Will the real Huddersfield Town please stand up?

It was pop and crisps for the Terriers against a poor Rotherham side in the last 16 of the Vertu Trophy. Why can't they do this when the pressure is on?

There’s a concept explored in the third series of Twin Peaks of people being replaced by doppelgängers known as tulpas.

Visually, the tulpas are indistinguishable from their real counterparts. They retain the same memories and skills. But there is just something off about them, with their personalities ranging anywhere from hapless or sullen to cynical or bad to the bone.

Somebody call the Bunkhouse Boys, then, because we’ve got a lead for them. Is it possible that, hidden somewhere in the corridors of the Accu Stadium, there’s a secret entrance to the Black Lodge, the red-curtained nether-space between realities from which tulpas emerge and the real thing goes to sit idle for indeterminate amounts of time?

Look…Burns…suit…

It’s as good an explanation as any at this point. There’s this Huddersfield Town — confident, flowing, attack-minded, and capable of brushing opponents aside without too much hassle.

Then there’s the other Huddersfield Town, the tulpa version, that turns up to the high-pressure games and look like they’re afraid that entering the opposition penalty box will cause them to disintegrate out of existence.