Hibs welcome Celtic to Easter Road on Saturday for a game that could feature another chastening defeat for Hibs. I wouldn't presume to forecast the score, but we will be farting against thunder and I can't see our defence keeping out the Celtic strikers.

Still, we won the last game 4-2 in May and, although Celtic might have had their eyes on a bigger game ahead, Hibs were well worth the win. Hibs do have players who can win the game, but Celtic probably have more. A loss wouldn't define our season and a win, or even a draw, could get our confidence up for the visit of Ross County on Tuesday. Let's hope we put in a decent performance.

Leeds United v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday October 28th - 12:30 ko
at Elland Road

BellEnders

Vs

Dog Botherers

Tickets:
Adults - £47
Disabled Adult - £32
Senior Citizen (Over 65) - £32
Young Adult (19-22) - £32
Juniors (16-18) - £24
Under 16 - £22
Under 11 - £11


Adults - £20
Disabled Adults - £15
Senior Citizen (Over 65) - £15
Young Adult (19-22) - £15
Under 19- £10
Under 11 - £5


Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 32 wins to United's 29, with 19 draws.

Wednesday night's line up at Smoke-on-Stench:

1 Illan Meslier - French u21 keeper, came from Lorient, not Leyton Orient.
22 Archie Gray - 17 year old midfielder who's dad, grandad and great uncle all played for Leeds. (Can you name them?)
14 Joe Rodon - Spurs paid 11 million for him from Swansea, then sent him out on loan.
21 Pascal Struijk - Centre back, came from Ajax in 2018.
25 Sam Byram - Back at Leeds after spells with West Ham, Notts Forest and Norwich.
29 Wilfried Gnonto - 19 year old Italian international winger, became national team's youngest ever scorer last year.
4 Etahn Ampadu - Played one PL game for Chelsea (against us in 17/18), but also won FA Cup winners medal and Europa League winners medal.
44 Ilia Gruev - Bulgarian midfield international, came from Werder Bremen.
12 Jaidon Anthony - Winger on loan from Bornmuff.
7 Joël Piroe - Paid Swansea 10 million for him, scores a lot.
24 Georginio Rutter - 21 year old French striker, signed from Hoffenheim.

Subs:
2 Luke Ayling - Prick!
6 Liam Cooper - Played for us on loan from Hull in 2011.
8 Glen Kamara - Finland international midfielder.
9 Patrick Bamford - Has played for England. I'm not joking. Look it up, he really did!
10 Crysencio Summerville - Dutch winger from Feyenoord's Academy.
17 Jamie Shackleton - Defensive midfielder from Featherstone.
20 Daniel James - Ex Man Utd, Welsh international winger.
27 Ian Poveda - Winger who was on loan at Blackpool last season.
28 Karl Darlow - Keeper, signed from Newcastle.

Club connections:

The date of this week's match at Elland Road marks 83 years since the death of Fred Walker, the first ever manager of Huddersfield Town, who died in Leeds, aged 62 on this date in 1940. He also played for Leeds City, not technically a club connection, but they did play at the same ground.

He was born in 1878 and so would've been 30 years old when he took to the field as player/manager of our first ever match, in the North-Eastern League, away at South Shields Adelaide. He was from up in that neck of the woods having been born in Longbenton and starting his playing days with Hebburn Argyle as an amateur, combining this with his day job as a brass founder.

After a couple of seasons there, he went over to the west coast and played a couple of seasons, as captain, with Barrow. But then he was signed by Leeds City in 1905 and a had a chance to play in the Football League with the newly elected Peacocks.

He had three seasons down Bellend Road, playing at centre half mainly, but all along the back line at times when needed for cover. Sadly, he missed most of the 1907/08 season with a bad illness and was allowed to leave at the end of the season.

Luckily for him, it was to join what would become the greatest football club in the world. But obviously nobody knew that then and so when the board of directors of the newly formed Huddersfield Town appointed him as manager/secretary, he was unsure how things would progress.

They progressed alright actually. He played in that first ever game, playing 21 times in that first season. He only played twice in the Midland League season (1909/10) before hanging up his boots and concentrating on managing the club and on getting the team elected into the Football League.

He did play in a couple of the FA Cup games and scored his only goal for the club in a 7-0 win against Rothwell White Rose at Leeds Road. In the next round of the Cup, Fred got his career ending injury against the rough house tactics of South Kirkby Colliery. He was deliberately kneed in the head and was carried off unconcsious and spent a week in hospital. The internal injuries meant that he was to pack in on medical advice.

