Match report: Walsall 2 - 3 Huddersfield Town

Apr 20 2009 by Dougie Thomson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

TOWN will close their centenary season aiming to equal one of the club’s longest-standing records after Andy Booth inspired an unlikely 3-2 comeback win at Walsall.

Lee Clark’s side were trailing 2-0 with an even more one-sided scoreline looking the most likely outcome when Booth netted twice in three minutes as the half-time tea was being poured.

Walsall went in shell-shocked, Town uplifted, and the second 45 minutes was a completely different story as the visitors clinched all three points thanks to on-loan Liverpool defender Martin Kelly’s beautifully-taken first career goal.

Now Town will head to Leyton Orient on Saturday week aiming to match the feat of the 1924-25 league championship winning team by chalking up five away victories in succession.

Before that, there’s this Saturday’s final home game, when Clark’s side will seek a fifth double against a Brighton side battling to stay in League I.

Walsall, defeated 2-1 at the Galpharm in December, were added to Swindon, Leeds, Hereford and Scunthorpe as the sides Town have twice overcome.