<div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">The deluded pillock.</div><div class="ds-firstpara">From the Yorks Post</div><div class="ds-firstpara">AS long as Brian Howard keeps hitting the back of the net, Barnsley will not have to worry about the current shortage of goals from their strikers.</div><div class="va-bodytext">Midfielder Howard bagged his fifth goal of the season to earn a point against Championship big-spenders Cardiff City but pretty soon the club's strikers are going to need to start chipping in. Hungarian striker Istvan Ferenczi is ruled out for two weeks after damaging ankle ligaments and that leaves manager Simon Davey with a headache. The club's other strikers – Kayodi Odejayi, Miguel Mostto, and Kim Christensen – have managed to contribute just one goal so far ahead of tomorrow's game with Bristol City. Ferenczi's injury offers Mostto an opportunity to show what he can do – which, as yet, is still a mystery to the Barnsley supporters. Mostto had not played in the league since the opening day of the season and was thrown into the firing line after just 16 minutes against Cardiff due to Ferenczi's injury. The Peruvian international chased loose balls and closed down defenders but rarely offered a threat in and around the penalty area. Manager Davey is prepared to be patient and is confident that his biggest summer signing will come good. Like many new arrivals in English football, the South American may just need time to adjust and one goal could quickly transform his season. As yet, Barnsley have not been relying on goals from their strikers and a four-match unbeaten run has put the club just one point outside the play-off zone. Davey openly admitted that his club cannot afford to pay the wages of players like Robbie Fowler and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who led the Cardiff attack. But he will have been greatly encouraged by the fact that his side were able to hold their own in this contest despite the gulf in financial muscle. Cardiff manager Dave Jones was adamant that his side had 'totally dominated' the game and should have won but that verdict was wholly unfair on Barnsley, who also enjoyed good periods and showed a fighting spirit to equalise after Hasselbaink's 73rd-minute header for the visitors. Jones was no doubt feeling indignant because of his treatment at the hands of referee Phil Dowd and the home supporters. Dowd failed to award Cardiff a penalty on the stroke of half-time even though Howard appeared to have tripped winger Joe Ledley in the area. Jones 'flipped' on the touchline and was quickly ordered to the stands by the Premier League official. Vitriol rained down on the former Wolves manager as he was led up a tunnel and words were exchanged before he doubled back to find another path to the directors' box to sit with his chairman Peter Ridsdale – the former Barnsley chief. "They are not supposed to send you up amongst the crowd, so they can abuse you and shout at you and put your life in danger but he (Dowd) is a law unto himself sometimes," said Jones afterwards. "They ask big referees to come down into this divison and he didn't make the big decision. It should have been a penalty. They are the decisions that change games. "Why they send them down here is beyond me," he added. "They treat it as a completely different game – and it is not. They want to think they are the elite but when you see a performance like that they are more like a dodo than a referee." Howard, who scored with a diving header to meet Stephen Foster's cross, says Barnsley are good enough to match anyone in the Championship but played down talk of a promotion push. "We have a very inexperienced squad really and a lot of our players are only playing their first or second season in the Championship," he said. "We feel we can give anyone a good game but we are not going to be stupid and start saying we are going to win the league or get promoted. We will just keep plugging away and anything above where we finished last season (20th) will be a bonus." MATCH FOCUS HERO Brian Howard: Barnsley's captain popped up with late equaliser for his fifth goal of the season. VILLAIN</div><div class="va-bodytext">Dick dastardly </div>
</p> </p> Which part of the crowd was he sent up amongst? I thought he went up the empty closed off area between the dugouts and then changed his mind and went through the empty closed off side of the west stand.</p>
He did what? Go up through the crowd at first or he was only ever sent to closed off areas of the stand with no home fans in it?
lol He was right about one thing though, the ref was awful. Worst decision of the day was when he was just about to book mcphail in the second half, the body language was clear that he was about to book him then obviously remembered he'd already booked him and rather sheepishly completly changed his mind. Awful decision
Re: Dave Jones feared for his life apparently nt Ah, thought so but I thought for a second that I might have imagined the tunnel part and he'd actually gone into the home stand
I hate it when that happens, it's just the ref bottling it. A man of Dowds experience and supposed calibre should be big enough to make those decisions.
