Archibald Leitch - Oakwell History

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    Just stumbled upon this on Twitter and thought I’d share;

    A link for you: twitter.com/OakwelHistoria…

    -- Archibald Leitch is an absolute icon of sporting, social history in British football and I hope Barnsley can preserve a true jewel of their own history with the main stand you have at Oakwell. IMG_0830.jpg IMG_0832.jpg
     
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    Good read that... Thanks for sharing
     
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    Great read that with some great quotes

    However a ground which holds 36,000 in comfort...they had a different view of comfort them days it seems.

    Thanks
     
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    The club was at it's zenith in the 1950's. The board back then were self sufficient and sold key players. We've always been famed as a club for not standing in a players way. Makes you wonder if we'd hung onto those players and had a dart at promotion then how much the ground could have been improved sooner before the decline in the sixties and seventies.
     
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    "...and whilst the man-in-the-street is sometimes wrong, he is sometimes right."

    I didn't realise the BBS had been going as long as that! :D
     
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    How dare they do that without consulting Young Nudger
     
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