Sports Babble - sports forum - Preston North End v Huddersfield Town

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We travel to Deepestdarkestdale on Tuesday for another bitter battle in our bid to get precious points to save ourselves from The Drop.

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Thankfully, our win against Millwall puts us in a slightly better position.

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I started Saturday accepting relegation and was going to stay calm in the face of adversity.

However, as soon as the whistle blew, I was screaming like a banshee and swearing like a trooper, trying to will them on.

Then we score in the dying moments, crawl over the line to take us above the relegation zone and we're back to having hope again.

I don't know what's worse.

Contrary to what was said by some fans, I actually thought we were the better team on Saturday and were unlucky not to score at least a couple of times, especially against a lacklustre, if slightly dirty side, whose main aim was to get a 0-0 draw.

I'm not convinced it will be our night on Tuesday, we haven't got the best record against them at their place or recently at all. Although we did win at their place last season, something we hadn't managed since 1969!

A small step for Kaine Kesler-Hayden; one giant leap for Huddersfield Town.

From that match to Saturday's game against Millwall, only Connell (or Nicholls as some people call him), Helik, and Kasumu started both those games.

Head to head

League-wise, it's neck and neck. Recent results favour PNE.

Our last meeting at home... don't look, Ethel.

Table

Still precariously placed in 21st but one better than we were and two places up on what could've been.

Their last match away to Watford ended 0-0. This is how they lined-up.

Top Scorers

Former Town midfielder, Duane Holmes, is in the mix although, if you noticed, he was only on the bench on Saturday. I think he's had a recent injury.

Your suffragette and female activist for this match thread is Edith Rigby who was born in Preston. She formed the Preston branch of the WSPU, started a school for female mill workers to continue their education after the age of 11, she stood up for servants of her neighbour's and gave her own servants privileges not given to many.

She was arrested and sent to prison more than once. Firstly for taking part in a march at the Houses of Parliament, and later obstructing Winston Churchill. Her father paid her fine after a few days the second time blaming the women she protested with. I would bet that she wasn't impressed with her father. She was sentenced to 9 months with hard labour for planting a bomb at the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, despite it causing little damage. There was also an admission that she set fire to one of William Lever's homes (Lever Brothers fame).

Whilst in prison, she took part in the hunger strikes and was force fed.

She later split from the WSPU and joined the IWSPU because she believed protesting should continue during the Great War, I have to say that I agree with her. And, given that she did help the war effort, she wasn't working against those fighting. She just realised that there was more than one battle to fight. As many women who worked jobs previously believed could only be done by men knew, women were equal to men and still should have the vote, war or no war.

Edith Rigby was the first woman in Preston to own a bicycle!

She continued to live in Preston until 1926 when she moved to Wales where she and her husband planned to retire. Unfortunately, he died before this happened but she went there alone. She died there in 1950. She was 77.

That win at Preston was peak Fotheringham era. A great coach, who on another day, with better backing from Hoyle and Bromby, would've had us pushing for promotion this year.........

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What happened to her partner in the tandem parachute jump? She should have followed your fine example. Wink

It's the fault of that horrible Bluto aka Mark Cartwright.

Manager spake

I thought you were gonna call it Andre Preview. Big Grin

With all the backing in the world, Fotheringham would have had us at best battling for 20th in League One with Port Vale, Cheltenham and Burton. The only promotion he achieves is self-promotion and he's not been too good at that in the last 12 months. Still, as long as we're still paying him, why would he care? He still has the odd snipe from the sidelines.

Anyroad, back to tonight. Do I do the steak stir-fry or go down the chippy? Just had the results back from the doc on an ultrasound scan on my liver and it's neither pregnant nor otherwise ill, other than the spare tyre I'm slowly deflating leaving a bit of fat in the vicinity, so come on Town, I could do with a double celebration tonight.

I've done the ultrasund on the liver, too. My GPs were adamant I was lying when I said that I don't drink that they sent me for one to prove they were right. They found out they were wrong. Our GPs are not my favourite. Rude, nasty, little gits who hide behind a telephone.

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KOROMAAAAAAA

Best first half in a long time. Well deserved lead.

MUST NOT CONCEDE STRAIGHT AFTER HALF TIME!

Disgraceful refereeing

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