Today’s speaker was our very own John Holden who spoke on “A tale of 2 football clubs” with the quote “Out of the darkness cometh light”.
The 2 clubs were Huddersfield Town formed in 1908 and Newton Heath now Manchester United formed in 1902.
He gave an audio visual presentation first covering the financial ups and downs of HAFC in the early 1920’s and the near amalgamation of Huddersfield and Leeds United which was averted partly through supporters meetings to raise money one of which was in our very own Liberal Club in Meltham.
The Manchester United story mainly focused on the Munich air crash 6th February 1958 when the aircraft the team were flying back to the UK in failed to take off on its 3rd attempt in slushy snow and 28 died devastating the team.
He answered questions from members who clearly enjoyed his talk.