Our County Cricket Club whose affairs contrasted with Town's rise to the top would finish 11th in the Championship. I think this was the season when an Englishman, for the very first time, would have a batting average of 100. I'll let you work out who that was. Even that caused him bother in the corridors of power at Headingley.

The legend that is Glastonbury was born but a more startling event took place in Weeley?

Yes I had heard of it too, not. What started off as a little do just outside Clacton, Essex ended up with from 100,000 to a quarter of a million people reported to have watched the likes of T Rex, Rod & The Quo Rock 'n' Rolling like never before; whilst The Stones became tax exiles.

So yes nothing much happened. Certainly not what we Town fans had waited all summer long for.

The arrival of a much wanted, indeed needed, goal scorer never materialised. No acquisitions had being made by Town when our second season in Division One opened on August 14th with a visit from last season's 2nd Division Champions Leicester City.

Worthington and Cherry were on the mark in a 2-2 draw for a Town side very much the same as finished last May, especially defensively. Jimmy McGill was missing with Mick Barry covering and Les Chapman occupied 8 in place of Mahoney. David Smith a young striker and another product of our youth policy came on as substitute for Steve Smith to make his League Debut. A very disappointing crowd of 16,285 that included a sizeable away following made for a less than auspicious start to the new football season for followers of the Blue and White stripes.

Then on Sunday it happened. Town announced the signing of a Striker, Mick Fairclough. Mick who? Town fans could have been forgiven for saying, as he was not exactly well known. That the teenager was as keen as mustard could be gauged by the fact that he played his last match for his club Drogheda United in Ireland that morning and flew over to Huddersfield in the afternoon to sign. Injury was to rob Town and the young man himself of a very promising career, forcing him to retire within 5 years. (See Legends 13).

The following Tuesday again brought a home game. League Champions Arsenal able to avenge last season's defeat winning 1-0 before a much improved 21,279 crowd, though that was nearly 10000 down on last season. Just like 70-71 the second Saturday brought our first away game of the campaign and a further stuffing though this time we did manage a goal. Going down 1-4 at Tottenham. On the score sheet was Jimmy Lawson wearing for him the unfamiliar 10 shirt he would retain for all but two games of our season including cup ties. Bobby Hoy returning from a pre-season knock in place of Mick Barry at 11.

8th, 14th and now 20th league placing just one above the drop zone and that on GA from Everton whom from their three games had still to register a goal.

From London to Tyneside was the journey for our Terriers, with many of the 40,880 turning up expecting a free for all for the Toon forwards. Town keeper David Lawson was out so youngster Gary Pierce bought in February from non-league Mossley for a mere £2,000 was brought in for his first team debut.

But these were our Terriers and were not going to lie down for any one especially after their London exploits and even more so an ebullient new Town number One. Town left St James with a magnificently earned point from a 0-0 draw. Young keeper Pierce led from the front, or should that be the back? Making the type of debut that even today will stand out in his mind.

In one word superb.

The entire Town side ably led by new skipper Trevor Cherry, Jimmy Nick left out leaving Jimmy McGill wearing 4, put on a terrific fighting display. Albeit it mainly defensively, but getting forward when they could. This point pushed Town up to 19th in the table. With the next visitors to Town being in 21st spot hopes were high for a home victory when Chelsea came north.

The attendance was an alarming 15,303 and the 1-2 reversal just made for a thoroughly depressing day all round. Frank Worthington got his second of the season in an unchanged Town line up though wingers Hoy and Smith exchanged the 7 & 11 shirts. Town were now bottom of the pile. With 2 points from 5 games and still looking for a first win of the new season.

Next up table topping Sheffield United who had 9 points from 5 with 4 wins and a draw. 35,007 saw Town demolished 1-3. Despite the boss having David Lawson back in Goal. Steve Smith taking 8 from Dick Krzywicki after just two games and Les Chapman beginning a run in the number 11 shirt that would continue to the seasons end other than one appearance from the subs bench. Remaining bottom but just one point separated us from 19th placed Leicester City.

As September entered we faced a long journey to the south coast where if the home side won their game in hand they would go within one point of top spot. The home record we had to contend with showed a draw and a win from the two games played at the Dell with Southampton having conceded just the one. Treble that by the time Town had finished with them as we ran out winners 2-1 with goals from Les Chapman and Jimmy Lawson. Whilst this win lifted us from 22^nd in the League we were still in the relegation places though equal points with the next two clubs above. But this gritty battling performance had done much to raise the morale of both players and fans.

September was to prove a rather pleasant time to be a Town fan though we had the usual knock back as Tuesday 7th saw us eliminated from the FL Cup again without scoring. 3rd Division Bolton returned over the Pennines 2-0 victors.

A disappointment for the 10,131 crowd so much so only 9,938 turned up for First Division soccer the following Saturday to see Town record successive League victories beating visiting West Bromwich Albion 1-0. Les Chapman for a second successive game the Town scorer. There seemed to be something about our Town having gained a victory they would turn it to two on the trot.

Last season we managed eleven victories in total 6 came in sets of two. Now we had got our first win of 1971-72 here we were with another WW sequence and this against a Baggies side almost halfway up the table. Town moved up to 18th place on 6 points the same as six other sides the highest of which were our latest opponents in 14th position. How could an unchanged Town side defeat First Division opposition like Southampton and WBA yet look so forlorn and abject against a 6th placed Third Division outfit like the lads from Bolton were, though fully deserving of their cup victory.

But onwards and upwards was the hope with not a little expectancy either with 12^th placed Stoke the next to welcome us. Fire power, fire power were oh art thou fire power. We went down 0-1 always in the game, always looking more than secure at the back but somehow always looking for that key to the opponents net. An attendance of 16,463 saw the home side move up to 10th whilst we fell back into the mire of the bottom two.

21st still on 6 points the same as Forest in 18th. Our next home game none other than our lovely rivals from down the road who were somewhat better placed than us in 4th spot. Time for our Town to really show their mettle and give us Town fans a victory to savour.

An appalling crowd of only 26,340 over 16,000 down on last season must have caused palpation's to a Town board mulling over the desperate need to provide Mr Greaves with the funds for the much needed striker. Yet again our Terriers proved what they were all about beating our high-flying neighbours 2-1 in a pretty impressive way. Jimmy Lawson and Roy Ellam (Legends 21) the lads to put as broad a smile on Town faces as is possible. Other than the formative first week of the season Town up to a seasons high of 16^th. Surely now we get that sequence running again, but before that a right night was had in Huddersfield as we partied on the strength of our latest win. Frank Worthington certainly enjoyed the victory.

