelve days when they face us). All of this should mean that although a defeat on Sunday would be a major blow for Warnock’s latest team, it would not be a terminal one as they would still have home games against a Sheffield United team with nothing to play for and what might be a very fraught encounter with Reading to play.
Here’s seven questions dating back to the sixties on Huddersfield with the answers to be posted on here on Monday.
60s. Born in a town which is close to but just to the south of Yorkshire, this defender crossed the county border to sign for Huddersfield. He would spend the major part of his career at the old Leeds Road ground and was a regular opponent for City for the first two thirds of this decade with what I’d call mixed results. When he moved on it was to cross another county border to keep on playing in blue and white and three years later, he crossed another county border this time to stay in blue and white again and play for a County! His career ended with a trip to Lourdes, but who am I describing?
70s. A defender who who signed for the biggest club in the close vicinity of the town he was born in, he moved on when first team chances were very limited to sign for Huddersfield and he was pretty much a regular starter for them during his three years at the club. When he was transferred, he didn’t move far and it was to play for a club with a unique colour combination, by Football League terms anyway. A new decade saw him Midlands bound to play for a team which were still some way off the ground move which gave them what is probably one of the most viewed, from the outside, grounds in the country. Following a loan move which left him a bit trembly, he saw out his playing days with two former Football League clubs, the first of which are going from bad to the worse, while the second will still be entertaining hopes of becoming one of the seventy two again next season. After finishing playing, he became something of a poacher turned gamekeeper – who is he?
80s. Storm unique to Yorkshire?
90s. Browsed a book by Roald Dahl initially? (3.7)
00s. Coat worn by former England manager by the sound of it!
10s. It started following a game against Huddersfield at Cardiff City Stadium during this decade and ended following a 3-0 defeat not long after that thanks to goals from players now at Juventus, Chelsea and Bayern Munich. Just over six months later, it started up again at Cardiff City Stadium before stopping again for a few years following three defeats before being revived again following a game at Huddersfield. What am I referring to?
20s. Which member of the current Huddersfield squad is a reported target of Sabri Lamouchi’s if he stays on as City manager?
Answers:
60s. John Coddington was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire and was with Huddersfield between 1955 and 1967 during which he clocked up 333 league appearances. Coddington then had three years playing for Blackburn and just over a season at Stockport before ending his career with Drogheda (home ground Lourdes Stadium).
70s. Newark born Steve Baines played a couple of league games for Nottingham Forest before signing for Huddersfield, then Bradford City and Walsall, After a loan move to Bury, Baines became a Scunthorpe player and then ended his playing days at Chesterfield – he became a Football League referee after his retirement.
80s. Dale Tempest.
90s. Rob Edwards.
00s. Keigan Parker.
10s. Mark Hudson;s managerial career. He took over as caretaker manager of Huddersfield in January 2019 following David Wagner’s resignation following a 0-0 draw at Cardiff City Stadium and stood down again a few days later following a 3-0 home loss by Man City whose goals were scored by Danilo, Sterling and Sane. When the man brought in as Wagner’s replacement, Jan Stewart, was sacked as Huddersfield manager in August 2019, Hudson took over again with his first game in charge being a 2-1 away loss to City. After two more defeats, Hudson stepped aside for Danny Crowley to take over and his next appointment was by us following a City defeat at Huddersfield!
20s. Soon after he took over at City, it was being reported that Sabri Lamouchi was interested in signing goalkeeper Jordan Smith. Lamouchi worked with Smith when he was Forest manager and the keeper is currently on loan to Huddersfield.