Town did get elected into the FL at the end of the 09/10 season and Fred wasn't offered the job. Or so we thought.......

Following extensive research by the HTFC Heritage Project, we have more details. He was actually still in charge when the new season started and was manager for the first game in the Football League Second Division, an away win against Bradford Park Avenue. He was in charge for the first 14 games of that season, eventually replaced by Dick Pudan, a player he had signed from Leicester Fosse, who was given the manager's job in November 1910. Fred stayed on as assistant, but only for a month when he left the club in December.

There were no details of the rest of his life until this excellent research found that....

In 1911, he became manager of F.C. Nürnberg in Germany. This was discovered after he was briefly mentioned in a book by Ulrich Hesse, Tor! The History of German Football. That brief mention was that his grasp of the German language was minimal. So minimal that he got by by just using two words. "Beer! Good!" (Sounds like a script from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet! )

He managed to get by for a couple of years, returning to Huddersfield in 1913 when he was named as the co-respondent in a divorce case, heard in the Divorce Court. This was a scandal at the time and the affair had started when he was Town manager.  Fred and Edith eventually got married in Newcastle in 1914.

Fred then became the licensee of The Wheatsheaf Inn in Bradford. That was for five years before he took on The Fountain Inn in Morley, in 1922 and then in 1924, he returned to Huddersfield to run The Black Bull in Berry Brow.

They moved to Leeds in 1935 and then sadly Fred died in 1940 at St. James University Hospital, Leeds, of streptococcus meningitis due to oral media. Whatever that means. Answers on a postcard please.

He's buried at Harehills Cemetery in Leeds.

Leeds in popular culture:

Leeds is famous for one thing, apart from the Ripper murders and a certain Radio DJ nonce. Tetley's Brewery! Founded in 1822 by Joshua Tetley in Hunslet, the brewery was situated on the south banks of the River Aire near Crown Point, Hunslet and Clarence Dock. Fermenting took place in stainless steel Yorkshire squares and conical vessels, the slate Yorkshire squares dated from about the 1880s. These were demolished when Carlsberg took over in 1998 and closed the brewery down shortly after.

We once had a work's trip to Tetley's. It was one of the most badly organised night outs ever. A right waste of time which summed up our firm. Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

They did some good adverts for Tetley Bitter. Here's one starring the late great Jim Bowen.



So the question is, where did you get the best pint of Tetley's from? In my humble opinion, it was the Market House in Dewsbury (now a hardware store). Did you have a favourite Tetley pub? I actually proposed to Amelia in one of their lovely locals, in wonderful down town Batley.

1. Meryl Nibbler
   
2. Peach Socket
   
3. Rev Dione
   
4. Hatemongering Torch
   
5. Single Johny
   
6. Failed Karen
   
7. Anal Lord Ed
   
8. Rachel Johns
   
9. Gay Deidre
   
10. Gloria Bunch
    

THE MATCH

SUNDAY 29TH OCTOBER KO 1:00PM

v

LAST MATCH



I thought we played ok, but defensive errors, a wonder strike and no one to put the ball in the net saw us lose 3-0. For the first 40 minutes we were the better team and had several opportunities but as usual could not find the target. The just before HT, we conceded a FK on the edge of the D and their forward smashed it into the top corner. It was quickly 2 due to a defensive howler, Valentin giving the ball away and Whittaker made it 2. Onto the 2nd half and we huffed and puffed but never really looked like scoring unlike Plymouth who got there 3rd midway through the half, Hardie with a composed finish.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and Rotherham make the short journey to Hillsborough. The Millers are currently in 22nd place, but did win their last game against Coventry on Wednesday night. Rotherham don't score many goals (12) but that is 7 more than us, Jordan Hugill is there leading scorer with 3. They are managed Matt Taylor who had previously been in charge of Exeter, who he got promoted in the 21-22 season, before joining Rotherham in October last year. Although we obviously need 3 points, I'd be quite happy if we scored a goal, whatever that is

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 21
ROTH 15
DRAWS 7

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                            

ROTH               -                                                                                   

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

ANDY DAVIES
Graham Kane and Sam Lewis
Fourth Official : Tom Nield

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Bernard Ihekwe James
Musaba Bannan Byers Johnson
Gregory Windass

