[Lord Snooty]

Huddersfield Town v Blackburn Rovers
The Sky Bet Championship
Tuesday September 28th - 19:45 ko
at Leeds Road

Huddersfield Town welcome Blackburn Rovers to the John McAlpharm on Tuesday evening for the first MUST WIN game of the season. Must win? Yes, must win! Despite losing the last two games, away at Swansea and home to Forest, we still somehow are in 7th position in the Sky Rocket Championship. Our opponents, Blackburn are the team immediately above us, but with a three point advantage. Win and we shut that gap right off. Lose and we lose all the benefits from our great start to the season. Not just that, with others catching us, we fall into mid table and probably another relegation scrap.

So how does head coach, Carlos Corberán go about changing the downward momentum of the last two matches? Well surely it's now time to give young West Ham loanee Mipo Odubeko a start. Why not? Both Danny Ward and Fraizer Campbell have failed to deliver when selected this season and with Jordan Rhodes out with a long term injury, surely it's time to give youth a chance. Otherwise, what's the point of him being here? Might as well stay down south and play in the Pizza Trophy.

Scottish Highlands ought to get a go as well. He got deselected only because of Carlos rotating the squad, only for the team to go on a three match winning run. Young Scotty was one of the best midfielders up until that point. Ought to get another go with the current midfield not performing. Who misses out though between Jonathan Hogg and Lewis O'Brien? Probably neither, possibly Danel Sinani will miss out. One who really should be back in the starting XI is Josh Koroma, who can score a goal out of nothing and can get a shot on target, which we didn't have one of down in South Wales.

Worrabart Blackburn then? They come here on the back of a 5-1 home win against Cardiff. Stoke born, ex Forest, Chilean international Ben Brereton-Diaz scored a hat trick and is their leading scorer this season with seven from ten. They've now gone five games unbeaten, since they lost at home to the Baggies on August 21st and will fancy their chances to extend that here. How will they do that? Stop Sorba Thomas seems to be the way by the look of the last two Town matches. Our top scorer is a defender and we have scored more than half of our goals from his set pieces, so avoiding giving silly free kicks away in awkward positions is all they really need to do. Or is it?

COME ON TOWN!

A brief history of Blackburn Rovers: formed in 1875, they were such a force in the early form of the game that they had won the FA Cup three times in a row before the Football League had even been formed. They first reached the Final in 1882 but were beaten 0-1 by Old Etonians. The next season, the Cup came to Blackburn for the first time, but it wasn't to Rovers. It was the other team in the town, Blackburn Olympic who won it, But then Rovers won the next three. They beat Queen's Park twice (2-0 and 2-1) and West Bromwich Albion once (2-0 in a replay after a 0-0 draw).

They were one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888, which unfortunately led to the demise of their Olympic neighbours and made it to another Cup Final in 1890. They won again, beating the Wednesday 6-1, with William Townley becoming the first player to score a Cup Final hat trick, and followed it up with their 5th Final win in the next season, beating Notts County 3-1. They struggled in the league that season though and only avoided relegation to the recently formed 2nd Division because of the decision to increase the number of teams in the First.

They had moved into Ewood Park in 1890 and started to make improvements to the ground at the turn of the century. They won their first League title in 1911/12 and won it for a second time in 1913/14. They stayed in the top flight until they were relegated for the first time at the end of the 1935/36 season, but before that they won the FA Cup for the sixth and final time to date, when as underdogs they beat the mighty Huddersfield Town in 1928. More of that later.

They won promotion just before the outbreak of the 2nd world war by winning the 2nd division, but went back down again in 47/48. They stayed down for ten seasons, finally coming back up in 1958 and achieving mid table mediocrity for a while. They made it to Wembley again for the 1960 Final, but were beaten by Wolves 0-3, playing most of the game with ten men after future Wigan owner Dave Whelan, broke his leg and of course there were no subs in those days.

They were relegated again in 1966 and wouldn't return to the top for another 26 years. They sunk lower in 1971, dropping to the 3rd division for the first time. They came up again as champions in 1975, but went back down again in 1979. That was just for one season though as they bounced straight back, finishing as runners up to Grimsby Town.