Next up, as October opened was Nottingham Forest away and a club below us in the table. Where they would stay as we recorded another win on the bounce with leading scorers Worthington (3) and Lawson his 5th bagging the goals in a 2-1victory. This win took us to a very respectable 14th in a table that had seen us on the bottom not that long ago, with ten points from the eleven games played. Looking further up the table the high flyers from the wrong end of the A62 only had three more points and they were in 5^th position.

Town also had made a further signing but a centre half. A 20 year old from Bury who stood some 6ft 5" and perhaps a bit more by the name of Dave Lyon. Perhaps Mr Greaves knew something about this youngster that we did not but it still seemed a strange use of limited funds. Though over the past five games a distinct rosy gleam had come over our club. Something away from the plot, or our season's progress, but this newcomer gave us a different type of publicity a little later on in his Town career. He was pictured with Steven Spriggs who stood but 5ft 1". The headline 'The Little & Large Show'.

Four wins out of five, 7 goals scored just 4 conceded and a settled, unchanged team. Which would again line up for the seventh time as our next outing brought Manchester United to Leeds Road.

33,458 came down to Leeds Road to see Best, Law & Charlton feature as a trio for the last time for the Reds. Helping their side to a comfortable 3-0 win, belying our nickname and taking the visitors to the top of the table. Despite this beating Ian Greaves remained true to his Terriers and named an unchanged line up for the eighth match in a row for our visit to Filbert Street. We went down again without scoring 0-2 as Terry Dolan made his League debut when coming on as substitute for Jimmy McGill. 'Chopper' as McGill was affectionately known to the Town fans for his all action, get stuck in attitude in mid-field was two days later surprisingly transferred to a Hull City side lying 17th in Division 2, in a £50,000 deal. Could this be the only way the manager could get the cash to make a signing of our own?

At the time the transfer mystified me, as with Jimmy Nick our Partick born midfielder was a huge Town favourite. Together the pair undoubtedly complemented one another and was the engine room of the side. Yes, this second season in the big time had seen Jimmy Nick play the first three games with 'Chopper' left out, then roles reversed from match four to the Leicester fixture. For me these two still had a big part to play in the future of Huddersfield Town Football Club and I was staggered by the letting go of McGill. Worse followed, as the return of Jimmy Nick would last for just two games after which we would not see our Irish international for the remainder of the season. The rumoured reason was again weight problems.

After the defeat to the Foxes we had dropped 4 places to 18th in the League with a further tough looking encounter coming up at 8th placed Liverpool. Changes were made by Town besides the ones forced by the transfer activity as right back Denis Clarke was to miss his only game of the season with Alan Jones deputising. Otherwise the Town defence of Clarke (41) Ellam (42) Cherry (42) Hutt (42) would have been unchanged throughout the entire 1971-72 season and perhaps the greatest testimony not only to the four players themselves but to why despite a season that would slowly fall apart, defensively we were competent. Youngster Dave Smith was brought in for his first full game of the season to support Lawson & Worthington, with Jimmy Nick and Steve Smith in the engine room and Bobby Hoy looking to create down the flank. The result was much the same. Another more than adequate performance but the lack of killer instinct in front of goal indeed also in creating much by way of chances saw us go down 0-2 though still clinging onto 18th place in the Division.

The week coming up would be vital with a double header at Leeds Road. Tuesday would see the visit of bottom of the League Nottingham Forest followed on the Saturday by a Manchester City side currently making up a Mancs 1, 2 at the top of the League.

Over 41,000 had witnessed our last performance at Anfield, over 33,000 our last home fixture. Yet a season low of 9,459 were to turn up for the visit of Forest to Yorkshire as Town looked to complete a league double in just 24 days.

This next bit should have a health warning for all Town fans. For it is almost as painful today as it was those near forty years past. The Town faithful witnessed a fourth successive defeat and failure to score. Bottom of the table Forest previously winless on their travels grabbed a one nil victory. Top scorer Jimmy Lawson was left out of the Town side for the first time this season with Les Chapman taking the 10 shirt, Dennis Clarke returning at full back. This game would also turn out to be the last of the season for skipper Jimmy Nicholson.

Saturday could not come quick enough for Manager Greaves & his players as they sought to put right the wrongs of the previous Tuesday. The fans were obviously impressed with what the Gaffer had to say or was it the visit of second in the table and well supported Manchester City that drew a much-improved crowd of over 20,000 to Leeds Road. Whatever, with youngster Alan Jones taking the number 4 shirt vacated by Jimmy Nick, an otherwise unchanged Town preceded to put on a display that belied their 18th placing and just one point above the relegation places. We probable deserved more that the 1-1 draw we achieved with another of our youngsters David B. Smith, (grandson of former Town stalwart David Steele, I think?) getting his first Town goal in just his third full appearance. The young striker would make it a hat trick of goals in similar number of games as November entered with Town losing at Coventry 1-2.

Returning to winning ways for the first time in 7 matches as West Ham left Leeds Road defeated 1-0. The crowd was poor 14,177 though they had witnessed not only a vital and deserved win but also a third clean sheet. Little did we realise this Saturday evening what joy a further visit from the Londoners would bring in the New Year. We were still in 18th place in the First Division but our 13 points gave us a cushion over the first relegation spot of 21st occupied by Newcastle on 10pts. Though they had a game in hand, as did bottom place Palace on similar points, remember this was a time when a win brought just two points. Jimmy Lawson by now had returned to the side and with young Smith in such good goal scoring form he was now joint second top scorer with Big Frank.

Next up a visit to Suffolk and a chance to make a big jump to mid table as Ipswich in 14th from a game less played were just 3pts ahead of us on 16 points. A win and we would be snapping at their heels. With an unchanged team we went into the match with high hopes despite the fact that the home side had a pretty decent record at Portman Road. Especially in the goals conceded column with just 8 recorded. That they had scored but 9 and given our defensive qualities a tight match was expected and that is how it played out. Having to substitute Frank Worthington did not help though it gave a further substitute appearance for Terry Dolan, and we eventually went down 0-1.

Whilst this defeat did not drop us further down the table it did enable the chasing pack to make up ground with the following two but 1 and 2 points behind. In the relegation place of 21st was West Bromwich Albion, a game less played but on 11 points and therefore just two off our total. In bottom spot Palace on ten points also with a game in hand.

