ONE LOVE How the Class of 2017 plays

play-off final against Reading at Wembley.

There’s a common theme running through the Town teams who have been most loved down the years – they’ve played with the heartbeat of Huddersfield.

Fearless, passionate and unwilling to surrender are the base ingredients, and David Wagner has certainly imbued his players with those qualities in the last year and a half.

Certainly this season, they have performed superbly to provide Town with their best chance of earning a place in the top flight since those heady days of the early 1970s.

There were times quite recently when Peter Jackson’s Town sides played with that heartbeat of Huddersfield – the Great Escape season and the 2003/04 promotion campaign at Cardiff.

On occasions under Steve Bruce – when Town last flirted with the higher echelons of this division (do you remember the 7-1 thumping of Crystal Palace?) – Town also played some terrific football, although that’s often overshadowed by the sale of Marcus Stewart and the subsequent following-season relegation.

Head into the 1990s and you come to the Neil Warnock teams which went to Wembley in successive seasons and won promotion via the play-offs in 1995.

That team, featuring the likes of Andy Booth, Ronnie Jepson, Darren Bullock and Tom Cowan to mention but a few, was genuinely loved by the fans.

Simon Trevitt, Pat Scully, Jonny Dyson,