Well, well, well, the last tie Terrier Blog came to you, we’d just dispatched of Sheffield United in emphatic style, and surely the good times would continue to roll, right? But in a fashion befitting of Huddersfield Town, we conspired to turn two winning positions into draws. But at least we’re unbeaten, and we’re still in touch, just, with the top of the table.
Anyway onto the game down in Milton Keynes, a game I eagerly anticipated, and because of this, I decided to take my Dad (a spurs fan), along to try and convert him to the religion of HTAFC. But a flowing game, and an advert for league 1 football, it certainly was not. There seemed to be inevitability about the game from the moment Danny Wards thunderous volley crashed off the crossbar and evaded Novak. The first half was possibly the most dominant I have seen us in a long time, however a blunt attack spearheaded by Novak and Lee failed to capitalize on our superiority. The second half came, and we seemed to play with an air of complacency, which was confirmed when the vibrantly ginger Dean Lewington hit home from a corner. Although we huffed and puffed from then on, but for me, we rarely looked like scoring. However with four minutes remaining, MK Dons seemed to hand us the 3 points on a plate, when Mackenzie took a disliking to Alan Lee, a cardinal sin! Now I must make special mention of what I believe was some excellent refereeing here, all too often we have seen incidents like this go unpunished. Cast your minds back to St James Park in August, when referee Peter Walton inexplicably failed to give Arsenal a penalty when Joey Barton dragged Gervinho up by his head. Anyway, saviour this moment because it’s highly unlikely I’ll be bigging up anymore officials this season.
The penalty was missed, and we failed to get the three points, however 4 points from 2 very difficult fixtures is an admirable return, and in honesty we would have probably settled for that before the games, a thought echoed by Lee Clark. However, it did irk somewhat that we drew a match, which I think we dominated. Oh well, 4 points gained and a fairly routine home game around the corner, things were looking very rosy indeed.
So the game against the O’s seemed to be fairly routine, and things were indeed looking rosy. Jack Hunt scored a screamer, and even the big man Alan Lee got him on the scoresheet, things couldn’t get much sweeter! But, then it happened, boom boom saw red, both literally and metaphorically, and we somehow managed to let a two goal lead against Orient slip for the second time this year. A crushing and horrible feeling descended on every Town fan when Ben Chorley (BEN F*CKING CHORLEY) steered in an equaliser. In my personal opinion, the sending off represents a great deal of indiscipline from Jamie Mccombe, and is even more disappointing considering what happened and Stadium:MK a week prior. Something Lee Clark seems to agree with,
“When you have indiscipline in your group that’s what happens. He has killed us. He will be fined the maximum and I think 100 per cent he will struggle to get his place back in the team now,”
However I think it’s slightly harsh to lay all the blame at his door for our loss of points, as any decent team with 10 men, a 2 goal advantage and ten minutes remaining, should be able to hold on against the basement boys. But that seems to be the way of our club over recent times. With every dropped point the promotion dream seems to become just that, a dream, but hope springs eternal.
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