Get your shoulder chips here !

Lovely shoulder chips, get 'em on before you read what Noel Gallagher's said.

 

Bits of Barnsley are...

...as are bits of Roverum, Sheffield, Leeds etc etc</p>

Did Noel come from a country estate in Moss Side ?</p>

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Bits of everywhere are Dave

Even 'posh' towns.</p>

In context of what he's saying about the X factor - he could have picked any town to make his point.</p>

Mind, after some of the comments on here about violence against women and other matters, who's to say he's wrong ? Re-making Barnsley will take a lot more than a halo and some nice new paving in the precinct.
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Get thi tin hat on...

 

Why anyone would get wound up about owt said by someone who's after kicking a bit of publicity off I don't know.</p>

Bits of Barnsley are fantastic, but a lot of Barnsley is let down by some of the people that live there, with aspirations that don't go beyond the next pint/benson &amp; hedges/benefit payment/baby. But that's not unique to Barnsley.
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Tell thi summat, been in Blackpool for the 27th last time this weekend - now THAT'S rough. kin ell.

 

By the same token, the apathy that says we should just let people just get away with cheap jibes like that is the same apathy that says it's okay to treat the town where you live like ****. It's a vicious circle.

If people are proud enough to defend it, maybe they're proud enough to look after it.

That's my ten bob's worth anyway.

 

They aren't though Gaz. We might get a bit of indignant response in The Chron or via Radio Sheff, then back to normal. It's up to 'them' to make things better.

 

Comments like Noel's are the very reason so many people have heard of Barnsley, it's pretty much THE town in the Country that everyone uses as an example for a stereotypical backwater or something. It's actually not worth getting offended about anymore. If the Council were given £20billion to rebuild the place and it was turned into Englands equivalent of Monte Carlo, people would still say the same thing.

Most of them have never been anywhere near the place.

That said, I did see a rubber johnny on the path, when I went to buy a shirt at Oakwell last in July. Dirty ba*tards.

 

Not going back. Ever. Until I'm asked.

 

However

Barnsley can do something about the crap buildings etc. but nothing can change how Noel G. looks, or maybe there is (battered)

 

RE: However

(clap) he wants to try looking in a mirror! he looks rougher than any part of barnsley.

 

He has a point. Everytime i come back to barnsley i get depressed. For all the money spent on regeneration it will not solve the underlying issues of people living in abject poverty, the ever increasing numbers of asylum seekers, workshy and pram pushers that the town is seemingly full off along with those poor town traditional shops of quid land and 99p world.
The new all singing all dancing bus station was a bit of a white elepahnt, it is still not even completed as of my last visit. its now home to ferral chav types.
i could go on but its depressing me even talking about it.

 

Walk through Barnsley on a Friday night from the interchange to Wellington Street, you'll see no end of drugged up pissed up neanderthals....and thats before 7pm....

I went for a cheeky drink after work the other day to that new Wetherspoons up Market Street and couldnt believe my eyes/ears and it was only 5pm...

Town centre IS a shithole full of boarded up shops, cheap bars and pound shops theres not many would disagree with NG....

 

It's gone downhill since McDonalds shut.

 

Noels Beloved MCFC chose our town to play their game at. nt