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<div class="headline" id="ds-headline"><h1>Safety worth waiting for</h1></div>

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<div class="off noprint" id="divGalleryLink">View Gallery</div></div></div><div class="byline" id="ds-byline">By Simon Meeks </div><div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">FIRST, a message to Leeds United: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.</div><div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">At least Barnsley's daft kids and nutters stayed in the stands until after the final whistle.

As the story of the day was happening up the M1 and the Elland Road game was delayed 30 minutes thanks to psychos on the pitch, Barnsley hadn't a clue where they were.

Party or misery? No-one knew.

Barnsley had blown their chance to drive the relegation getaway car themselves. Leicester went that way with a 1-0 win on the day.

So long as Leeds didn't win, it was good news ... the best for Barnsley.

And 1-1 it stayed. Hull's win at Cardiff leaves Leeds, who travel to Derby on Sunday, needing to make up a nine-goal goal difference deficit on Hull, who tackle Plymouth at home.

So long, Ken; goodbye, Dennis.

Barnsley are home and dry and out of it. Win lose or draw at West Brom, it doesn't matter.

Manager Simon Davey won't be sending out sympathy cards. Survival was won by his team, lost by Leeds, Southend and Luton, he reckoned.

&quot;The league table doesn't lie, if you end up fourth from bottom that's where you deserve to be and you get another crack at it the following year,&quot; he said.

&quot;We've taken four points off Leeds out of six. It was important that when we were in low times we picked ourselves up and we beat the teams around us.

&quot;We've beaten Southend, we've beaten Luton, we've beaten Leeds, we've beaten Hull and that's what's kept us up.&quot;

He won't need telling that Saturday's sort of first half will guarantee him nothing next year other than another scrap to hang on in the league again.

Goalkeeper Nick Colgan knew it wasn't good enough on the day.

&quot;We don't do it the easy way, do we? We said before the game we don't want to rely on anyone else to stay in the Championship, that we wanted to do it ourselves. After a poor performance in the first half the manager told us we had to up it,&quot; he revealed.

&quot;Maybe the goal was the kick up the backside we needed in the second half, but I don't remember their goalie making too many outstanding saves to keep them in the game.

&quot;Obviously the overall feeling <div id="ds-mpu"></div>is of huge relief and delight to still be in the Championship but disappointed with losing this last home game, although I don't suppose the supporters care.&quot;

Leicester dominated early doors with big centre-back Gareth McAuley a permanent menace at set-pieces.

He was first to a Shaun Newton corner but headed over.

Iain Hume smashed a shot in from 22 yards at Colgan.

Barnsley needed something to settle nerves. Some thought they had it when Leicester right-back Richard Stearman bundled Barnsley winger Martin Devaney over in the penalty area. Ref Russell Booth pointed to the box. The six-yard box.

Leicester's winner was a disaster for keeper Colgan and more so for stand-in right-back Neil Austin who wouldn't have been playing but for Bobby Hassell's suspension.

Matty Fryatt got to the box and a big punt forward, flicked it over Colgan's dash from his line and followed up.</div>

 

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