Huddersfield Town v Leyton Orient
Sky Bet League One
Saturday August 2nd - 15:00 ko
at Leeds Road

In our very first Footbal League season, 1910/11, Orient was our 9th league game. They were Clapton Orient then and the game was played at Clapton Stadium, also known as Millfields Road and we lost 2-0. We won the return fixture 2-0 with Irishman, James Macauley and Scotsman James Richardson scoring our goals.

We stayed together in Division Two until Town got promoted in 1919/20. That was of course, the roller coaster season that nearly saw us go bust, nearly got taken over by Leeds United, but ended with an FA Cup Final and a first promotion for the club. The season started with Orient coming north to Leeds Road, the first league game after the Great War. Our war hero Jack Cock, scored the first goal. He would become our first ever England international in the next few weeks, while the second goalscorer in our 2-1 win, Jim Baker, went on to join Leeds, becoming their club captain.

After a midweek trip for a defeat in Bury, our brave lads went down to Clapton on the Saturday and completed a league double over the O's. It was a 1-0 win and Sammy Taylor scored the first of what became and still is a club record of 41 goals in a season.

So we never met again until we were relegated in the 50s. They had become Leyton Orient by now and we had six seasons together before they went and had their one and only season in the top flight of English football. We had another two seasons together in the 2nd Division before they went down again.

We had just one season together during our decline in the 70s. That was 72/73 in Div 2 and we got relegated.

They were still in Division Two as we started to climb back up, but our next meeting came in the FA Cup in 81/82. We drew at Leeds Road but then lost the replay down at Brisbane Road.

They were relegated at the end of that season though and so we met in the league for just one season, which saw us promoted at the end of it. The home game was a thumping 6-0 win with goals from Colin Russell, Mark Lillis, Daryl Pugh, David Sutton and a couple from Brian Stanton. Lillis and Stanton were on target again in April, as well as Phil Wilson as the Terriers won 3-1 to go top of the 3rd Division table.

We got relegated again at the back end of the 80s and so had another six seasons together in Div 3, the last of which, we went up again. In that 94/95 season, we did the double over them. Paul Reid and Andy Booth on target in the 2-1 home win and Iain Dunn and a Ronnie Jepson penalty secured a 2-0 away win.

Boothy scored a few against Orient in his Town days. He scored in a 3-0 home win when we met up again after our relegation to the 4th tier in 2003. He scored again in a 1-1 draw down at theirs later in the season, but having already sent off Pawel Abbott, dickhead referee Trevor Parkes, gave Boothy a second yellow card and off he had to go. Dickhead!

It's not all bad memories for the club legend and ambassador though. In 2009, Boothy played his 457th and final game for Huddersfield Town, away at Leyton Orient. He only went and scored as well, his 150th goal for the club. We couldn't hold on to the lead though and the match ended as a 1-1 draw.

Once Boothy had retired, another goalscorer started tormenting the O's. Jordan Rhodes scored 7 goals in 6 games against them, including a hat trick at Brisbane Road in the promotion season of 2011/12.

That was the last time we played each other until last season. At the end of November, we won 2-0 down there with Michal Helik and Callum Marshall scoring to push Orient into the bottom 4, with us firmly entrenched in the top 6.

Orient came up here for the last game of the season with our respective seasons having completely turned around. They were in the top six. We were shite! They beat us 4-1 before going on to play Stockport County in the Play Off semi final.

They drew both legs before winning 4-1 on penalties. But then went and got beat 1-0 by Charlton Athletic in the Final.

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