Day 2b Of The 30 Day Football Challenge – My Least Favourite Town Games

Huddersfield Town 0 – 0 Southend Utd – 19th Oct 1997– Least Favourite For ‘Utterly Shite Match’

There’s been a few bore draws at the McAlpine in the years I’ve been attending, but this stands out as the worst. It was that first season after the Playoff win, and there was a couple of 0 – 0s (one against Oldham) but I can actually remember incidents from them – a shot against the crossbar that knocked some snow off, for example – but Southend, I remember being pretty flat about at the time, and I’m not viewing it any more favourably now, 15 years later.

Huddersfield Town 1 – 2 Birmingham City – 6th May 2001 – Least Favourite For ‘Painful Reasons’

3.06pm. That’s when this game ended, and when Town were relegated ‘back’ to Division 2. I was in Norwich, and I just went wandering round the Wensum, round and round, and ended just sat with my feet over the edge near where I lived then. I was just empty. I said that night it’d take me six or seven years to get over it, and I’m not even sure it was that quick. I used to have the exact date and time stuck on my computer, to remember it, to remind myself not to be so affected by football matches in future and, touch wood, I’ve been alright since, but this game, and the relegation that came with it, cut me to the core.

Huddersfield Town 6 – 0 Wycombe Wanderers – 14th Nov 2009 – Least Favourite For ‘Confusing People’

Town played well against Wycombe and deserved their 6-0 win. That was good. But this game, more than any other game, confused people about what to expect. A lot of people took their opinion of Theo Robinson from the way he performed in this game, as if each time he stepped onto the field was not independent of itself. A lot of people took their demands of Town’s performances and scorelines from this game as if six nil wins could become routine or commonplace; it was a high-water mark that happened to be on Sky, and people used it as a judgement point for all that came after which was incredibly annoying and not least a bit wrong.

Huddersfield Town 1 – 3 Mansfield Town – 1st May 2004 – Least Favourite For ‘Impending Doom’

Town were absolutely mullered this game by a team who, let’s face it, were only Mansfield Town. But they tore us to shreds with the pace of Junior Mendes and the vision of Liam Lawrence. This game was bad, but we knew that Mansfield were promotion rivals and the fact they beat us so convincingly meant that, when the playoff games came around we really wanted to avoid them, just on the strength of them having done this. I can’t remember Town being smashed so badly at home ever, we were never at the races at all. Awful.

Norwich City 1 – 1 Huddersfield Town – 30th Nov 2000 – Least Favourite For ‘Good Personal Ideas Going Bad’

I moved to Norwich in 2000, under the impression I’d be able to see Town a few times in places like Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester…. And took full advantage of it by going to see Town at Carrow Road in my first year there. I missed about 70 minutes of the game under the stand with a massive nose-bleed, which was, personally, quite a problem. This was followed by relegation (see Game 2) and Town failed to play in East Anglia again for the duration of my time in Norwich. I loved Norwich, but this aspect didn’t work out for me.