[Lord Snooty]

Barnsley v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday December 4th - 15:00 ko
at the Old John Smith's Bitter Stadium

Huddersfield Town travel to Barnsley in the People's Republic of South Yorkshire to Oakwell on Saturday afternoon for what will be a tricky test against a struggling opponent. My boss is a knobhead Barnsley fan and he says they're playing some absolute rubbish this season, with no heart, no plan and no direction but down. Luckily for them then that Town are coming to tarn. As we all know, Town have a bad habit of giving poor teams an easy ride, now and historically. It's always been the same and always will be. It's the Huddersfield Town way.

Anyway, talking of struggling, we're struggling a bit ourselves of late. Two straight defeats, away at QPR and last week's shameful display at home to Boro, have put a dampener on our early season good fortune. I say good fortune because really we haven't looked at all like a top 6 side, despite what the league table might suggest. Fortune has deserted us though and so here we are with some hard work to do.

One small crumb off the fortune cookie though happened on Tuesday, when Jordan Rhodes made his long awaited come back by playing 60 minutes for the B team. Could he be on the bench for this one, at the club where he started his footballing life as a 13 year old schoolboy?

Barnsley are on their third manager of the year. Valérien Ismaël was the one who got them to the Play Offs before bogging off to Baggieland in the summer, to be replaced by Markus Schopp. He was dismissed last month though with the home defeat to Hull City being the last straw. And so they now have an unknown Swedish/Iranian bloke in charge, hoping for some new manager bounce. Poya Asbaghi is his name and it hasn't happened yet, following defeats at Fulham and at home to Swansea, so let's just keep that going.

Now for those of you who don't know us, me and Amelia are now residents of S71, having moved to Barnsley six years ago and we're just four miles away from Oakwell. For various reasons though, since moving here from Birstall, we haven't managed to get to see Town play on our doorstep. But we have tickets for this, so see you all there. 

Tickets - 'Ow much?! 
Adults - £28
65s and over - £20
Young adults (19-21) - £20
Juniors (12-18) - £10
Under-12s - £5

The Under-12 price is only applicable when purchased alongside an adult, 65s and over or a young adult ticket.

Should any tickets be available on the day of the game, it will be cash only on the North Stand turnstiles and prices will increase by £2.

Under 12 tickets will not be available on the turnstiles - they need to be purchased in advance from the box office only.

Most of the following is a regurgitation of last season's thread, so apologies if it looks familiar.

A brief history of Barnsley FC: formed in 1887 by the Reverend Tiverton Preedy as Barnsley St Peter's FC. He played in their first match and was the one who secured the lease of the land at Oakwell, where they moved to in 1888 and have been based there ever since. They joined the Football League in 1898, playing in the 2nd division, and are still there today, being the team who has played most seasons in the 2nd tier.

They did nowt much for the first few years, but then out of the blue, they made it to the FA Cup Final in 1910. They drew 1-1 with Newcastle Utd at Crystal Palace, with Harry Tufnell scoring in the first half. The Magpies equalised late on and then went on to win the replay at Goodison Park 2-0, a few days later. Undeterred, Barnsley only went and reached the Final again in 1912, to play West Bromwich Albion.

Once again, they drew the game, played again at Crystal Palace, this time it was goal less. But in the replay, at Brammall Lane, they triumphed, winning the FA Cup for the one and only time. It was that man Tufnell who got the goal in a 1-0 win, scoring in extra time, in the 118th minute. The replay was played just nine days after the sinking of the Titanic and a collection was held for the disaster fund. The match ball was presented to the Rev Preedy, who kept it until his death in 1928, when it was returned to the club.

After the First World War, the FL decided to extend the 1st division from 20 clubs to 22. So from the last pre war season, Spurs who had finished bottom, were relegated and the top three of the 2nd division would be promoted. Or would they? Derby and Preston, the top two went up, but Barnsley, who finished 3rd were denied their place as the FL decided to promote Woolwich Arsenal in thanks for their part in the success of the war. Not that they did it in an underhand method of course. There was a (rigged?) ballot, which Arsenal won and they have been in the top flight ever since. So the Colliers continued in the 2nd division, coming close to promotion in 1922, but in the rest of the time between the wars, they spent time flitting between the 2nd and 3rd divisions.

