Next Stop: Huddersfield

Our 2025-26 League One season preview takes us to West Yorkshire

Jul 08, 2025

Tuesday 8 July 2025

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Dear County fans, Stopfordians, Huddersfield supporters, and anyone else from The Football Family joining us today, a very warm welcome to your Tuesday edition of The Scarf My Father Wore.

The next stop on our League One summer tour is Huddersfield. Matt from And He Takes That Chance gives us a decent recommendation for a chicken shop, amongst other stuff.

Today’s edition is sponsored by Lynx Taxis. A big thank you to Ehsan.

Thanks also to Graeme from Gag N Bone Man Comedy who sponsors our Huddersfield Town content on the website.

Finally, I’m currently walking every street in Stockport to raise money for mental health charity Mentell. If you’d like to make a donation to help me reach my target, please click here.

Total distance so far: 253.75 miles

Total steps so far: 418,084

Total raised so far: £2,312

Total completed streets so far: 474 (Click here for the full list, which includes reports and photos from every day of the walk.)

Further information on the walk can be found by clicking here.

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Last win at our place: Monday 21 April 2025, League One, 2-1

Last win at their place: Saturday 29 April 2000, Division One, 2-0

Today’s Ladbrokes title/promotion odds: County: 12/1 7/2 Huddersfield: 7/1 9/4

Top story in the local news today: ‘Hosepipe ban for Yorkshire confirmed – 9 rules everyone must follow’

County lost 1-0 at Huddersfield on Boxing Day (Photo credit: Mike Petch)

Leyton Orient at home on the opening day. AFC Wimbledon away on the final day. Thoughts?

From the rough end of London to the posh end. Orient piped us 4-1 on the last day of the season, so it'll be a good test to see if we've improved at all with them being first up.

We’re all from Stockport, who the fuck are you?

Just a bunch of c**** from Yorkshire really.

There’s been a little bit of controversy at Glastonbury this summer. What’s the worst song/chant Huddersfield fans have ever sung?

Do you know what, I'm glad you've asked this. Everyone (and I include Huddersfield fans in this) needs to stop with that stupid "yer mum's yer dad, yer dad's your mum" shit. It's by far the most moronic and IQ shrinking song of any football club’s back catalogue and I blame the chavs in Blackpool for starting this nonsense.

Yer Mum's yer Dad

Yer Dad's yer Mum

You're interbred

You [Insert Team Name] scum

I just murdered 50 million of my own neurons by typing that out. What in the world of Boris Johnson buffoonfuckery is this crap? Firstly, if your mum was your dad and your dad was your mum they wouldn't be "interbred" because of it, they'd just be transgender and fancied a role swap. And… interbred? I highly doubt the person who came up with this lovely ditty had just finished reading a paper in human protein variations and splicing the RNA transcript. Maybe they'd just finished a BoJack Horseman or Jurassic World bender and got the idea, I don't know. I wish they hadn't. The dickhead. They meant inbred didn't they.

I think I managed to keep my cool there and not tell you my real feelings on the matter.

Which team do you most want to beat this season?

Anyone who sings that “yer mum’s yer dad” song. A pox to you all!

In terms of your summer transfer business so far, where have Huddersfield been shopping?

We're like those idiots from a rundown northern town who get the bus down to London, go to Harrods, gawp for a bit and then pull out a £10 note to see what we can buy before scuttling off wallet between our legs to the local Primark.

Which Huddersfield player is most likely to end up in League One’s team of the season?

Erm… there’s a few with potential but consistency has never been a strong suit of this lot. If we can platform Joe Taylor properly then he could score a lot of goals at this level.

Which former Huddersfield player is most likely to come back and bite you on the arse this season?

Matty Pearson will stick the knife in when we play Doncaster after the stick he got last season. Honestly Des, at one point when in possession of the football last season he turned and shushed the crowd before hoofing it down the line. I reckon he's picked out about four or five Huddersfield fans to Cantona when he comes back after he celebrates his inevitable last-minute winner.

