Barnsleyfc.org.uk anniversary & history

Sat next to Ghost for a few years at the match - top bloke

 

In the Nov 2020 I seem to mention that "I'll be working" which is odd because I don't remember having a job back then

 

Thanks Gally, do you know the date when the first incarnation started?

 

I found myself in one of the old ones, under a different name.
Tattershall Tyke .... whatever became of Paul ???

 

Someone encouraging everyone to ignore a poster called ‘sh*t for brains’, pre cursored by ‘Isn’t it time the tw@t got banned’
I didn't think Hemsy was posting so long ago.

 

he's doing fine talk to him often on fb/phone or just a brew

 

I knew paul, not seen him in years, lovely lad.

 

The first design still the best...

F.ck knows how much of my life I've spent on all those sites. Been posting since I was 13.

 

That's great ! Glad he's ok.
Went with him to the Cardiff final against Swansea, he had a very fast green sporty type car, and by the time we got away from his house in Worsborough we were already doing about 80 up the hill to Birdwell.
Once on the M1 I spent most of the journey with clamped buttocks as we never seemed to go less than 100 mph. I've never done such sustained high speeds as on that day !
He and I were together in Lincoln at a pub and Chinese restaurant the day of the twin towers attack in NY.
Please remember me to him.

 

Some familiar names. some unfamiliar ones, some long-forgotten ones and a number I know are still here under other names. Thanks for dragging up the day on the .net site that I posted a scan of "The Flyer", causing a libel law meltdown!! It was a short text flyer distributed in the ground one day, suggesting Peter Doyle's interest in the club was not altogether well-intentioned. Nothing to do with me I might add - I just posted a scan because loads who hadn't received one were asking what it said.

You're right - the original original was not part of the official site and the .co.uk domain name had been registered by the founding fathers of the BBS, before the club even had an official website. I seem to recall the founders were extremely well-to-do people in IT and them being invited to the club for a "discussion" about ownership of the domain, where a lawyer had been brought in to threaten them. They tied him in knots and took him to the cleaners as there was no case in law to answer and they actually knew what they were talking about! They generously decided, however, that as supporters of the club, voluntarily submitting the domain to the club was the best way forward for all parties and the BBS became part of the official site. I seem to recall there was an outcry at having to register an account, linking your posts to your personal details held by the club, hence the split-off forum coming into being. As for how we got from there to here....let's park that one!

Anyway, it was all a long time ago now so sorry if any of my recollections are false memories but that's my recollection of the timeline.

 

The club was represented by Michael Spinks. We had the individual who negotiated the contracts for Batch II Trafalgar class boats and the Ship Lift at Faslane for the MOD

 

Jerry Fishers email list predated Radders chat then sort of morphed into it.

 

This is the first time I've heard this & it's brilliant. Would love to hear more.