The Star gets it wrong, again..

We beat Reading in the 96-97 season at Oakwell 3-0. I remember every result of that season. There was about 7,000 fans there, maybe a bit more, and Liddell scored twice inbetween a Sheridan beauty.

******* hate the Star. Owlstalk reckon it's run by Blunts, and refer to it as the Stir. They're probably reight. I read one of their articles yesterday that was practically suggesting Flicker ought to have been sacked by now.

Link: http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/barnsley/roc-bottom-barnsley-face-two-toughies-1-6100287

 

It's fat fingers on the number keys rather than a mistake in their research mate. We didn't play Reading in September 1988. We did, however, play them in September 1998 when we beat them 3-0. That was the last time we beat them at home. Just a typing error like we're all guilty of from time to time. Newspapers should get it right more often than we do like, but it's easy to confuse an 8 with a 9 when reading back and to the editor the fact still made sense. It wasn't as though it was a spelling mistake as such.

 

We beat them in the Premier League season?

I know we beat them in the promotion season, as I say, 3-0, early doors. That was 1996, though.

I'm confused now. Bed time anyway. Work in 12 hours, NOT FOOTBALL. Gutted.

 

Our Premier League season ended in May 1998. The following season started in Aug 1998.

 

September 1998 wasn't the premiership season. That was September 1997. We beat Reading 3-0 in the league cup on Tuesday 15th September 1998 under John Hendrie.

 

Knew it was tired related why I wasn't getting it. Especially when it's Jay saying it. If Kev or Jay say summat I usually take it as gospel. Kin idiot, Andrew.

So we did beat them in 1996 as I remembered, but we ALSO beat them in a cup tie in 1998 at Oakwell? Which I clearly didn't remember. 3-0 again eh?

Goalscorers, while we're here?


And soz, Jay. Hope you understand my bleery eyed numptiness.

 

No need at all to apologise mate, tired or not. We're not having a row, just a discussion.

Yup, beat them 3-0 in the promotion season and 3-0 again the year after we were relegated from the Prem. It was in the cup though, Reading had been relegated themselves to league 1 by that time. Barnard got one and Fjortoft got a brace.

We then beat Palace 4-0 at home on the Saturday. Fjortoft and Ward tore them apart while Sean McClare looked like he was going to be a multi-million pound player. Everyone thought Hendrie had finally got it together and nothing could stop our promotion push.

We didn't win any of our next 7 games.

 

Speaking of Reading, can anyone remember playing Bristol Rovers in the league cup (?) and a young Jason Roberts tearing us apart? Or am I imagining that...

 

He didn't tear us apart as such. We won the game 4-1. He scored late on, but we were already 4-0 up by then. He did, however, look very good. As did his strike partner. A certain Jamie Cureton. We'd not long since bought Sheron, but our strike partnership of Sheron and Dyer didn't look a patch on Roberts and Cureton. If I was Hendrie I would have immediately tried to swap our two for theirs.

The real star of the show was Hignett though. A hat-trick and a master class performance.

Edit
It was the 5th round of the FA Cup.

 

I remember thinking we should definitely sign him.

Ah, there's so many of those that they all merge in to one beautiful Craig Hignett memory