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Huddersfield Town v MK Dons 
The Sky Bet Championship
Tuesday October 20th - 7:45 ko
at The John Smith's Stadium

Huddersfield Town welcome MK Dons to the John Smith's Stadium on Tuesday evening for the first home game in what seems like ages, Nottingham Forest on Thursday 24th of September being the last time. It's a very important match for the club as in this is the type of match we have to win, the kind of opponent we can't drop points at home to. Teams that are around us in the table, like MK and Leeds, have to be beaten with the likes of Derby coming here on Saturday.
And it looks like we will once more be without the brilliant James Vaughan again after he was shown a red card by cynical cheating down at Ipswich. Jonas Knudsen, remember the name. CHEAT! 
The Dons come here on the back of a superb 3-0 home win against Blackburn Rovers, their first win in ten games since they beat Bolton back in August. The three goals scored though took them above us on goal difference. So all to play for in terms of staying above Leeds.

How much? 
It's £10 for adults and over 60's and £5 for under 18's. 
Cracking value for top class Championship action. Please encourage everybody you know to get a ticket and get down to support the boys.


A brief history of Milton Keynes Dons: They just stole Wimbledon's! Click here to read the story. 


A little less brief history of Milton Keynes Dons: So following the move from South London in 2003, the new club became known as the Milton Keynes Dons a year later, the Dons being Wimbledon's nickname, and played in the National Hockey Stadium.

They were soon relegated to League 2, but won promotion back the next season. It took them 7 years to get promoted again, after 3 failed play off campaigns in that time, famously one of them losing to us.
They eventually won promotion last season, finishing as runners up to Bristol City.

Head to head




Town lead in the overall head to head with 7 wins to the Don's 3, with 4 draws. That's in all competitions. In league matches it's 6 Town wins to MK's 2, with 4 draws.

The first time we played each other was in 2004 at home when two Pawel Abbott goals and one from Junior Mendes gave us a 3-1 win.


The last meeting was in the 2011/12 season play offs. After a couple of 1-1 draws in the league, we went down to the MK Stadium and walloped them 2-0 with goals from Jordan Rhodes and Jack Hunt. We then went 3-0 up on aggregate when Rhodes scored again early in the 2nd leg. However, Town being Town, we let them back into it with a goal from Daniel Powell making the 2nd half a little uncomfortable. It became squeaky bum time in injury time when Alan Smith bagged another to make it a 2-1 win on the night for the Dons, but we held out for the aggregate win.


So what's new at Stadium:mk? 
They are still managed by Karl Robinson, despite him being linked with every managerial job going. He was appointed in the job in 2010 and at the age of 29 he was the youngest manager in the Football League. He had been assistant to previous boss, Paul Ince, and in his first season in the job he guided them to the Play Offs, where they got beaten by Peterborough and then again the following year when we beat them. Eventually though, he did get them up as runners up, hence giving kudos to the policy of not sacking your manager every year!
Previous to coaching, Robinson had been a prolific striker with the likes of Marine, Bamber Bridge and Prescot Cables.

They have three former Town players on their books. Two failure loanees and a legend. Diego Poyet, who we had on loan from West Ham last year is still a Hammer but on loan at MK. Simon Church was on loan with us in 2012 from Reading and having played for Charlton last season signed for the Dons this summer.

The legend in their line up is the penalty shoot out hero, Anthony Kay. Whilst MK Dons were losing that play off to Peterborough, Kay was single handedly beating Bournemouth in our play off semi. He was truly awesome that night, scoring the goal that took the tie to penalties and then scoring the decisive penalty that took us through to the final. a bona fide Town legend, who strangely doesn't have a dedicated lamppost at PPG Canalside.

Recent Form: Town are 17h in the league with 11 points and MK Dons are above us on goal difference, 16th with 11.

(Last 6 matches)

Ipswich 0-0 Town

Wolves 3-0 Town

Town 1-1 Nottm Forest

Town 4-1 Bolton

Charlton 1-2 Town

Cardiff 2-0 Town

MK Dons 3-0 Blackburn

Bristol City 1-1 MK Dons

MK Dons 0-6 Southampton (League Cup)

MK Dons 1-2 Leeds

Burney 2-1 MK Dons

Boro 2-0 MK Dons