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

60

ATTENDANCE

27211

BML LEAGUE

Washington 6
Maddix 4
Owlkev 1
SCO 1
Imre 0

BMPL

Stateside 3
Wereham 2
Pei -11

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

West Ham United v Everton
Aston Villa v Luton Town
Brighton & Hove Albion v Fulham
Liverpool v Nottingham Forest
Manchester United v Manchester City

HHHHA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




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Premier League

Lady J 20
B.B.B. 16
Zinman 12
Dingle 8
Minizin 7
Derby 7
Blue B 3
Stairs -2

Interesting set of results this week in the PL which will shake up the table a bit.  Lady Jane is in first place this week and had her best points haul of the season with 20 points. She got CRs on the Gamball and Bonus and backed that up with two CSs, scoring on 6 games in total.  BBB is 2nd with 16 points, he managed 3 CSs including the Bonus but missed on the Gamball.  The only other person in double figures was Zinman who ended with 12 points.  He too missed on the Gamball but picked up points on the Bonus and added 2 CSs for good measure.

Middle of the pack this week is Dingle with 8 points and Minizin and Derby with 7 points.  They each got there in differing ways, Dingle got a CR on the Gamball but missed on his Bonus, Minizin got a CR on the Bonus but little else and Derby missed his main balls but had 2 CSs.

Blue Baggie continues to enjoy the rollercoaster he is on, near the top one week, near the bottom the next!!  The week saw him pick up only 3 points!!  Stairs awful form continues for the 4th week in a row and this time he reached new depths even for him by registering -2 points!!!  This is a low record not only for him but for the whole division so far this season!!  He missed on his main balls and managed only one CR in the rest of the games, another new low for the division this season!!  He has now only totalled 7 points during the last 4 weeks!!


118 Minizin
117 Derby
116 Zinman
108 Stairs
104 Lady Jane
102 BBB
97 Blue Baggie
69 Dingle

So after these scores we see Minizin stay in 1st place but boy its close at the top!!  He is just a point ahead of Derby in 2nd and Zinman in 3rd is just a further point back, 2 points separating the top 3!!  Stairs has dropped 2 more places this week but is still only 8 points hbehind the top 3 and certainly not out of it if he can find some form.  Good weeks from LJ and BBB sees them both go past the century mark and both close in on the top 4 with LJ movng up 2 places and out of the relegations pots altogether.  Prior to this week the gap between the top players was 25 points, now it is down to just 16.

Blue Baggie drops 2 places as he nears the century points total but Dingle is dropping further behind each week and like Stairs needs to find some form.

Cheers
SCO


Championship

SCO          19pts
Snooty      17
Themaclad  17
AAA            14
Twerton      13
Sanjay        5
BaggieOne    1

After 3 poor weeks, the Championship finally got its act together (well, some of them) to provide some decent scores. This week saw the highest number of correct scores so far and the 2nd highest total number of points. The gamball continued to do its job with just 1 player predicting a Leeds win as that game produced a negative return though it was marginally better than the total from the West Brom game where everyone predicted an Albion win - so you all cursed us!

SCO was the gamball master and heads the table with 19 points. He got 6 results correct (as did all of the top 4), turning 2 of them into correct scores. Snooty and Themaclad share 2nd place just 2 points behind SCO with the same number of correct scores and results. They did differ on their balls where Themaclad hit a maximum bonus but, unlike Snooty, missed out on the scoreball. AAA and Twerton both had decent weeks reaching double figures, Twerton getting 3 correct scores amongst his predictions but losing out on his bonus.

Not such a good week for our final 2. Sanjay did at least produce his best score from the last 4 weeks to avoid the foot of the table where we find BaggieOne living up to his name!

AAA        108
Twerton    105
SCO          99
Snooty      90
BaggieOne  83
Themaclad  81
Sanjay        47

BaggieOne's poor week sees him drop 2 places with SCO and Snooty both leapfrogging him as the only changes this week. AAA and Twerton pass the 100 point mark with Sanjay falling even further behind and deperately in need of a return to the form that saw him as the Premier League runner up just a couple of years ago.

