Match report: Town 3 - 2 Crewe

Nov 3 2008 by Mel Booth, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

KEIGAN PARKER ran half the length of the pitch to celebrate a spectacular late winner which he hopes might turn around Town’s season.

Frustration was running high as lowly Crewe had controversially drawn level through Clayton Donaldson’s double after Andy Butler and Ian Craney had given Town what should have been a two-goal comfort zone.

Instead, the pacy visitors had threatened to pinch more Galpharm points with Joel Grant pulling the midfield strings until the hard-working Parker – without a goal at senior level in 17 months – popped up with two minutes and 21 seconds left on the clock.

Crewe perhaps switched off, sensing only minimal danger as Gary Roberts threaded his pass to the striker on the right hand side of the box, but he neatly switched angle and curled a peach of a left-foot shot into the far corner.

The Galpharm erupted in relief as much as anything else because everyone in a crowd of 11,679 (246 of them from Crewe) knew the match should have been put beyond the visitors in a dominant first half hour from Town.