Match report from the Daily Telegraph

Here you go. Note that this is a typical media report on the Reds, all battling and grit, no mention of McPhail and Howard running the majority of the game in midfield and Devaney running their defence ragged or of the blatant penalty missed by the joke ref. Enjoy - or more likely not.

Barnsley (0) 1 Colchester United (0) 0

Barnsley will rarely be mentioned in the same breath as Chelsea, but on Saturday the south Yorkshire side underwent an experience similar to that which the Premiership champions had a week earlier.

Just as in the FA Cup, at Stamford Bridge, a classy-looking Colchester called the tune for more than half an hour without making their domination count. The cost was to lose their hold on an automatic promotion slot.

"It was a game where we didn't take our chances," Phil Parkinson, Colchester's manager, lamented, surely experiencing a feeling of deja vu on the third anniversary of his appointment to the job.

Barnsley had no Lampard, Cole or Crespo to call from the bench, but they did have Yorkshire grit, which eventually brought them a victory of substance over style. The win lifted them to fifth, a point behind Colch-ester, who fell from second to third.

The goal which determined the outcome came in the 72nd minute, when Brian Howard adroitly turned in the loose ball after Aidan Davison had palmed away his initial header with an acrobatic save.

Although Colchester produced a strong late rally, their efforts to repair the damage were repelled by Barnsley's goalkeeper, Nick Colgan.

 

Damn you Barnsley

Stealing points off your betters.</p>

 

reminds me of the type of report we got week in week out

in the promotion season and subsequently in the premiership. did they actually go to the game or base the report on parkinsons post match comments.

 

Same type of thing in MoS

Express, Times, Telegraph all the time

 

"...Yorkshire grit, which eventually brought them a victory of substance over style..."

Were we also 'plucky'?  and 'battling'?  </p>

Let them all keep ignoring us I say ...</p>

 

did you get sunday times this week

couldn't find a league 1 round up - did i just miss it?!

 

No, there wasn't one

 

"...Yorkshire grit..." Well its something we have needed for some time now

Have we eventually turned the corner?

 

ta

 

&quot;They Return From Whence They Came!&quot;</p>

I'll never forget those headlines when we were relegated from the Premiership.</p>

Nor will I forget the frequent usage of such words as grim, dark, spartan, victorian, pits, darkness, cobbled, grit Baaaaaarnsley, sheep etc etc</p>

 

I noticed that as well

Same media that pen articles complaining that the rich get richer and football is too Premiership specific.

 

...Whippets, Scargill, Flat Caps...

 

Whats up with this report ???........its more or less how I saw the match and posted as such Setdi

 

Precisely

 

RE: "...Yorkshire grit, which eventually brought them a victory of substance over style..."

If you call style lumping the ball forward to a 6ft 5 striker then you can keep it!
Then again that's what Chelsea do too!