14-02-2022, 09:07
February 14th:
Born on this day in 1994 and so celebrating his 28th birthday today is Terence Kongolo. He was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, to Congolese parents and moved to the Netherlands when he was 4 years old.
He moved to Huddersfield when he was 23 years old and was absolute class. On loan from Monaco to start with, he signed on permanently in the summer of 2018 after helping us avoid relegation. It was for a club record fee of seventeen and a half million pounds. And it turned out to be a massive waste. Not just of money but of talent as well. The soft pillock took his bat and ball home and when we had been relegated, he was shipped out on loan to Fulham in the January window.
His career at Fulham has been injury prone and he's only turned out in two games for them, an FA cup match against QPR and one in the PL against Wolves. What's the betting that he makes his comeback against us on Saturday and scores the winner?
What did you think of young Terence then? Quality player too good for the likes of us? Or overpaid prick?
![[Image: Kongolo.png]](https://sportslens.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Kongolo.png)
We have had a few happy Valentine's Days over the years, none more so than when we beat Leeds United in 2009. This was on the back of a magnificent 2-1 win at Bellend Road earlier in the season and so gave us our first league double over the old enemy since 1930/31.
Anyway, this love in down Leeds Road was settled in the 16th minute with a towering header from a corner by Nathan Clarke. And didn't we just love it? Oh yeah, baby!
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The most recent match on this day was another thing of beauty. Valentine's Day 2017......
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Huddersfield three
Rotherham two
Goals from Joe Lolley and Elias Kachunga, followed by a last minute winner from Tommy Smith. Absolute limbs! And you can re-live it all now.....
Town have a good overall record of matches on Valentine's Day with a 57.89% win rate. Or 11 wins from 19 games if you prefer. One that really stands out is from 1925 when Herbert Chapman took his league champions down to Highbury to play Arsenal. There must've been something about this visit that made the Arsenal directors sit up and think; we need to get this man for ourselves. They did in the summer and Chapman replaced former Town employee Leslie Knighton (he had been assistant to Arthur Fairclough) as manager.
The Valentine's Day Massacre took place in 1929. This massacre preceded it by four years. Town won 5-0 with goals from George Brown, Clem Stephenson and a hat trick from Charlie Wilson.
![[Image: WilsonCharlieHuddersfield1923-scaled.jpg]](https://www.vintagefootballers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/WilsonCharlieHuddersfield1923-scaled.jpg)
Born on this day in 1994 and so celebrating his 28th birthday today is Terence Kongolo. He was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, to Congolese parents and moved to the Netherlands when he was 4 years old.
He moved to Huddersfield when he was 23 years old and was absolute class. On loan from Monaco to start with, he signed on permanently in the summer of 2018 after helping us avoid relegation. It was for a club record fee of seventeen and a half million pounds. And it turned out to be a massive waste. Not just of money but of talent as well. The soft pillock took his bat and ball home and when we had been relegated, he was shipped out on loan to Fulham in the January window.
His career at Fulham has been injury prone and he's only turned out in two games for them, an FA cup match against QPR and one in the PL against Wolves. What's the betting that he makes his comeback against us on Saturday and scores the winner?
What did you think of young Terence then? Quality player too good for the likes of us? Or overpaid prick?
We have had a few happy Valentine's Days over the years, none more so than when we beat Leeds United in 2009. This was on the back of a magnificent 2-1 win at Bellend Road earlier in the season and so gave us our first league double over the old enemy since 1930/31.
Anyway, this love in down Leeds Road was settled in the 16th minute with a towering header from a corner by Nathan Clarke. And didn't we just love it? Oh yeah, baby!
The most recent match on this day was another thing of beauty. Valentine's Day 2017......
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Huddersfield three
Rotherham two
Goals from Joe Lolley and Elias Kachunga, followed by a last minute winner from Tommy Smith. Absolute limbs! And you can re-live it all now.....
Town have a good overall record of matches on Valentine's Day with a 57.89% win rate. Or 11 wins from 19 games if you prefer. One that really stands out is from 1925 when Herbert Chapman took his league champions down to Highbury to play Arsenal. There must've been something about this visit that made the Arsenal directors sit up and think; we need to get this man for ourselves. They did in the summer and Chapman replaced former Town employee Leslie Knighton (he had been assistant to Arthur Fairclough) as manager.
The Valentine's Day Massacre took place in 1929. This massacre preceded it by four years. Town won 5-0 with goals from George Brown, Clem Stephenson and a hat trick from Charlie Wilson.
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