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Terriers v Fox's - Lord Snooty - 10-08-2023

Huddersfield Town v Leicester City
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday August 12th - 15:00 ko
at the old Leeds Road Stadium

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Huddersfield Town welcome the freshly relegated Leicester City to the Alfred McAlpine Stadium on Saturday afternoon for the Frank Worthington Memorial Match. Town manager, Neil Warnock alluded to this in his press conference, saying that; "Frank was the same on and off the field, he wasn't arrogant, he was just confident. A crowd pleaser, he could caress the ball as good as anyone - he opened doors. Huddersfield and Leicester were so lucky to have him, they don't come around often."

The Gaffer also gave us the latest news on the injury front. And it's not good. Not when you're coming up against a team that has just spent millions of pounds in the transfer market already. Tom Lees is out for another month. Matty Pearson is still sore. And Jaheim Headley is suspended.

Jonathan Hogg though, is fit and raring to go.

Are we ready, Town fans? Raring to go? Come on, let's give them Premier League boys a bit of the old Championship fighting spirit.

UP THE TOWN!

Tickets:
Adults - £25
65s and over - £20
18s and under £15
Under 11s - £10

A brief history of Leicester City: formed in 1884 as Leicester Fosse, they became members of the FA in 1890 and moved into their long time home at Filbert Street a year later. They were elected into the Football League as members of the 2nd division in 1894, eventually getting promoted to the 1st Division in 1907, but getting relegated after one season to be back in Division 2 and were still there in 1910 when Town were elected into the League.

Leicester Fosse went under in 1919 but the club reformed as Leicester City straight away. Leicester had just been granted city status. This brought about a bit of success, winning the 2nd Division in 1925 and then finishing as runners up of Division 1 in 1929, behind Sheffield Wednesday. A bit of yoyoing in the 1930s and they reached the cessation of play for the War as a 2nd Division club.

They were still a struggling 2nd Division side after the war and so took on some sponsorship, renaming their ground the Fox's Biscuits Stadium and have ever since been known as the Fox's.

This brought instant success when in 1949 they reached the FA Cup Final for the first time. It was against the Wolves, who won the match 3-1 with Mal Griffiths scoring the goal for Leicester. They were almost relegated at the end of that season, but won the 2nd division title in 1954, got relegated again the year after, but then came back up in 1957 with Arthur Rowley netting 44 times and stayed in the top flight for 12 years. In those years they got more FA Cup runners up medals, losing the final to Spurs 0-2 in 1961 and again in 1963, beaten 1-3 by Man Utd with Ken Keyworth scoring the Leicester goal.

They did win their first major trophy in 1964 when they won the League Cup, beating Stoke 4-3 in a two legged final. And reached the final again the year after, losing on aggregate this time, 2-3 to Chelsea. Another FA Cup Final in 1969, losing again, this time 0-1 to Manchester City. And despite this near miss, they struggled in the League and were relegated.

Back up again in 1971 and the 70s, 80s and 90s saw the club up and down between the top 2 divisions. They missed out on being members of the newly formed Premier League when they lost the Play Off Final 0-1 to Blackburn Rovers in 1992 and again the year after when they were beaten 3-4 by Swindon Town in the Final. They did win the Play Offs in 1994, beating Derby County 2-1 in the Final, but as quite often in their history, came straight back down again.

They were straight back up again though, beating Crystal Palace 2-1 in the Play Off Final, Steve Claridge (pictured below) bagging the winner in the last minute of extra time. This time they stayed up and became an established Premier League team and won the League Cup again. Firstly in 1997 against Middlesbrough. After a 1-1 draw at Wembley with Emile Heskey scoring, they replayed at Hillsborough with that man Claridge getting an extra time winner again to win the game 1-0. Then they won it again in 2000 beating Tranmere Rovers 2-1 in the Final with both goals coming from their skipper Matt Elliott.

Relegated again in 2002 and then in 2003 they left the Fox's Biscuits Stadium and moved into the Walkers Crisps Stadium. But they were in huge debt and went into administration. This didn't stop them getting promoted back up to the Premier League though as they just carried on with big money players despite the debt and the administration. A lot of clubs complained about this and so after this any more clubs who entered administration were docked points.

Success once more didn't last and they were relegated straight away again. This became a slump with the club not looking like bouncing back and then in 2008 under the leadership of our old friend Ian Holloway (pictured below), they were relegated for the first time in their history to the 3rd tier of English football, by now known as League One.

