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Hopeless Football League Teams 11: Huddersfield Town 1987-8

By on February 7, 2014 in the Category Hopeless Teams with 4 Comments
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Leeds Road

Nobody would pretend that it had been a satisfactory start to the season as Huddersfield Town prepared to make the short journey to Maine Road, Manchester on the morning of November 7, 1987. Indeed, just a week previously, the Terriers had recorded only their first victory of the autumn, a 2-1 home win over Millwall with Ian Banks and former Arsenal apprentice David Cork bagging the goals in front of a miserable attendance of 5,504 at Leeds Road. That victory came after a run of six defeats on the spin and the warning signs had been there from as early…

Hopeless Football League Teams 5: Chester City, 2008-9

By on January 10, 2012 in the Category Hopeless Teams with No comments
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For the fifth in our Hopeless Teams series, we delve back relatively recently into the past by welcoming Richard Bellis. Richard co-runs Richard and Neil’s Football Blog with his brother Neil and was the proud recipient of a nomination in the recent NOPA football blogging awards run by Picklive. 2011, however, largely saw Richard and Neil occupy themselves with the production and dissemination of The Blue & White Fanzine, a new print publication mainly devoted to the reformed Chester FC: a luscious object designed by our own Michael Kinlan and featuring contributions from TTUers William Abbs and myself. Here, Richard looks…