“THERE’S no place in the world I’d rather be”, gushed Kevin Nagle in his opening-day address to the Huddersfield Town populace in his programme notes.
After the shrill of the final whistle on a very satisfying Saturday afternoon, a brief, but strong sense of exhilaration will have left Town’s ebullient US owner feeling top of the world and he was entitled to enjoy the view from his vantage point at the Accu Stadium.
A sweet refrain of ‘We are top of the league’ from the delighted blue and white faithful had preceded referee Simon Mather calling time on proceedings and will have made for delightful music. It’s a melody Nagle would dearly love to hear next spring.
His compatriots Tom Brady and Rob McElhenney dined out on League One fare with Birmingham City and Wrexham last season and Nagle will want his piece of the pie.
One swallow doesn’t mean a summer, for sure. Yet as starts go, this was what Nagle and co will have hankered for. Even if the manager in Lee Grant wanted a bit more; all new managers do.
Yes, Town were not blindly brilliant and showy from minute one to the end of proceedings. But they were pretty darn good in the circumstances.
Committed, cohesive and competent, more especially given that eight pla
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