It was just a one season stay down there, winning the divisional title. And were back into the Championship Play Offs in 2013, losing famously at Watford with Troy Deeney bagging a late winner coming seconds after future Town star Anthony Knockaert missed a last minute penalty at the other end. They did win the Championship the following season to end a ten year absence from the Premier League, celebrating the title win with a 2-0 victory at our place.

Unbelievably, in 2016, under the leadership of Claudio Ranieri, they actually won the Premier League. Former Halifax Town striker Jamie Vardy being the main man for them, bagging 24 goals.

That got them into the Champions League, where they made it to the quarter finals, losing to Atlético Madrid. But Ranieri had been dismissed before that as the team struggled in the league. One of the most senseless sackings in football history.

He was followed by ex Walsall player Craig Shakespeare, but it was Brendan Rodgers who saw them win silverware again when he guided them to FA Cup glory at Wembley in 2021, beating Chelsea 1-0 with a goal from Youri Tielemans.

But all their fancy football and big money signings count for nothing now as at the end of 2022/23, they got relegated and now play us on the old Leeds Road.

Head to Head

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Town lead the head to head with 28 wins to Leicester's 24, with 10 draws.

Match no.7 in the history of Huddersfield Town's Football League career was on the 22nd of October 1910 against Leicester, who were still known as Leicester Fosse back then. It was played at Leeds Road in front of a crowd of 6,800 and the Fosse won it 2-1. Henry Hamilton, who earlier in the season had scored our first ever league goal, scored in this one. Leicester won the reverse fixture to do the double over us. Our first victory came the following season when we won 2-0 at Filbert Street with goals from Ellis Hall and Arthur Cowley.

The first top flight meetings came in 1925/26, the season we became the famous Thrice Champions. Leicester had just been promoted and we beat them 3-0 at home with two George Brown goals and one from Joey Williams. Leicester won the match at theirs 2-0. The 1920s and 30s saw us gain the upper hand in the head to head, winning six matches consecutively as Huddersfield Town continued to dominate English football.

We had 18 seasons together up to the start of the 2nd World War, but since then this is only the 13th time we have shared league status. One of those was the 1969/70 season when we won the 2nd Division (Championship) title. Both games ended in 1-1 draws with Jimmy McGill scoring in the away game and Frank Worthington scoring at Leeds Road.

Leicester didn't come up with us, but did so the year after and therefore we met again in the top division in 1971/72. The home game was the opening match of the season and again finished in a draw. Two all this time with Frankie getting on the scoresheet again as well as Trevor Cherry. Leicester won the away match 2-0.

Meetings between the two clubs became rarer and rarer until 2012/13 when we met each other four times in the Championship and FA Cup. We lost the first one 0-2 at home with two brilliant goals from Anthony Knockaert and then got stuffed 6-1 at theirs on New Year's Day. Two more from Knockaert, two from the lanky streak of piss, Chris Wood that day. Scott Arfield getting our consolation.

But we did get our own back in the next few weeks after drawing 1-1 at ours in the Cup, after Wood had equalised a Lee Novak penalty late on, we went down to the Monster Munch Stadium for the replay and came back with a shock 2-1 win. Adam Clayton put us ahead early doors with a superb free kick only for Michael Keane to draw level a couple of minutes later. But with extra time looming super Sean Scannell dribbled his way from the wing past the entire Leicester defence to poke the ball home, through the legs of Kasper Schmeichel to give us victory and the prospect of being humiliated live on TV in the next round against Wigan.

In 2017/18, we met for the first time in what is now called the Premier League. The match at the John Smith's was goalless in the first half but then Laurent Depoitre scored in the first minute after when a great many supporters were still queuing for pies. Old man Steptoe lookalike, Jamie Vardy equalised from the spot shortly after before a controversial offside decision denied Elias Kachunga his first Prima Donna League goal. We lost 0-3 at the King Power, again on a New Year's Day debacle.

So what's going on down at the Walker's Windows Stadium? Managed nowadays by Enzo Maresca, an Italian midfielder who actually started his playing career with the Baggies as an 18 year old. He made his West Brom debut in September 1998 against Bradford City.

He must've done alright, because after a couple of seasons, he was back home in Italy playing for Juventus, who broke the Baggies' transfer record by forking out four and a half million quid for him. And in his first season there he helped them win the Serie A title. Despite that, he was sent out on loan to Bologna and then Piacenza.

