Who made you fall in love with football?

an interesting question JLW -
I have no interest at all in Premiership football and little interest in other clubs in the lower divisions.
But I love my club - after my first few games I was hooked and have never looked back. It's a brilliant club and I love everything about it.
I don't love some players more than others although some of them can get the pulse racing. So long as the players give an honest performance I'm happy.
It's a case of a 'love that never dies'

In fact JLW I think I'm falling in love with you.....

 

My wife will certainly question your sanity!

 

The Busbt Babes and Bobby Charlton in particular. Before falling in love with the not very good Reds team of the mid 60s, my Dad not a football fan used to take me to see Manchester United at Sheffield. When they came to Oakwell in 1964 I attended as United supporter

 

Italia ‘90 and in particular, Gazza, Waddle, Scillachi, Mattahus, Baggio and Cannigia.

At Oakwell - O’Connell, Taggart and Redders.

 

Jimmy Seal, scored 2 goals for the reds v notts county in my first ever match in April 1972, also from seeing on tv Charlie George, Alan Clarke, Mick Jones, Tony Currie.

 

Anton Otulakowski. Because at the time having such a foreign sounding player at Barnsley made me think we were progressing as a club and a town.

 

Players in general- Maldini, Baresi, Van Basten, Del Piero, Schillaci, Platt, Lineker

Reds players- Eaden, Redders, Payton

 

1966/67 was my first season. I suspect it was the World Cup that inspired me to head to Oakwell on a regular basis, this in spite of a woeful start to a season that was eventually kickstarted by the purchase of Barrie Thomas and Johnny Evans for the princely sum of £10K. I was a pupil at Holgate Grammar School in the same form as the cousin to Jimmy and Brian Greenhoff and that year one of the textbooks I had for lessons at school had passed through Jimmy's hands and by 1966 he was acquiring a name for himself in the top level of the game.

 

it was the 66 World Cup and Brazil v Hungary, and England v Portugal. 2 fantastic games.

 

My grandad who took me to my first game

Glavin
Aylott
Banks
McCarthy

Going to pick a couple of events then - European cup final 77
World cup 78 - My first major tournament - think it was all that ticker tape

Liverpool team of the late 70's early 80's

 

Remember, mi first game at 13, but r could tek it or leave it, I was more into boxing, and Army Cadets at the time, but r really got hooked in the Glavin era, C.O.Y.R.

 

Don't have to think about it too much. My teacher at Junior School one Bob Parkin.
Before he came to our school, all ten outfield players used to chase after the ball. He taught
us about defending, passing and attacking and set us up according to height, speed,
skill and which foot we favoured, to the point we won the league and got to our cup final
in his first season, plus three of us, including myself were picked to play for Doncaster Boys.

The player who made me start supporting the Reds was David Currie when we watched him
score four goals in our first ever Barnsley game versus Bournemouth in November 1988.
The performances of the late Paul Futcher also made sure we became committed to the Reds
cause during his time at the Club.

 

5 players who made me fall in love with football:

Ronnie Glavin, Zico, Glenn Hoddle, Paul Futcher, Kenny Dalglish.

Other reds players who were heroes to me:

Steve Cooper, Neil Thompson, Arjan De Zeeuw, Brendan O'Connell.

I've honestly fallen out of love with football, I'm still married to Barnsley FC, albeit our relationship is going through a tough patch.

 

My grandad took me to my 1st ever reds game 77 a Friday night game v Cambridge I re call,3 2 win? Never looked back,the Clarke hunter teams my hero's back then some cracking players.

 

My love of football came from many places. Players such as Alan Little, Mick McCarthy, Derek Bell and Ronnie Glavin were my early hero’s. The England team, the World Cup in ‘78 and Kevin Keegan were also massive factors.

My dad was a rugby man and wasn’t interested in taking me to Oakwell so back then a family friend used to take me to the games along with his pals. Him and his pals used to stand half way along the paddock and I used to sit on the crash barrier, eventually making my way to sit on the perimeter wall. Great times and all made possible because someone put himself out to introduce me to Oakwell.

 

Pure and simple, mi Dad, took us all ower in his works/ super reds van. A red fuwerd transit full of idiots, you must have seen it. Well apart from mi dad, he wo well sane but tormented but we behaved ourselves, we had to, god bless that MAN.

 

Thanks jLWBigLill loved mi dad x​

 

For me it's Phil 'the overlapping full back' Chambers who'd cross a ball onto a tanner,.trouble was the tanner was in my pocket and I was 25 rows back in the ponty

 

It was my late Dad who introduced me to football & BFC in particular. We went to matches together from 1968 (we had a season ticket each from the 1969/70 season) until ill health stopped his attendance in the Summer of 1981. He died December 1999 and I still grieve for him.
I can't believe how shamefully ignorant and stupid I've been for omitting him from my initial post.

 

Like others 66 World Cup , I was 6 yrs old , we were lucky enough to a TV and everyone crammed into the front room . I remember the flags outside Swillsborough which at the time were a real novelty . As for Barnsley it was just a given you supported them even if we were in the 4th division . I went to Wilthorpe junior school and the headmaster Harry Rushworth had something to do with Barnsley Boys , a few of us used to hand out team sheets outside when they played on the main pitch , we got to have a cup of tea in the Directors rooms and watch from the West Upper , that would be 1970-71