Huddersfield Town 1, Barnsley 0

Apr 3 2006 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

BARNSLEY will be sick of the sight of Gary Taylor-Fletcher.

At Oakwell in December he scored a last-gasp leveller to earn Town a vital point.

Now he's floored them again to seal the sort of win which makes you feel Peter Jackson's side are somehow destined to go up.

It came fortuitously after 55 minutes of an enthralling derby battle in which Town rode their luck and Barnsley missed a string of gilt-edged chances.

The visitors' frustration eventually boiled over when substitute Danny Nardiello was sent off for gross stupidity - well foul and abusive language to the referee, actually, but it amounted to the same thing.

Only five minutes remained at that stage and, even though Mick Fletcher added four more for stoppages, Town ran down the clock pretty professionally and without the usual catalogue of defensive dramas.

It was the perfect build-up to a massive celebration for the home contingent in Town's biggest stadium League crowd for five years - because they knew exactly how much the three points meant.

Not that the final whistle was the first time they'd been on their feet.

Taylor-Fletcher deservedly received a standing ovation when he went off suffering back and hamstring spasms with half an hour of the contest still to go.

It was a measure of his contribution in a frenetic first half and recognition of a scrambled 13th goal of the season which may prove to be one of the most important of his career.