<div class="headline" id="ds-headline"><h1>Reds' united nations hold no fear of derby</h1></div> <div class="viewarticlepanel"><div class="multiimageon" id="MainMultiImage"><div id="MainImageDiv"></div><div id="ImageCaption">Tribute to Owls: Simon Davey</div><div class="offinline" id="ThumbDiv"><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb">/</div><div class="thumb">/</div><div class="thumb2">/</div></div> <div class="offinline" id="Navigation"><div class="off" id="PreviousBlock1">« Previous </div><div class="off" id="PreviousBlock1Inactive">« Previous</div><div class="off" id="NextBlock1">Next » </div><div class="off" id="NextBlock1Inactive">Next »</div></div> <div class="off noprint" id="divGalleryLink">View Gallery</div></div></div><div class="byline" id="ds-byline">By Simon Meeks</div><div class="ds-bylinetext" id="ds-bylinetext">Barnsley</div><div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">BARNSLEY boss Simon Davey believes his multi national task force will be immune to tonight's derby passion and pressure.</div><div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">The Oakwell chief, who takes a team to Sheffield Wednesday for the first time, reckons his football mercenaries from around the globe are the best equipped to keep cool. "If you're an English boy, you come through the academy ranks or the centre of excellence ranks, you know you're going to a big stadium at Leicester or Sheffield United or places like that and it sometimes could be daunting. "Foreign players in the team couldn't care less," he declared. "They've go no preconceived ideas about who they are playing against. They just give the opponent the respect that they deserve. They just get on with their jobs. They know that they're only travelling 10 minutes rather that three hours and of course they have local derbies in their own countries. "But for me it's been good this season that the foreign players have no fear wherever we go." Despite Barnsley playing to a crowd which will be the biggest of the season to see them, Davey worked carefully to diffuse pre match tension. "It's another game along the road to where we want to be. Whether it's Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United or it's Watford, we have to make sure that we prepare right," he said. "The fans add a bit of spice because its a local derby but it's important that the players stay controlled, make sure they know their jobs and they don't get involved in the atmosphere of the big occasion." It is not a make or break game, he stressed. "For me one game doesn't make a season, if we went to Sheffield Wednesday or Sheffield United and got beat and we were in the top 10 at the end of this season, I know what sort of smile I'd have on my face. "We know that we've got to perform. I was disappointed last year when we got beat at home 3-0 by Sheffield Wednesday, so I have to try and rectify that. I've had to do that with other teams we've played. "The players are seventh in the league because they deserve to be seventh in the league." Davey added that the behind the scenes turmoil at Hillsborough following chairman <div id="ds-mpu"></div>Dave Allen's shock resignation four days ago, should have no bearing on the game. "It's never a good time, it's never a bad time...you can throw new manager, new chairman into the equation it doesn't matter. There will always be someone who pulls a stat out, like you haven't won there for 24 years, or they've won the last three at home. There's always going to be a statistic that someone is going to throw at the game. Form goes out of the window, circumstances go out of the window when you're playing a local derby." Barnsley beat the Championship's top team Watford on Saturday while Wednesday gained a draw at QPR. Said Davey: "Wednesday are a good side, they had a bad spell at the beginning of the season, they played well in that spell but just couldn't get the results. They've turned things around. Brian Laws is a fantastic manager and they've got some good players in the team.</div> <div class="premiumoff" id="divWordCount">The full article contains 555 words and appears in Sheffield Star newspaper.</div>
