Despite the passing of time and we are talking some forty years ago events concerning our beloved Club may dim or even become somewhat hazy but forgotten - never.

The managerial hot seat in September 1964 was vacated by Eddie Boot who before taking up the Managerial reins from a certain Bill Shankly had been a long serving Left Half and coach at the club. The new Boss was another craggy Scot Tom Johnstone who arrived from Grimsby Town and he quickly set about not only the playing side but off field too.

He very much was a man who recognised the importance of the supporter and especially the younger fans. Within a very short time he had formed a Junior Supporters Club which met at Leeds Road itself, in a room adjacent to the actual Board Room, the meetings under the stewardship of the Manager no less.

Yes the Boss formed the club housed it in the stadium and ran the meetings every Thursday 7-8.30. Imagine that happening today? No Chance.

That was only the start the meetings were all we wide-eyed bairns could have ever dreamed about. Every week we had special guests, players, officials, coaching staff they all came, many with their own 'momentoes'.

One such treasure I got to wear. The England shirt of Henry Cockburn, now sadly one of heavens finest wing halves, but that evening Mr Cockburn enthralled us with his tales of Manchester United and England and now his time at Leeds Road.

In 5 years time as Assistant Manager to Ian Greaves he was to help take us to the Second Division Championship and into the elite of English Soccer.

Back to that shirt. How the heck they played in them I have no idea. I might have been only 14 years of age but when he put it on me I BUCKLED it was so heavy and down it seemed to nearly my ankles. But oh the pride, just think, you are inside Huddersfield Town next to the Board Room no less, with the Manager of the Club and a former England international has just put one of his England shirts on you....!

I wasn't the only one either we always had a couple or three dozen down and one name I have always remembered is that of Malcolm Pickup. Malcolm would be the same age as I, he came from Huddersfield and we used to mate up at the JSC. As you do, you get older and you loose touch, but I have never forgotten Malcolm.

How I would love to meet him again, so if you know him or indeed Malcolm are reading this get in touch. If ever events are the basis for the future the Junior Supporters Club was the road that became a motorway for my involvement with the Town Club.

My already long time association with the Club from the Terraces was to my delight to expand beyond my wildest dreams in the next few years... ...

Town salesman, Town trial, Supporters Club official - all that and more ... ... "those were the days ... ..."