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Town @ Bellend Road - Lord Snooty - 04-03-2020

Leeds United v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday 7th March - 15:00 ko
at The Big Yellow Skip on Bellend Road

Huddersfield Town travel down Leeds Road to visit Leeds United on Saturday afternoon for the West Riding derby match at Bellend Road. Both teams come into the fixture full of confidence after 4-0 wins at the weekend, Town at home to Charlton and the BellEnders away at Hull. Town will hopefully be unchanged, but that may have a question mark against it if Jonathan Hogg passes a fitness test. Does Hoggy come straight back in? You would think so for a game like this, but why would Danny Cowley change a winning team? Town aim to continue their good recent record at the Skip, having won the last two matches there with a 1-0 win last time out, when Aaron Mooy scored and the time before that, a magnificent 4-1 victory.

Leeds will be without racist prick goalkeeper Kiko Casilla, who is two matches into an 8 match ban. Illan Meslier is likely to keep his place after keeping a clean sheet against the toothless Tigers. They have only lost at home three times this season. Early on they got beat by Swansea and later on, a surprise defeat to Sheffield Wednesday, before last month the shock of the season, same as last season, losing to Wigan Athletic. Let's hope they're cursing again on Saturday.

COME ON TOWN!!!

A brief history of Leeds United: They were founded in 1919, when at a meeting in the Salem Hall, to discuss what to do after Leeds City had been expelled from the League, the Huddersfield Town chairman John Hilton Crowther was persuaded to offer our little club to the city of Leeds and move the entire club from Leeds Road to Bellend Road. Not only that, but this would involve stealing our players, our fixtures and our Football League status. In the end though, all they managed to steal was a set of blue and white shirts as the people of Huddersfield rallied and told the treacherous rabble to piss off. They did also manage to manipulate our manager, Arthur Fairclough over to their side. But of course, we ended up with the better of that deal, as we replaced him with Herbert Chapman, which went rather well.

So to sum up Leeds United's beginnings, they were the MK Dons of 1919.

It wasn't until the end of the 1919/20 season that the new club were elected to the FL and by 1924 had won promotion to the First Division, just in time to see what they could've won as Huddersfield Town were winning the first of their three First Division Championships in a row. By the time we'd completed the hat trick of titles, Leeds were back down in Division 2.

They were promoted again and relegated again twice and by the time the second world war started they were still in the First Division. However, they were relegated again in the first season after. In 1948 Major Frank Buckley became manager, the former manager of the team who famously played the Germans at the Somme on Christmas Day 1915. He had had previous success in management at Blackpool and Wolves, this however, wasn't to be repeated at Leeds. He was replaced by Raich Carter who won them promotion back to Division 1 in 1956. It was only another short stay though and they were relegated again at the end of the decade.

Don Revie became manager in 1961 and almost took the club down to Division 3, but managed to avoid relegation by some underhand methods. It came to light a few years later that he had been match fixing, but by then it was too late to do anything about it. By the time Revie left to take up the England job, Leeds Utd had become Champions of Europe (for ever, no matter what anybody says) by twice winning the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (in 1968 and 1971), the equivalent of today's Europa League. They won the League twice (in 1969 and 1974), the FA Cup (in 1972) and the League Cup (in 1968), with Billy Bremner as skipper.

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Billy Bremner, Leeds & Scotland

When Revie left in 1974, he was replaced by Brian Clough, who successfully put into place the start of the great decline of the "Champions of Europe", before leaving to manage Nottingham Forest and make them the actual Champions of Europe by winning the European Cup, a feat that Leeds never actually did. It was a slow, painful decline, culminating in relegation in 1982, managed at the time by ex player and fan's favourite Allan Clarke. They reached the first ever FL Play Offs in 1987, but lost to Charlton Athletic.

In 1988, Howard Wilkinson became manager and Leeds were on the up again. They won promotion in 1990 and then won their last League title in 1992. Success didn't stay with them though and despite reaching the League Cup Final in 1996, which they lost to Aston Villa, it was a period of flirting once more with the relegation trapdoor and Wilkinson payed the price with the sack.

