[talkSAFT]

I thought 3rd left was Roger Hunt. Doh!

[HerefordBull]

George Eastham is 3rd left on the front row.

Still thinking about the third right on the back row???

[Lord Snooty]

Could be twins, but the other one is George Eastham.

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George Eastham is 3rd left on the front row.

Still thinking about the third right on the back row???

Only two caps. Went to manage Boro, Donny and Bolton.

[Lord Snooty]

England Team 1962 World Cup Squad. Back Row : Jimmy Armfield, Maurice Norman, Bobby Robson, Peter Swan, Alan Hodgkinson, Ron Springett, Don Howe, Ron Flowers, Stan Anderson, Ray Wilson, Bobby Moore.
Front Row : Alan Peacock, Roger Hunt, George Eastham, John Connelly, Jimmy Greaves, Gerry Hitchens, Johnny Haynes, Bobby Charlton, Brian Douglas.

[Lord Snooty]

June 1:

So yesterday, we had the last of the Play Off Finals. What are we going to do now for the next few weeks? Don't fret, still lots to go at.

Like the 1971 Anglo/Italian Cup. Having beaten Sampdoria at home and then lost to Bologna, our brave lads now flew out to Italy for the return matches.

Our first game in Italy was played on this date against Sampdoria at the Stadio Comunale. An 8,000 crowd turned up to watch what was a bad tempered match in which Town were 1-0 down at the break. Town chief Ian Greaves, made a bold move at half time, bringing on Les Chapman (pictured below) for David Smith, who had had an elbow in the face early on in the match. This was back when only one sub was allowed and elbows in the face were commonplace.

Greaves's gamble paid off immediately as Chapman scored, heading home from a Steve Smith cross. And then he put Town in the lead with a hooked shot after Frank Worthington had nodded down a cross from Bobby Hoy.

Sampdoria equalised and then in the 80th minute, all hell let loose as the home team were denied a penalty by the English referee, Ray Tinkler. He was a notoriously bad ref, obviously not in the same way as Jon Moss, but he had been the ref at the centre of the storm at Bellend Road in the previous month when he allowed a miles offside goal for West Brom's Jeff Astle to rob Leeds of the league title.

And here he was again, endearing himself once more to the Huddersfield Town fraternity. Whether there were any there for this game, I do not know, but if they were they ought to make themselves scarce. Especially when Town won the game, three minutes from time.

Worthington passed the ball to Jimmy Lawson, whose return pass was shot fiercely at goal by the flamboyant Elvis impersonator. The keeper saved it but couldn't hold on. Trevor Cherry was rushing into the area and slotted the ball into the net to give Town a 3-2 win. As the whistle went for full time, the crowd went mad. Sampdoria had lost all three of their games and responded in stereotypical Italian fashion by pelting the team with cushions from the stand as well as firecrackers.

The players had to run for cover and were locked in the dressing room as the riot outside was brought under control. But it continued later as the team had to have a protective police cordon to get back on the bus, being spat at and kicked. Happy days!

The competition had a funny points system, which encouraged goal scoring. It was two points for a win, as was the norm in those days, plus another point for every goal scored. Goals against were irrelevant, it would seem. So the five points gained by the Terriers in this match put them top of the group. Not the group including Sampdoria and Bologna, but the English group, because the competiton had teams split into an English group and an Italian group, with the winners of each group meeting in the final.

Town were now in pole position, with just one game to go.

Born on this date in 1990 was Nahki Wells, the Bermudan international, who now plays for Bristol City and is 32 today. He was of course, a member of our glorious Play Off winning side of 2017 and scored in both the penalty shoot outs at Hillsborough and Wembley.

We all know all about this lad, so no need for me to bang on about him. When he left us in the summer of 2017 to go play for Burnley, he had scored 49 goals, leaving him in 25th place on our all time goalscorers chart.

[HerefordBull]

Would never have got Stan Anderson!

[Lord Snooty]

I remember him managing Donny, that's all. Never knew he played for England.

[Lord Snooty]

June 2:

Not one, but two international caps for Ray Wilson of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town today. Having lost our opening game against Hungary in the 1962 World Cup in Chile, Ray played again in the next game, which was played on this date at the same ground the Estadio Braden in Rancagua. The opponents this time were Argentina.

We had a Russian referee for this game and he gave England their second penalty in two matches after 17 minutes, which was put away again by Ron Flowers to give the Three Lions the lead.

