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Huddersfield's best just not good enough

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Whoever said football is a level playing field might be considered to have a funny sense of proportion around John Smith's Stadium today.

For when Huddersfield Town, the bottom club in the EPL, kick off against the champions Manchester City, it stretches the imagination to think of them in the same league.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on January 20, 2019, with the headline Huddersfield's best just not good enough. Subscribe