This was under the management of Howard Kendall, who then almost got them up again, but they missed out on goal difference and Kendall was lured away to manage his old club Everton, where he would go on to win the League title.

They lifted the Full Member's Cup in 1987, after beating us on route to Wembley, where they beat Charlton Athletic 1-0 with a goal from Colin Hendry. A couple of years later, they made it to the Play Offs for the first time, when it was still played over two legs in the final. They beat Watford in the semis, but lost 3-4 on aggregate to Crystal Palace. They got to the Play Offs again in the following season, but missed out on the first Wembley Play Off weekend by losing on aggregate to Swindon Town. But success wasn't far away.

Local steelworks owner, Jack Walker took over the club and set about spending a portion of his £600m personal fortune on turning the club he had supported all his life, into one of the best in the country. It wasn't immediate success. They struggled in his first season there, but then he appointed the legend Kenny Dalglish as manager. He got them to the Play Offs, sneaking in as 6th place finishers. This time they won it, after beating Derby in the semis, they faced Leicester City and won it 1-0 with a Mike Newell penalty just before half time.

Winning promotion got them into the first season of the Premier League and they did alright, finishing 4th. They followed that with ending the next season as runners up to Manchester United. But then in 94/95, they won the League title, their first since before the First World War. Big money buy, Alan Shearer scored 34 goals in the season, a good investment of Walker's money pot. He spent a whopping £3.6m on him from Southampton. It went down to the last game of the season and despite losing at Anfield, they won the title due to Man Utd failing to win their game at West Ham.

But then Dalglish packed in, took a job "upstairs" and handed the reigns over to Ray Harford. They struggled, did nowt in Europe and after a few different managers had had a go, it was Brian Kidd in charge when they got relegated in 1999.

The struggles continued. Kidd was sacked and replaced by Graeme Souness. Uncle Jack died though at the start of the 2000/01 season. His death kicked the club out of it's slumbers and Souness led them to promotion, finishing as runners up to Fulham.

Walker had left a huge amount of cash in the Ewood coffers and so they spent a massive amount of it bringing in Andy Cole from Man Utd. His goals helped Rovers finish high enough to qualify for Europe again, as well as winning the League Cup for the one and only time. Cole scored the winner in the Final against Tottenham Hotspur in a 2-1 win after Matt Jansen had given them the lead.

It was mid table mediocrity on the menu again though through a succession of big name managers like Mark Hughes, Paul Ince and Sam Allardyce. Big Sam was sacked in 2010 when the new owners, Venky's London Limited took over the running of the club. They put Steve Kean in the manager's office, a move that proved unpopular, especially when he got them relegated to the Championship in 2012.

They haven't been back to the Prima Donna League since and actually went down to the 3rd tier in 2017, blaming David Wagner and Huddersfield Town for their relegation as we played a weakened team at Birmingham, allowing them to win and thus relegating Rovers. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

They came straight back up though, finishing as runners up to Wigan and have been in the Championship mid table obscurity ever since.

Head to Head



Blackburn lead the head to head with 33 wins to Town's 25, with 34 draws.

Up until last season's debacle at Ewood, when we lost 5-1, we had actually gone nine games unbeaten against Blackburn Rovers. So that defeat was a bit of a shocker in more ways than one. Thankfully, Adam Armstrong who scored a hat trick in that match, has now gone to Southampton. Earlier in the season, we had beaten them at home 2-1, just after Christmas with two goals from Naby Sarr, with the winner coming in the 90th minute.

Our first meetings came in 1920/21 after we had been promoted to Division One for the first time and came within five days of each other as the league fixtures back then were played back to back. We played out a goalless draw at Leeds Road on the 5th of Feb 1921, but then went to Ewood on the 10th and Billy Smith and Ernie Islip scored in a 2-1 win.

Twelve months later, we played them in our successful FA Cup campaign. We met at theirs in the 3rd round and played out a 1-1 draw, with Frank Mann scoring for us. But then in the replay, we pumped them 5-0. Those three names got the goals again, with Mann scoring first, followed by two for Islip and two for Smith. Town then beat Millwall and Notts County, before playing up and bringing the Cup back to Huddersfield by beating Preston in the Final.