After the 2nd World War, they had two notable players. One was a young Irishman who signed from Glentoran. His name was Danny Blanchflower, who went on to be one of the big names in the game, skippering Spurs to the League and Cup double in 1961. The other notable name was Tommy Taylor, who went to Manchester Utd for a British record transfer fee, but then perished in the Munich Air Disaster of 1958.

In 1958, the FL split the two regionalised 3rd divisions into Div 3 and 4. Barnsley were still in Div 2 at the time, but within a few years had dropped down in to Div 4. They didn't return to the 2nd division until getting promoted in 1980/81, under the management of Norman Hunter, pipping Town to promotion by three points. They stayed there for the next few years.

Norman Hunter

In 1993, Viv Anderson became manager and brought his Sheffield Wednesday team mate Danny Wilson in as his assistant. When Anderson left for Middlesbrough a couple of seasons later, Wilson became player/manager. He was the one who guided them finally, to promotion to the top flight after 99 years of existence, meaning they would spend their centenary season in the Premier League.

It started badly and they only had 4 points from their first 19 games. They rallied though and despite being relegated, they got to 35 points and weren't far off surviving, finishing 5 points behind Everton who survived on goal difference from Bolton. They almost got back again in 2000, reaching the Play Offs, but losing 5-2 on aggregate to Birmingham City.

Wilson had by now gone to back to Hillsborough to manage the Wendys and Dave Bassett was in charge. They, like a lot of other clubs, almost went into administration at the collapse of ITV Digital, but then in 2006 with Andy Ritchie in charge, they won promotion back to what was now called the Championship. They got there via the Play Offs after beating us in the semis and Swansea at the Millennium Stadium. Paul Hayes had put them 1-0 up, only for the Swans to go 2-1 up after the break. Daniel Nardiello then equalised and after extra time, the match went to penalties. It was two future Town players who became the heroes of the hour. After Adebayo Akinfenwa had missed his, Anthony Kay scored Barnsley's 4th meaning Alan Tate had to score his to keep the game alive. He didn't, because Nick Colgan saved it and the Tykes won.

Simon Davey replaced Rich Tea after a poor start to the Championship season, which ended not in relegation. The season after, they had an FA Cup run to the semi finals, for the first time since they won it in 1912. In the run, they beat Liverpool and Chelsea, but disappointingly lost to fellow Championship side Cardiff City at Wembley.

They were back at Wembley in 2016......twice. They'd been relegated so were back playing in the EFL trophy and made it to the Final, where they met Oxford Utd. An own goal from Chey Dunkley and one from Ashley Fletcher put the Tykes 2-1 up. But then ex Town, paramedic assaulting scouse prick Adam Hammill, scored the goal of the game with a curler from 20 yards. Oxford pulled one back to make a tense finish, but the Tarn held out for the win. They were back there again just over a month later to play Millwall in the Play Off Final. They had hammered Walsall in the semi and looked like they were going the same way against the Lions, going into an early two goal lead through Fletcher and Hammill. However Millwall pulled one back before half time. Barnsley extended the lead though in the 74th minute when the keeper flapped at a corner and Lloyd Isgrove nodded the ball into the net to make it 3-1 and they were back up to the Championship once more.

They were back down again a couple of years later, but bounced straight back, finishing as runners up to Luton in 18/19. They avoided relegation in 19/20, finishing one place above the drop zone following a miraculous win at Brentford on the final day of the season. But last season, they surprised everybody by making it to the Play Offs. Manager Gerhard Struber left early on to go and take charge of New York Red Bulls and so the relatively unknown Valérien Ismaël was appointed. He guided them to a 5th place finish, but they lost to Swansea in the semis.

Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 32 wins to Barnsley's 28, with 15 draws.

Last season, they did the double over us, winning 2-1 at Oakwell on Boxing Day, with the Reds getting the winner through Michal Helik in the very last second of added on time, to add to the equaliser he'd scored in the first half. Ramarni Edmonds-Green had put Town in the lead in the 13th minute. In the return fixture in April, the Reds won it 1-0 with a late winner from Daryl Dike.