He was replaced by crooked former Arsenal boss George Graham. A strange move for a club that had been formed from the ashes of one bent club and had had a match fixer in charge in the 1960s, to appoint a manger who had himself been on a ban for receiving illegal payments. However, it sort of worked well for the by now most hated football club in the world. Which in itself was a bit much for us to take. We hated them first. They tried to steal our club you know. Anyway Graham got them into the UEFA Cup before jumping ship to go to Spurs. He was replaced by his assistant David O'Leary.

For three years under O'Leary, Leeds were once more dining at Football's top table, reaching the semi finals of the UEFA Cup and the Champions League. But good times on the pitch were not matched by events off it. Two of their players, Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate, were convicted of racially aggravated assault and two of their supporters were murdered in Istanbul ahead of a match against Galatasaray.

Chairman Peter Ridsdale then gambled with the club's finances, by taking out loans secured against their share of the TV revenue for the forthcoming Champions League seasons, which they failed to qualify for. The first sign of trouble came when Rio Ferdinand was sold to Manchester Utd. O'Leary was sacked and replaced with another crook in Terry Venables. What is it with this club and crooks? He didn't last long and eventually in 2004 under the caretaker management of club legend Eddie Gray (following the sacking of Peter Reid) they were relegated from the Premier League, never to return again.

It got worse. Dennis Wise got the manager's job and took them down to the 3rd division for the first time. The club had now been bought by another bloody conman, Ken Bates. Don't laugh too loud! He took them into administration and finally the Football League could impose the 15 point deduction that they should've had in the 1960s for match fixing. Despite the points deduction though, they managed to reach the Play Off Final at Wembley, only to get thrashed by Doncaster Rovers. They were managed by another former player then, Gary McAllister, but he had gone by the time they reached the next play offs under the management now of Simon Grayson. They failed again, losing in the semis to Millwall. They did get promoted back to the Championship though the following year 2010 and have been there ever since, getting close to promotion, but failing miserably every time.

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Who's the panda?

Head to Head

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Town lead the head to head with 32 wins to Leeds Utd's 28 with 19 draws.

Well Leeds won a most forgettable match at our place in December, but who can forget the last time these two clubs met? We were on our way to the Premier League and so were Leeds, but this Town victory was the start of yet another great falling apart again. It was us who scored first with sub Izzy Brown bagging one in front of the away fans, shushing them after they had just taunted them with an offensive Chelsea scum chant. Chris Wood then got his customary goal against us, which was offside (not he, but the lad who won the first header). All square at half time, the second half was all Town and we really ought to have been well in front by the time Aaron Mooy had a shot deflected by a Leeds defender into the path of Michael Hefele, who slotted the ball past Rob Green to send the home fans wild and David Wagner running down the touchline to celebrate with his players. What happened next I won't go on about, only to say Gary Monk is a C U Next Thursday!

That was our third consecutive victory over the White Shite from the Big Yellow Skip. Earlier in the season a goal from the boy Mooy had given us a 1-0 win at Bellend Road. And the season before was another magnificent day out at Beeston for the Terriers. We won 4-1 after going behind early on. Mark Hudson scored the equaliser from a corner just before half time. Then Harry Bunn gave us the lead from another corner, before Karim Matmour scored his one and only goal for us, slotting home from a yard out after good work from Nahki Wells. And it was Nahki himself who scored the fourth, replying to some abusive chanting from the home morons in style.

Another good season for us was in our centenary season 2008/09. We did the double over them with Nathan Clarke heading in the only goal of the game on Valentine's Day, from a corner. Earlier in the season at Leeds, we came from behind to win. Robert Snodgrass had given the white shite an early lead, but in the first minute of the second half, up popped an unlikely scorer in the shape of home grown left back Joe Skarz. The Town fans went wild! But if you thought that celebration was wild, it had nowt on what happened in the final minute of injury time. Sub Danny Cadamarteri had only been on the pitch ten minutes when he received the ball. Caretaker manager Gerry Murphy, taking over after Stan Ternent had been sacked, was screaming at him to take the ball to the corner flag to run down the clock. Unfortunately for Leeds, his control let him down and instead of going that way, he ended up closer to the penalty area. He passed the ball to Michael Collins who hit a mis timed shot into the corner of the net to send the away fans absolutely bonkers.

