1986–87 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. Season
Huddersfield Town's 1986–87 campaign saw the end of Mick Buxton, Mick Buxton's reign as Huddersfield Town manager, a job he had had for 8 years. Only Clem Stephenson has had a longer reign as manager of the Terriers. He was replaced by Steve Smith (footballer, born 1946), Steve Smith in early January 1987, but Town only survived relegation by 3 points, which became a sort of precursor to the debacle that Huddersfield Town F.C. season 1987-88, the next season's campaign would bring. Squad at the start of the season Review The start of the season was mixed, with no win until 20 September, when they surprisingly beat near neighbours and early league leaders Oldham Athletic A.F.C., Oldham Athletic 5–4 at Leeds Road despite playing with ten men for much of the game. The main highlight of the early part of the season was a Football League Cup, Littlewoods Cup tie against Arsenal F.C., Arsenal, in which Town only lost 3–1 on aggregate. The middle part of the ...
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Huddersfield Town A
Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into the similar-sized Colne to the south of the town centre which then flows into the Calder in the north eastern outskirts of the town. The rivers around the town provided soft water required for textile treatment in large weaving sheds, this made it a prominent mill town with an economic boom in the early part of the Victorian era Industrial Revolution. The town centre has much neoclassical Victorian architecture, one example is which is a Grade I listed building – described by John Betjeman as "the most splendid station façade in England" – and won the Europa Nostra award for architecture. It hosts the University of Huddersfield and three colleges: Greenhead College, Kirklees College and Huddersfield New College. The town is the ...
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