The game at Oakwell in the previous season was memorable only for the strike from Lewis O'Brien which won Goal of the Season, after they had gone two nil up through Alex Mowatt and Conor Chaplin. Back in October it was Jacob Brown with the consolation after Christopher Schindler and Karlan Grant had put us two ahead.

Back through the mists of time now to our first ever Football League season and match no 10 of our very first league campaign saw our first ever visit to our neighbours at Oakwell. They were by now an established 2nd division team, but a crowd of only 2,000 turned up to see Town win 2-1 in November 1910, with goals from Scotsmen James Richardson and Sandy McCubbin. We completed the double in February with a 2-0 victory at Leeds Road, goals this time from Joe Jee and James Macauley.

We continued in the same division in the rest of the pre war years, maintaining a 100% win record at Leeds Road. We extended that further in the 1919/20 season by beating them 4-1. An own goal from TJ Tindall, one from Sammy Taylor and a couple from Jack Swann gave us a 4-1 win.

And that was it for a few years as we got promoted and spent the next few decades in the First Division. The next game came in the FA Cup 3rd round of 1946/47 and they got their first ever win at Leeds Road in a shock 4-3 scoreline. I don't have a record of their scorers but ours came from Albert Bateman and two from footballing legend Peter Doherty, one of the finest footballers of the time.

We eventually got relegated in 1952 and met up in the league again. We bounced straight back up and got maximum points off Barnsley, beating them 6-0 at ours (Jimmy Glazzard 2, Vic Metcalfe 2, Willie Davie, Len Quested), with a 33,000 crowd. And then won 4-2 at theirs with a Tommy Cavanagh hat trick and another one from Glazzard.

Barnsley had been relegated, but had come back up by the time we dropped back down again to Div 2. It was business as usual though as we pumped them 5-0 at Oakwell (Dave Hickson, Les Massie, Jackie Marriott, Ron Simpson 2) and then 2-0 at Leeds Road with Simpson again on target as well as Tony Conwell (who died just a few days before we won at Wembley in May 2107).

The next season though saw a reverse of that 5-0 game when they came to ours and hammered us by that scoreline, their first league win at ours. We won at Oakwell though, 3-2 with goals from Massie, Simpson and Kevin McHale. That was followed by one more season together in Div 2, with each match won by the home team. Barnsley then got relegated and flirted between the two bottom divisions, meaning we didn't meet up again until the 70s.

We did however meet in the FA cup again in 1961. Town had just beaten the famous Wolves team of the time 2-1 under the brand new "Denis Law" floodlights, in front of a 46,155, when the Tykes came over for a Yorkshire derby. It was exciting times again, in front of another huge crowd. This time 44,761 turned out for another floodlit game, but Barnsley got a 1-1 draw and then beat us 1-0 in the replay.

So fast forward to 1975. Town had plummeted through the leagues and we now found ourselves in Division Four. First of all, we met in the first round of the League Cup. Like the previous game fifteen years earlier, it was played under the Leeds Road lights. We had now slumped to a crowd of 4,200. We won though with goals from Terry Gray and Terry Dolan in a 2-1 first leg win. Bobby Campbell scored to take us through on aggregate in the 2nd leg to face League Champions Derby County. We won in the league game in November at Oakwell, 3-2 with two from Jimmy Lawson and one from Steve Smith. Both of them being survivors from our glorious 2nd division championship winning side from just five years previous. They got their own back though, winning 2-1 at ours towards the end of the season, when the crowd had picked up to just over ten thousand.

We stayed in the 4th division together for four seasons, in which time they beat us 1-0 in the FA Cup. Our last meeting in the basement league came at the start of May 1979. We had a huge backlog of fixtures following a really harsh winter. We had played ten matches in April and now Barnsley came to ours on a Wednesday night for our fourth match in a week. They were pushing for promotion and had a young Mick McCarthy at centre back. Me and my dad were sat in our usual places in the centre stand and had some really annoying gobby Barnsley fans sat behind us. They left sulkingly quiet as an Ian Robins goal spoilt their evening as we beat them 1-0. It didn't stop them going up though.

