Huddersfield Town proved worthy of their Terriers nickname last season.
By the 21st October 2017, David Wagner’s unfancied team had already amassed more points (12) than they have in the entirety of the 2018/19 season to date (10).
By the same point in January last season, the Terriers were already on 24 points which would have the club currently in the lofty heights of 14thin the Premier League table.
However, the current reality is a different story with Huddersfield rooted to the bottom of the table with just 10 points.
At the start of the season, it appeared a little harsh that the Terriers were favourites for the drop with football betting punters, but the signs have been there for close to a year that Huddersfield are better suited to England’s second tier.
In the calendar year of 2018, The Terriers clocked just 21-points in the Premier League.
To put that into context, West Bromwich Albion who finished bottom of the Premier League last season amassed 31-points.
As we enter the second half of the 2018/19 season, the situation in Yorkshire has become critical with the Terriers already eight points adrift of Cardiff in 18th.
However, as fate would have it, next up for Huddersfield is a trip to Wales to take on the Bluebirds and David Wagner knows that it is win or bust for his side.
Defeat will surely all but spell the end of the Terriers and their two-season stint in the Premier League will not be prolonged.
In order to achieve a stay of execution, the Terriers will have to do what they have failed to do since September 2001 and beat the Welsh outfit in the countries capital.
Back then, the pair were plying their trade in Division Two (League One these days), both sides also reached the playoffs that year, but it was Stoke City who earned promotion through that particular lottery.
Since then, Huddersfield have only managed to win one of the thirteen matches played since with the Bluebirds winning eight.
Not a proud record and the Bluebirds are in confident mood after picking up four points from their last three Premier League outings.
The signs are ominous for the Terriers but perhaps relegation is something not to be feared.
The club are incredibly well run by the Card Factory Chairman Dean Hoyle so are in safe hands with the inevitable relegation not due to cause financial ruin as it has done to previous clubs.
Come this weekend, it could all but be over if defeat is the outcome but no matter what happens from now until the end of the season, it can never be in doubt that Huddersfield Town earned their right to be at the top table of English football again, even if that stay looks to be coming to an end.
