John Helm: Town make for a happy return

Nov 18 2009 by John Helm

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AFTER a surfeit of international football recently, it was a joy to get back to watching good old fashioned English football last weekend – and Huddersfield Town in excellent form.

Town were breathtaking in thrashing Wycombe and isn’t it refreshing to see a team play with two wide men.

I’ve always thought Gary Roberts was a class act since first casting an eye on him at Accrington Stanley, and Anthony Pilkington is just as destructive on the opposite flank.

From the Galpharm, I dashed across the Pennines to witness another absorbing encounter between Rochdale and Chesterfield, who possess perhaps the best poacher in League Two in Jack Lester.

You can tell I’ve been starved of my bread and butter can’t you – two games in one day and both crackers.

Talking to scouts who had also been to both games they were similarly enthusiastic about the quality, particularly Huddersfield under the influence of Lee Clark and Terry McDermott, and we were all agreed that for all it faults our game is still the most watchable in the world when it’s played like it was on Saturday.