BARRIE Metcalfe, who has died at the age of 66, was a former Labour councillor.
He is remembered as a fervent rugby league fan who watched Huddersfield for more than 40 years.
Once, he even donned a Fartown shirt in the Kirklees Council chamber when he gave a speech about his favourite club.
He matched it with a poem about the future of the game.
Mr Metcalfe, of Primrose Hill, was a long-serving shop steward at the ICI works at Leeds Road in Huddersfield.
In that post, he was prominent as a representative on health and safety, environmental issues and pensions.
Mr Metcalfe was born in Lindley, but lived in the Newsome area for most of his life after moving to Ashenhurst at the age of nine.
He saw military service in the Royal Artillery.
He was a Labour councillor for Newsome until losing his seat in 1998.
He had 12 years' service in two spells on the council.
For a while he was the council's planning committee chairman.
He and his wife Winnie had a daughter, Ruth.
The funeral is on Friday at Huddersfield Crematorium.