We went up in the next season and so we met for the first time in the 3rd division (we still haven't met in the top tier). Both teams won their home matches 1-0, but the one at ours was another famous one. It was the one where Barnsley came to ours on a club record unbeaten run, top of the league and the YTV cameras were there as well. Another famous goal from David Cowling won it for us in front of 28,901 spectators, the largest Leeds Road crowd between the first division days and the closure.

Unfortunately, while they went up with Rotherham as champions and Charlton in third, we finished 4th, in the days before Play Offs and so we didn't play each other again until 83/84 when we met in Division Two for the first time since 1959. We had five seasons together, until we got relegated. The most notable of those games was on Easter Monday 1986 when Duncan Shearer scored a hat trick on his full debut in a 3-1 win at their place.

We got back up again in 1995 and so met the Reds once more. This season we played four times, twice in the league and a two legged League Cup tie. Each game was a comprehensive home win with not a single away goal scored. We got the upper hand in September beating them 3-0 in the league (Ronnie Jepson, Simon Collins, Andy Booth) and then 2-0 in the Cup a week later with Collins and Boothy again scoring. Then it all went wrong. We went there for the 2nd leg and got walloped 4-0. And then in March we lost 0-3 there.

The next season, Tom Cowan scored a bizarre goal, direct from a long throw. It's gone down as a goal for Andy Morrison, but replays on tv showed he was nowhere near it. Didn't matter. We lost 1-3. Which wasn't as bad as the next season when we lost 1-7 (and they missed a penalty) on a Friday night in front of the Sky Sports cameras.

They kept the upper hand, winning more times than we did for the next few meetings. The next significant season came in 2005/06 when we were in the 3rd tier, by now calling itself League One. We drew 2-2 at Oakwell and we won 1-0 with a Gary Taylor-Fletcher goal at the Galpharm Stadium. By the end of the season, we were in 4th and they were 5th and so we met up at theirs for the first leg of the Play Offs semis. And it was GTF with a late winner that gave us the edge with a one goal lead to take back to ours. All was going well with a goal less first half, but then Mr Foy, the chief blind mouse on the night, gave them a penalty. Paul Hayes scored it, but not to worry, Jon Worthington scored from a tight angle to put us back in front on aggregate. It wasn't to be though. Goals from Paul Reid (no not that one) and Daniel Nardiello put the Colliers through to play Swansea in the Final.

It would be another six years before we actually got our act together and joined them in the Championship. So we met in 2012/13 and we won at theirs with another 1-0 win. Jermaine Beckford getting the goal this time. But that was nowt compared to the excruciating excitement of the return fixture on the last day of the season. I'm sure we all remember that 2-2 draw and how both teams stopped trying after James Vaughan had equalised in the 81st minute and news came through that a draw would keep both of us up and send poor old Peterborough down.

We beat them 5-0 at home in the next season and in the next one, when we went up in 2016/17, we beat them at home again. Chris Löwe put us ahead before Alfie Mawson equalised just after the break. And as the game headed for a draw, up popped the prolific Jonathan Hogg with a last minute winner.

So what's going on down at Oakwell Hall? Managed nowadays by Poya Asbaghi, the former asylum seeker.

Never heard of him? Me neither, let's see what's on Wikipedia then. He was born in Iran, 36 years ago. His parents were advocates of freedom and opponents of the Islamic regime and so when young Poya was just one year old, they upped sticks and fled to Sweden to seek political asylum from the persecution they were under back home. They settled eventually in Uppsala, the fourth largest city in Sweden.

There's not much else to say about him. There's no record of a playing career. His first Wiki entry is as assistant at Dalkurd FF in 2014, then head coach in 2016, from where he went to Gefle IF and then to IFK Göteborg in 2018.

It was here that he first came onto the radar of the Barnsley recruitment team, who offered him the job in 2019, which he turned down. Staying on at IFK Göteborg seemed a good idea as they got to the Final of the Swedish Cup, which they won beating Malmö FF, by two goals to one.

However, he was relieved of his duties in September 2020. He wasn't unemployed for long though and got the job of managing the Swedish under 21s. That job lasted for a year, when Barnsley came calling again, looking for a replacement for Markus Schopp. This time he accepted their meagre offer and was appointed Head Tyke on November the 18th.

