MATCH 15 : City hound out Huddersfield


By Nathan Jackson
June 7 2008

Our home game against Huddersfield Town in 2003/4 was certainly eventful. It was one of the few times during the last 5 years that City fans have sung whilst winning and the fantastic atmosphere provided by Huddersfield fans certainly added to a great match against the Terriers.

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I personally remember this game for many reasons. It was a fantastic atmosphere, an incident packed game and a Huddersfield fan coming up to me before the game and asking "How many do you think we'll thrash you by today?" It was arguably City's biggest test of the season so far, both had started off badly but were recovering to mount a promotion challenge. The Terriers were coming off of a five match winning run.

A very sunny day welcomed a crowd of just over 5100 with around 1800 coming from the Yorkshire town. Huddersfield kicked off shooting towards the Stacey West end and they got off to the perfect start , scoring after just four minutes. A good attacking move involving Jon Worthington and Danny Schofield saw the latter send in a cross and Andy Booth stuck his header between Marriott's legs and made it 1-0 to the Terriers.

City nearly equalised less than a minute later but Liburd's cross was just too high for Fletcher to connect with. With Huddersfield's fans in full voice, Booth had a goal disallowed when he was ajudged to be offside. The Imps were certainly playing nervously and were struggling to get shots in on goal. The Terriers were showing why they were up their challenging for promotion under Peter Jackson.

Francis Green then had a great oppurtunity to get City an equaliser just before half time but his shot went inches wide. The half time whistle blew and despite the best efforts of the City fans, the Imps went into the break behind.


The 2nd half began with City having a shot go just over after just 7 seconds from Gary Fletcher. The game was then disrupted when about 50 Huddersfield "fans" just charged at the Lincoln end which resulted in the Lincoln "fans" at the bottom of the same doing the same. The area suddenly became full of the florescent jackets of the police and stewards. The referee wisely stopped play until the trouble was over as he moved all players into the centre spot. This was the turning point in the game.

City then had a goal disallowed when a Gain cross was caught by the keeper only for Green to head it out of his hands as he was jumping at the same time. Liburd's overhead kick was disallowed for an apparant foul on the goalkeeper. It certainly appeared that it wasn't going to be City's day.

City finally drew level when a scramble on the edge of the 6 yard box saw Gary Fletcher (as he was known then) prod the ball over the keeper and sent Sincil Bank into delight. That delight was doubled 3 minutes later when Marcus Richardson shot from the edge of the area and send it past the goalkeeper following a header into his path.

Around 200 Huddersfield fans left at this point. They would have missed a penalty decision where a cross in the box hit Paul Morgan's arm. Andy Booth stepped up for the penalty and sent it to Marriott's right. Marriott also went right and saved the ball, he would only save one more penalty between then and the 2006/7 season.

It continued to go City's way all the way to the end and City could have made it 4, 5, 6, 7 or even 8 with the amount of chances we had but City settled for just one more. Yeo burst one on one with the keeper. His initial shot was parried but he followed up his shot with another and it nestled in the bottom left hand corner of the net and City had secured a victory.

I was hoping to run into that Huddersfield fan again outside of the ground but it just wasn't the case. The sides went on to meet in the Playoffs at the end of the season and we all know how that ended.

Since then Huddersfield have become an established League One side and will go into the new season as one of the favourites for promotion under Stan Ternant. Not one of the 16 in the Imps squad that day still plays for City.

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MATCH 15 : City hound out Huddersfield
Discussion started by theimps.tk (IP Logged), 07/06/2008 20:53
theimps.tk
theimps.tk
07/06/2008 20:53
MATCH 15 : City hound out Huddersfield

danrazzaq1
Dan_Baumber
08/06/2008 12:22
Great game. The impact Marcus had on it was massive.

f1llo
f1llo
08/06/2008 19:35
IMO the away play-off game was better i've got a huge stpry for that might post it after the euro match it was AMAZING that was, and it was my first away match

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