CCC Team of the Week - Andy

After featuring as Team of the Week, Shirley's Blackburn went on a spending spree and splashed out £8million on Jordan Rhodes, but what about the team he left behind.

A short trip of about an hour cross country on the A646 gets us to Huddersfield Town. It's a team formed in 1908 which has played for the majority of their history in the top two tiers of English football. In 1926, they became the first English team to win three successive league titles – a feat which only three other clubs have matched – Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United.

From Blackburn's Rovers we change to Terry the Terrier complete with his own webpage. Nice pose!

Huddersfield are currently in a ‘New Era’ of being there for the fans and the Club has been nominated for an nine accolades at the Football League Awards, scooping the titles of ‘Family Club of the Year’ and ‘Best Matchday Programme’.  The current Football League Independent Supporters Survey ranks Huddersfield Town first out of all 72 Clubs at communication with supporters, attracting new fans and creating a great match day experience.  In the Centenary season 2008-09 the Chairman made concessions to the fans and Adult season tickets were as little as £100 – 16,213 were sold twice more than the previous season.

This is not as exciting as the fact that they play at the John Smith's Stadium named just last month (previously Alfred McAlpine stadium). A ground with four semicircular stands but gaps at the corners - will that make it windy? It is shared with Huddersfield Giants rugby league side and serves it's customers John Smith’s, Foster’s, Heineken, Strongbow and Bulmers cider.  It has business and conference suites, community health and leisure centre, 30 bay golf driving range, nine screen cinema, coffee shop, restaurant and bar facilities.  Lots to do if the football is boring!

However, the football on the pitch shouldn't be boring and they are a team that have dabbled in the Playoffs as 2010 semi-finalists, 2011 finalists and they are in the Championship courtesy of winning the Playoff from League One in 2012. Even that was unique beating Sheffield United in a shoot-out which was the longest contested in the current League One play-offs format. Eleven rounds took place, the final score was 8–7 to Huddersfield.  They had a successful season last year and on 19 November 2011, their 2–1 victory over Notts County meant Huddersfield broke Nottingham Forest's long-standing 42-match unbeaten league record, the Terriers went 43 games unbeaten (which doesn't include the play-off run, when they lost 3–0 to Peterborough United. On 28 November 2011, Huddersfield lost their first in 44 games 2-0 to Charlton Athletic.
November 1987 lost 10-1 to Manchester City in their worst ever season finishing 12 points behind the second bottom team.  It was the same margin as their biggest win 10-1 over Blackpool in December 1930 in their worst ever season finishing 12 points behind the second bottom team.

And so for the little history lesson for Amy - something that happened before the time she was born or was crawling round in nappies. Well there is a curry to go to and I have been having trouble finding the actual dates so I'll be posting it as a comment. Watch this space...