Home against Cambridge, in season '82

I'm sure we all remember playing/starting 6 games against them back in season '82. I was there that night when it was abandoned in the Lg cup (they were 2 legged ties then), and I just wanted to go home lol, I/we were soaked and fed up!.
And we lost there in the Fa cup as well in Januaryl!.
But what got me the most, was our league game where we were coasting it 2-0 at half time, and somehow we went on to lose that game 2-3!!.

 

Struggling to remember, understandable considering I wasn't born till 10 years later That does sound like typical Barnsley though

 

Was anybody else on here on the bus from Social Club ( side of Oakwell) and it pulled up outside Cambridge City ground one year?.
Not sure if it was 1982.

 

Remember the league game very well, it was my very first match at 7 years old.

 

Remember the abandoned game - bought a programme at the rearranged game and it was one from previous game with an extra cover stapled on. Didn't realise until started reading it

 

At the time of that 3-2 loss to Cambridge they were on one of the worst away runs ever. They hadn't won away from home for about 18 months......and then they came to Oakwell!!!

 

Remember the cup game. They had a decent side back then.

 

I went to all 6.

 

They've lost their last two away (last 2 games in fact) 4-0 and 6-0 at Reading and Lincoln respectively. I'd be less worried if they'd won their last 2 away.

 

I saw what was played of that second half standing in the players’ tunnel. Pretty cool place to be watching the game, eh? Even if it was only for a few minutes. Made sure none of the muddy players brushed past me on the way off though!

I was a St John Ambulance cadet. We’d gone back to the first aid room at half-time and we used to walk up/down the tunnel and down through the players’ lounge to get there. When we got back to the dugout at the corner of the Brewery and Ponty after half-time we couldn’t go in it because it had filled with water. Unlike the dugout at the far end of the terrace, which we never used, it didn’t have any holes at the bottom for the water to escape. My dad and another of the adult members were sat in the dugout with their feet up on the bench, so told me and the other cadet to stand up at the top of the tunnel, just under the roof of the stand, so we could be seen, but stay dry.

Actually, another story about walking down the tunnel. We once got back to the top of the tunnel just as the players were coming back out, so we stood back to let them go first. Rimmo came and stood at the side of us. After the players had gone past the officials followed. Can’t remember who the referee was, but he was a well spoken southerner. He slipped right in front of us and as he got back up he said “oh dear, I seem to have broken my pencil”. Without missing a beat Rimmo turned to us and whispered “pity it wasn’t his bloody neck!”

 

There was one guy on the kop at the abandoned game. Stood there with his brolly, the rain lashing down, no one else within 50 yards of him. The Ponty serenaded him with a song, but I'm pretty sure he wasn't doing that.

 

It always amazes me how people on here can remember actual details of matches from 40 plus years ago against random sides like Cambridge!

 

I would say that defeat to them ruined our faint promotion hopes, and it was top 3 then, no Play offs in those days.

 

Going against what I said earlier I remember us losing 3-2 at Grimsby on Good Friday after being 2-0 up. I always thought that cost us any chance of promotion.

 

Didn't we win at Sheff Wensdy at that time, which almost got our hopes up again. We definitely missed big Trev Aylott that season, and as it turned out, it started to go downhill for Norman Hunter after that.

 

I lived in Cambridge and went to the away leg of the League Cup tie (won 3-1 I think). I knew a woman at work who was a United shareholder and she said that our midfield was the best she'd ever seen at The Abbey. Glavin and Banks unsurprisingly being the standouts.

 

The Grimsby game was 81-82. All the games against Cambridge were 82-83.

 

I remember going to Cambridge (might have been the FA Cup 2-0 defeat) on a double decker bus.
There was a lot of trouble after the game with Cambridge fans rushing through a field.
It wasn't a comfortable journey but I had a good view of the proceedings from the top deck.

 

Same here, unless something specific jogs my memory e.g. Winnie's hat trick against Watford. I haven't a clue about 90% of the matches I've been to. I remember one game from the mid 60s purely because it pissed it down all match and every person stood under what little cover there was. We beat Rochdale 5-0 with Joe somebody or other hitting a 30 yard screamer despite the pitch being a mud bath.

 

Ah right, fair enough.