They’d sold out of home shirts hours before kick-off and could barely accommodate the tide of fans who flowed into the freshly painted prefabricated hut they’re calling the ‘Huddersfield Town Megastore.’
That’s what the anticipation looks and feels like when you’ve been waiting for the top flight since 1972.
But though preparations for all this have been breathless – eight weeks to re-structure the new stand and construct a camera gantry to beam a Yorkshire former mill town to the world – the Yorkshire side and their manager are the ones who have had time for to build wisely.