From Football365.com- Tykes Chairman Getting Butterflies

Barnsley manager Andy Ritchie and his players are leaving all talk of nerves ahead of Saturday's Coca-Cola League One play-off final clash with Swansea to chairman Gordon Shepherd.</p>

Ritchie, skipper Paul Reid, Stephen McPhail, Bobby Hassell and Paul Heckingbottom were all coolness personified at an Oakwell press gathering - but Shepherd confessed nerves were already playing havoc with his appetite. Barnsley booked their Millennium Stadium showdown after turning their semi-final tie with Huddersfield on its head in the second leg to record a 3-2 aggregate win.</p>

&quot;I started feeling it on Sunday,&quot; said Shepherd. &quot;I told my wife I just didn't fancy my Sunday dinner. I'm anxious, but I've every faith in this lot - they're not showing any nerves at all yet.&quot;</p>

Barnsley have fallen on hard times since famously reaching the summit of English football in 1997. They tumbled straight back down to the second tier the following season and like others since have paid for the temerity of lording it briefly at the top table by eventually slumping into administration following their freefall into League One.</p>

Dave Bassett led the Tykes to the Championship play-off final at the end of the 1999/2000 season - they lost 4-2 to Ipswich - but two summers later under Steve Parkin they had slipped through the trapdoor again. Now Shepherd is looking only ahead.</p>

&quot;It's an extraordinary game for a club which has been losing money heavily for the last few years,&quot; Shepherd added.</p>

&quot;We have been funded by Patrick Cryne to the tune of about £5million, which has bought us some time to try and rectify the situation, so any extra revenue we can bring in has to be extremely beneficial. We could get between £400,000 and £500,000 from the play-offs.&quot;</p>

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