Zin

Tuesday sees Town looking for back to back victories as they welcome the Bluebirds of Wales to the John Smiths Arena. Despite looking good for the first 15 minutes, Town contrived to look bang average against one of the poorer teams in the league for the remainder of the game, and were probably lucky to get anything, let alone 3 points, with a heap of credit going to Michal Helik for some great last gasp defending to deny QPR a leveller when it looked for all money as if they would score. I have to give credit to Helik as last season I wasn't overly enamoured by him, purely down to him not being technically the greatest of defenders, and neither is Matty Pearson for that matter, but what they lack there, they make up with sheer determination to keep the ball out of the goal, proper old fashioned defenders. I suppose we have been blessed before with the likes of Christopher Schindler and Levi Colwill in the last few seasons. That being said, when Tom Lees is maybe your most technical of centre halves, you know that you ain't going to be much for playing pretty patterns out of defence. I know some would claim Yuta is our most technical centre half, and whilst I agree he is probably our most technical defender, I'm not 100% sure on him being a centre half. I think his role against Ipswich the other week as a left wing back is probably his most suited position, and that stops Koroma having to feature there and instead focus more on attacking and doing what he is good at. I don't think even a blind man and his dog would miss that we have a very unbalanced squad from top to bottom, something that really needs addressing in January.



Looking at the squad, I would suggest that in goal we are comfortable, Pearson as a right sided centre half frees who ever is a right wing back, probably Thomas to focus on attacking more, Helik is the rock in the heart of the defence, whilst left side is somewhere i think we are lacking, as Lees is probably the one to play there but is primarily right footed, hence the need for a more defensive left wing back to help cover, be it Ruffles or Yuta, there was a reason Warnock used Headley further up the field last season! You could say that we are potentially light in midfield with Hogg walking a tightrope with yellow cards and also being more susceptible to injuries, Wiles is still off the pace, Kasumu is injury prone and Rudoni can't play everywhere. Up top we are heavily reliant on the same people each week as we all know that Danny Ward won't be fit again, what a waste of a wage he was, seems as if once he knew Warnocks time was up, his time on the physio table started. The lack of balance in the squad has meant that we have had to rely on youngsters that are probably not quite ready for an extended run in the first team, in fact you could say that for pretty much all the youngsters.

Anyway slight rant over, moving on to Tuesday. Cardiff have seen a bit of an upheaval, firstly a new manager came to the helm, with Turk Erol Bulut replacing Sabri Lamouchi in the summer. Bulut was actually born in Germany but represented Turkey at youth international level, never making it to the top international level. Club wise he had 4 years at Turkish giants Fenerbahce, making over 100 appearances for them, before returning to Germany for a short spell at Frankfurt. He then hoped back to Turkey for another spell, before eventually finishing his career in Greece. As a manager he has had short spells at the likes of Yeni Malatyaspor and Fenerbahce. His last job was at Gaziantep, where he left in January. His appointment at Cardiff was a rather left field choice by the Bluebirds, not quite as left field as Mark Fotheringham as Bulut actually has some sort of managerial pedigree behind him, but still.



Transfers wise, they have seen the prodigal son return in Aaron Ramsey, but like normal, he's injured, whilst the loan market has been their friend with Karlan Grant joining from West Brom, Ike Ugbo from Troyes, Jonathon Panzo and Josh Bowler both from Forest and Alex Runarson from Arsenal. Elsewhere, Yakou Meite signed from Reading, whilst Greek players Manolis Siopis and Dimi Goutas both joined from Turkish clubs Trabzonspor and Sivasspor respectively.

In terms of leaving the club, Isaak Davies joined KV Kortijk on loan along with Seyi Ojo. Also joining them in Belgium was Joe Bagan as he joined Zulte Waregem. Goalkeepers Ryan Allsop and Dillon Phillips both departed on free transfers joining Hull and Rotherham respectively, whilst Mark Harris and Gavin Whyte were both allowed to join league one clubs in the form of Oxford and Portsmouth. The Blubirds also allowed Max Watters to depart as they recouped £300k from Barnsley for his services. Otherwise, nothing spectacular.

This season so far the Bluebirds have been relatively solid, winning 5, losing 5 and drawing 2. It was a bit of a slow start to the season with a 2-2 draw away at Leeds being followed by two defeats, one of those being QPR at home. They hit a patch of form in September, winning 4 of the 5 games, but October has seen them score just the once in a 1-1 draw with Watford, the other two games have seen them 2-0 and 1-0 on the road to Middlesborough and Blackburn.

