How times change - or not in this instance. BFC related!

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  1. Cun

    Cunning Stunt Well-Known Member

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    Doing a bit of WSB research int tarn hall archives and looking at some Chrons from 1913. After we sold Lillycrop and Utley to Bolton and Sheff Utd. Angry fans wrote t'chron , the letters 100
    years on are the same today after Butterfield, Stones, Vaz Te transfers in recent years....... have a read

    ''Disgusted from Worsboro Dale - please allow me a little space to protest most strongly against the transfer of Utley. I think it is a shame that the directors should keep giving the supporters the idea that they are trying for the first division and asking for more support while they go and considerably weaken the team by transferring one of its best men. I think the supporters have stood this kind of thing long enough and it is time something was done to stop it. Why should we take the trouble to bring out our local lads for the benefit of the higher class clubs! Let them make their own players. I hope the club will in future get the support it deserves, for much treatment to its supporters.''

    ''Livid from Cudworth - it is about time the directors of Barnsley Association Football Club knew what the 'man in the street' thinks of them. With regard to their oft-repeated 'aiming at the first division. The six penny crowd are about sick of paying to see new raw material schooled to the selling point. Last seasons team was a credit to it's league but where are all it's mainstays now? Sold! This business is killing the soccer game. This seasons ticket holders (in before Utley - Lilycrops transfers) are in the happy position of a man who having paid for strawberries and cream are served with gooseberries and skimmed milk and are expected to say nowt. Let's all go down the Dearne and watch rugby. ''

    You couldn't write it...... well ya could coz I just did!
     
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    "Gooseberries and skimmed milk", not a comparison often made but I think it's one I'll be using from now on. The 'Gooseberry and Skimmed Milk of the Match Award' goes to .....
     
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    Lindleys catering are doing a pie version!
     
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    Like the historical view.

    Proves that football is all about opinions.......and that BFC has always been a selling club.
     
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    I was pissing misen reading them......

    100 years on...... I blame Rowing!
     
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