A tribute (of sorts) to Oakwell!

saw this after doing a search for words on the match against leeds... might amuse you or infuriate!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/stewartjackson/nov06/stepbackintime.htm

 

Great article. I like the bit about Oakwell been a proper ground.

 

Thanks for that.

It was a really good article i enjoyed reading it.

 

It is a proper ground

Not like these identical flat-pack stadiums that are popping up everywhere (no names mentioned, Donny). It WOULD be nice to see it full someday!
Though his ebay crack was a bit cheeky.

 

Excellent

He almost ruined it by mentioning Dickie Bird, but at least he didn't go as far as Michael Parkinson.

 

If they mean to praise the club or ground, why can't they just praise it?

Instead it's always - 'ooooh isn't it sweet', 'little old barnsley', 'old fashioned telephones', 'no ebay in barnsley', 'dicky bird'. They can stick all that up their arse.</p>

If he wants a fecking telephone he can go into the East Stand and use one. The way he writes it suggests that we only have those telephones at the club, and maybe even in our homes (no ebay). No lighting - must use our pit lamps.</p>

How patronising. We know that Oakwell is a cracking ground. Anyone who gets the priviledge to play or attend at Oakwell must know that too. We don't need the southern press patronising us. If that journalist is a Northerner I'll be he's a bitter Leeds fan taking a clever dig at us.  </p>





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Excellent, thanks for posting

 

Read it again mate

I think he's quite fond of oakwell really.

 

Sorry I disagree - as the original post said, it could infuriate.

I find it patronising. It's top draw 'pat on the head for the little club', 'flat cap and whippets' patronising rubbish. Damning with feint praise.</p>

For some time now there has been a voice in football speaking out against the sanitised version we're now being served where people get sent off for pushing each other, and yellow cards get given out for looking at Drogba, and everyone has to play in an enclosed flat pack stadium probably sold in Ikea. Tickets cost £22 if you're lucky and players turn their nose up at £200,000 a year. Well I agree with that voice, and there is a article in it. </p>

As a club I would suggest that Barnsley do resist that version of football - we struggle to keep our wage bill down, we haven't moved house to a clinical stadium somewhere near a junction of the M1 and we still play proper passing football. There's a real article in that and it doesn't involve talking about Dicky Bird, suggesting that we don't have ebay in Barnsley yet, that we use 1970s telephones, and struggle to make use of electricity or adequate lighting. For some reason Barnsley Football Club attracts this kind of rubbish like no other club. We need to shake this **** off.    </p>