SEND THE ROYALS A CARD OF CONDOLENCE.

If you wanted to burgle anywhere in Huddersfield then today was the day. The people of the town and its surroundings migrated to Wembley to watch the Terriers ((Town) beat the Royals (Reading) in the £200 million game. The winners go to the Premier League next season. Heaven. The game ended up in a "lottery" with penalties, the traditional way of deciding a NO result even after extra time. Talksport has listeners phoning in debating the more fair way of deciding a no result game.....blah.

It's good news for Huddersfield who are owned by a genuinely nice man, Dean Hoyle, and managed by a genuinely nice German coach, David Wagner. Hoyle is the previous owner of "Card Factory". Founded in 1997, he sold it in 2010 to Venture Captalist Charterhouse for £350 million estimated. He has recently been awarded a Football Business Award,

Hoyle has given the club a "soft loan" and hopefully the next season in the Premier League will pay him back. Hoyle cycled to Wembley from Kirkless for charity and the tension of the play off final clearly took its toll on him. But there you are, he is an honest investor with a fairy tale finish to the year. Mind you with that amount of dosh behind me, I could be a decent chap.

Wagner, a mate of Klopp, seems to have got the tactics about right and all credit to him and his staff who have renovated a moderate Championship club. What will happen next year who knows but live the dream for a year?

Huddersfield Town was only founded in 1908, wrestling youngsters away from the more traditional game of rugby league, joining the Football League in 1910. After the First World War, the club had to raise money from public subscriptions to save the club by selling £1 shares. Had they failed they would have merged with Leeds!

The 1920s proved a very successful period for the club (Herbert Chapman and all that), justifying that financial input, and the club lifted itself into the First Division until 1952. It was up and down the divisions from then with a final appearance in the top tier in 1970-2.  A low point was their relegation to Division 4 between 1975-80. Then there was a steady climb towards Division One and now a deserved heaven.

There will be a lot of happy punters making their way back to West Yorkshire sometime in the next 24 hours!