The month ended with a cracker as Town entertained a Derby County side, champions of the Second Division the season prior to Town taking that crown, second in Division one. Having 25 points from 18 games played they were 3 points adrift of table topping Manchester United. Away from the Baseball Ground their record read won 4 drawn 3 lost just 2, scored 11 conceding the lowest in the League of just 6. Overall they had rattled up 31 goals with a meagre 13 conceded and were renowned as they had been for the past three seasons as one of the finest footballing sides in the land. Hardly surprising when you remember the Legend Mr Clough was their Manager.

Another poor crowd as just 15,329 turned up to Leeds Road that Saturday the 27th of November 1972 to witness history in the making of Huddersfield Town Football Club. Though we did not know it then our beloved stadium was to see a Town side win for the very last time, ever, in the elite of English soccer.

For win we did as goals from top scorer Jimmy Lawson and Frank Worthington saw us home 2-1. The game was justifiably fit to go into the record books as both teams put on a display of football that would have graced any arena in the world. Whilst as usual our defensive play was good our attacking play matched it and more by putting the ball in the net and when you do that, then you give yourself a chance of winning. Boy how well our Town did that.

In a game that will live forever in the memories of those privileged 15,000+ who turned up. The Town side showed one change with young striker Smith replaced by another Brian Mahoney. Perhaps it was the raw-boned youngster whose frame meant he put himself about somewhat that gave us that little bit of extra edge up front but it meant he would get a run of a couple more games following his rampage against the Rams.

It was not just Christmas on the horizon that had given Town fans optimism again but beating the Champions elect was no fluke. Whilst the visitors themselves had played very well we were more than equal to them. At the risk of repeating myself the ultimate factor was that we had finished off all our good work, all our excellent football, our at times quite superb approach work with goals. We had literally finished the task properly. We had put the ball in the onion bag.

Town now in 17th position 5 points clear of the drop zone, though West Brom in bottom place did have a game in hand over us.

Back at Leeds Road surely now we would capitalise on our recent excellent form which had seen 3 points from 4 with double goals scored in these games. Last up had been 2nd placed Derby this time it was 20th placed Crystal Palace whose away record, whilst it showed one win also recorded just 2 draws and 7 losses. They had found the net on 5 occasions but their defence had been breached 20 times. Four points ahead of the visitors 12 points and another home game to come next Saturday and with it the opportunity to record our first double of the campaign, indeed of our First Division days. Time to stand up and be counted.

As an unchanged team confidently took to the field led by Trevor Cherry the players must have wondered as they emerged from the tunnel what they had to do for some of the so called Town fans to come along and support them. A magnificent ground that once housed over 67,000 fans played host this day to a lousy 11,692.

By the end of the 90 minutes both players and those few loyal fans were certainly feeling somewhat worse than lousy as Town were beaten 0-1. Brian Mahoney was substituted for the second game in a row but this time young Fairclough was unable to conjure up enough magic to lay on an equalising goal. Despite this Mr Greaves saw enough in the young Irishman to hand him his full FL debut alongside returning Steve Smith, excluding Terry Dolan, as Southampton came up from Hampshire on Saturday week.

With the crowd even further down to just 10,436 many of who had left before the final whistle saw Town go down 0-2. The visitors avenging their 2-1 reversal at the Dell in September. Whilst these two home games on the trot had been seen by barely 25,000 with no goals scored and three conceded our league position had not been severely dented. We had dropped to 19th but that still saw us 3pts clear of Forest on 16 in 21st with the same 23 games played with West Brom still bottom on 11 points from a game less played. But a win would have taken us up at least one place above Southampton themselves and two points clear of them.

It would also have given us such a psychological lift. As like never before the Manager's preaching of 'Positive thinking' was now becoming more then ever necessary.

With the Saints victory it meant our next game, our Christmas fixture on December 27th, would pit us against the club again immediately above us in the league. Everton from 22 games played had just one more point than us on 17 so a tight game was anticipated as the Goodison club had 6 home wins under their belt with only 7 goals conceded. Indeed they had only got 23 in their overall goals conceded column so a final outcome of 2-2 gave a very respectable score for our visiting Terriers.

Again it was top scorers Worthington and Lawson who did the damage before a magnificent crowd of 41,088. Oh to be able to attract such numbers to Leeds Road for it would seem if this performance was any judge that the Town players certainly could perform on the big stage. Bobby Hoy replaced Fairclough in the number 7 shirt whilst a substitution reversed this during the match. Alan Jones was left out after a run of 8 games for Terry Dolan to return for his third game and the start of a 16 game run. The former Bradford lad taking 8 as Steve Smith reverted to 4. A shirt he would keep right through to the end of the season.

So 1972 ended with Town 19th in Division 1 from 24 games played. Our 17points gave us a 2-point advantage over Crystal Palace though Croydon's finest had a game in hand. Nottingham Forest 24 played & 14 points in the bag occupied the relegation place of 21st. Bottom of the pile WBA where they had been for quite a bit of the first half of the season with just 13 points from 23 played. Their game in hand like Palace a home one. At the half way stage of our first season back in the top flight, December 1971 we had been in 15th spot with 20pts from 23 games played.

January 1st 1972 both a Bank Holiday and a Saturday brought with it Town's opening game of the New Year. Usually these fixtures bring with then a yearning to go watch your local team and whilst the attendance was up on the last two home matches it was still a paltry 12.655. Hoy was left out for Fairclough in an otherwise unchanged line up and though the game produced our third clean sheet at home our failure to score meant a drab 0-0 outcome. Yet again a Stoke City side keeping us goalless. The point gained did keep us 3 points clear of the drop zone.

A capital trip was our first away match of '72 to take on 10th placed Chelsea whose fans among the 30,801 were perhaps surprised like those at Goodison and Molineux as for a third successive away game Town came home with a point from a most excellent 2 all draw. On target for Town were Les Chapman and a first of the season for Steve Smith who alongside Terry Dolan was proving a more than adequate midfielder and therefore keeping Jimmy Nicholson out of the team. Town remained in 19th place though Palace closed to within one point of us on 18 and with a game in hand as had West Brom in 21st on 16 points. Bottom Forest played the same as us 26 but with 15 points some 4 adrift of us. So we had a three-point leeway from the chasing pack in the first relegation place, though Albion did have a home game in hand.

