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Of Amos, `Erbert and Friends; Flying High with Huddersfield Town is a book in which the author combines the fiction of conversation with historical facts to provide a fan’s eye view of a remarkable football club. It begins with the founding of Huddersfield Town in 1908, and its brave survival in a rugby league stronghold (despite the dastardly endeavours of Leeds United to close the club down via what was close to being association football’s first ever franchise deal). It describes the club’s halcyon years between the two World Wars; twenty years in which Huddersfield Town were `Thrice Champions’ of the Football League, runners up for the title on three occasions, won the FA Cup and appeared in a total of five finals; a period of success galvanised by football’s first ever great manager, Herbert Chapman, and overseen by the club’s visionary chairman, Sir Amos Brook Hirst. The book also deals with some 75 years of post war `Town’ history; providing a fan’s eye view of various disasters and triumphs; all milestone events in a rollercoaster ride that has recently seen `The Terriers’ restored to English football’s top flight.

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Author:   Andrew Pearce
Publisher:   JJMoffs Independent Book Publisher
Imprint:   JJMoffs Independent Book Publisher
ISBN:  

9781916504226

ISBN 10:   1916504221
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   12 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents About this book (and why it needed writing!) Part 1 Springtime - football arrives in our Yorkshire town, survives, and then thrives Ch 1: 1906: Huddersfield is a `handsome town’ but there’s no professional football club. Ch 2: Springtime at Fixby: a lawyer and a textile baron enjoy a game of golf that changes plenty. Ch 3: September 1908: Bill, Amos and pals prepare Huddersfield Town for the club’s first ever match. Ch 4: June 1910: A trip to London and the Russell Hotel hosts the club’s most crucial fixture yet. Ch 5: October 1911: Huddersfield Town are the league’s `babes’ and now the big adventure begins. Ch 6: 1911 to 1913: Hilton puts `his’ club into liquidation and walks away; Bill and friends fight on. Ch 7: 1913/14: Fartown has a `team of all the talents’, but Town is on the breadline. Ch 8: 1914 to 18: World War 1 erupts and isn’t `over by Christmas’; there’s four years of carnage instead. Ch 9: November 1919: Post war and Town are doing well; til we’re being sold down the river to Leeds! Ch 10: December 1919: A Christmas time writ from the Crowthers and Town respond with a 7-1 win. Ch 11: May 1920: Trouble at t’mill, so Stonor Crowther tries to clear the air with his brother Hilton. Ch 12: July 1920: A day at the cricket; two of the Town Faithful relax and reminisce. Ch 13: December 1920: Up into Division 1 but Amos and Bill are debating manager Langley’s future. Ch 14: January 1921: Amos travels to Anfield to interview Honest John about `this bloke Chapman’. Ch 15: February 1921: A boardroom battle, but Herbert’s appointed; and with a sting in the tail! Part 2 A hot summer - Huddersfield Town triumphs under Herbert Chapman Ch 16: 1920/21: Langley departs, Stephenson/Wadsworth arrive and Town settles into Division 1. Ch 17: 1921/22: Smith’s our hero; we beat PNE twice in three days and the cup is Huddersfield’s! Ch 18: 1922/23: Team spirit blossoms as Town climb the league to third place. Ch 19: 1923/24: Brown’s late goal is the cruel difference for Cardiff and Huddersfield are champions! Ch 20: 1924/25: Town cruise to a second title, Herbert signs Alex Jackson and completes his jigsaw. Ch 21: Summer 1925: A bombshell: Chapman leaves and Potter becomes Town’s new manager. Part 3 Mellow autumn - Herbert departs for London; Jack and Clem take over Ch 22: 1925/26: The Examiner’s headline says it all: `Hail Town! Thrice Champions!’ Ch 23: 1926/27: Potter out/Chaplin in as Town go so close to making it four titles in a row. Ch 24: 1927/28: Town’s greatest ever season; goals galore as a league and cup double beckons. Ch 25: April 28: A wild rover from Blackburn and a Liverpudlian called Dixie are party poopers. Ch 26: 1928/29: Stephenson’s the boss now, and has to dismantle football’s greatest ever team. Ch 27: 1929/30: Graf Zeppelin, Town and Arsenal all at Wembley for an epic cup final. Ch 28: February 1932: 67,037 and more cram into Leeds Road but Chapman’s Gunners shoot Town off our perch. Ch 29: Mid 1930s: Billy Smith retires as ’34 sees Town lose another league title we should have won. Ch 30: 1937/38: At Wembley again for another near miss in one of Town’s most exciting seasons. Ch 31: March 39: World War 2 looms and a famous 4-2 win at Elland Road sets up a Highbury semi final. Ch 32: May 1940: It’s time to take stock for Dick and Jack, Amos and Clem, and Jim and `Hoppy’. Part 4 A long, hard winter - post World War 2 and Town becomes less successful Ch 33: 1940 to 1948: Too many `Town legends’ depart and relegation survival is an annual torture. Ch 34: April 1952: A reprieve by Big Swifty before `the world’s worst ref’ consigns Town to Division 2. Ch 35: 1952 to 1954: Beattie gets a grip, Glazzard gets the goal; Town storm back up and finish third. Ch 36: 1955/6: Sir Amos passes away; wrong priorities bring relegation and it’s the end of an era. Ch 37: 1957 to 1968: Wilson, Law, `Shanks’ and more; the 60’s are swinging but promotion’s elusive. Ch 38: 1969 to 1977: Heaven is followed by hell; promotion with Frank and Co followed by melt down. Ch 39: 1978 to 1986: Town in chaos; need a miracle. Enter Mick Buxton and we win two promotions. Ch 40: 1987 to 2008: A new stadium but it’s still `win some, lose some’; until Dean Hoyle arrives! Epilogue: 2009 to 2018: What happened next? More than any Town fan could ever have dreamed! Extra Time: 2018/19: Ruinous refereeing completes a perfect storm. HTFC’s roller coaster races on. Acknowledgements and Sources

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Born in Huddersfield on 15th October 1944, Andrew Pearce has been fortunate enough never to have been required to reside outside his hometown or to work outside West Yorkshire. Educated at Huddersfield College and New College he left school in 1962 and trained as a Chartered Accountant with Messrs Armitage & Norton of Huddersfield. Qualifying (and marrying) in 1968, Andrew was appointed a partner in the firm in 1976; and later with international firm, KPMG. This was in 1987 by which Andrew had become managing partner of A&N, Huddersfield. He now moved to the larger firm’s Leeds office in order to assume responsibility for KPMG’s national Building Society practice; and, in 1995, this led to him becoming Finance Director of Yorkshire Building Society, and transferring his base to their Bradford headquarters. Retiring from full-time work in 2001, Andrew took up a non-executive directorship with Coventry Building Society the same year. He later became the Coventry’s deputy chairman before totally retiring from work in 2009. Andrew has four sons and five grand-children and is happily married to his sweetheart from teenage years, Linda. Outside work and family his interests have tended to focus on a variety of sports and, in particular, football, cricket and golf. He began writing `Of Amos, `Erbert and Friends – Flying High with Huddersfield Town’, his first, book in 2006.

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