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The season before all this, Andy Holdsworth had scored the goal at the Galpharm Stadium to give us our first win over them for over twenty years. That was a 3-1 win in 1985 at Leeds Road with goals from Dale Tempest, Brian Stanton and Terry Curran.

Back in 1982 though, when Leeds were still a First Division team and we were in the Third Division, we famously won a League Cup match at their place, David Cowling heading in the only goal of the game.

Steve Smith scored the goal at Bellend Road for us in a 1-3 defeat in the last meeting of the two clubs in the top tier of English football. That was after we had beaten them at Leeds Road 2-1, with Jimmy Lawson and Roy Ellam scoring for us during a run of four wins in five games.

We had played matches against Leeds City, but our first game against Leeds United came in 1924 at Bellend Road, a 1-1 draw and a goal for Town legend Billy Smith. Later in the season we had our first win against our new neighbours, 2-0 at Leeds Road, Smith again scoring with another legend George Brown getting the second.

So what's happening down at that big old yellow skip? Managed nowadays by Marcelo Bielsa, the former English Language teacher, who gave up playing football at the age of 25. He was a defender who had played in Argentina for Newell's Old Boys. His first coaching job was with the same club but by 1998 had worked his way all the way to Spain to be manager of Espanyol. That job didn't last long as he was offered the job of managing the Argentine national team.

This was not one of Argentina's best moves. Despite being traditionally one of world football's big guns, Bielsa couldn't get them through the group stage of the 2002 World Cup, famously getting beaten by England 1-0 with a penalty from David Beckham. He moved on to Chile in 2007 and did sod all there. He moved then to Athletic Bilbao, bottling the biggest game of his career, losing 0-3 to Atlético Madrid in the 2012 Europa League Final. After that he went to France and a job with Marseille, before three clubs beginning with L in Lazio, Lille and Leeds, doing and winning bugger all.

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PARP!

So who have the BellEnders got in their squad? Liam Cooper is the club captain. He came on loan to us from Hull City in 2011 and wasn't very good at all. They have ex Northampton Town winger Stuart Dallas and ex MK Dons striker Patrick Bamford. Pablo Hernández is a bit of a dangerman. He had a couple of seasons in the Premier League with Swansea.

The keeper these days was a lad from Spain called Kiko Casilla, but he's a racist prick serving an 8 match ban. So his place at Hull went to 19-year-old Illan Meslier He is, according to Wikipedia, on loan from a team called Lorient. They must mean Leyton Orient, surely!

They've ex Newport defender Ben White who's on loan from Brighton. And ex Yeovil full back Luke Ayling. Another Premier loan man is Jack Harrison, he's on loan from Man City. Also in midfield is Polish lad Mateusz Klich and yet another Premier Inn loanee, Hélder Costa, on loan from Wolverhampton.

The lynch pin of the team though is Kalvin Phillips, who came through their academy and has now over 150 appearances to his name. He's an ugly little bugger! Whistle

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Kalvin Phillips

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BellEnders!

Club Connections:

Izzy Brown: scored with his first touch of the ball after coming on as sub against Leeds in the famous win over them in 2017. It was one of five goals he scored in the second half of the promotion campaign after coming on loan from Chelsea in January. This was after he had been on loan at Rotherham, being their best player in the match against us at the JSS earlier on in the season. His last goal for us was another important one. He scored the goal in a 1-0 win at Wolverhampton which secured our Play Off spot. He came ever so close to being a total Town legend when missing by inches at Wembley which would have given us another 1-0 win instead of having to go through the penalty shoot out, but that wouldn't have been the Town way, would it. Rolleyes

Earlier in his career, he became the second youngest player ever to turn out in the Premier League when he came on as a sub for West Brom in a match against Wigan. That was his only first team game for the Baggies and in the summer of 2013 he was poached by Chelsea after rejecting a new contract. Ironically, his one and only Chelsea appearance to date came against West Brom, as a sub, in 2015.

Following his successful time with us, he went on loan to Brighton in the Premier League, because of Premier League rules we had already taken Kasey Palmer on loan and we couldn't have two players on loan from the same club (I think). And so his career sort of faded away for a while. So much so that he ended up on loan at Leeds United and took part in last season's glorious cock up. He spent almost the entire loan period injured, making only one league appearance, a 0-1 defeat to QPR. Then making his second appearance for the White Shite in the famous defeat at home to Derby in the Play Offs semi final 2nd leg, coming on as an 88th minute substitute to ensure they didn't get back into it. Legend! Big Grin

He's still on Chelsea's books and now at the age of 23 he's out on loan at his sixth loan club, Luton Town.

