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
    

(27-10-2023, 09:40)talkSAFT Wrote: 3 pints of Tetley's and she's anybody's!