Afterwards, he was moved on to Fiorentina for another big fee, but didn't stay long before moving to Spain with Sevilla. He won the UEFA Cup twice with them. In the first of those Finals he scored twice in a 4-0 win against Middlesbrough. Then it was on to Olympiacos, Malaga, Sampdoria, Palermo and wound up a twenty year playing career in 2017 with Hellas Verona.

So after getting his coaching badges, he returned to the sunlit uplands of England when Pep Guardiola invited him to Manchester and gave him the job of coaching City's Development Squad. And he did such a good job of that, that he was taken on as Head Coach by Parma, back in Italy's Serie B.

That didn't last long though, fired after four months. Good old Pep took pity on him though, taking him back as one of his first team coaches. He was so grateful for such kindness that he walked out on City once again, to take the job at newly relegated Leicester City on June the 16th.

Sunday's line up at home to Coventry:

30 Mads Hermansen - Danish u21 keeper, signed from Brøndby.
21 Ricardo Pereira - Portuguese international full back.
3 Wout Faes - Belgium international centre back.
23 Jannik Vestergaard - Denmark international centre back.
5 Callum Doyle - 19 year old defender on loan from Man City.
25 Wilfred Ndidi - Nigeria international, now in his 8th season at Leicester.
8 Harry Winks - Signed from Spurs for 10 million.
22 Kiernan Dewsbury Town-Hall - Scored twice on Sunday against Coventry.
35 Kasey McAteer - 21 year old midfielder was on loan at Wimbledon last season.
9 Jamie Vardy - Ex Halifax and Fleetwood striker.
10 Stephy Mavididi - Derby born, ex Arsenal striker, signed from Montpellier for 7 million.

Subs:
2 James Justin - Full back, capped once by England.
11 Marc Albrighton - 33 year old wing back, been there since 2014.
14 Kelechi Iheanacho - Paid Man City 25 million for him in 2017.
15 Harry Souttar - Aussie international defender, paid Stoke 20 million for him.
17 Hamza Choudhury - Spent last season on loan at Watford.
20 Patson Daka - Zambian international striker.
26 Dennis Praet - Belgium international midfielder.
27 Timothy Castagne - Belgium international defender.
41 Jakub Stolarczyk - Polish keeper spent last season on loan at Fleetwood and then Hartlepool.

So that was the team that played in the Championship. They made a few changes for the League Cup tie at Burton, a total of seven changes to the starting line up. That is totally disrespecting the competition and I for one am thoroughly disgusted by that. You wouldn't get a proper football club like Huddersfield Town doing such a disservice.

One of those changes was a forced one, with new goalkeeper Mads Hermansen getting injured in training and he's a doubt for the game at the JSS. Still no place for Wardy or Smithies. Doh

That League Cup line up was as follows; Stolarczyk, Albrighton, Faes, Doyle, Justin, Ndidi, Winks, Choudhury, Praet, Iheanacho, Marçal-Madivadua. Subs: Vardy, Daka, Ricardo Pereira, Dewsbury-Hall, Vestergaard, Castagne, Iversen, McAteer, Nelson.

Club connections:

Frank Worthington was absolutely brilliant for both Town and Leicester. His flamboyant style of play was loved by the fans, not so the management of the England team though. He only got 8 full international caps, all in 1974, after Sir Alf Ramsey had left the job and with Joe Mercer in temporary charge. An impressive unbeaten record for both Mercer and Worthington, with big Frank scoring twice in this run, which included winning the Home Nations Championship. But then the FA took on some knob from Leeds called Don Revie and Frank never played for England again.

These England caps came as a Leicester City player, but it was at Huddersfield Town that Frank started his career and won his only title. That was the 1969/70 Second Division (Championship) title, under the leadership of Ian Greaves. He scored 41 goals for us in 171 matches and then went to Leicester in 1972 following our relegation, via a rather unsuccessful medical at Anfield.

At Leicester he stayed for five seasons and scored 71 goals for them from 210 matches, before moving on to play for Greaves again at Bolton and scoring the goal of the century in a match at Burnden Park against Ipswich Town. A perfect bit of keepy uppy with his back to goal and as the defenders rushed out, flipping the ball over his head and volleying the ball into the net. If one of your modern day players could score a goal as good as this one, the internet would explode!