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George Brown: no relation to Izzy, don't think so anyway. George, known as Bomber Brown, is the all time leading goalscorer for Huddersfield Town and has been since he scored his 159th goal for us in April 1929 against Leicester City. I can't see that being overtaken in my lifetime, unless Andy Booth comes out of retirement. His first Town goal came as part of a brace against WBA in a 2-3 defeat at the Hawthorns on New Years Eve 1921 and was followed two days later by another in a defeat against Man City at Maine Road. He scored his fourth goal in three games a couple of weeks later when the Baggies came to Leeds Road and Town won 2-0. This all came shortly after he came to Leeds Road during a miners strike (he worked at Mickley Colliery) and asked Herbert Chapman for a trial.

The following season again he only made a handful of appearances, playing alongside Charlie Wilson, who he would eventually replace as centre forward. He scored 6 goals in 12 games that season. The next season though, with Wilson again leading the line, George Bomber Brown chipped in with 8 goals in 22 matches as Town won the first of three successive First Division league titles. And the most important of those came in a 3-0 win at home to Nottingham Forest, with George Cook scoring the 1st and 3rd goals, meaning that Town had pipped Cardiff City to the title on goal average, the tightest winning margin ever in the history of football anywhere on the planet.

Town retained the title in 1924/25 and it was Brown and Wilson chipping in with the goals again, Wilson top scoring with 24 and Brown with 20. Georger the Bomber scored the first goal of the season, a 3-1 win up at Newcastle. He scored his first goal against Leeds Utd that season in a 2-0 win at home and scored a hattrick at Preston at the back end of the season as Town closed in on the title with a 4-1 victory. In the end, we won it by the enormous amount of two points, enormous that is, compared to the previous season.

In the summer of 1925 though, Chapman left for Arsenal, leaving Cecil Potter in charge. By the end of the season, Town had completed the hattrick of titles, beating Chapman's Arsenal by 5 points. And it was George Bomber Brown leading the way. Wilson got injured early on and only played 4 matches. It was Brown who topped the goal scoring chart with a superb 35 goals, equalling the club record held by Sam Taylor. He scored in both matches against Leeds and scored hattricks against Everton and Man City.

In the next season, he only scored 27 as Town finished runners up to Newcastle. Three of those goals came in a 4-1 win over our local rivals Leeds Utd at Leeds Road. And it was 27 goals again in the next season as Town came runners up again, this time to Everton, who's striker Dixie Dean only managed to score 60 goals! No goals against Leeds in this particular season. They'd been relegated. He did score 4 goals in one match though, a 6-1 FA Cup victory over Spurs en route to his first FA Cup Final (he wasn't selected for the 1922 Final), which we lost 1-3 against Blackburn Rovers.

The following season was a bit of a come down for the Town faithful. We only finished 16th, but Brown scored another couple of goals against Leeds, this time in a 6-1 win at home. Only 15 league goals for him this time around, 23 in total as Town reached the cup semi finals. And that was his Town career over, with 159 goals in 229 matches.

He went on to Aston Villa next, scoring 79 goals for them in 5 years. Then to Burnley for a season, scoring 24 goals. Then it was to Leeds where he scored 19 goals in his one season there before moving to Darlington and becoming their player/manager. And when he finally hung up his boots, he had a total of 273 goals in 440 games. He also played 9 times for England, scoring 5 goals, one against Ireland on his debut, two against Belgium in a 9-1 win and two against France in a 6-0 win. Only 9 caps seems not a lot for such a prolific scorer, but he was up against the aforementioned Dixie of Everton.

After leaving the Darlo job, he got himself a pub in Aston, but then tragically at the age of just 44 he died after a short illness in 1948.