The Argies had Antonio Rattin in their line up, who would controversially get sent off in the next World Cup against England in four years time, but he stayed on the pitch in this one. It was England who went further into the lead just before half time when one of the future Cup winners, Bobby Charlton scored.

It was 3-0 to England in the 67th minute, with Jimmy Greaves scoring to wrap up the victory, pictured below, before Jose Sanfilippo gave the South Americans a late consolation.

That moved England above Argentina into second, behind the Hungarians, with one group game to go, against Bulgaria.

Then twelve months later in a friendly international in Leipzig, Ray Wilson of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town gained his 20th England cap, against East Germany, on this date in 1963.

Peter Ducke scored for the Germans, before Roger Hunt equalised. Then Bobby Charlton won it for England, scoring in the 70th minute.

The game was played at the Zentralstadion, which was rebuilt in 1997 and is now known as the Red Bull Arena.

Today's Town legend birthday is one of the name's that isn't always the first name mentioned when listing names from the Mick Buxton era. That's probably because he didn't score many goals, but he was one of the best midfielders around. A tough tackling ball winner from Port Talbot, who goes by the name of Steve Doyle.

He was born on this day in 1958 and so is 64 today and was given his first professional contract at Preston by Bobby Charlton. After eight seasons at Deepdale, Buxton signed him for Town and he was just about ever present in the next few seasons. One of the best free transfers ever, he was instrumental in the 1983 promotion to the 2nd Division and by the time he left for Sunderland, he had played 187 times for the Terriers.

[Lord Snooty]

June 3:

On this day in 1959, Denis Law of 2nd Division Huddersfield Town gained the 4th of the six caps he got playing for Scotland as a Town player. He went on to total 55 in his career.

This was a friendly match away at Portugal in the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon. Andy Beattie was the Scotland manager. The former Town boss was in his second spell as national boss after he fell out with the SFA during a disastrous 1954 World Cup campaign. He was now manager of Carlisle United and doing the Scotland job part time.

Anyway, Portugal won 1-0 with a first half goal from Matateu.

He's here. He's there. He's every f'kinwhere.........

Terry Graaaay. Terry Graaaay.

And on this day in 1954 he was born in Bradford. Terry Gray, the leading scorer in our 1975/76 season, the first ever one we had in Division 4, is 68 today.

He could've had a different life though, as a tennis player. He played at Wimbledon in the boy's championship when he was 15. But he chose football and signed for Town in 1972 in the 2nd Division. He didn't make his debut until we were in the 3rd Division, a 5-2 defeat at Southend, when he was thrown in at left back to replace the injured Paul Garner.

Despite the defeat, Ian Greaves kept him there, a striker playing as a defender, for the next game at home to Brighton, managed by Brian Clough. He scored his first goal later in that season, a 1-0 home win over Grimsby and established himself in the side towards the back end of the next season.

In the next season, he scored twice in a memorable FA Cup victory over Fulham at Craven Cottage. That was the Fulham team who had England veterans Bobby Moore and Alan Mullery in and had made it to the Final in the previous season.

But then after scoring 19 goals, he broke his leg in a match at Hartlepool and was never the same again. He was out for nearly twelve months, but did score a hat trick in a 4-0 win at Scunthorpe when he returned.

Mick Buxton came in as manager, having been coaching at Southend and one player from there he wanted was Micky Laverick and so offered Terry in a swap deal, which was accepted. And so he left Leeds Road with 41 goals to his name and is currently in 41st position in our all time goal scorers chart. Hopefully Danny Ward will knock him down to 42nd early in 2022/23.

And one of our current squad has a birthday today. Romoney Crichlow was born in Luton of all places, in 1999 and is 23 today. He came to Huddersfield from Enfield Borough in 2017 and suffered tragedy whilst out on loan at Hartlepool when his mother was murdered in Barbados.

He came back from the Pool and made his Town debut. His second game was a man of the match performance in front of the Sky cameras against Nottingham Forest at an empty John Smith's Stadium, the one we won 1-0 with a Fraizer Campbell stunner. He couldn't hold down his place though and went out on loan to Swindon and then Plymouth, against who he had scored his first Town goal in the FA Cup in the previous year.

Now there's a huge Naby Sarr shaped hole in next season's squad. Will young Romoney be the one to fill it?

[HerefordBull]

Denis Law...........what a player....