Footballers’ goal should be to improve behaviour

From what I could see when I went in it’s not just the stalls that are empty it’s the aisles as well. The first thing you see as you come through the door is a boarded up stall. Turn left or right and you have empty stalls. Not the most inspiring entrance. More like the Marie Celeste. Sir John Birt, ex BBC director-general, Clive Anderson TV presenter, Susan Dey, actress, Kenneth Branagh actor/director,

Brian Molko, singer/songwriter, Meg White, drummer Patrick Flueger, actor, LAST season I very nearly stopped supporting Town.

This was not because I no longer wished to go to the matches.

This was due in main to the poor performances of the match officials along with the cynicism and downright cheating of some professional footballers. Some have developed a mindset of “win at all costs”.

After the Brighton home game we saw Steve Mounie given a straight red card for an innocuous foul on Yves Bissouma.

This player looked as if his playing career had been finished, to see him hit the pitch after Mounie dangled a leg.

Strangely Bissouma went on to run the Brighton mid-field as if nothing had happened. This incident changed the whole outlook of the match.

The match officials to say they were next to incompetent gives them too much credit.

The man in the middle lost the plot and the line official on our side of the pitch never had the script.

So all in all it was a bad day and not just the result but to I SEE from the Examiner that Almondbury Community School is going to be inspected by Ofsted inspectors at last.

The last Ofsted report, dated 2017 makes poor reading indeed. This school should have been put in special measures at least 12 years ago to my knowledge. Why wasn’t it? I am not blaming either the teachers or the pupils, but something has to be done by both to improve teaching and pupil results.

Also from the Examiner comes a report that the Market Hall is to be given a make-over. I was told by a stallholder, two years ago, that the market is to be closed and the library will go there. Why? And what happens to the Art Gallery? One of the finest in the north of England. Or is some more of the “family silver” going to be sold to balance the books.

A third item in the paper mentions that people don’t want to live in Huddersfield anymore. Why? I was born here and have always lived here. Once a thriving town. Nice shops and parks. Beautiful countryside and walks. But we lost the mills, the coalmines and the engineering firms. But the people are still here. Come on Huddersfield. You need an Ofsted report