never understood why Barnsley based Wednesday fans

Let me make a confession. I need to get this off me chest.

I was a young Barnsley fan and watched lotsa matches, even the reserves. Like when there was one bobby who walked round the white wall with the red top brick and told you to get your legs back over the wall. Sometimes there wasn't hundred people there. The first team got about fifteen hundred crowd. George Kerr signed me autograph book.

At about fourteen years old I started watching the Owls because of me best mate. He was a stronger character than me and a cool dude. They were first division. I watched Johnny Fantham, Vic Mobley. I saw Martin Chivers' first goal for Spurs and I remember Joe Royle.

I was about four years a Wednesday fan before I started boozing on Saturdays and not watching any team 'cept maybe Brig.

When I moved away from tarn I became a reborn Barnsley fan. It was my way of keeping my Barnsleyness.

So there you go, I said it. I was once a 'Wednesdayite'

 

I nderstanding supporting a big club but Wednesday....

 

Lived in Barnsley after my birth for a few days, then moved to Wakefield where I lived until I was 12. We then moved to Glasgow, where I lived until 18 v then London, Iran, Nigeria, France etc.. Until I returned to Yorkshire in 1996. In spite of living miles away, I have had a season ticket for years, sometimes used a mere couple of times in the season. I have always (or should I say since the age of 6) supported The Reds. I was asked, as that six year old, by a colleague of my father as to which team I supported. I said no-one. He replied that one should support the club nearest to where you were born, in his case Partick Thistle. After that I became Al Read's child, "Hey, dad, dad will you take me to Barnsley" after a great deal of pestering, I finally achieved my goal, way back in 1950, and ar no time in those intervening years have I been tempted to support anyone else.

 

Lived in Sheffield all my life, Stannington, Grenoside and now Wharncliffe side. So i'm creeping slowly toward Barnsley i suppose. I can't say i'm a fan or supporter as i only get to one or two games a year due to work (i would love to go to more), however i started following Barnsley when i first started to take an interest in football in the late ninety's, i watched THAT game with THAT goal from Darren Barnard against Huddersfield and i think that was me hooked!

 

If OP moved to Sheffield would he start supporting Wednesday or blades?

 

It took me 20 minutes to walk home after the match on Tuesday night as I live round the corner from Hillsborough, and have done for over 20 years.

Do I need to send back my BFC season ticket and start following Wednesday?

 

I was born in Barnsley and lived there until I was 18.

I now live in Cambridge, and my boys aged 11 and 14 were born and bred in Cambridge. But they have been avid Reds fans for several years now and love going to watch them.

All their mates think they are crackers, as they all support Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea or Liverpool. Funnily enough, none of them support Cambridge United.

 

My grand kids were born and live in Northamptonshire, as I do now. Their father is a Portsmouth fan. But they all support Barnsley and three of them are season ticket holders and come with me to the games as often as possible. The eldest is away at Uni in Kingston, lives in Tooting and travels up from there.

 

I've got a mate that supports Man Utd (no seriously I've got a mate) his dad supported Barnsley, I'm always asking him what it's like to be a proud Lancashire man


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All in all, it's a childish sort of mentality that some kids carry into adulthood.

When I was a schoolkid, man united had been relegated from the top flight but went straight back up, taking hordes everywhere. The kids in our class were mimicking the football fans they had seen on the telly and it became a bit of mini pitched battle between leeds and man united.. . . Only thing is some of them were swapping sides to be with the majority.

Sometimes when I meet people and they discuss football, they claim to like this team or that (as if you've got to nail your colours to a mast), but they are often surprised that I actually go to the games, and have been so many grounds etc, especially supporting a smaller club, yet lots of us do it but it's like we go under the radar.

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Said this a few times on here

If you come across Sheffield fans that live in Barnsley- just ask them what part of Sheffield do they come from.
If they are like Mat, Tina's hubby who originally is from Sheffield or their parents are from Sheffield then that's fine.
But if they are from Barnsley - I usually say "oh, yer a deserter then"? "Which team do you follow at the World Cup; Argentina???"
They usually HATE that.

 

Your wind ups are ****

 

I've met 3 people born and brought up in Sheffield who support Barnsley. One was originally from Stocksbridge and supports us because his dad did. Everyone else at his school was Wednesday or United. Another is an ex-Owl who just started to support us for a change. I don't know why. The third was an ex-Blunt who also converted to us but he lives down in Devon or Cornwall now.

I occasionally go and see Sheffield FC but I justify it by the fact they play in Derbyshire.

 

Trolling again!! He is only gibing his opinion give it a rest.

 

No pride ,no scruples or morals........a fully fledged plastic pig.