In terms of head to heads, the record reads as follows, Games won:32 Games drawn:23 Games lost:28, with the first game coming on Snoots' date of birth back on the 17th December 1921... the two sides played out a 0-0 draw. Town would register an 8-2 in 1927, like we are ever going to see anything like that again and would later go a whole decade without defeat against the Bluebirds as Town dominated the Welsh side during the 60's and into the early 70's. Cardiff would get their own back with a spell from 2011 to 2021 where Town could barely muster a point let alone a win against them, a 2-1 win in February 2022 would break that streak, with two late goals from Josh Koroma and Jon Russell giving Carlos Corberans side the 3 points.



For team news, i'm not sure, since they have started making Darren Moores press conferences youtube only i've not seen any, infact i dont think i've even seen his introductory interview. The one thing that can be certain is Danny Ward is out. For them Ramsay is out but i cant see there being many changes in either side.

Sorry it is short and sweet, i'm not feeling great and have also been a bit consumed by work, both reasons for my non attendance tomorrow unfortunately.

Played for both...

i'll give a clue of a player, whoever guesses it can give a clue for the next one, and we repeat until we give up.

I've scored for both teams, won promotion with both teams and have managed both teams during my time in football. Who am i?

Gamball:
Sheff Wed - Rotherham

Others:
Bournemouth - Burnley
Wolves - Newcastle
Blackburn - Swansea
Cardiff - Bristol City
Hull - Preston
Sunderland - Norwich
Watford - Millwall
Notts County - Wrexham
Man Utd - Man City

Colchester have appointed ex-Crawley boss Matthew Etherington as interim head coach after Ben Garner was sacked.

Etherington, who steps up from his role as under-21 lead coach at Colchester, lasted just 32 days as Crawley boss after being appointed in November 2022.

The 42-year-old now takes over as Garner's replacement "while the club considers its long-term options".

Garner was dismissed with the U's second bottom in League Two after four successive defeats.

Etherington's first game as interim boss will be against Grimsby Town on Tuesday.

He will be assisted by Scott Marshall and Dave Huzzey, who both worked under Garner.

THE MATCH

WEDNESDAY 25TH OCTOBER KO 7:45PM

v

LAST MATCH



Our first game under DR and a similar tale, another defeat although a better performance but just toothless up front. We had a few chances, Windass heading over and Hendrick testing the Watford keeper. Onto the 2nd half and Hendrick headed over the bar then we won a penalty, only for the EFL, sorry linesman to intervene and the decision was reversed. Watford made a several subs and the last of these was to get the winner, Asprilla firing past Dawson.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

THE MATCH



Next up and a nice long trip to Plymouth for a midweek game, thank you EFL Plymouth had made a decent start to the season, but have wobbled of late, winless in 4 and now currently lie in 21st place. Plymouth have basically the same squad as last season and also have the same manager unlike some other team I could mention. There leading scorer is Hardie with 5 goals & 3 assists, which is how many we have as a team, and which is the big difference of the teams, we have both conceded the same 19 but Plymouth have 18 goals to our pathetic 5.

DEJPHON CHANSIRI, GET OUT OF OUR CLUB    

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 16
PLYM 16
DRAWS 13

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                           

PLYM               -                                                                                   

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

JAMES LININGTON
Andrew Fox and Adam Crysell
Fourth Official : Sam Purkiss

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Bernard Ihekwe James
Musaba Bannan Byers Johnson
Gregory Windass

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-1 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

60

ATTENDANCE

N/A

BML LEAGUE

Washington 6
Maddix 4
Owlkev 1
SCO 1
Imre 0

BMPL

Stateside 2
Wereham 2
Pei -11

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Birmingham City v Hull City
Bristol City v Ipswich Town
Preston North End v Southampton
Rotherham United v Coventry City
Stoke City v Leeds United

DAAAA

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Tuesday Night games

Fylde 0-2 Oldham
Aldershot 2-1 Maidenhead United
Altrincham 2-0 Kidderminster
Barnet 2-1 Solihull Moors
Bromley 0-1 Dorking
Chesterfield 3-1 York
Dag & Red 2-0 Boreham Wood
Eastleigh 1-0 Woking
Halifax 2-1 Hartlepool
Rochdale 3-1 Gateshead
Southend 2-1 Ebbsfleet
Wealdstone 2-2 Oxford City

League Table After Matchday 16

Spireitematt - 390
SaltergateBorn - 348
Amelia - 343
St Charles - 291
Dancing - 262
Lord Snoots - 258
Devon - 173