We won a couple of vital points in the conquest to become thrice champions against Rovers, winning 3-1 at Leeds Road in April 1926 as the mighty Town closed in on the title. Two contrasting goalscorers in this one. George Brown, who went on to become our all time record goalscorer, scored a couple and Albert Smith got his one and only goal for the club before his transfer to Bradford City in the close season.

Blackburn won the FA Cup for the 6th time in 1928. Unfortunately it was against us. And more unfortunately, the backlog of fixtures and subsequent defeats allowed Everton to overtake us and win the League title. We had three games against Sheffield United in the semi finals, but eventually won through as Alex Jackson scored the only goal of the second replay at Maine Road in front of a crowd of 69,370. There were 92,041 fans in for the Final, for both clubs first game at Wembley and not everybody would have been in to see Blackburn take the lead with what now would have been a disallowed goal. Rovers skipper Henry Healless took the ball down the wing and sent in a high cross. Syd Puddefoot bundled Town keeper Willie Mercer into the back of the net when he caught the ball. Knowing it would still count as a goal if he held on, Mercer dropped the ball but it fell to John Roscamp who tapped it home to give them the lead after just 40 seconds.
Tom McLean made it two in the 22nd minute and Rovers went in 2-0 up at half time. Scotsman Jackson, who three weeks earlier had scored a hat trick for his country in a famous 5-1 win at Wembley against England, was tightly marked by future Town star Austen Campbell, but he couldn't prevent Jackson reducing the deficit in the 55th minute. Town pressed for the equaliser but it never came and then in the 85th minute, Roscamp scored his second to wrap the game up and give the Cup to Blackburn.

There were some high scoring matches over the next few seasons. A 2-5 defeat at Ewood in 29/30, a 3-5 defeat in the season after, a 5-3 victory at Leeds Road in 33/34 and then in 34/35 came a famous win. That was in April 1935 when we won 6-0 at home and Alf Lythgoe became the second Town player to score five goals in a match. The first to do that was Dave Mangnall four years earlier and the third came more recently from Jordan Rhodes.

The next meeting of significance came at the end of the 30s. Blackburn had dropped to the 2nd Division, but were top of the league on way to becoming champions by the time we met in the FA Cup quarter finals. We were drawn to play at home and were expected to win, but could only manage a 1-1 draw, with Billy Price getting ours in front of 56,518 spectators. There were only a couple of thousand less there at Ewood Park for the replay, despite it being played on a Thursday afternoon. Our brave lads won it 2-1 with outside right Jack Mahon scoring his only Town goal after joining from West Brom, and the winner coming from Pat Beasley.

Blackburn were relegated in 1948 and we went down in 1952, so the game at Leeds Road on Easter Monday 1948 was the last time these two clubs met in the top flight of English football. It was a 1-1 draw and Albert Bateman scored ours.

So the next significant match for us in this series was in the 1969/70 season when we went to Ewood already promoted after we had secured promotion with a draw at Middlesbrough on the Tuesday before. We won the match 2-0 with a couple of Frank Worthington goals and this secured us the Second Division Championship.

Our next few meetings were in the third division, but after Blackburn had become a Premier League side in the 90s, we met in the League Cup in 1992. We were still in the 3rd division, but held our own against them in an exciting two legged affair. Iffy Onuora scored for us in the home leg, before Alan Shearer scored one of his specials to equalise. The second leg, a fortnight later was a classic. Blackburn took an early lead, but the goals from Gary Barnett, Iwan Roberts and Simon Ireland put us into a highly unlikely 4-2 aggregate lead. Of course we blew it. Rovers fought back to take it to extra time and then that twat Shearer won it for them.

Their Premier League days were short lived though and by 1999 we were both in the 2nd division. We met in the second game of the 1999/2000 season, a Friday night Sky Sports match with a cracking conclusion. A future Town manager opened the scoring. It was Blackburn's Simon Grayson putting the ball into his own net. Marcus Stewart made it 2-0 to Town early in the second half, but then in typical Town fashion, we threw it away as Lee Carlsey pulled one back and then Marlon Broomes equalised in the 89th minute. But hold on. Town weren't finished yet and up popped Rob Edwards with an injury time winner.

