Huddesfield 1, Blackpool 1

Nov 1 2004 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

"We talked at half time about the importance of keeping things tight and not allowing Blackpool to score, but the break - which couldn't come fast enough for Blackpool - disrupted our pattern, the equaliser gave them a massive lift and, after that, we didn't really create anything at all.

"That was disappointing, but we know we are a good side for 30 and 40-minute spells, we just need to produce it for longer."

Blackpool are still without a home win all season and they must have feared another defeat when, with 14 minutes and 20 seconds on the clock, Booth timed his run brilliantly at the near post to head in Carss' inswinging corner.

It was the ideal way to mark his 250th League game for the club and he should have had another goal to his name only four minutes later.

This time, excellent build-up play by the dangerous Chris Brandon and hard-working Anthony Lloyd led to a shooting chance for Pawel Abbott which keeper Lee Jones could only block.

Booth's headed follow-up was then booted from the line when the goal was at his mercy, but Blackpool still didn't tighten up at the back.

Jones was lucky to escape when dropping the ball at Lloyd's feet from the Worthington cross, while Booth shaved the crossbar with another powerful header from Carss' free-kick and Abbott lobbed the ball over the keeper and bar as the half drew to a close.

At that stage, Phil Senior had barely been called into action - fielding just one weak shot from Peter Clarke as Colin Hendry's side looked a pale shadow of the one which trounced Brentford 3-0 on their own patch the previous week.