Jim Iley

Don't really know if he's dead tbh the post was just a bit of humour/sarcasm really. Last I heard of him was when he commented on the Tevez affair with Mancini, which was about 2012 if memory serves think he lives/lived in the Nottingham Area

 

Sorry mate, you'd quoted (probably accidentally) a line from one of my favourite films, so I set you up with the next line. You were supposed to answer 'I think he died of a Tuesday, or was it a Wednesday?'

He's not dead, by the way!

 

Of a Tuesday or was it a Wednesday

 

He was at a function in Newcastle June 2013

 

I blame Jim Iley for everything.

Me dad started taking me to games during Iley's tenure. We didn't go every weekend 'cos me dad was busy building up his business, and he also raced motorbikes, so some weekends I'd go with him there. To be honest, although I liked the football games, I wasn't besotted by it and I preferred the motorcycle racing. Then Jim Iley buggered off to Blackburn and we employed Alan Clarke as manager. The crowds got bigger, the atmosphere better, the football far superior and we won many more games. A nice day out with me dad turned in to an obsession, for both of us, and we've missed very few home games between us since (been to about 50 away grounds together too). Would we have continued going had Jim Iley stayed in charge? Probably, but not every week and maybe we would have never become obsessed with it, so could have left it completely at any time. Particularly as I lived away from Barnsley for 10 years.

So, when Dawson trips over his own shoe laces allowing the winger to run free and Scott Wiseman is out-jumped for the umpteenth time as the opposition striker plants a header in the top corner and I'm freezing cold, bored out of my head and frustrated to the point of distraction, I blame Jim ******* Iley for leaving and allowing us to become a good team.