My favourite goal ever. My only disappointment that night was that we didn't finish with 10 or 11. Seemed at one point that we could score as many as we wanted.
Convinced that if Hignett had stuck that penalty in just after half time we’d have gone on to get double figures.
Should have set a new club record that day. Missed a penalty and McClair missed three absolute sitters.
Ah, the day I didn’t want to use a holiday to travel up from London, so I gave a mate my season ticket. I also gave him my season ticket for the 4-3 over Southampton in the Prem, cos I was on a stupid Catholic pre-marriage retreat weekend. Tina Hobley off the telly was also there with her intended - we had a mutual friend, so hung around with them all weekend. Me and her hubby to be, a Spurs fan, both had sneakily concealed radios about our persons and had the earphones coming up the back of our shirts and into our lugholes so the priest couldn’t see them. So we sat there gesticulating across the room to each other as the goals went in for our relegation battling teams, whilst the priest tried to convince us all that the only safe method of contraception is the rhythm method, the lying old goat. And the third game I gave him my season ticket to, or the second in time order, was the Gary Willard Liverpool debacle, cos it was the wife’s youngest brother’s 18th in Crawley. It’s safe to say my mate got value for money from the three games! When I heard there were people chucking their season tickets at the ref I thought he’d better ruddy not be. So me and Slacki, formerly of this parish, watched the Huddersfield match in my work local off Marylebone High Street, where the landlord was from Barnsley, but a Sheffield United fan (and ex-player he claimed, but I could find no record of him). When Barnard’s goal went in, he watched us running round the pub and decided he’d had enough, so he took his dog for a walk and we didn’t see him again all night! At half-time we were hoping there would be no more goals. If we had scored 10 and we had two other bottoms sat on our seats it could have put us in therapy. It’s bad enough that the only time we’ve scored 7 in the 45 years I’ve been watching us, was when I gave up my ticket. So 7 goals probably disappointed everybody at Oakwell, but we were selfishly happy that it stopped there.
An exceptional goal. Not just in terms of technique, but also in it's audaciousness. I can't name a current Reds player who would even attempt that.
Was right behind it in the west stand, and when he hit it, I started to complain at him going for a ridiculously difficult shot. It hit the back of the net before I could start my sentence let alone finish it. Should’ve been ten by half time, and would’ve been if hignett had scored the penalty. Only game that Ward, Dyer and Hignett played together, before Ward served a ban then left. What might have been if we’d had those three playing together for a while?
Was that where Ward was more or less asked if he was leaving or not, and he said he missed the Prem and wanted to be back in it. So yeah that meant he was leaving, it turned out to be his last game for us. And John Hendrie wasn't up to it as a manager either, he actually tried to get rid of Daz Barnard that week... in a swap deal for Carlton Palmer!!.
Wasn't that more the fact that CP would have been a part of the deal. When he was at Southampton, the same Southampton that Barnard actually turned down, so naturally CP deal was not done
Yeah you could see how glad Barnard was to be staying with us. The performance and the confidence to try a volley like that, and the way he celebrated.
