Matchday with Monkey : Portsmouth Home

It is 4.47pm. We are on the train home already.


Monkey : We've never EVER left early before! All because the weatherman said it was going to snow and be icy so you've made us do public transport.
Me : It's not my fault the train's are on strike and this one's the last one home.
Monkey : What if we score THREE goals now ?
Me : I wouldn't complain.
Monkey : I WOULD!


Monkey : You DO complain. You spent the whole first half saying we'd rue all those missed chances and Portsmouth would run up the field and score a silly goal.
Me : That's not complaining. That's nearly 37 years of supporting Barnsley.
Monkey : Have we got internet yet ? Has it finished ?
Me : Yes. 1-1



Monkey : AND you kept calling Cavare Thiam. You'll end up on the TV news with your face blurred out and them saying 'who is this woman who cannot tell one player from another? She should be banned'.
Me : They were further away from normal as we were in the Upper Tier.
Monkey : That's why you wouldn't take any photos of me during the game so we could do a proper match report isn't it? You don't want anyone finding out we sneaked up there without paying.
Me : Perhaps I was seeing your outfit and not wanting to be associated with you.



Me : STOP THAT ! Put it back where it was right now.



Me : Did you enjoy the singsong at half time ? Mrs Dyer belted it out didn't she!
Monkey : Well yes but I couldn't help thinking that the Deedar Boxing Day song was not the most sensible choice to make into a carol.

The train arrives at Meadowhall.



Me : Sit there and pull faces so that no deedars sit next to us. Be useful for a change.



Monkey : It is actually raining INSIDE this carriage. You are wet through.
Me : The things we fans do for the love of Barnsley Football Club!
Monkey : Don't get any of it on me !



Monkey : You are just moaning because you are so tight and you've had to buy a bus ticket as well as a train ticket.
Me : I gave that RMT man on the picket line a piece of my mind didn't I !
Monkey : Yes, you savaged him in your Liberal middle class way. I'm sure he'll restart negotiations now just because you've been a 'bit stressed out' two weeks in a row. You're so tight you've only used one hand warmer sachet. Mind you, I can feel my feet at last.



Monkey : Can I just point out that I am wearing the only snow we've seen all day, not a single flake has fallen from the sky....nor has there been ANY ice ANYWHERE and you are soaked through and still have half a mile walk home.



Me : Bye then. Bag's a bit lighter now!
Monkey : oi ! OI !!! You cannot leave me here!!

 

Love it. Mad as ever.

 

West Stand Upper , very wise in the conditions .
Sorry I wasn't there to welcome you .
Man flu .

 

Oh dear, I hope you feel better soon. It was surprisingly empty up there so I think quite a few people were avoiding the weather.

 

Thank you CB .
I hope you enjoyed sitting in the posh seats .

 

It was better than being colder and wetter. I cannot help notice that when we sit up there Barnsley never win which means when the weather's bad Barnsley never win.

 

In that case you are welcome upstairs when we lead by a few goals in stoppage time .

 

That is cruel. Actually we do tend to stay put in the weather as much as possible (a) because certain folk at the top of the East stand see us move and call us wimps (b) we don't want to be responsible for a defeat. I will point out that we were the last ones left on our row in last season's horizontal blizzard.

 

I wondered how you'd deal with the journey too all that way. There was some quite spectacular missing going on in the bits I did see. Agent repeatedly mumbles that even she knows they should keep their head over the ball to stop it ballooning into row z because her dad used to say that all the time.

 

Who were we playing that day? We were reminiscing about it yesterday but whilst we all remembered the weather we couldn’t remember the opposition.

 

I can't remember, I'm just browsing my photos. All I know is a small child on the row in front had to be taken home.

 

Millwall. March 17th

 

Hi all
a slightly worn, peaceful Pompey fan.

If you want a slightly off the wall view of Pompey's trip to your very cold neck of the woods, you might want to have a read of this. Not my work, and it does come with a health warning that you might need a chill pill to get past the first section. But he does have a go at everyone in equal measure. in a surprisingly unbiased way

Incidentally, WOWAD means Who owes who a drink

https://thepbaonline.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/wowad-barnsley-a-2018-19/

my point of view if you want one, is that the top 5 look sorted, but who out of PFC, Barnsley, Sunderland, Luton and Charlton will get the top two places is looking to go a long long way toward the end of season. See you down here some time in the new year. Incidentally, our local commentators all agreed with the comments on ehre about our being lucky to go in a goal up.

 

Thanks for that link - genuinely funny piece. I especially liked the runaway water bottle anecdote.