On the third Saturday of January our attention turned to the finest Cup competition wherever football is played and a 3rd Round FA Cup tie at Turf Moor. Our hosts were enjoying a good season in Division 2 and were handily placed in 8th for a promotion push. So much so that this was one tie that had the makings, according to the 'experts' of an upset. Town full back Denis Clarke notched the all-important goal before 21,563 spectators as Town progressed courtesy of a 1-0 win. Mahoney started the cup-tie only to be subbed for Fairclough otherwise Mr Greaves kept the line-up constant. The cup run was on and very few of us would have expected at this stage that the Terriers would go further in the competition than any other Town side since 1955.

For now it was back to the important business of climbing the First Division table, buoyed by the Cup win, and despite those two Leeds Road defeats in a week. We had 3 draws and a win to show from the last six matches.

After the Pensioners away it was now down to Highbury to meet the 8th placed Gunners who would find Town having to replace keeper Dave Lawson with youngster Gary Pierce. The former Mossley stopper was making just his third FL appearance. Yet another excellent display from our young goalkeeper along with those, especially of his defensive colleagues almost ensured a further point for Town. Sadly whilst we were unable to take one of few chances we made Arsenal did and we ended up losing 0-1.

Whilst we had not quite managed to live up to our three previous outings the 36.670 crowd certainly appreciated that there had been as little in the game between the two sides as the score suggested. For a second successive game youngster Fairclough was substituted this time in favour of a Welsh international returning for the first time since October, Dick Krzywicki. It was as you were in the table with the only movement of the 4 teams at the bottom being one more game played, though 17th spot was now 3 points away from us.

How much difference an extra goal here and there would have made. Not just in turning some of the nil one losses into draws, the odd draw or two into wins but lifting the morale of our young side. Surely devastated by how well they could play, how good a team we were in defence but if one was conceded we were as good as down and out. For finding the net ourselves was proving an almost impossible task. How we needed a goal scorer, someone to back up Worthington and Lawson. For all the promise of Fairclough, Dave Smith & Mahoney these were young lads still making their way in League football and for all his costly transfer fee, sadly Dick Krzywicki up to the Arsenal game had played but twice with a further 2 from the subs bench.

The end of January brought Newcastle United to Leeds Road but a disappointing 12,829 saw Town fail to score for a second successive game which would extend to a run of 7 games without scoring. Indeed since our 2-1 win over Derby in November not only did we not win again but we were to score in only another seven matches. A total of 10 goals from 22 matches and two were og's! Six of these coming in those three consecutive away fixtures following our clash with the Rams at Leeds Road

But it must be said that yet again our defence was secure as for a second time this season Gary Pierce and Co shut out the Magpies as Town earned a point from another Terrier/Toon 0-0 draw. Both West Brom and Palace had now come to within 2 points of us and with each of them having a home game in hand positions were tightening at the bottom.

But we could forget the squeeze in the League as it was now time to welcome 2nd Division Fulham in the 4th Round of the FA Cup. February 5th was quite a day for Town fans though little did I know how personally important this day would be five years hence as Heather and I would welcome our first child into the world. Dave Lawson returned in goal but it was at the other end where we really hit the jackpot. Our Terriers scoring three times, without reply, in a game for the first time since March last year. It had been August 1970 since a Leeds Road crowd had witnessed a treble from their favourites.

Les Chapman hit a "belter" as Frank Worthington put it and his goal celebration had to be seen to be believed. As he jumped & bounced around as high and as freely as any kangaroo. The terraces went wild at our first goal in nearly a month and a first at home since the end of November. Wild was but mild when Jimmy Lawson added a second and then a third before 18,000 ecstatic fans and passage into the 5th Round of the cup.

Please let a third successive home game bring another clean sheet as we returned to Division 1 action with a welcome to 10th placed Liverpool. This time the attendance increased from the last home game, the Fulham cup tie, though by only 702 but it was a step in the right direction as an unchanged Town team gave as much as they got over the ninety minutes. It was not enough as a seventh single goal defeat settled the game in favour of the Liver Birds. We were down to 20th on GA from West Brom who were quietly climbing the table and were up to 19th. We had a point advantage over Palace in 21 place but they still had that game in hand, Forest already looked doomed, as they remained 5 points adrift.

With our league position worsening where else could we be going next week but visiting the team at the very top of the league. Facing a Manchester City side in first place was daunting, looking at their home record of won 10 with just one defeat and three draws seemed to say mission impossible. 36 goals for just 11 conceded in their 14 home games showed just what a task our Terriers faced.

Again we had a good following in a 36,421 crowd. Again we made the home side work ever so hard for their victory but a win it was nevertheless. By a very slender 1-0. Youngster Mick Barry came on when Kryzwicki was substituted for his first appearance since August. Just like his team-mates he was far from overawed by City who were more than relieved to have the 2 points come the final whistle.

But a defeat and further heartbreak as Town dropped into the relegation places on 20points with just Forest below us still 5 points adrift and similar games played. Palace had hauled themselves up to 20th a game less played 29, same points as us 20 but a superior GA 0.58 to ours of 0.56. Nottingham's incidentally stood at 0.55.

Time again as February came to a close to look to the FA Cup and a continuation of what was becoming a tremendous run. Town had been favoured with another home game, having been drawn against West Ham United. Against whom we could never forget our Cup exploits of January 1960 and an away 5-1 FA Cup replay win inspired by Denis Law with goals from Connor 2, Massie 2 and McGarry. Or the home FL Cup win of November 1968 winning 2-0 when a goal after just two minutes from a young Frank Worthington, one month into his professional soccer career, had got us on our way.

In fact let us read the words of our star number 9 Big Frank as he regales us in his book 'One hump or Two' The Frank Worthington Story on what is now a cup run fondly remembered by many of the older Town Fans.

"The one bright spot at Huddersfield that season was our fantastic run in the FA Cup. The fans, desperate for some success caught the cup bug and 27,000 turned up at Leeds Road to see us take on West Ham in the fifth round. It turned out to be my finest game for the club as we took Moore, Hurst and Co to the cleaners. I was behind three of the goals scored by Jimmy Lawson again, Terry Dolan and Dave Smith, before scoring the fourth myself from Chappy's inch-perfect cross. The match was shown on Yorkshire Television the next afternoon and I can always remember commentator Keith Macklin's words." "Everything Worthington touches he turns to gold. He's in an ecstasy," he said. Frank again, " In the after-match interview I played it cool. I said Chappy's cross-had just hit me on the head for the fourth goal. Of course, nobody was fooled".