Anyway, that was his playing career peaked, but he still went on playing for years, still going in his 40s at Halifax Town in 1992. He had one job in management, a couple of seasons at Tranmere Rovers in the 1980s.

Sadly, Frank got Alzheimer's a few years ago and died in March 2021. Sad

There are a few Town connections in the current Leicester squad. Two of their goalkeepers are Town legends. Danny Ward and Alex Smithies have both won us Play Off Finals at Wembley and of course, need no introduction. But I'm going to anyway.

Since leaving us in 2015 for QPR, Alex had two seasons at Loftus Road, winning Player Of The Year in his second season there. This was after he ousted Rob Green from the team. He then Joined Cardiff in the Premier League, signed for the Bluebirds by Neil Warnock, but never actually got a game in the top flight.

It wasn't until they'd been relegated that he got his debut and he had three rather uneventful seasons in Wales before taking the Premier League money again at the start of last season signing for Leicester, where he spent another twelve months sat on the sidelines. Now 33 years old, Alex continues to waste his talent.

Similarly, Danny is under used and ought to be playing first team football somewhere. Now 30 years old, he still hasn't made it to 100 league appearances. The 43 games he played for us in 2016/17 is by far his biggest number of apps. After the Wembley glory with us, he returned to Liverpool and had another waste of a season, not adding to the two PL games he played in 2015/16.

So he joined Leicester and added one first team appearance to his record in his first four seasons there, as he played back up to Kasper Schmeichel. Last season though, after Peter's lad had left, our Danny boy made the green jersey his own. He played 28 times before once again losing his place to another Dane, Daniel Iversen.

However, despite his lack of first team domestic games, Danny has added to his international caps and now has 32 of them. He's mostly been back up to Wayne Hennesey, but he did go to the World Cup and played against England in Qatar, picking the ball out of his net three times, beaten twice by Marcus Rashford and once by Phil Foden.

Sat on the bench for England on that day in the Middle Eastern sun, was another ex Town player, Conor Coady. Like Wardy, Conor started out at Liverpool and only had one season with us in Huddersfield. Signed by Mark Robins, he made his debut in Robin's last match, coming on as a sub in that disastrous 0-4 defeat at home to AFC Bournemouth. He scored his first goal for us at Molineux, the third goal in a fantastic 3-1 win against Wolves and what a beauty it was. Here, have a look at this......

Wolverhampton Wanderers were so impressed, they signed him on at the end of the season for a couple of million quid. New head coach Nuno Espírito Santo, moved Conor to the centre of a three-man defence for the 2017–18 season and made him club captain.

He made over 300 appearances for Wolves, one of them scoring the only goal of a game with Everton, which turned out to be the club's 1,000th top flight victory. Last season, against the wishes of many of the fans, he was sent out on loan to Everton. That was Frank Lampard who signed him, playing him in 24 matches. But when Sean Dyche took over, Conor was dropped and the Toffeenoses didn't take up the option to sign him.

And so on the 1st of July this year, he signed for Leicester for a fee of seven and a half million pounds. Do we get a cut of that?

Leicester in popular culture: Probably the most famous person from Leicester is the diarist, Adrian Mole, who's diaries written in the 1980s as a boy aged thirteen and three quarters, captured a realistic and humorous treatment of the inner life of an adolescent boy. They also brought home something of the zeitgeist of the UK during the Thatcher period.

There are many bands, singers, entertainers synonymous with Leicester. The most famous of them is undoubtedly the singer and actress, Betty Driver. Before becoming known for cooking Hot Pot in the Rovers Return, she was a well known star of stage and screen, even having her own show in the early days of the telly box.

Another singer, Nancy Whiskey, was born in Glasgow, but lived the greater part of her life in Leicestershire, dying in Leicester in 2003, aged just 67. She was most famous for singing with the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Band, with hits like Greenback Dollar and Freight Train.

The band with the most hits though, with ten Top 10 hits and a number one, were Leicester's, nay, the world's greatest rock n roll band, Showaddywaddy. They were formed in 1973 by the amalgamation of two groups. They both played at the Fosse Way pub in Leicester, and soon discovered shared musical tastes and so decided to merge and Showaddywaddy was born. And that's why they had two drummers, two lead singers, etc.

Leicester Anagrams: some football related, some not, but all mentioned in this article.