They did the double over us in the next season as we got relegated. We did meet up again in the League Cup in 2005 and they beat us 3-1. And then when we came back up to the Championship, with the goals of Jordan Rhodes firing us up there, the naughty boy went and signed for them for a huge fee, which he immediately started to pay back. Over the next three seasons, he scored six goals against us. 

In the 2016/17 season, which saw us go up and them go down, both games were 1-1 draws. Both matches were played in December, so the significance of the dropped points wasn't obvious. Kasey Palmer scored at theirs and Nahki Wells got an injury time equaliser at ours, his fourth for us against Rovers.

So what's going on down Ewood way? Managed nowadays by Tony Mowbray, the former Middlesbrough player and manager. Born in Saltburn in 1963, he played his first match for his local club as an 18 year old in 1982 and by the age of 22 he was club captain. As skipper, he led Boro to promotion to the First Division, but then in 1991, after 424 games, he was transferred to Celtic for a million quid.
He stayed there for four years, in which time his wife Bernadette died of breast cancer aged 26. This was during one of Celtic's lean periods, so not really the best of times for him and so in 1995 he went back south and joined Ipswich Town.
He had five years at Portman Road, turning out 152 times for them, the last of which was his one and only game at Wembley as a player. He scored as well. It was the equaliser in a 4-2 Play Off Final win against Barnsley in 2000.
He went into coaching with Ipswich and then went back up to Scotland and joined Hibs for his first managerial job (apart from a short caretaker's role at Ipswich) in 2004. Two seasons at Easter Road, both ending with European qualification, before travelling back south again to take up the job as manager of West Brom.
He got them to the Play Offs in his first season. They beat Wolves in the semis but then got beat by Derby in the Final. Undeterred, they went and won the Championship the following season and made it to the FA Cup semis. However, it was instant relegation and instead of another season in the Championship, Mowbray went back up to Scotland to manage Celtic.
It was a short stint there. Despite having a more than 50% win rate, his team were so far behind Rangers, he got the sack before the end of the season, following a defeat by St Mirren. He wasn't out of work long though and when Gordon Strachan got dumped by Tony's home club, he was appointed manager of Middlesbrough in October 2010.
He stayed there four years, won nowt and then went to Coventry. Won nowt there and signed on at Blackburn in February 2017, just in time to get them relegated to League One. That was only a one season drop and they came straight back up to where, now in his 4th season there, he has secured mid table mediocrity.

Saturday's line up at home to Cardiff:

1 Thomas Kaminski - 28 year old Belgian
2 Ryan Nyambe - 23 year old defender from Namibia
26 Darragh Lenihan - Irish defender who made his debut against Town in 2015
5 Daniel Ayala - 30 year old ex Liverpool Spanish centre back
3 Harry Pickering - 22 year old left back from Crewe
27 Lewis Travis - Midfielder in his 3rd season at Blackburn
8 Joe Rothwell - Signed from Oxford Utd in 2018
9 Sam Gallagher - 26 year old ex Southampton striker
10 Tyrhys Dolan - 19 year old midfielder signed from PNE
21 John Buckley - 21 year old midfielder came through Academy
22 Ben Brereton Díaz - 22 year old striker born in Stoke, plays for Chile

Subs:
7 Reda Khadra - 20 year old German winger, on loan from Brighton
13 Aynsley Pears - ex Boro keeper
14 Daniel Butterworth - 22 year old striker, ex Man U
19 Leighton Clarkson - 19 year old midfielder on loan from Liverpool
20 Tayo Edun - Left back signed from Lincoln in August
24 Hayden Carter - 21 year old defender
30 Ian Poveda-Ocampo - on loan from the BellEnders

Club connections: Austen Campbell was a wing half, who formed a formidable half back line at Leeds Road with Alf Young and Ken Willingham. That was in the 30s, but his career didn't take off until he was 22 years old when he joined Blackburn in the 20s. He started at Coventry, but after failing to break through there, he left football and got a job darn t' pit in his native Durham. After playing part time with a local club, he eventually signed on at Ewood Park in 1925 and helped them reach the FA Cup semis. Three years later, he went one stage further and won a winners medal as Rovers beat the mighty Huddersfield Town in the 1928 Cup Final.
So impressed were the Town management that they signed him on for the next season when Willie Watson retired. He won a runners up medal in 1930 when we lost in the Final again, this time to Arsenal. Town were still a force to be reckoned with, but Austen never won another medal and left for Hull in 1935, spending one season there before retiring. He died aged 80 in 1981 in Blackburn.

