My Dad.....

..........I want to post what I'm posting right now because it would have been my Dad's birthday today and I think he would have wanted me to say something.

It's his fault (and my Grandads) that I have to suffer like the rest of you, all the ups and downs of being a Barnsley fan. He's buried in Monk Bretton graveyard (near Tommy Taylor's grave). I've been up there this morning and played his favourite song, Danny Boy, (Johnny Cash version), standing by his grave and looking across to Oakwell mentally preparing for the match this afternoon.

Of course we were communing, knowing that three points today were crucial.

The main reason for the post is to say that he would have been so, so proud of what this group of people (management and coaching staff and players) have achieved already this season, whether we make the play offs or not.

He would have said, as a Maintenance Fitter, that they typify all that is good about our community.... .........organisation, hard work, playing for each other, battling when you're down, keeping each other "up", total commitment and clarity of objectives, disciplined and ultra hard working.

Thank you Val, and Dane, the coaching staff and all the players for giving my old man the best post-death birthday present he could have wished for.

 

I always thought this of my dear Dad, he set me on the best road outside of Family life & that road was red, bless em both. Bless all our Mams N Dads.

 

That's lovely.

 

Well said!

 

..sorry...that well said was to you tykester.

 

Well said mate. Sounds like I'd have get on well with your Dad. Up the Reds.

 

Nice post that 55, lost my Dad last month who was also a Barnsley supporter for 90 years can't say owt na more lump in throught.

 

Sir

what a wonderful post and a fantastic win for your dad on his birthday I’m sure he would have been proud as punch

he will be looking down on them (and you plus your family) and loving that today

after a long time in limbo this board and ceo at last I feel have the fans right behind them and I feel they “get us” and we “get them”

season tickets should go through the roof for next season no matter what league we are in

got several close pals who have passed recently and can’t help thinking wish we were together to see this

family BFC and their pals were their lifeblood each win and step the club makes I imagine in heaven a section of tarn fans are looking down raising the roof and singing from the rooftops

 

Lovely post. I can’t imagine a day when I watch us without my old man at the side of me

 

Sorry to hear about your Dad mate. He's definitely looking down on us, still cheering

 

Wonderful post, sir.

 

Post of the day.

 

What a lovely moving post, thank you for sharing your feelings.

 

Good lad! Don't know ya - but we have a shared thing in BFC. Hope you're doing ok in these difficult memorial times. Lost my dad many years ago but still remember the times he took me to see the Reds - including the match against Reading in the FA Cup where we won 4-3 (I think???) at home in the FA Cup.... COYR!

 

Without trying to seem too intrusive, how did you play Danny Boy?

My dad was a piano player, loved his music. He seems a long way away from it now, in a bleak but exposed panoramic cemetery (right up his street)

 

Sounds like you draw great comfort from not having left owt on the pitch in your relationship with your dad exactly how it should be. Lovely post brother.

 

You're not being intrusive at all Gegenpresser. At his funeral we had a Piper. This morning I didn't ask the Piper back. Went for Mr.J.Cash on Spotify on my phone at the highest volume I could muster.

 

How did that sound?

 

Just logged in and seen all the truly wonderful and unexpected comments many of you have made in response to my post about my Dad.

Thank you. Seriously, no ********, thank you. This board is a wonderful place.

 

The Piper was awesome. Stark. Raw. Very stirring. Made it all the more emotional because Scotland was his second favourite place.

A lone Piper is a beautiful thing.