Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Wagner up for massive home test from Latics

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DAVID WAGNER says his Huddersfie­ld Town players can’t wait to tackle Wigan Athletic in front of the Sky Sports cameras.

His side are seeking only a second win in seven Championsh­ip games - but a seventh in nine home matches.

With an average gate of 20,021 this time around, Wagner wants another bumper crowd to back his side against the Latics.

“We like to be at our home, our fortress,” said the boss, who will be taking charge of his 51st Town match.

“This game against Wigan is coming at a good time, and with our supporters behind us, we want to get as close as we can to our highest level.”

The crisis started in October 1973 when Arab states launched a surprise attack on Israel.

The war in the Middle East quadrupled oil prices and Arab countries reduced supplies to the West.

With the price of coal also rising and stocks dwindling, Britain’s miners rejected a pay increase and voted to ballot for a national strike.

On November 12, both miners and electricit­y workers began an overtime ban.

“Britain could survive high oil prices for a while. The country could survive a coal strike for a while,“wrote Andrew Marr in his book A History Of Modern Britain.

“But both together added up to what the chancellor Anthony Barber called the greatest economic crisis since the war.”

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