Last week's line up at Peterborough:

40 Bradley Collins - Ex Forest Green and Burton goalkeeper.
2 Jordan Williams - Town junior, only played one 1st team game for us.
30 Michał Helik - Polish centre back, scored twice against us last season.
6 Mads Andersen - Danish centre back
5 Liam Kitching - Ex Forest Green defender.
10 Josh Benson - Arsenal junior, had a spell in the PL with Burnley.
17 Claudio Gomes - French kid on loan from Man City.
4 Callum Styles - They paid Bury half a million for him.
44 Devante Cole - Son of Andy Cole
9 Cauley Woodrow - Club captain, ex Fulham striker.
14 Carlton Morris - Norwich junior, had 8 loans before landing in Barnsley in January.

Subs:
1 Jack Walton - Wears number 1 but isn't first choice.
15 Jasper Moon - Young defender who came through the Academy.
21 Romal Palmer - Ex Man City junior
23 William Hondermarck - 21 year old French/Irish midfielder
26 Rémy Vita - French full back on loan from Bayern Munich.
28 Dominik Frieser - Austrian midfielder.
29 Victor Adeboyejo - Ex Leyton Orient striker.

Club connections:

Last season, I did Ernie Hine, Arthur Fairclough, Frank Chivers, Ray Wood, Neil Warnock, Dean Gorré, Jimmy Robson, Jordan Rhodes, Jordan Williams, Andy Ritchie, Bobby Collins and Mel Machin, so if you want to read them, click here https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthrea...#pid201355

So there are plenty more to go at......Ian Banks, John Bettany, Mick Butler, Jacob Butterfield, Jake Charles, Nick Colgan, Martin Cranie, David Currie, Liam Dickinson, Kevin Donovan, Andy Duggan, John Dungworth, Kevin Gallen, Lee Glover, Adam Hammill, Paul Hayes, Kallum Higginbotham, Jack Hunt, Mark Jackson, Antony Kay, Leon Knight, Rob Kozluk, Tony Leighton, Brian Mahoney, Dwayne Mattis, John McCann, Adie Moses, Brendan O'Connell, Fola Onibuje, Bob Parker, Jon Parkin, Andy Payton, Gary Pierce, Graham Pugh, John Saunders, Malcolm Shotton, Mark Smith and Robbie Williams, but I can't be bothered.




Barnsley in popular culture: Well I did Brassed Off, Kes, Charlie Williams and Mr Kipling last time. What we got left? Well there's Dickie Bird. He's still alive. We spotted him in the Wetherby Whaler in Wakefield the other month. When we went back again, they'd dedicated a wall to him with signed photos and a cricket bat. He's got a statue in Church Street, Barnsley. It had to be lifted higher up on a plinth to stop his female fans hanging their underwear on his raised finger.

That was erected a few years ago. There's a new statue in t' tarn centre. It's a tribute to local author, Barry Hines, who's most famous book A Kestrel for a Knave was made into the film Kes. He was also a good footballer and played for Barnsley's reserves. He also turned out for Crawley Town when they were non league and had a trial for Man Utd.

Another celebrity from Barnsley is the radio presenter Stephanie Hirst. She did the rounds of the crappy commercial stations, but then landed a plum role at Radio Leeds. However, she left them earlier this year. She's a top influential LGBT+ celebrity and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Leeds Beckett University for her LGBT activism. She's now turned up on Greatest Hits Radio.

'ow to get theere an' wheere to sup: The post code for sat nav is S71 1ET. Although for the away fans car park on Queens Road, you need S71 1AN. That car park is quite large and is between the stadium and the Metrodome. It'll cost you a fiver to park there, but if you're a proper tight wad, you can park for nowt in t' tarn on a Saturday, an' it's no' but a ten minute walk to t' ground.