Matty Pearson of the current Town squad, joined Blackburn at the age of 10. He came through the academy and signed his first professional contract in 2011. At 18 years old, he was sent on loan to Conference side Lincoln City, but only made one FA Trophy appearance before making a Rovers return. Then, after nine years at the club, he was released without making the first team. He signed for Rochdale and has since been to Halifax, Accrington, Barnsley and Luton.

Harry McShane began his career with Blackburn before the 2nd World War. He was a winger and despite being on Rovers' books for nine years, because of the war, he only has 2 appearances for them on his CV. After the war, he signed for Town, but only stayed for one season, scoring one goal against Derby in a 5-2 win, before missing most of the season with a broken arm. He then left for Bolton and then Man Utd, where he won a League title medal in 51/52. After there, he went to Oldham, but on retirement went back to Old Trafford where he spent years as the stadium announcer. He died in November 2012, aged 92 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
He had a famous son. Can you name him? The answer is below somewhere.

Some others:-
Kasey Palmer: Town: 32 games, 5 goals. Rovers: 17 games, 3 goals.
Jon Stead: Town: 100 games, 27 goals. Rovers: 34 game, 2 goals
Jordan Rhodes: Town: 148 games, 87 goals. Rovers: 169 games, 85 goals.
Kevin Gallacher: Rovers: 144 games, 46 goals. Town: 7 games, 0 goals.

And some more. Simon Grayson managed us and played for 39 games for them. The only goal he scored in a Blackburn shirt was mentioned above, an own goal for Town. Sam Allardyce played one season for us in the 80s and later managed Rovers for two years between 2008 and 10, before being chickened out by the Venky's.

Jim Branagan had a bit part in the Mick Buxton era, but was sold to Blackburn before all the success happened. He made over 300 appearances for them.

Kevin Stonehouse also featured in the Buxton era. Not very much though. His main claim to Terriers fame was scoring the winner in the FA Cup against high flying QPR in 1983. Before that, he had a reasonable scoring record at Rovers, 27 goals from 85 games. Sadly though, he died in 2019, aged only 59.

Simon Ireland only scored once for Town. That was against Blackburn in the League Cup game mentioned above. So impressed were they that they signed him on........and played him once. He's now a coach at the Wendy.

Finally, and I know there are others I haven't mentioned, Giorgos Donis was our first really big money signing of the Barry Rubery era. He was utter shite! He had earlier played for Blackburn in the Premier League. Nowadays, he manages in Saudi Arabia.

Blackburn in popular culture: The most famous person from Blackburn isn't that famous yet, but will be in the coming weeks. AJ Odudu has just started her run in the new series of Strictly and her fame over the next three months holds no bounds. She was outstanding in the first show, dancing the Jive and topped the leaderboard of Week One. She was born and raised in Blackburn and went to the same school as comedian Lee Mack, as discussed in an episode of Would I Tell Pork Sausages To You, and also ex Town star Anthony Pilkington, which wasn't mentioned in the show.

Another Town connection from the world of showbiz is Lovejoy actor, Ian McShane. He was born in Blackburn when his dad, Harry McShane played for Rovers.

One of Amelia's heroes, Barbara Castle was MP for Blackburn for 34 years (1945–1979). So much of a hero, she's named her car Barbara in her honour. 

Pioneers of film, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, had their premises in Blackburn. They made films around the turn of the last century when such stuff was in it's infancy. Many years later, during the demolition of a shop in the town, a load of their old film spools were discovered. Fortunately, the workmen didn't just bin them, but instead handed them to a local cinematographer, who stored them in his garage, until eventually they ended up with the British Film Institute. Loads of them are now on YouTube, including this one taken at a match between Sheffield Utd and Bury. This features the famous goalkeeper Bill "Fatty" Foulkes, who was in the Blunts goal.



Tony Ashton of the rock trio Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, was born in Blackburn. Here's their biggest hit, Resurrection Shuffle, which got to number 3 in 1971.




