Here's one for the older lads

Correct.

 

He played him at centre half against Chesterfield in the League Cup a week earlier, with Peter Price taking his place up front. Clarkey played himself in midfield & gave Dave Markham his debut at right back (he didn't make another first team appearance). Unsurprisingly, we lost 2-1. In all fairness to Clarkey, he quickly rectified his mistakes by the Halifax match.

 

The great thing about the old 'Kop' was, at half time you could go to the top and watch the game on the 'Co-op ground' over the back.

 

Here's a tip - you have to read the whole thread. Saves repeating what's already been said.

 

Games against Halifax used to be tasty affairs when Jock Steele was managing us and Alan Ball Snr was in charge at Halifax. I seem to remember on one occasion the police had to step in and sort them out after they had squared up to one another outside the dugouts.

 

Wasn't that the match where the Barnsley fans Broke the big gates down to get in the ground.

 

How big is he ont top of the hill?

 

About same size as he is at the bottom I reckon....

 

You mean this one....

 

Thats quality

 

That is very probably the one, my dad said he was behind the goal, so I guess he's slightly obscured.

Fantastic, thanks for posting that mate.

 

I remember an early 1970s match against Rotherham when me and my dad walked to the other end at half time and I stopped to chat with some schoolmates who were Rotherham fans as they were coming the other way. I went to Wath Grammar and most of my mates were Rotherham fans.

 

I don't ever remember any trouble during that half time switch which is odd considering how much violence there was at that time around football matches. The two factions just made their way along that narrow walkway through the Paddock or went down the steps and walked behind that stand. Taking care to water the lovely wall garden we had along that back wall, naturally...

 

I think that photo was taken at our home game against Newport County, a couple of months after John McSeveney had been sacked but before Jim Iley was appointed.

 

I used to compare the move,met of supporters from the Kop to the Ponty End or visa versa at half time to the migration of the wildebeest on the Serengati. The slope down the back of the Ponty End needed to be negotiated with care.

 

The stanchions at the top of the kop used to make me laugh, the slag had worn away from underneath them, so rather than being at waist height to an adult they were at head height to anybody under 5'8". As a kid I could do a great billy casper impression on the them.

 

My very first visit to Oakwell was on the cop in 1951. It must have been in November that year as my Mother told me they took me on the cop when I was 6 months old.

As for Brian Joicey he was a great player at that level. It's a shame his football career was ended with a kick in the kidneys which I think was the reason he had the stroke. I remember it was life threatening for him at the time.

 

Looks like Brian Mahoney in the foreground. Turning circle like a tank. But then he was built like one!

 

we used to stand on that 'kop' section in the early 80s and didnt know at first that it was meant for away fans. remember there were some horrible open air mens bogs down a grass banking, behind the stand. what memories eh