TERRIERS v DEVILS

If you were brave enough to read about the exploits of Graham Souness in yesterday's masterpiece you might have been amazed about the hurdles he had to jump over one way or another. To help you get a better grip of Graham,  have a gander at the Daily Telegraph Sports today and John Mullin's article which sheds even more light on the life of GS.

I have been at the Kirklees, John Smith's, Galpharm Stadium this afternoon with the coaches of Hepworth United Juniors and their young prodigies. I was lucky enough to discover that Tom Randolph, an Old Carthusian and past member of the school's 1st XI team, is one of two "Player Liaison Officers" at Huddersfield Town FC. Tom has only been there for a few weeks but he has made contact with his old teacher and kindly provided two tickets for me to enjoy the Town game against Manchester United. Two weeks ago he join me in another major encounter as we witnessed the HUJFC U14s get hammered, but what ever, the youngsters keep coming back for more and so do we as football nuts.

The Terriers, today faced Manchester United in all their glory at 3pm. Rain fell and the wind blew down the pitch. The last time these two played each in any guise was in March 1972, 45 years ago, in the old Division 1 at Manchester with nearly 59,000 watching the Red Devils win 2-0.

Here's a clip from their previous game at Leeds Road in November 1971, when I believe my friend David Wood lost his scarf, nicked by a United rascal.
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I will not mention the score.

In March 1963 in the FA Cup at Old Trafford, Huddersfield went down 5-0 in front of nearly 48,000, with Dennis Law (an old Terrier) grabbing a hat trick and Albert Quixall and Nobby Stiles in attendance. law turned up at the stadium today and he looked in good form. Law of course played for Town first on Boxing Day 1956 when he scored against Notts County in the First Division at 16 years old, managed by Bill Shankly.

There have been 46 meetings of the two clubs now, the first in January 1912, again in the FA Cup when United won 3-1, with Enoch West (2) and Harold Halse (1) on the score sheet. They don't make names like that anymore (20,000 nearly saw this at Manchester).

Post First World War, in 1921 it was Town's first season in Division One and they beat United 5-2 on March 26th at Leeds Road. Huddersfield were super stars at that time under the control of the fabulous Herbert Chapman and they met United in Division One on several occasions. They have only met in one other "league", the Premier one today.
The overall playing record between the Town however is now:
P46 Huddersfield Lost 20 and Drawn 15.