You mean this... [img=http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y225/salixdancer/barnsleyfootballticketSmall.jpg]
"please be in your place not later than 2.30 pm" I bet if EastStander was around he'd have given them hell for that!
Yes I was there stood on the old Spion Kop. We lost 4-0, with Charlton, Law and a new boy called Best playing for Man U Those were the days
I was there... It was the day when Denis Law was famously 'marked' (actually he didn't get near enough to him to get even a distance ink blot on his socks) by Bobby Wood, from whom the club were still trying to extract every last penny of the £4k they had spent when he moved from Hibernian. Wood was interviewed the day before the game about the responsibility of marking Law and was quoted as saying, 'It's just another day and another game.' Well, it was! And for the Reds it was 'just another defeat.' According to my records Law scored a hat-trick, although some give one of the goals to another player. Memories of the day: Being packed in against the brick wall of the West Stand terracing. Foulkes almost taking Leighton's head off with a 'flying head mare' (remember them) of a tackle just in front of us. Setters trying to cripple Leighton after the whistle had blow for offside. Kerr having an air-shot when well placed early on - talk about nerves! The photo in the paper showing Law sliding in to claim his hat-trick with the balding pate of Bobby Wood just visible about 25 yards away! Very good performances from Bobby Williamson in goal (two or three excellent saves which probably secured his later moved to Leeds); Winstanley, who kept Bobby Charlton down to just one shot (oh! but it hit the crossbar!); Houghton - went on to star with Watford, Ipswich and Leicester); Byrne (went on to be leading scorer from inside forward with Peterborough and Northampton.) Worst memory - giving away my programme at the end of the game - why on earth did I do that??? The guy was willing to offer me money as well!!!! Anyone got one spare?
RE: I was there... I could have been near you, in the terracing in front of the West Stand. Though I don't remember much of the match. I remember the flask of hot chocolate that me mate's Mam had put up for him. I remember watching Denis Law and it being sort of unreal that he was playing at Oakwell, he was a God then. I was eleven.
So was I 38,076 packed in, all standing apart from the old West Stand. "Free" movement around three sides of the ground - if you could fight your way through the crush. I started at the back of the Ponty End and hardly saw a thing so moved down the Brewery side at half time (probably took 20 mins to get through) and ended up on the Kop by the old gate which was open for some reason. Segregation? What segregation! I don't remember any trouble either, but maybe there was some - certainly nothing obvious. PS A couple of weeks before this match the club said that anyone coming to the Wrexham home game would have priority for a Man Utd ticket, so 17,000 turned up instead of the usual 5,000. That number included a load of Man Utd fans who joined the home "crowd" in the Ponty End and supported Barnsley to a 3-0 win. Surreal days, very very surreal......
