Huddersfield Town  and Rotherham are set for a first second-tier clash since the sixties.

The Millers joined Wolves and Brentford in winning promotion from League I with a penalty shoot-out win over Leyton Orient in the play-off final at Wembley.

It meant joy for full-back Joe Skarz and misery for his former Town teammate Nathan Clarke, the Orient skipper and centre-back.

And it gave Town boss Mark Robins the chance of a return to the club where he was both a player and manager.

Town went to the Millers’ New York Stadium for a friendly last year, which they won with a goal by Martin Paterson.

The last competitive clash between the two was a Johnstone’s Paint Trophy area quarter-final tie at the Don Valley Stadium in November 2010, which Town won 5-2 through Jordan Rhodes (2), Benik Afobe (2) and Scott Arfield.

The last league meetings were in 2006-07, when Town completed a League I double, winning 3-0 at home (with Luke Beckett (pen), Pawel Abbott and Gary Taylor-Fletcher on target) and 3-2 at Millmoor (Beckett (2) and Michael Collins).

And the last clash at Championship, or then Second Division, level was in 1967-68.

Brian Clark and Colin Dobson counted as Town won 2-0 at Leeds Road.

Tommy Docherty had been made Millers manager by the time of the rematch in South Yorkshire.

And while his side were 1-0 winners, they couldn’t stave off relegation.

This is the third promotion back to the second tier since then.

The Millers, under Ian Porterfield, topped the original Division III in 1980-81, when Town finished fourth (Barnsley and Charlton were the others to go up).

And 20 years later, Robins (24 league goals) and future Town player Alan Lee (13) spearheaded a second-place finish under Ronnie Moore in what was then Division II (Millwall took the title while Walsall won the play-offs).

Now Steve Evans, whose right-hand man is former Town striker Paul Raynor, is the boss celebrating success.

“All season, the boys have continued to fight in adversity,” said the Scotsman, whose side came up from League II last season.

“At half-time (when Rotherham were two down) my assistant manager said the players were going to need me to dig them out of the trenches and put them top of the mountain.

“I just spoke to them about what it means to them, to the mums, dads, children and when you’re a granddad and what it would mean when you’re looking back. You have to have the desire, fight and hunger.”

Defeat was hard to take for Orient manager Russell Slade, whose side led the table for the best part of six months only to fall short on the home straight, finishing third to Rotherham’s fourth.

“It doesn’t feel too good,” admitted Slade. “It’s one of my toughest moments as a manager and it’s tough for my players who have given everything, yet again.”

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