Font Worth Ranking
Hemisphere Clacks
Better Trifles
Be Dirty Trev
Cocoon Yard
Ohioan Wally
Ridicule Oriana
Moral Diane
Knock Throaty Anne
Sheilas Timex

RE: Terriers v Fox's - ritchiebaby - 11-08-2023

I'll put forward everyone's favourite cheat (allegedly), Anthony Knockaert, for No 9.

Beware of another cheat, er, crafty footballer, Jamie Vardy. He's spent his whole career sprinting after through balls with a defender, then suddenly stepping across in front of him and winning a foul as the defender clatters into the back of him - not nearly hard enough in my opinion.

You've omitted Leicester's most famous icon of the football world, David Icke, soon to be PM representing The Monster Raving Loony Party. Tongue

Two massive posts from you tonight, Snooty. I take it you've got a wee bit of spare time. Wink

RE: Terriers v Fox's - Lord Snooty - 11-08-2023

Not really, Ritchie. Quite busy at the moment. I thought about Mrs Icke's boy but decided to save that for next season when we meet again in the PL.

Correct for Knockaert and correct with what you say about Vardy. Sadly, all part of the modern game.

RE: Terriers v Fox's - jjamez - 11-08-2023

Well 1 looks like Mr Worthington and 3 looks like filbert street

I'd say 10 is Alex smithies.

Speaking of which neither he nor ward featured at the weekend for Leicester, are they both injured or something

RE: Terriers v Fox's - WakeyTerrier - 11-08-2023

In a way this is a free hit for Town, nobody expects us to win, I expect us to get tonked 0-3 or 0-4. They will expose our lack of pace all around the pitch, I think we are going to need 2 balls on the pitch. one for them and one for us because I can see them having 75% possesion.

RE: Terriers v Fox's - jjamez - 11-08-2023

I'd potentially throw a curve ball line up at them and see if they are prepared for it.

Nicholls

Edwards Pearson helik ruffles

Rudoni Hogg yuta

Ward hudlin harratt

Bench of
Maxwell reg diarra Thomas koroma Jones Rhodes austerfield ayina

RE: Terriers v Fox's - Lord Snooty - 11-08-2023

What we need to do is, when we do get the ball, don't give it away cheaply. Press well, like in the Boro game. Force them into mistakes and don't miss the few chances we do get.

And when they pass straight through our midfield, hope they have mislaid their shooting boots or Nicholls is in the form that won him player of the season.

Should be able to keep it down to single figures. Whistle

RE: Terriers v Fox's - theo_luddite - 11-08-2023

Good thread again M'lud, Thumb up

though they appear to have strange nets at that pitch in your 2nd pic and I'm pretty sure last time I went to theirs they had a stand roof that went all the way round the stadium. Had to park by the Tigers stadium previously (for that 1-2 win) and it was a bugger getting out afterwards. I also went on the train once and it's a fair bit of a hike if I'm honest. I managed a pint or two somewhere on the walk to the stadium and back again but we still got tatered on that occassion. Glad we're at home for this one.

Have the never ending roadworks on Leeds Road been finished yet or are we still playing dodge the traffic and guess the traffic lights sequences?

Have to wonder if Mr. Salt "n" Vinegar or Mr. Cheese 'n' O'Nion as he sometimes appears, will be in attendance, or will he be stuck in London/Manchester, wherever it is they record Match of the Day these days?

RE: Terriers v Fox's - ritchiebaby - 11-08-2023

No 4 is Betty Driver and No 5 is Conor Coady.

RE: Terriers v Fox's - Devongone - 12-08-2023

I can hardly breathe. Just read jjamez's curve ball team. What was the name of the madhouse up near Huddersfield - Storrs Hall or something maybe? I know jjamez knows football, but anybody who picks Hudlin and leaves Koroma and Thomas on the bench could become a candidate. Leicester won't be expecting Neil Warnock to select himself on the right wing either, that wouldn't make it a good idea ......

You can't pick a bloke who is 6' 9" tall and leave the only two players who might cross the ball for him out, especially as the opposition is known for its inability to handle crosses ......... Well you can, you just proved it, you did!

Still love you all though, desperation makes all us football fans crazy. Try going down to the National League and see what that does for your thought processes. Best of luck, but I've always had a soft spot for Leicester. Frank Worthington, Keith Weller, Banks - y, Emile Heskey, Martin O'Neill getting them to fifth in the top flight with only really Emile up front, and the lovely Claudio Ranieri - even Jamie Vardy's little wasp-face can't sour that memory.