teams met again just before Christmas. The teams The match The match opened quietly, with a smaller crowd than usual due to the cold and wet weather, but with Huddersfield apparently the livelier team. Just 17 minutes into the match, Charlton's captain and centre half, Derek Ufton was taken to hospital after he landed awkwardly from a challenge and dislocated his shoulder. With no substitutes allowed, Charlton were forced to play another 73 minutes with ten men. Huddersfield took control of the match. Les Massie pierced the leaky Charlton defence to score the first goal for Huddersfield at 27 minutes. Eight minutes later, Alex Bain added a second. Charlton managed to keep Huddersfield at bay until half-time, and so trailed 2–0 at the break. Seeing little chance of a comeback, some of the crowd started to leave. During half time, Charlton's manager Jimmy Trotter decided to move left winger Johnny Summers to centre forward, and asked his players to feed the ball to Summers, seeing him as their likeliest way to get back into the match. Summers also replaced his old boots, which were on the verge of falling apart, with some new ones. Trotter's plan seemed to be working when the left-footed Summers scored with his unfavoured right foot from close range within 2 minutes of the start of the second half, but the relief was short-lived. The pitch was getting increasingly muddy, and gaps were opening in both teams. But in the space of just 4 minutes, Bain scored a second goal and Bill McGarry put away a penalty, to leave Charlton 4–1 behind. Bob Ledger scored another goal for Huddersfield, giving them a 5–1 lead with less than half an hour of the match left. Charlton seemed lost, a man down and four goals in arrears, and an increasingly large number in the crowd turned towards the exits. But then the match turned. Charlton drew back two goals in the next two minutes, with a Summers pass put into back of the Huddersfield net by Johnny "Buck" Ryan, and then Summers scoring a second goal with his weaker right foot, to leave Charlton two behind, 5–3. Huddersfield could not find a way to stop Charlton's probing attack on the increasingly treacherous pitch. Within 16 minutes of scoring his first goal, Summers completed his hat trick, again with his right foot, and Charlton were only one behind, 5–4.