Another quiz on upcoming opponents, answers to be posted on here on Saturday morning.
60s. Apart from two England Under 23 caps, he spent all of his career playing in variations of blue and white – all four of his club sides played in those colours. He managed just over a hundred goals from the wing in his career with almost half of them coming for Huddersfield during a six year stay which straddled the sixties and seventies. Apart from a few games on loan on the south coast, he stayed in his native Yorkshire until he moved down west to take on a player coach role – who is he?
70s. Doubly masculine Huddersfield stalwart from this decade (3,7).
80s. The first two clubs the defender pictured below played for are bitter rivals from the same city, the third was an eastern city known for it’s hot stuff and then he returned home to play for bubbly dreamers. It was while he was at this club, that he was loaned out to Huddersfield where he played twelve times with one of his appearances featuring in the club record books for all of the wrong reasons. His playing days ended at a club from the home counties which was on a journey into the Football League, where they remain to this day, and it saw the beginning of a successful partnership with his manager there which extended into coaching with the league title wins and international recognition which eluded him as a player, but can you name him?
90s. Name this member of a City side to face Huddersfield during this decade.
00s. He played twice for City against Huddersfield during this decade and we were the first of what I make it to be ten different Welsh clubs he played for, who am I describing?
10s. The last goal scored in a City v Huddersfield match at Cardiff City Stadium is, I believe, a candidate for one of the best ever seen at our new ground, who scored it?
Answers
60s. Former Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield, Brighton and Bristol Rovers forward Colin Dobson.
70s. Les Chapman.
80s. Former Spurs, Arsenal, Norwich and West Ham player Steve Walford who was is in the Huddersfield team which crashed to a club record defeat when they lost 10-1 at Man City in 1987. Walford subsequently played for Wycombe and has become a member of the coaching staff which has tended to follow Martin O’Neill from club to club, culminating in their work together for the Republic of Ireland.
90s. Darren Adams.
00s. Layton Maxwell came on as a sub for us in two matches against Huddersfield in 2002, he went on to be play for Barry Town, Swansea City, Carmarthen Town, Newport County (trial), Rhyl, , Bangor, Caernarfon, Port Talbot (trial) and Aberaman.
10s. Philip Billing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5qaRUdImvM
Was it Tommy Smith?
He scored that day Colin, but it wasn’t him.
Hi Paul. Apologies for contacting you by way of your Comments section to this article, but I wasn’t sure how else to get hold of you. Anyway, I wonder if you can help….We have a discussion going on on Social Media about how many times City actually wore the Mauve and Yellow kit. I know we wore it at Pompey on 19/08/72, but at QPR game the following month (on 30/09/72), we wore red shirts and yellow shorts. Therefore, I wonder, do you know the answer? Thanks in advance….
Hello Al, good to hear from you. We had a 100 per cent losing record in mauve and yellow. We wore the kit for the first time at Portsmouth and then at Bristol Rovers three days later with both matches being lost 3-1. I don’t know for certain, but I seem to remember seeing a photo of us wearing it at Carlisle 16/9/72 when we thrashed 4-0 – as far I know, that was the last time we played in mauve and yellow. As you say, the next match we would have had to wear a change kit was at QPR and I can remember watching that game on the Big Match on one of my schoolmates colour television and it struggled to cope with our kit in that game as all of our players looked like they weighed about 20 stone!
Going back just a little bit further…..
“But “Huddersfield-Cardiff” tops them all, two words that elegantly chip “Michael” and “Thomas” into a cocked hat. Because as anyone between the ages of 105 and 115 will doubtless recall, in the 1923-24 season, the Terriers and the Bluebirds served up the greatest last-day drama of all.
Cardiff had joined the Football League only four years previously but their striker Len Davies was scoring for fun, and they already had one fourth-place finish to their name. This time round they topped the table for nearly the entire season, and with one game remaining led Huddersfield by a point. The Terriers had two games left but frittered their advantage away by losing at Aston Villa. At which point, according to their captain Sam Wadsworth, they “got to work with pencil and paper, working out goal averages. We gave ourselves headaches. We were unable to agree on the figures.”
Their manager Herbert Chapman intervened, explaining that if Cardiff won their last match at Birmingham, they’d be champions. But if they drew, Huddersfield could nick the title providing they beat a bang-average Nottingham Forest at home by three goals. Wadsworth pondered the situation, put down his pencil and cleared his throat: “We’re cutting it a bit fine.”
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Town set about Forest in nervous fashion, this paper reporting that “they appeared to be throwing their chance away”. But then the Forest keeper Alf Bennett spilled George Brown’s shot and George Cook established a half-time lead. (Bennett, fans of nominative determinism will be delighted to know, was born in a Derbyshire village called Clowne.) Huddersfield were much improved in the second half, Cook making it 2-0 on 57 minutes. Only one more goal required!
But at that very moment, down in Birmingham, a goalbound Cardiff shot was handled on the line. Penalty! That man Davies stepped up to take the kick that would surely seal the title. Only problem was, despite being the club’s leading scorer, he’d never taken a penalty before in his life. He hit it too close to the Birmingham keeper Dan Tremelling. Ten minutes later, back up north, Ted Richardson went on an epic dribble and set up Brown for a third. When the whistle blew, Chapman ran to his office and waited for the phone to ring. And waited. The call came after an agonising few minutes. Cardiff could only draw 0-0! Huddersfield were champions after a day of heightened drama … by 0.024 of a goal. Oh Len! Huddersfield, Cardiff, two words, five syllables. It’s not even half a haiku. But what a story they tell.”
From a piece in The Guardian today. I hadn’t heard about this before.
Thanks for that Colin – I didn’t realise Len Davies had never taken a penalty before that day.