Apparently if the Play Off Final ends in a draw. Whoever we are facing will be automatically promoted. Reason is we are not allowed to.compete in a Penalty Shootout as its against law for us to have one. So we must win in 120mins or we will face another season in League 1
Basically, let’s say, for example, one of our strikers has a goal bound shot but an opposing player, not the goalkeeper, saves it with his hand. Now, for all other teams, the referee would tell the naughty player to get off the pitch and allow our player to put the ball on that spot in ‘the area’ (known by all other clubs as the ‘penalty area’ but it’s just the area to us), and have a one on one shot against the keeper. That’s basically what a penalty is, in brief. If you look back in years gone by, we actually used to get them ourselves the odd time. But the game has moved on since then and all the referees know that we only wish to ever score from open play now. Whereas other less fashionable teams can actually rely on them and even gain three points because of them.
That’s ringing a few bells. I remember Eddie Loyden being good at those (blast it down the middle, knocking the keeper into the net with the ball if stupid enough to try to stop it). Then there was Banger with a similar style, and then one or two after him with more subtle techniques. All these things are so far back in time though that not many fans are still around that remember those days when a real live Barnsley player was allowed to put the ball on that now redundant white spot.
I have a cunning plan. What we need at Oakwell is the groundsman to have two tins of paint.. one green one white. Once the direction of play just before K.O. is determined he can rush onto the pitch and paint out our penalty area markings with green paint. At half time he replaces them with the white paint and then paints out our penalty area at the other end with the green paint. Whilst it won't help us to win a penalty it at least stops our opponents getting one since no penalty area= no penalty. Alternatively use the same green white paint to make the penalty area in our attacking half much much bigger so any fouls awarded to us even 35yards from the goal result in a penalty to us. Given how blind/lack of spacial awareness the officials seem to have these days they probably wouldn't notice the size difference so it could work.
Penalty on Grove Street, a one-man comedic play starring Ian MacMillan, coming to a theatre near you! Reserve your spot (kick) now.
I read somewhere that last time Barnsley had a penalty Harry Tuffnell took it wi a Dinosaur Egg and Ian McMillan wrote a play called its no yolk living in Barnsley....mind it wer Kipper Jackson that told me..
