Oldham 0, Huddersfield Town 3

Sep 12 2005 By Mel Booth, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

TOWN'S fans revelled in a pulsating performance at Boundary Park.

A travelling army of 1,834 roared their approval and, at £22, they were having a laugh!

It was Town's biggest away League win since Port Vale were crushed by Pawel Abbott's hat trick on the same weekend last year - and everyone in the team played a splendid part.

Town were already leading through Danny Schofield's third goal of the season when, on 31 minutes, Paul Warne decided Andy Holdsworth deserved an elbow in the face and immediately saw red from top-flight referee Chris Foy.

Down to 10 and behind, Oldham faced a big task to try and avoid a third straight defeat and their worst fears were confirmed by Gary Taylor-Fletcher.

The hard-working frontman grabbed his first League goal in Town colours with a 37th-minute header from Schofield's back-post cross and, just two minutes after Ronnie Moore had sent on Luke Beckett to try and salvage things for Oldham in the second half, Fletch delivered a brilliant deciding blow.

It came from a silky passing move initiated by Tony Carss - given his first League start of the season as replacement for Michael Collins - and featured a neat interchange of passes with Pawel Abbott before Taylor-Fletcher finished with a flourish.

That moment summed up the day for Town.

Held up by a bad accident on the motorway en route to the ground, they were in cruise control in the match once a few early mechanical problems had been sorted out.