Recent form - last 6 matches:

Swansea 1-0 Town
Town 0-2 Forest
Blackpool 0-3 Town
Stoke 2-1 Town
Town 4-0 Reading
Town 1-2 Everton (EFL Cup)

Blackburn 5-1 Cardiff
Barnsley 0-0 Blackburn
Blackburn 2-0 Hull
Blackburn 2-2 Luton
Boro 1-1 Blackburn
Blackburn 1-2 WBA

Leading scorers:

Terriers:
Matty Pearson (3)
Josh Koroma (2)

Rovers:
Ben Brereton Diaz (7)
Sam Gallagher (3)
Tyrhys Dolan (3)


September the 28th down the ages: How did we get on in previous matches played on this date?

1912: Leicester Fosse (h) Div 2, WON 3-0 (James Howie, James Macauley 2)
1918: Bradford Park Avenue (h) Wartime League, drew 0-0
1929: Newcastle Utd (a) Div 1, lost 2-5 (Johnny Dent, Harry Davies)
1935: Bolton Wanderers (h) Div 1, drew 0-0
1940: Halifax Town (a) Wartime League, drew 1-1 (Neil)
1946: Everton (h) Div 1, WON 1-0 (Jimmy Glazzard)
1957: Stoke City (h) Div 2, WON 1-0 (Jack Connor)
1963: Preston North End (a) Div 2, lost 1-2 (Len White)
1968: Bury (h) Div 2, WON 4-1 (Trevor Cherry, Brian Hill 2, Roy Ellam)
1974: Crystal Palace (h) Div 3, lost 0-1
1979: Stockport County (a) Div 4, WON 2-1 (Mick Laverick, Peter Hart)
1982: Orient (h) Div 3, WON 6-0 (Colin Russell, Mark Lillis, Daral Pugh, Dave Sutton, Brian Stanton 2)
1985: Sunderland (a) Div 2, lost 0-1
1991: Leyton Orient (a) Div 3, lost 0-1
1993: Doncaster Rovers (h) FL Trophy, WON 3-1 (Phil Starbuck, Iain Dunn 2)
1996: Reading (h) Division One (2nd tier), WON 1-0 (Andy Payton)
2002: Oldham Athletic (a) Division Two (3rd tier), lost 0-4
2004: Morecambe (h) FL Trophy, WON 3-0 (David Mirfin, Junior Mendes, Lee Fowler)
2010: Rochdale (a) League One (3rd tier), lost 0-3
2019: Millwall (h) 1-1 Championship, drew 1-1 (Fraizer Campbell)


The goal scored by Johnny Dent in the defeat at Newcastle in 1929 was his 22nd and final goal for Town in his last match for us. He made his debut for Nottingham Forest the week after, scoring on his debut away at Spurs. He went on to become one of only six Forest players to score over a hundred goals. He scored 122 for them, putting him 4th in their all time scoring chart. Earlier in his career, he scored twice on his Town debut in a 2-0 win down at Arsenal after signing for us from Durham City.

Going one better, Len White, who scored on this day at Preston in 1963, is Newcastle's 3rd highest scorer. He scored 153 for them and is only behind legends of the game Jackie Milburn and Alan Shearer. One of his Newcastle goals came at Leeds Road, an equaliser in the last minute of the 1955 FA Cup quarter final, with Town being denied a place in the semi final. We lost the replay. He scored 39 goals over a four season period for us, before moving to Stockport.

The 2004 win against Morecambe in the Autoglass Windscreen Paints Pizza Trophy was the only meeting we have ever had with them. They were in the Conference as well at the time, when the League included a few top non league teams in the competition. Isn't it much better now with Premier League u23's in? The goal scored by Lee Fowler in that match was his only Town goal, apart from his winning penalty in the shoot out at the Millennium Stadium.

The goal by Fraizer Campbell against Millwall in 2019 was his first for the club and the point gained in the match was the first of the new but short lived Danny Cowley era.

Blackburn Anagrams: Some footy related, some not.