Huddersfield Town 4 West Ham United 2. Attendance 27,088. Lawson 20mins, Hammers equalising through Pop Robson in first half injury time. This followed a free kick awarded because of a late challenge by Worthington on Brooking, - Frank was involved in everything!

Not long after the second half had started Terry Dolan put Town two up, then youngster Dave Smith, in for Krzywicki, mid way through the half made it 3-1. Enter our star centre forward Worthington into the scoring stakes as he added a fourth straight from the kick off. Town 4-1 up against a star-studded West Ham who incidentally were five points better off than us in the League in 13th.

We had a few scary moments towards the end when, with the clock showing 80 minutes played Clyde Best pulled one back. But there were to be no bubbles blowned this day as we saw the game out and the crowd erupted at the final whistle. No doubts this was a match for folklore for people to say in years to come 'I was there'. That it went out on national TV was a bonus as the footballing world had seen yet again just how our Terriers could perform. Add the goals to our hard working, super fit, well organised and notwithstanding a certain amount of talent. We were not far from a team that could not only hold our own with the cream of English soccer. But beat them as well.

Huddersfield partied that Saturday night of February 26th. But I could not help that little me in the back of my mind wondering, as brilliant as the Cup win was the delight and enjoyment it provided. Wondering would we have swapped it for two league points? When the season end came and the final table was printed more than likely the answer was a definitive no. The Cup win and the run we had gave us rich enjoyment in what was a tough season for our Town.

Our FA Cup home draws came to an end as we were given the difficult task of visiting Birmingham City in the 6th Round. To take on a home side who only last season we had knocked out of the Cup at the Third Round stage. Still a 2nd Division club but one now pushing very strongly for promotion. Fourth in the table with a home record that read Played 16, won 11, drawn 5, 0 defeats. Goals scored 39 by far the highest in the Division conceded 12. They had reached the quarterfinals by virtue of three home victories. Beating Port Vale 3-0. A victory 1-0 over First Division Ipswich Town and then fellow 2nd division rivals Portsmouth 3-1 having previously thumped them 6-3 in the League on home soil.

But before the much-anticipated Cup-tie in three weeks time we had two very important First Division fixtures. The first of which saw us travel to London to take on a West Ham United side but one week on from our brilliant cup win over them. They would be smarting somewhat and definitely looking to get revenge. Not just because their beating had been seen by all on TV but there was the vital matter of ensuring we did not close the gap of 5 points on them in the table. We for our part were confident despite our league placing of 21st that when we added the goals to our overall play we could match up with any.

Around this time rumours were starting to surface that the board was prepared to pay a substantial fee for as yet an unnamed striker. But one who would provide all we needed as regards that little extra fire power up front. Town were unchanged for the game at Upton Park full back Denis Clarke passed fit after the knock which caused him to be substituted by Alan Jones for the final few minutes of last weeks cup tie.

After this match Mr Greaves must have been tearing his hair out. A former Manchester United full back so no mean player himself, now a top quality manager and coach. One who was very much into organisation, fitness, discipline and positive thinking. So how the heck do you explain such a difference in just a week? Yes the venue was different and our own park was bereft of grass excepting the four corners so you could argue the playing conditions last week were also a little different.

In London of course the Hammers had far more of the 18,481 crowd though the travelling Town fans made sure they were heard. For the rest the size of field, goal posts, football all much of a muchness as was up in Yorkshire previously.

Yet we got tonked 0-3, and were lucky to get nil. We just never turned up and that is something we could very rarely throw at our team especially managed by Ian Greaves. To say we were abysmal would be an understatement. It was as if the home side believed last week was just a one off and normal service would be resumed. Such was the difference in every way. We were awful all over the park. Poor defending, little by way of challenge, no movement and our passing was non existent. As good as the 4-2 win was brilliant this defeat was mammoth. Even I struggled to take some positivity out of our showing; to this very day I can still remember how disappointed I was with our performance, or lack of one.

What the journey back home on the team coach was like I dread to think it was bad enough in my car but we had to get over it and bounce back and quick. Forest were still 5 points behind us in bottom place but we were now 2 points adrift of Southampton and Palace in 20th & 19th place respectively. Both had a game in hand over us and both had played two more games on their travels than at home. Up as high as 18th and climbing rapidly were West Bromwich now 4 points clear of us with 24.

Wednesday March 8th - the prayers of all Town fans were answered. It was announced that Wolverhampton Wanderers Scottish International Striker Hughie Curran was to sign for Town in a deal worth £45,000. The 29-year-old Carstairs born forward had a career record of a little better than 1 goal in every 2 games and I for one was overjoyed at the news. We had hoped for a top striker and for me we could not have made a much better choice. His move was helped by the emergence of young Wolves protégé John Richards and perhaps our former skipper now Wolves manager Bill McGarry saw a chance to get in some money and help his old club at the same time. Whatever Curran had a kick like a mule and was a hell of a forward to have in the opposition box. Some thought too little too late but as they say today. Never over till the fat lady sings.

Defeat at Upton Park with a performance to match had been tough to bear but unbelievably still further misery was to be heaped on us fans. We had been told there was money available if needed. That need had been there our entire time in the First Division especially now and not used. When the signing was announced some among us just 'wondered'. But what came next was cruel to us all and despite our lack of belief until a new player actually pulled on the shirt I don't think any of us were quite prepared for what followed. Perhaps, ever so sadly, some of us in our worst nightmare were.

We fans would have to pick ourselves up from this but it was a body blow. I believe it was possibly an even bigger blow to our players who must have been delighted when they heard their labours and hard work would now be supported and more vitally finished off by this incoming goalscorer.

The official line from the Town club was that Mr Curran failed his medical. Well I now will give you my own feelings on 'the transfer that never happened'. We have to jump forward in time here to September 1974. Ian Greaves is now Assistant Manager at Bolton Wanderers. Greavsie took on the mantel of Manager within the month.

The Trotters made a big signing, the player none other than Hugh Curran. The same man who failed a medical for Huddersfield but was fit enough two years down the line to sign, for big money, for Bolton. A club that had in their managerial team someone that knew the history of the Scottish striker better than most.

I hate to say this but it is something that I have believed from that day to this that the medical gave our Board the opportunity to pull out of a transfer and leave me for one thinking they never really intended it to happen.

But if that was so why announce the signing to the press?