Same with the train station. It's in the town centre and just ten minutes away. So while you're in the tarn, you can marvel at the massive new Glass Works building that's been built over the last couple of years. It's so massive, it overshadows the Alambra Shopping Centre next door. And it's so new, I haven't been in it myself yet. Amelia has and she recommends eating in the Market Kitchen. There's loads of different eateries in here and she says the Meze Turkish Kitchen, the Khio Niew Thai Cafe and the Nero Artisan Pizza are all top notch noshing places. Like I say, it's still new and not everywhere is open yet, though places are opening all the time so have a look at the website. https://theglassworksbarnsley.com/shop/

In the meantime, have a look at this pizza that Chaffers scoffed when she went there last month.




If you prefer the more traditional football match rubbish on offer at Wetherspoons, there's The Joseph Bramah (he was an inventor and locksmith) on Market Hill. It looks small from the outside, but don't be fooled, it's like the Tardis inside. And there's more. Another Wetherspoons. The Silkstone Inn on Market Street, just behind the Alambra. And of course, if you just want to go to the ground and not visit the beautiful town centre, there's beer on sale there as well. If you're on the train, you might get herded up there anyway. If you do, there's a bar at the Metrodome which serves away fans.

The Tardis like Wetherspoons pub

Recent form - last 6 matches:

Town 1-2 Middlesbrough
QPR  0-1 Town
Town 1-0 West Brom
Cardiff 2-1 Town
Peterborough 1-1 Town
Town 1-0 Millwall

Peterborough 0-0 Barnsley
Barnsley 0-2 Swansea
Fulham 4-1 Barnsley
Barnsley 0-2 Hull
Barnsley 2-1 Derby
Bristol C 2-1 Barnsley

Town are 8th in the Championship table with 28 points. Barnsley are 23rd with 12.

Leading scorers:

Terry Terriers:
Danny Ward (4)
Matty Pearson (3)

Toby Tykes:
Cauley Woodrow (3)
Aaron Leya Iseka (3)


December the 4th down the ages: How did we get on in previous matches played on this date?

1909: Sheffield Utd reserves (h) Midland League, WON 2-1 (T. North, Alonzo Drake)
1915: Barnsley (a) Wartime League, lost 1-2 (Rippon)
1920: Bolton Wanderers (h) Div 1, drew 0-0
1926: Manchester Utd (a) Div 1, drew 0-0
1937: Chelsea (a) Div 1, lost 1-3 (George Wienand)
1943: Bolton Wanderers (h) Wartime League, WON 2-0 (Joseph Poole, Billy Price)
1948: Portsmouth (h) Div 1, drew 0-0
1954: Burnley (h) Div 1, lost 0-1
1965: Carlisle Utd (h) Div 2, WON 2-0 (Tony Leighton 2 pens)
1971: Wolverhampton Wanderers (a) Div 1, drew 2-2 (Jimmy Lawson, Terry Dolan)
1976: Southend Utd (a) Div 4, drew 1-1 (Steve Baines)
1982: Plymouth Argyle (a) Div 3, lost 1-2 (Phil Wilson)
1999: Queens Park Rangers (h) Division One (2nd tier), WON 1-0 (Clyde Wijnhard)
2001: Scunthorpe Utd (h) LDV Vans Trophy, WON 4-1 (Danny Schofield 2, Chris Hay, Andy Booth)
2005: Worcester City (a) FA Cup, WON 1-0 (Chris Brandon)
2018: AFC Bournemouth (a) Premier League, lost 1-2 (Terence Kongolo)

Played 16, WON 6, drew 5, lost 5.

Nice to see Alonzo Drake on the score sheet again. He seems to be on every match thread I do. Makes me wonder why we never signed him on when we gained league status. Can't find anything out about the other lad who scored in that game.

George Wienand who scored against Chelsea on this day in 1937, was another footballing cricketer. He was a South African right winger (weren't they all back then ) who played 32 times for the Town, scoring 3 goals, before leaving for Hull City. His most famous match for Town was the 1938 FA Cup semi final v Sunderland at Ewood Park, where he bedazzled the opposition left back as we won 3-1. Some say it was his absence from the Final that cost us our second FA Cup triumph when we got beat by Preston at Wembley.
He also played 18 first class matches for Transvaal, scoring a century once and also taking a ten wicket haul once.

Look at that in 1965. We had two penalties in a game. Two. The last time I can remember us getting two penalties in a match was when Nahki Wells missed them both. 