1. Hear Arsenal 
   
2. Anna Chimes 
   
3. Pelt Ambulances 
   
4. Kingly Handles 
   
5. JR Cakewalk 
   
6. Mel Cake 
   
7. Oak Powder 
   
8. Cody Lane 
   
9. Ron Josh Adder 
   
10. Definitely Aha 
    

[ritchiebaby]

4 is Kenny Dalglish, 5 is Jack Walker and 9 is Jordan Rhodes. Now I've got the hard ones, I'll leave the easy ones for the rest of you.

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PS - "You don't have to think, you don't have to move a muscle". That's my kind of dance, the Resurrection Shuffle. Now I can't get that drum beat ouit of my mind.

[ritchiebaby]

I'll nip in again with some more difficult answers - 1 is Alan Shearer, 6 is Lee Mack and 7 is Ewood Park.

[Lord Snooty]

Got 36 minutes to spare trying to work out what Carlos is on about?

Yeah! Have a watch of this then.



If you have better things to do, you could have a read of the transcript instead from the Town website.

Huddersfield Town Head Coach Carlos Corberán says that his squad will face a very attacking Blackburn Rovers side at the John Smith’s Stadium on Tuesday 28 September 2021.

Town go into the game off the back of a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Swansea City on Saturday 25 September 2021.

Carlos acknowledges that his side didn’t compete at the level they should.

“In the first half we didn’t compete how we have to compete.

It was clear that the playing out didn’t work.

We know that Swansea are a team that always dominate with a lot of possession of the ball, and in the first half they didn’t dominate as they usually do, their first goal was because we didn’t do well.”

Looking ahead to Tuesday’s game against Blackburn, Town’s Head Coach discussed what his team need to do to turn their luck around.

“Blackburn are a very attacking team with many options in the front of attack.

“We need to show our best defensive performance and our best attacking performance to compete in the game and have the result that we want to have.”

The Spaniard also provided the latest team news.

“A couple of players have some doubts after the Swansea game.

“We’ll see the medical advice today and see how they react to yesterday’s recovery.

“Rolando Aarons not being involved in the team was my decision.

“He’s available to be with the squad.

“Danny Ward was the same, I decided to play the game with Fraizer Campbell instead.

“I had two strikers on the bench – Josh Koroma and Mipo Odubeko.

“I knew that I had more than enough strikers to leave Ward out, and now he’ll be ready for Tuesday.”

Also, here's young Josh Koroma and the Chicken Man on the Andrew Preview Show.

[theo_luddite]

I prefer the slightly shorter Radio Local version, where I can't see his lips move so I don't have to try and lip read what he says as well as hear and try to understand what he says. It's all Esperanto to me anyway.

Be honest, they'd struggle to understand him in Barcelona. Either way it's half a bottle of rioja or two bottles of Timmy Taylors (maybe it should be Magic Rock these days, but they don't sell it in Morrisons or Asda down here) to get through it.


4000 pot holes to "fill the Albert Hall" shaped likes for picking up on a part of my fred from last season Snoots

[jjamez]

I still reckon Rhodes will score goals, I think he's the most natural of strikers we have at the club, obviously he needs to be back fit.

Matt Jansen was very unlucky with how his career went, I think he was just about to really click in the prem before he got that tragic injury.

When I first started playing football manager he was a free agent and I used to always sign him at town.

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2 Ian mcshane

[Lord Snooty]

Ian mcshane correct.

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3, 8 and 10 still to get.

[theo_luddite]

Time to join in, as it's raining outside (better than inside)

3. Austen Campbell
8. Andy Cole

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10 is the song below the anagram

[theo_luddite]

Congratulations to Sorba for getting picked for the Welsh squad, now please get back to playing like you did in August.

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Just looked up Jansen based on your post jjamez. Good memory.

I didn't recall him as most of those turn of the century years were my years in Canada. Apparently he had a trial at Town once over but wasn't given a contract before he played in non-league football, but strange one that with the motorcycle accident. Any of the Town yoof I've ever come across over the years, they had it in their contracts that they couldn't get involved in other dangerous activities, like cricket (huh?), skiing, motorsports etc. so it seems strange that he'd be on a motorbike in Rome. At that age I guess most of us think we are indestructible.

[Lord Snooty]

Yes. All anagrams solved way before kick off. Well done, chaps.

Anyway, giving it a miss tonight. Not getting piss wet through when we can get us jim jams on and watch it on the red button.