In defence of the Board I will say that in the then Chairman, nobody was more Huddersfield Town than that man. As Mr Greaves once said to me of the Chairman, "That man was born to be Chairman of Huddersfield Town".

As for our Gaffer, we may have fallen out over other matters but all he did when in the hotseat at Leeds Road was in his opinion the very best he could do for our club. Greavsie the disciplinarian he was upfront and as honest as they come.

It was many years later when in a official Town club video Mr Greaves told us all that his one big regret on taking the Town 'too soon' into the top flight was when he told the fans: "If we need to strengthen we have the cash available."

That he admitted was wrong, as he had attempted to put a positive spin on our prospects for life upstairs. There had been no cash but he could hardly tell the fans that as they anticipated life in the First Division. When it was very likely that despite Greaves young Terriers being a more than combatant outfit the need to strengthen is usual in any promoted side.

So we moved from one United to another. To the Manchester variety at Old Trafford. Despite the Reds now ten points off the pace and that been the City variety and down in 9th place in Division One we still drew a crowd, a seasons biggest for us, of a magnificent 53,581. We were unchanged again and put on a much-improved display. But even then we never really looked like getting something out of the game.

The final score of 0-2 was about right against a home side who were also experiencing tough times. Within two years they would suffer the ignominy of relegation. With the bottom two both losing the only statistically change was 32 games played, above us Southampton stayed on 22points with Palace edging away on 23. The Albion continued their climb now up to 17th. Midlands neighbours Coventry dropping below them.

So to March 18th and a respite from our League position for the FA Cup-tie with Birmingham City. We took thousands of fans to St Andrews for this Quarter-Final clash which helped create a superb atmosphere among the huge capacity crowd of 52,500. We started well but City backed by a fanatical following slowly got on top and we had some defending to do. But that was our great strength and to be honest despite the pressure we looked comfortable despite going behind to a Malcolm Page goal. They say lightening never strikes twice in the same place. Wrong.

Just as in last season's 3rd Round tie home number 9 Dave Latchford again took out the Town goalie. This time it was the turn of Terry Poole's deputy David Lawson to be stretched off and follow a similar journey by ambulance to a Birmingham Hospital.

Thankfully only seconds remained of the half. The reorganisation in the ranks saw Terry Dolan take over the green jersey but insult added to injury when Latchford put the home side two up. The lads battled, credit them with that and they certainly put pressure on the second division side which was rewarded when skipper Trevor Cherry pulled one back. Despite our best efforts it was really no surprise when striker Hatton made the game safe for Birmingham and the home side ran out 3-1 winners.

The disappointment of the travelling fans was equal to the utter joy of the home fans. Given the struggle of our League form the FA Cup had provided us with so much. Now it was over we certainly felt aggrieved that a second goalkeeper had been hurt in similar fashion and the ramifications for our League battles. Whilst it did not help our efforts on the day would it be true to say without the loss of Lawson we would now be contemplating a Cup semi-final.

I don't know but for me, the better side in the end won. Though Birmingham had the heartbreak of not making it to Wembley their progress in Division 2 went undiminished. Gaining promotion as runners-up to champions Norwich City who had just one point to spare on the Midlanders 56. They went through the season unbowed at home with 15 games won and 6 drawn. Scoring 46 conceding 14 and losing but 5 of the 42 long season, another best in the Division. Not only did they attain First Division status but they would remain there for 7 seasons until relegation in 78/79.

Unlike Terry Poole who was still recovering from the broken leg suffered at St Andrews in January 1971, David Lawson's injury was not as bad as first feared. Initially ruled out for the season further checks gave hope he could be back and available for selection within the month.

The Cup now but a dream, but one that would last for a very long time so far nearly 40 years, it was back to First Division reality. Despite the promotion season being but a couple of seasons ago it seemed so, so far away. Even last season, our first back in the top flight was rapidly becoming a faint memory as we fought to preserve out elite status.

We know had just 10 games in which to do so starting with the following Tuesday fixture when Sheffield United came to Leeds Road. Fit again number 2 Denis Clarke returned to the side following his absence from the cup tie when Alan Jones had covered, Dick Krzywicki replaced young striker David Smith who had seen his last first team action for the season. The vital position of Goalkeeper went to Gary Pierce who in his four previous outings had conceded three goals and kept two clean sheets.

Now make that three but our failure to score meant we had now gone 7 League matches without a goal. Make that six on the trot at Leeds Road without a goal for the home faithful to celebrate. Thus an attendance of nearly 18,000 was perhaps better than we could have hoped, though the 8th placed Blades did bring many. Not wishing to further criticise the stay away statistics such as just mentioned hardly have any but the true fan merrily wending their way down Leeds Road on a match day. A good point against a handily placed Sheffield side but not enough to move us from 21st and still 2 points separated us and Southampton on 23 points in 20th spot. Forest on the bottom had closed the gap on us to 4 points but they now had played a game more.

A week on from our defeat in the cup down in the Midlands and we were back again. This time to the home of the Throstles and 17th placed West Bromwich Albion. My how high they had climbed recently. If they could do it why not us?

Over 18,000 saw us claim a very well deserved point and though the scoreline read 1-1 'we' again failed to score. Our unchanged side grateful to Baggies player Robertson for deflecting into his own net. Another more than satisfactory performance but the time was fast with us that meant draws were just not enough unless interspersed with a win or two and a few more goals.

Looking at that so important league table had us still in 21st place with 22pts from 34 games played. GA 0.51. Forest bottom 19 points from 35, GA a vital bit better on 0.60. Above us in 20th were Southampton having played only 33 with 23 points and a GA like Palace above much better than ours. The rest were 4 points of more clear of us.

At the time I had no knowledge of what occurred around this time, surrounding our playing squad, but it was all there in the press as the season ended. At the centre of it all was a request from 'the players' for an extra payment apparently over and above the amount the Club were obliged to play them under the terms of their contracts. More on this later.

Tottenham came to Town the following Tuesday and with but 2 wins away from home they would not relish meeting the Terriers. Despite their poor on their travels they sat 6th in the table so a hard task was on the cards. With not too many Spurs fans making up a 16,123 attendance it was not too bad a gate. They witnessed a cracking game of football and a home goal with Jimmy Lawson notching his 9th and final league goal of the season ensuring Town had a share of the spoils in a 1-1 draw.

Possibly to the starved of goals Town fans this was extra special as it was the first scored by our side at home since November 27th and that superb win over Derby.