Steve Baines, who scored at Southend on this date in 1976, was a centre back who kept popping up with some useful goals. After us he went to Bradford City, Walsall and Chesterfield. After retiring he worked in an insurance company in Chesterfield while taking his refereeing exams. He passed and became one of only a small handful of ex pros to become FL referees. He was the most experienced though, having played over 400 league matches. I don't think he ever reffed us.

The 1999 win over QPR took us into first place in what was then called Division One and is now called the Championship, but in all reality is the 2nd division. How did that go? Well, in a couple of years time, we were playing Scunthorpe in the LDV Vans Trophy. 

The 2005 FA Cup match at Worcester was televised live on the BBC. Never before have I witnessed such biased commentary. You could hear the sheer disappointment in the commentator's voice when Chris Brandon scored. Prick! Anyway, that win got us a plum tie away at Chelsea, the one when Gary Taylor-Fletcher scored.

As for the last game on this list. Terence Kongolo! Whatever happened to him? Answers on a postcard please.

Where are you now, Terry lad?

Barnsley Anagrams: Some football related, some not.

1. Colin Wanker
   
2. Wow Audrey Cool
   
3. Heath Hamper Jobs
   
4. Interphase This
   
5. Karen Overtakes Alf
   
6. A Gays Phobia
   
7. Vernon Davis
   
8. Deadly Rik
   
9. Honky Tanya
   
10. Shamrock Pups
    

[ritchiebaby]

Nice one, Snooty. 2 will be Cauley Woodrow and 9 might be Anthony Kay, depending on Snooty's spelling prowess.

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and 3 will be The Joseph Bramah - just to prove I've read the post and it's got 15 letters, so it's near enough for me.

[theo_luddite]

Good thread Snoots but .....

Oh dear, Colin is in there again. It's becoming the Snoots recurring theme. Is the needle stuck on the gramaphone Snoots? Gi'it a kick will ya?

Ey up AmChaff - that pizza deserved a bottle of red shirley, er surely? Then again - many shopping centre food halls don't tend to do booze do they? Wonder why that is? Handbags at 3pm in Victoria's Secret or Ann Summers perhaps?

Your pizza seems to be missing some lumps of crumbly Wensleydale sprinkled across it too doesn't it Gromit? I mean, a Yorkshire pizza and no Wensleydale, how very dare they?

Another thing Snoots - you forgot to mention the Arthur Scargill and Maggie Thatcher Memorial Museum of Coal Mining. It was just off the M1 at Wooley Grange the last time I looked. Or have they knocked that down now too? Not been up the M1 for a while. I would get out more but the recent snow has stopped me drifting around the country.

[Lord Snooty]

Antony Kay is one of those with no h.

And the mining museum is still there. We went down it for the first time a few weeks ago.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Theo, the Market Kitchen is licensed and has a bar. You can just sit at your table and order from any or all of the venues. Or you can order in person and they either bring it to you or give you a buzzer. The only failing is that you have to give your dob on the app even if you're not drinking. And it's the scroll type so you have to go through many years before you get to your own. But it really is very good. Happy days.

[hibeejim21]

Did any of you guys ever watch "hardest away days" documentary (think you can catch it on youtube)

The guy from barnsley and his trip to Bristol for a game was hilarious.

[theo_luddite]

Remember seeing some of that - not sure (probably pints of beer that have flowed under the bridge) why I didn't see it all.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look.

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Yeah those scrolling date things on a laptop aren't too bad AmChaff, but on a phone they can be a nightmare to get the correct date in (or at least one that shows you're a wrinkly over 25 year old).

Looks like another place to maybe get a drink if and when I venture into town again. It won't be this weekend though.

[jjamez]

Number 6 is their new manager poya pouri. Is that on Amelia's Xmas list?

Despite them just being down the road, I've never actually been to oakwell, I'd actually say I've done more London grounds than Yorkshire grounds, professional clubs that is.

[Lord Snooty]

I think I've done all the Yorkshire grounds apart from Harrogate. And I haven't been to York's new ground yet. Hope they get back in the league soon.

[theo_luddite]

Yet to visit 'ull's new one too. Maybe when we play 'em in April.