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Dave Mangnall: signed for Town from Leeds Utd in December 1929 as a replacement for George Brown, who had departed for Aston Villa in the summer. It was a case of replacing Huddersfield Town's leading goal scorer with a man who would go on to have the Town's greatest goals to matches ratio, scoring 73 goals in 90 matches. He was another who had come from working darn t' pit. As the saying used to go, Huddersfield Town just went and shouted down the nearest pit shaft when they needed a new striker. Dave had gone darn t' pit in t' first place because he was rejected after a trial at Town and went to play as an amateur for Doncaster Rovers.

He was given another chance by Leeds Utd and scored ten goals for their reserves in one match, a 13-0 win against Stockport County reserves. This led to him being picked for their first XI and his 6 goals in 9 matches for the BellEnders impressed Clem Stephenson enough to persuade the directors of Huddersfield Town to fork out the princely sum of £3,000 for him.

He made his Town debut in a 0-2 defeat down at the Arsenal, but scored his first Town goals, two of them, in a 3-2 win at West Ham on Christmas Day 1929 and scored again on Boxing Day as West Ham came up north and were beaten 3-0 with Bob Kelly and Harry Raw getting the others. He scored 8 goals in 14 matches that season, but didn't get selected for the FA Cup Final when we lost 0-1 to the Arsenal, Harry Davies getting the nod ahead of him.

In the following season he scored 9 goals in 12 games as Town finished 5th in the first division. But the next season, 1931/32, Mangnall set his name in stone in the Huddersfield Town record books. We finished 4th in the league, but that was mainly down to Dave's 42 goals in 39 matches (33 in the league), which is still a club record, only Jordan Rhodes has come anywhere near since. He scored 5 goals in a 6-0 win over Derby County, which young Jordan did manage to match against Wycombe Wanderers, but they are the only two Town players to have done so. Dave did get another record that nobody has come anywhere near matching though and that is the club record for scoring in consecutive matches. He scored in 11 straight matches (7 league, 4 FA Cup, 19 goals). He did score in 9 straight league matches, but in between those was another famous match in which Town failed to score. That was the FA Cup quarter final match at Leeds Road against the Arsenal, which was attended by 67,037 people, another club record that will definitely never be beaten. Arsenal won 1-0.

Town finished 6th next season, but without the Mangnall boy who only played three times due to a serious injury. He was back in 33/34, playing in 16 games and scoring 10 goals as Town finished as runners up to Arsenal, who were completing their hat trick of titles, but without Herbert Chapman who had died earlier in the year.

His last game for Town was in a 0-3 defeat at Stoke in January 1934 and his last goal for Town was in the previous game, a 1-1 draw against Leeds Utd at Bellend Road. Injury ruled him out for the rest of the season and in the summer he was sold to Birmingham City, where he scored 14 goals in one season, before going down to London to play for West Ham. He scored 28 times in his one season at Upton Park before leaving to become a legend at their neighbours Millwall. During the 36/37 season his goals led the Lions to the FA Cup semi finals, the first 3rd division team to reach that stage. On the way they beat Aldershot, Gateshead, Fulham, Chelsea, Derby and then in the quarter finals they beat Manchester City, who were, as now, the star studded team of the day. Mangnall scored the first goal in the match at the Den, in which Millwall won 2-0 to earn a semi spot, to be played against Sunderland at one of Dave's old stamping grounds, the wonderful Leeds Road stadium in Huddersfield. There must have been a fair few Town supporters cheering him on in another big crowd of 62,813 as he opened the scoring in the semi final, but Sunderland came back to win 2-1 and go on to win the cup against Preston at Wembley.

Dave was famous now and as such went and asked for a pay rise from the Millwall management. This was long before players had any power at all and so he left the club to run a grocers shop in Sutton Coldfield. As the second world war was just kicking off, he returned to London and signed for QPR. Scored 3 times in three games for Rangers, which were crossed off as the fledgling season was abandoned. He stayed in London for the Blitz, playing for the QPR team in the Wartime League and becoming manager in 1944.

He must've been some kind of celebrity because he became friends with the American singer/comedian/film star Sophie Tucker, who became Godmother to his son. He stayed at Loftus Road as boss after the war and remained in the post until 1952. It was his only managers job as he left football to go live in Cornwall as landlord of the Navy Inn in Penzance. It was here that he died in 1962, aged 57.

Recent form: Town are 17th in the Championship with 42 points. Leeds are 2nd with 68.

