They were the opponents when, as a child, I attended only my second ever Barnsley match. We played them off the park, but they scored with a rare attack against the run of play and won the game 1-0. I remember going home with my Late Father, sulking and claiming "It's not fair"! http://www.barnsley-mad.co.uk/results_service/1968_1969/24/aug/index.shtml The following season, we took our revenge (as I saw it) by beating them 5-1. http://www.barnsley-mad.co.uk/results_service/1969_1970/17/jan/index.shtml That was the biggest victory I saw Barnsley get until we beat S****horpe United 5-0 (Mick Butler scored a hat trick) on New Year's Day, 1974. http://www.barnsley-mad.co.uk/results_service/1973_1974/1/jan/index.shtml Sorry for all the dull, tedious trivia, but I'm a bit bored.
Remember that 5-1 game, JLWBL. 17 January 1970. I'd been taken into Beckett's with suspected appendicitis in the week. I was only about 12. Being rushed in in t'ambulance scared the s**t out of me so much it settled down again! All I could think of was would I get out in time for t'Gillingham game! Loyden (2), Evans (2), Boardman!
Beckett's. Now there's a blast from the past. Thanks for naming the scorers, I couldn't remember them.
Was that when Gillingham was in ye countye of Murcia..... or summat like? By the way, the boys' birthdays are a week on Sunday.... 14 years young. Can you arrange a bbs party?
I remember the 5-1 win - as I recall all the 5 were cracking goals including a header from Johnny Evans running into the penalty area and heading in from c.15 yards out and the goalie not having an earthly with it.
do not worry matey they will not have a rare attack on Saturday, they will have dozens of expected attacks, and will take our pants down an bitch slap us.... hope I am wrong , but I just do not see this one going the way the Swindon game went. I am not just fearing the worst I am fearing way way more than that.
Medway. Mercia was an Anglo Saxon region, based in the modern day Midlands. Good to hear the boys are doing so well, especially after their recent problems. I hope you spoil them rotten.
Re: do not worry matey Phew! Thank goodness for that. If that's what you're predicting, then we're definitely due the three points.
Sorry about that sir! I'm not sure when my first match was to be honest. But i do remember a home game where we were leading 3-0 with about 15 minutes left and we lost 4-3..... must have been 1978 or something . Do you remember that?
As if it were yesterday, April 1977. Both Barnsley & Exeter City were going for promotion. That Tuesday night, we went 3-0 up before half time and were playing some of our best football of the season. The team seemed to assume the game was finished and, in all honesty, it should've been. However, once Exeter pulled a goal back they got a new lease of life, Barnsley panicked & went to pieces. Within twenty minutes, City had taken the lead and there was no coming back for us. The defeat probably cost us promotion, although the bottom line is the team simply weren't good enough. Of course, the old fans, who probably hadn't visited Oakwell since the 1964 cup game against Manchester United, started spouting off "They don't want to go up". These days the same type of wise sage call themselves 'Realists'! A few weeks later, we sold our star defender Mick Pickering (who scored his only league goal for us in that match) to Second Division Southampton for £35,000. Thankfully, we were able to replace him from within with the even better Mick McCarthy.
If it is the same game I went to, it was Exeter. I remember kicking every pebble from Oakwell to Barnsley railway station.
I can vaguely remember having a slash at the back of the Brewery Stand but not sure if it was that game though
Gillingham are not a side we've played very regularly during my time watching (since 1987), but one of my favourite memories must be Chris Morgan scoring a comedy own goal, slotting past Kevin Miller from the edge of the box with a back pass with seemed to curl effortlessly into the bottom corner. Perhaps I wouldn't remember it so fondly if we hadn't gone on to win 4-1!
