The Huddersfield Town Sentinel
Squad6 Mar 2034
Mark Walker damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match6 Mar 2034
Every point is an argument now for Huddersfield Town
Position 23 and 23 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market6 Mar 2034
Nicolò Filippi asks to leave Huddersfield Town
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match4 Mar 2034
No end in sight to Huddersfield Town's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Huddersfield Town has to find a result from somewhere.
Market6 Mar 2034
Nicolò Filippi is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Huddersfield Town is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom6 Mar 2034
Nicolò Filippi has agreed to leave Huddersfield Town for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad6 Mar 2034
Tommy Doyle in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huddersfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Mar 2034
Datro Fofana is carrying Huddersfield Town
12 goals and a season average of 7.39. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match4 Mar 2034
No clean sheets in sight for Huddersfield Town
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
In brief
- Match Huddersfield Town come up short against Charlton Athletic
- Squad Marcus McGuane falls out with a teammate over standards
- Player ratings One of those days for Datro Fofana