I’m a member of the Stockport Sippers Society, who always enjoy a trip away every season. Last year we had a fantastic weekend in Exeter. Why should we choose Huddersfield for a couple of nights this season?

I've been expecting Huddersfield to end up on one of those EasyJet memes for a while. If you like vape shops, gambling and a quiet town centre then Huddersfield is your place! No, actually there's a lot of underrated beauty with Huddersfield – there's a large number of lovely listed buildings, a good real ale scene and a number of nice little villages in and amongst. It’s better than the bad rep that it gets.

Spud Bros have been all over social media recently after sponsoring Preston’s shirts. If you could choose any food place in Huddersfield to be on the front of your shirts, what would you go for?

Huddersfield doesn't even have a Five Guys or a TGI Fridays so we're going independent and I'll say Marstons Chicken Shop on Leeds Road. Just down the road from the ground, it's a little shack that unsurprisingly sells chicken, and it's rather good.

What’s your early predictions for promotion and relegation in League One?

It's too early Des, calm yer skin. Fine… Luton, Huddersfield and Wycombe to go up with anyone who sings that stupid “yer mum’s yer dad” song getting the chop after a 10-point deduction for singing shite songs.

“Huddersfield Town Football Club is a proud Yorkshire team with a storied past, best known for being the first English club to win three consecutive league titles in the 1920s under legendary manager Herbert Chapman.” That’s what artificial intelligence said about you. Decent summary?

I guess, or you could say that Huddersfield Town used to be decent and since the 1930s has taken any opportunity to shoot itself in the foot to make sure that we're never decent again. I curse my great grandfather frequently for taking all of the glory and inflicting this crap on the rest of us.

The world’s absolutely fucked at the moment. If you could choose one person at your club to sort everything out, who would you go for?

I mean, we've done such a sterling job of sorting ourselves out over the last few years…

Let's go with Brookey the kit man. Folds a lovely shirt, been here man and boy, and looks like an absolute shagger.

And finally, if World War 3 breaks out in October while County fans are in Huddersfield, where’s the best place for us to hide?

Go to Holmfirth, the land of Last of the Summer Wine and the tin bath. Whilst riding your tin bath down the streets of Holmfirth, you can just turn it over and hide underneath if the bombs start dropping. There's a huge winery up there too so we can just get shitfaced until Putin gets bored.

➡️ Click on the links below for the other season previews we’ve published so far.

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Photo of the day

Edgeley Conservative Club, Stockport

County fans enjoy an early pint on Boxing Day in the warmth of Edgeley Con Club, while waiting for the coach to Huddersfield.

(Santa stayed in the pub.)

Cracking comedy in Guiseley and Huddersfield

Gag N Bone Man Comedy have a couple of excellent stand-up comedy nights coming up this month.

Lou Sanders will be headlining the show at Guiseley Theatre on Friday 18 July, with support from Seeta Wrightson and Charlie Lewis.

Then, on Saturday 19 July, Harriet Kemsley will be appearing at H Town (at the John Smith’s Stadium) with support from Kent Cameron and The Halls of Ridiculous.

Both shows will be hosted by Huddersfield fan and all-round top bloke Graeme Rayner.

➡️ Visit gagnboneman.com for tickets.

Today in SK

🍻 Food and drink

The Nelson Tavern (SK1) have a great range of offers throughout the week, including £5.50 for drinks off the Doubles Bar, a comprehensive range of shots for £1.50, and 3 for £7 on Jägerbombs. Also, double up for £2 on premium spirits.

Bitter £2.30 a pint all day at The Cross Keys (SK8). Plus, discounts on certain lagers till 6pm.

If you’re heading out for a few beers today, pop into one of our featured venues such as The Crown (SK2), The Dog & Partridge (SK2), The Crown Inn (SK6), The Queens (SK6), The Steelworks (SK6) or The Three Tunnes (SK7).