But that goal and the point it gained did more for Town than just earn a draw as other results went a little our way. Forest lost, heavily, reducing their GA to 0.57 ours improved to 0.52 and with 23 points we were again 4 points clear of bottom of the ladder. It gets better as Saints just above were clawed back as they lost. Now played 34 points 23, yep-same points as us.

We were moving, Palace also lost 35 played, points 24 and Coventry dropping to 18th with 26 points, GA 0.59 came closer.

Easter Saturday and it was no April Fools joke as Town extended their unbeaten run to 4 games when 14th placed Everton were the visitors. Again our inability to turn chances into goals hurt us badly as the Toffees secured a point from a 0-0 draw. Mr Greaves had, for the first time in this run, made a change with Bobby Hoy replacing Krzywicki. Over 17,000 enjoyed an entertaining game and then many on the final whistle went across the road to do likewise at the huge Canker Lane Easter fair that in those days always descended onto the Town car park across the road from the ground.

Our unbeaten run came tumbling down on Easter Tuesday as our local derby down the A62 saw the home side victorious 3-1 in front of a massive 46,148. We did score through Steve Smith's second and final goal of the season. But unlike many of our past games we never showed, never really looked capable of getting something out of a game that saw our hosts go 2nd in the table, just one point off the top with a game in hand & with a far superior GA to leaders Derby. Obviously the Division One table had a poor look for Town. The bottom three had all played 37games with Palace one place and one point above us. Forest below had 19 points. In 19th place though Saints had pulled away with 27points and a game in hand.

So just ten points to play for and we now had two home games on the trot to prepare for. One of them against 18th placed Coventry whom on 28points were just 4 points clear of us. First up Ipswich came to Huddersfield who we could only catch if we won all our remaining games. The fans were less than confident as only 12139 came and were proved right as we went down 1-3. An og registering our very last goal of the season. Not surprising when, as in the last game Frank Worthington with transfer rumours rife, was missing with his 9 shirt worn by Dick Krzywicki.

When the final whistle blew to end our Tuesday night battle with the Sky Blues we had now lost three on the trot. Frank Worthington's return could not stop us going down 0-1 though 11,782 were particularly pleased to see the return of goalkeeper David Lawson. The table made for awful reading as Forest had enjoyed two successive wins and now were but one point behind us. Above us Palace were clear by 2 points with all the bottom three having just 3 games, 6 points, to play. Southampton on 29 points with a game in hand and a vastly superior GA were 5 points clear of us nigh on untouchable.

Palace & Forest did not have a game the coming Saturday so a win would take us level with them though our task was mammoth. We had to travel to take on a Derby County side that were sitting top of the pile but just one point clear of the chasing pack and with a game more played. Alan Jones came in for his tenth and last game of the season replacing Terry Dolan who had played his final game of 18.

The Baseball ground was packed as 31,414 came to roar on their favourites and they left well pleased with a 3-0 victory handsomely improving their GA. Town fans travelled in their numbers and had the good grace to accept we were well beaten by an excellent side. Trevor Cherry our left half and number 6 had taken over as skipper when Jimmy Nicholson fell out of favour. He had always led from the front and was an integral part of a very sound and effective defensive unit. Today both he and his teammates were unable to halt the Rams charge but oh how they tried and especially our young skipper.

With less than 15 minutes to play Town conceded a corner and I was standing behind the goal Town were defending. The game was as good as lost but not to Trevor Cherry he was here, there and everywhere organising his defence ensuring Dave Lawson was happy with his full backs, that we had their attackers picked up, nothing left to chance. We had a goal to protect a corner to defend and Cherry and Huddersfield Town were going to do it as if it was the first minute of a new season. As if life itself depended upon it.

Such was his commitment, his dedication to the cause. Many have appreciated the value and skills of this young man but in those few moments I realised just what a talent, what fabulous a player and man we had in him. Talented, skilful, able to tackle and read a game but most of all a superb attitude. He was everything any Town fan could want in one of our players. He wanted just as much for our club as any of the fans. Perhaps even then I should have realised that I was watching a future England captain.

Losing to the top of the table was no disgrace but losing our place in the top division of English football was now all that consumed us as we returned to our cars and coaches to journey back up the M1. We stayed where we had started Saturday in 21st position but we now had only two games to play whilst Forest had three and were only a point behind on 23 points. Palace had 26. We no longer could reach 19th place in the table that was out of sight with 29 points.

So it came to our last home match of the season after this but a trip to London to complete our 42 and a final game of the season. Our visitors were 10th placed Wolverhampton Wanderers, possibly the most famous British side of the 1950's whose European games under the Molineux lights are all that football legend is about. It would also be the last time we would be able to watch First Division football for at least one more season.

The Town side was very much that of the previous 40 games though Ian Greaves moved Worthington to 8 with the centre forward shirt taken by debutant Dave Lyon. The 20-year-old, standing 6ft 5in and some having joined from Bury early in the season as a Centre Half. Alan Jones was the player to miss out as many so called Town fans in a pathetically low crowd of 11,677 showed with their feet what they thought of the club. At the very moment when we needed all the support we could muster when it was a win at all costs. Nothing but the two points and even then hardly enough would count. There is no doubt that the lack of signings by the club left many supporters dismayed and dispirited as if the outcome was inevitable.

But we, here I mean the 11677, and the players so desperately needed the missing thousands. Where now the 33,000+ of October or even the 27,080 for the Hammers Cup-Tie.

Together we might just have made a difference our support and passion transferring from the terrace to the park? After all Huddersfield Town is our & your club. Today, many reading this will have been there at Leeds Road on that Saturday 22nd April, 1972 just like you are at the Galpharm now. But how many of the players are still there, of course none and off the field is virtually similar. They come and go you and I don't. Huddersfield Town is yours and you are the club.

The result was a 0-1 reversal as we lost our fifth game on the trot and third without scoring. Most of all we were as good as down as we slipped to the bottom of the table for the first time since the last week of August. Perhaps not quite mathematically so but with a vastly inferior GA and our goal scoring record we now had really only pride to play for.

With the end of the season just seven days away we knew our fate but just like Trevor Cherry at Derby no one at Huddersfield Town were going to go down without a fight.

Tuesday brought Forests game in hand and they went down to our previous conquerors, Wolves, but much heavier 3-1. So with one game to play whilst we were still in bottom place both ourselves and Forest had played 41 bringing 24 points. Though their GA of 0.58 to our 0.46 was far superior. By Wednesday night it was all over as Crystal Palace beat Stoke City to record a fine 2-0 home victory and assure their place in Division 1.

