Huddersfield Town fanatic reaches 100 games in a season

Jun 18 2009 by Dougie Thomson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

“I saw him playing against our academy side up at Storthes Hall much earlier in the season, and he looked really sharp then,” said Scott.

“I can see him making a really big impact in the Championship next season.”

Southampton’s relegation to League I will give Scott the perfect chance to chalk off one of the seven Premier and Coca-Cola League venues he has yet to visit (the others are the new stadia at Arsenal, league new boys Burton Albion, Cardiff, Coventry, Manchester City and Shrewsbury).

And in total, he has now been to 254, with the 250 mark reached when Gateshead played Gainsborough Trinity in the Blue Square Premier on April 12.

Scott explained: “That one was a bit special in several ways, because Gateshead can be traced back to South Shields, the first team Town played in a competitive match back in 1908, while two of the strikers on show, Luke Beckett for Gainsborough and Lee Novak for Gateshead, were the old and the new as far as Town fans are concerned.”

As well as Southampton, Scott – whose century also included trips to Heckmondwike, Town’s first FA Cup opponents back in 1909, and Littletown’s Beck Lane, the former Town A team ground which was Heckmondwike’s home all those years ago – will be looking to add to his tally, but it will be selectively!

“I think I’ll go for quality rather than quantity,” said the man who first watched Town in January 1966 (the 3-1 Leeds Road win over Hartlepool in the third round of the FA Cup, a competition in which Scott watched matches in eight successive rounds, all at different grounds, last season).

“I’d love to go to Bologna and Sampdoria, the two teams we played in the Anglo-Italian Cup back in 1971, and Airdrie and Morton, the Scottish sides we faced in the Texaco Cup in 71-72, and I also fancy visiting Real Socieded and Athletic Bilbao, who we’ve played in friendlies in more recent times.”