Huddersfield Town 1 Bury 0

Last updated : 28 December 2003 By Footymad Previewer

Danny Swailes was left with his head in his hands when his spectacular own goal gifted Huddersfield all three points.

The blunder leaves Bury nursing a bumper Christmas hangover following their seventh defeat in a row but the Terriers are now closing in fast on the play-off places.

The first period was littered with untidy passing and scrappy attacking play from both sides.

But the home side just about shaded the tussle going close with good strikes from Jonathan Worthington, Anthony Lloyd and Nat Brown.

It was always going to take something a little special but Town were not going to expect the first goal to come the way it did.

Captain Robert Edwards drifted in a corner but rising amongst the crowd of Huddersfield attackers was Swailes whose bullet header rocketed past his own keeper Glyn Garner.

The second half unfortunately for the 10,000 crowd was as dull as the first with neither side seemingly capable of stringing any passes together and the game soon descended into a scrap.

But Bury did manage to worry the Terriers defence and deserved a point from a game where both sides performed equally dreadfully.

The best of those chances fell to Gareth Seddon who troubled Nigerian international Efe Sodje throughout.

He should have levelled late on when he beat the offside trap from ex-Town man Lee Duxbury's lofted ball.

But the blood rushed to Seddon's head and with acres of room and bags of time he could only blast wide.

Huddersfield boss Peter Jackson said he was delighted with the six points his team had picked up over Christmas but was unhappy with the way they had played.

"I can't complain with six points from two games. But we will need to raise our game to beat Doncaster next Saturday," he said.

Bury's caretaker boss Graham Barrow believes things will get better for his team saying: "If we keep creating chances like we did today we will start to pick up points."