Last 6 games:

Town 4-0 Charlton
Town 2-1 Bristol City
Swansea 3-1 Town
Derby 1-1 Town
Town 0-3 Cardiff
Town 2-0 QPR

Hull 0-4 Leeds
Boro 0-1 Leeds
Leeds 1-0 Reading
Leeds 1-0 Bristol City
Brentford 1-1 Leeds
Forest 2-0 Leeds

'ow to get theere an' wheere to sup: Apparently there's an away fans bar next to the away turnstiles called Howard's. If you don't fancy that, there's the Drysalters, which apparently has a good mixture of home and away fans. I wouldn't bother wi' that me sen. That's all that's recommended on the Football Fans Guide, other than to say don't go in the Old Peacock!
How to get there? Follow Leeds Road easterly through Liversedge, Birstall, Gildersome and look for a massive skip.

Matchday in Howard's Bar

Leeds in popular culture: I'm really really really struggling to find any at all. There was of course the singer with a popular nineties girl band, Mel B of the Spice Girls. She was born and raised in the idyllic sounding Hyde Park area of Leeds. Here she is in a video showing us around her beautiful penthouse apartment in Beverley Hills where she lived with the Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy.

That's it really. The only other significant thing to have happened in this talent vacuum is that one of the greatest rock bands ever, The Who recorded the definitive live album, Live at Leeds, at the University of Leeds Refectory in February 1970. It has been cited by several music critics as the best live rock recording of all time.

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - theo_luddite - 05-03-2020

A truly magic bus of a story that Snoots Thumb up

Was giggling from the opening screenshot of Bellend Road to the point where I've just been and dried me legs off from the tears of merriment that were rolling down them. Hopefully they will become tears of joy on Saturday afternoon.

Oh and as far as the racist L666s keeper claiming he didn't understand what he was saying .... https://www.theguardian.com/football/leedsunited+championship, yeah, right.

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - Lord Snooty - 06-03-2020

Fans going to the match have been advised not to high five or hug each other because of the Corona virus threat. Doh

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - theo_luddite - 06-03-2020

You and Amchaff quarantined from each other until after the playoffs then Snoots? Yeah, ok. 20,000 tested and we've found a slack handful over 150 that apparently have it. A pair of coffin dodgers have died that were a bad cold from their last breaths. Meanwhile hundreds, maybe thousands have died of the worst flu virus and/or pneumonia in donkeys years and it doesn't get a bleeding mention and this flu virus started in China too. Er, the government reactions to this are what exactly? It's their borrowed voters that are turning up their toes?

Yorkshire has upgraded the threat to "put t'kettle on" status.

Sorry, football fred not a politics fred.

DC and Lewis on Radio Local, hope you don't mind me hijacking the thread Snoots

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p085wbrp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p085wh54

They do go on a bit Big Grin

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - Lord Snooty - 06-03-2020

Hijack away, theo. All is welcome. Who's DC Lewis by the way? Wasn't he the Kevin Wateley character in Morse? Whistle

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - Lord Snooty - 06-03-2020

And another thing! How come when we play them at home it's allus on Sky, but when we play em at t'skip it's never on?
What the chuff are we paying Sky for? Them lot are on all t' time an all. Huh

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 06-03-2020

What the hell's going on with Billy Bremner's face on that statue? He looks like a cross between an evil clown and Tony Blair.

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - jjamez - 06-03-2020

Think it's because when it's at town there's 500000000000 fans that can't see it unless it's on sky

Whereas when we are away they think little old Huddersfield only have 50 people interested

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - Lord Snooty - 06-03-2020

(06-03-2020, 22:04)Ska\dForLife-WBA Wrote: What the hell's going on with Billy Bremner's face on that statue? He looks like a cross between an evil clown and Tony Blair.

He always was an ugly little bugger. But not that ugly. Laugh

RE: Town @ Bellend Road - theo_luddite - 06-03-2020

Hmm, tried to buy Genesis tix yesterday and this morning with no success, but today you can buy what you want for 5-10x the original price from Viagogo. They were advertising them before they went on sale. No xxxx fiddle going on there then. Same bollox went on with Prima Donna League tix when we were up there by the way

I'm asleep by 2 beers past 9pm Snoots most nights so don't ask me owt about telebox stuff.