It's a key part of the FA Cup Final and has been for years.

The singing of the football hymn Abide With Me by the Wembley crowd is guaranteed to send shivers down 90,000 spines.

Now there’s a bid to put together a special fans’ choir for this year’s Wembley showpiece and Huddersfield Town fans from up and down the country are bidding to be a part of it.

Watch Leona Lewis perform the hymn at last year's FA Cup final

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The BBC’s Songs of Praise team want to recruit 64 singers - one from each of the clubs who were in the FA Cup 3rd Round this season.

Town, of course, were there but slipped up with a 0-1 home defeat by Reading.

But the club’s long-suffering supporters are still hoping their memories will secure them a place in the Wembley line-up.

BBC spokesman Diane Bramall said: “Songs of Praise are building a choir to sing Abide with Me at the FA Cup Final.

“The fans have to submit unique personal FA Cup stories to be in with a chance of winning.

“The response has been great so far but we’re keen to get an even spread across all clubs if possible.

“We’ve had some great stories so far, including the man who had his first kiss at a FA Cup final, which resulted in the lucky girl losing her teeth!

“Then there was the father who took his son to the Final and ended up sitting with the opposing fans and the young seven-year-old who met a penpal at a FA Cup Final, only to marry her years later – and are still going strong after 26 years!”

The contest deadline is March 7 and fans wanting to submit their stories can do so via the website link bbc.co.uk/songsofpraise

TOWN CUP MEMORIES

Terry Oddy, 76, now lives in Sale, Cheshire, but was brought up in Berry Brow.

Keen Town fan Terry Oddy (right)

His dad Max took him to his first Town game at the old Leeds Road ground in 1946 to see them play Charlton. He is still a fan and says everyone should show allegiance to their home town team.

Terry said: “In the 1920s, my father was a teenager and a keen supporter of Huddersfield Town, a team who were triple League 1 Champions, twice runners up and four times FA Cup Finalists but winners only once.

“They reached the Final again in 1938 and, less than a month after my birth, my father was at Wembley to see Town play Preston North End, only to lose 1 - 0 to a penalty in the last minute of extra time.

“He made sure that his life-long passion for the game and, in particular, his home town team was passed on to me and he made a promise that, when Town played again at Wembley, I would be there with him. Sadly, that never happened. The nearest they got was in 1955 when they lost to Newcastle in a 6th round replay.

“We did, however, see many attempts to get through the early rounds and there was one dramatic game. It was the 4th round tie away to Blackpool in 1953, played on the Saturday when the country was being battered by the famous storms of that year. Although the West Coast was largely spared, it did not escape the North winds which blew straight down Bloomfield Road.

“Town had to face the gale and were surviving quite well until the Blackpool left back launched a high ball from the half way line towards the Town goal. Under pressure from the Blackpool forwards, goal-keeper Jack Wheeler took his eye off the ball and it passed over his head into the net. Blackpool 1 Huddersfield Town 0.

“Three months later, we had the Matthews Final and nobody cares how Blackpool got there. If only the wind had not blown so strongly!”

David Collins, 52, of Nottinghamshire, was brought up in Marsh and his first Town game was the Second Division title-winning game against Watford in 1970.

Town fan David Collins with club legend Andy Booth

David, a season ticket holder for the past 20 years, now follows the club with son Matthew, 23, and daughter Katie, 25.

“My memory is of January30, 2011 and a trip to the Emirates. Not bad for a League 1 club and a great day out.

“Town and Arsenal are forever linked through the great Herbert Chapman who delivered League titles aplenty for both teams.

“Football for us is a family affair - my two children now in their 20s have travelled the length and breadth of the country with me to follow “The Town”. A trip to London is always a bonus.

“The big seats of the Emirates made us feel special, but not as special as the way my team performed! Quite early on we went one-nil down after an unlucky own goal, but then a young 20-year-old from the Academy, Jack Hunt, making his first start for the team, picked the ball up just outside his own box. He weaved his way past mega-star after mega-star and was hacked down just outside their area - a red card!

“Arsenal were on the rack as we pushed and probed. And then Bang! Alan Lee’s rocket header from a corner hit the back of the net and it was 1-1. I’ll never forget the look of unrestrained joy on Alan Lee’s face as he celebrated his first goal for the club.

“Next, a dubious penalty was given to Arsenal. They scored, and went on to win 2-1. Was this defeat? No this was glorious defeat! We clapped and cheered our heroes from the pitch”.