Bradford City 0, Huddersfield Town FC 1

Oct 9 2006 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Young City winger Joe Colbeck, who was largely kept quiet by Adams, tested Glennon with a shot from distance on eight minutes.

But Town were just as lively going forward, and McIntosh had a firm goalwards header blocked by left-back Ben Parker on 17 minutes.

Eight later, Town's 2,880 contigent of fans in a 14,925 crowd were in raptures as Hudson headed home from Gary Taylor-Fletcher's deep cross to complete a move begun by Glennon's big drop kick and continued by Worthington and Luke Beckett, who worked really hard in the lone frontman role.

Town had the lead, and were in no mood to relinquish it, even though City had their chances.

City centre-back Mark Bower headed over, midfielder Steve Schumacher curled an ambitious long-ranger wide and Windass blasted one over before shooting across the face of goal in first-half stoppage time.

Left winger Lee Holmes came within inches of an equaliser two minutes into the second half after playing a nice one-two with former Town loan forward David Graham, who had a 67th-minute header held by Glennon.

And then, two minutes from the end of normal time, substitute Eddie Johnson, having just blazed one over, looked on in anguish as Glennon blocked his close-range effort after a teasing Holmes cross.

Town's massed ranks, who had seen one of their own subs, Danny Schofield, put the ball agonisingly across the face of the home goal on 85 minutes, had to endure five more of time added on, but finally they were able to celebrate.

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