Down but not out, battered and now beaten, relegated but still the final placing to be decided and the last two points to be contested. We wanted to finish as well as possible and to end the run of five defeats on the trot and hopefully give the fans a goal to shout about. Something we had failed to do in 4 of the last 6 matches.

For an eleventh time Town disappointed their travelling fans by failing to score. Having secured their First Division status so impressively in midweek over 18,000 turned up in South London the majority expecting to see their Palace put on a show fit for - a premier team. Well they got it but not quite the result they expected as both they and Town put on a creditable performance that had everything but goals. For this last match of the season Mr Greaves omitted Frank Worthington amid rumours of 'disciplinary reasons' as the spectre from March reared its head again. Dave Lyon retained the number nine shirt with our former Drogheda forward Mick Fairclough returning to the line-up for the first time since January.

This 0-0 draw meant Town had scored but 15 goals on their travels yet still 3 better than at home for a meagre seasons total of 27 or 0.64 of a goal per game! But the point gained meant we moved up the table to 21st on 25 points. This movement had also quite a bit to do with Forest having their final game still to play, on Tuesday next at Goodison Park. The point Crystal Palace gained meant they finished 4 points clear of us in 20th position.

As Everton & Forest drew the point the Nottingham club gained proving enough to take them to 25 points and with a GA of 0.58 to our 0.46 meaning we dropped to 22nd and consigned to the record books a First Division table for 1971/72 showing Huddersfield Town bottom.

In total we conceded 59 goals better than any in the bottom 5 and far less than the 80+ of two of the occupants. Indeed, there was two clubs in the top ten who had conceded more than our Terriers. But if you don't score goals you can not win matches and our total of 27 was by far the worst in the division having to add a further 10 before you reached the next lowest.

Without question our lack of firepower cost us dearly and who knows what might have been if a Hugh Curran could have been added to top scorer Jimmy Lawsons 9 league goals and next highest Frank Worthington on but 5. With three of our back four ever present and right back Clarke missing but one match it is not difficult to see why our defence gave room for little concern. Sadly for Town if further proof of their quality were needed as we dropped out of the top division three of them would in fact remain there. The average attendance had severely dropped by over 7,000 to 15,940 in part due to witnessing but 12 goals from their favourites at Leeds Road resulting in failing to find the net a dozen times also, giving us just four victories to shout about.

How could it be in the FA Cup it had been so different? Yet despite the sadness of relegation barely before our final position was confirmed more misery, though hardly unexpected, was heaped on the already heavy-laden shoulders of the Town faithful. Trevor Cherry our inspirational captain had made it know before the final match of the season that he wanted away to be closely followed by Ellam and Worthington with similar requests. Hardly unexpected even though they had the Town club at heart their talents deserved a higher platform than the second division. Not only that but they were highly ambitious and believed that in the direction Town were going and given the lack of signings and ambition shown by the club their ambitions could not be met at Leeds Road.

Three of our finest yet worse was to come as Town hit the news both locally and nationally as what had occurred behind closed doors in March now became public property.

I was aware of very little of what was supposed to have transpired in the halls of power behind our football club. It would seem that some of our players had felt they needed a boost in their fight against relegation and had come up with a sum of money they felt would just give them that little extra power as they strove to fight of relegation. On the face of it a far from noble request when they were already paid to do just that. Yet behind it all I feel lay the fact that everyone connected with Town almost to a man agreed what the underlying problem was with the team.

A problem that had been upper most during our two seasons in the First Division but very little had seemingly been done about it. When action had finally taken place, in March last, at the last minute it all fell apart. We are of course talking about the need for a goal scorer which many good judges believed would be virtually the last piece in the jigsaw to turn our team from able to more than capable.

The fall out was when the centre forward we were to sign, indeed the press reported the £45,000 capture of the Wolves striker, all fell through at the last minute, as Hugh Curran failed his medical. The repercussions of losing the Scottish International centre forward hit Town fans very hard indeed and I suspect the players also as they saw in this player just the man to give them a boost and add the vital missing ingredient, goals. This I believe was the reason behind a group of players going to see the Manager and putting to Ian Greaves a request for each player in our 15 man squad to receive £1,000.

When this story broke there were claims that the players were almost looking to strike that their request was totally out of order. Others felt that it might just have proved the catalyst to galvanise the squad and raise morale. Most of all it was a terribly sad time for our football club as if relegation itself was not enough.

It must have been a very difficult time for all concerned with Huddersfield Town. Particularly for all the fans who were on the outside looking in watching the disintegration of their club. A club that just two short years ago had seen a tremendous amount of hard work rewarded by promotion brought about by a group of very talented footballers that were but one, maybe a couple, of players short of being a very fine First Division side. Ably led by a manager who was more than capable of taking his team onwards and upwards.

Sadly it was not to be. But for all those who feel I look at this era through blue rose tinted glasses think on this. Before we started life back in division two goalkeeper David Lawson remained in the top division as a result of a record fee of £85,000 for a Goalkeeper when signing for Everton. Our central defensive partnership of Ellam & Cherry for £30,000 and £100,000 both remained together with our neighbours down the road who had finished last season as League Division One-Championship Runners-up.

Before the opening month of August in the season to come, 1972/73 Frank Worthington who would play no more first team football for the Terriers had moved to Leicester City in a £100,000 move. It should have been £150,000 with the destination Liverpool but Bill Shankly pulled out of the deal when Frank was found to be suffering from high blood pressure.

So there you have it. We may have made no signings or few of note in the 71/72 season but before Leeds Road had commenced re-seeding three of our players had brought in over £200,000 for the club. For services to be rendered in the First Division. Followed in August by another £100k from a top-flight side. Resulting in four of our relegated side, over a third of the team, were deemed good enough to remain at the highest level of English football. With this amount of talent at our disposal surely someone somewhere should have appreciated what we stood to loose by not strengthening at the right time and bringing in that vital new player.

That of course is all history now but as the person in the Supporters Club diary said 'The 70's may well be the time of the Terriers'. I still stand by my comment and wonder what the next few years would have brought if we could just have added a little more to the talent we already possessed.

We hope you have enjoyed our "Those Were The Days" articles, and find them an interesting look at some special memories of Town through the years. Memories that will not, and can not be forgotten - and memories only our beloved Town could have created