One year on .....

I'm not the emotional type, but that moved me. Yer Dad would be proud.</p>

 

What can I add ?

That others have not already said ?</p>

Personal. Beautifully written. From the heart. </p>

That post should be kept as a template for anyone wanting to know how to define respect.</p>

 

Marvellous

Your Dad did well Airy.

 

Still miss my Dad after ten years but I wish I could write it down like that.

Enjoy your holiday.

 

Twenty five years on...

... and you've reminded me in those few words how much I miss my Dad !

He used to take me to watch Wakey when I was at school because he said he got too wound up by football !
It's funny how many reminders I've had recently - David Topliss dying, Wakefield getting to the Challenge Cup semi final (we went to their last one), the Reds getting to Wembley and every day my two year old little boy shows me how much he loves me.
I did manage to get my Dad to Oakwell a few times, but typically, like for all the other part-timers, they never managed to put on a show for him (eg Torquay 1979) - I know how excited he would have been with the successes we've had over the last decade or so !

Thanks for the memories and lets not forget them !

 

It was the occasion...

...when you went back to Barnsley with Donna AND your girlfriends that I remember best, chief. </p>

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All the best - cling on to every memory you've got.</p>

 

Thirty five years on...

I can identify with so much of this. It's 35 years to the month since my dad died aged 57. A true Barnsley fan all his life and probably the key reason I've been going for the last 53 years, dragging me down to the reserves in the early days and standing me on a pop bottle crate by the Paddock wall. He put so much of him into my life, supporting me, encouraging me as I grew up and one of life's regrets is never having enough opportunity as an adult to 'repay' him and spend time with him. And not being able to share some good, no great times at Oakwell. How he would have loved our year in the 'First Division'. Treasure all your memories, they won't fade.

 

Very Touching Story!! !

 

Air Tyke,you have made my day,
Please any one who reads this
dont be offended by me
please get it right,what i am trying to say
I have a photo of me kissing the pitch
when i came to the plymouth game last season
the action i gave when i stood up was not recorded
but i gave THREE CHEERS,for Barnsley ,players past and presenr and the Fans
i now feel qualified to do that,
after what happened to me on feb17th
the day after We Beat CHELSEA
I died,it took 5 days for me to recover
and another 5 weeks in Hospital
but i came back,
with more respect for the dead than ever before
i enjoyed it that much,i fought those who resissitated me
so much so,
when i shout COME ON BARNSLEY
i wave ti them up there
so that is what i ask you to do
Dont leave them out of it
I apologise to AIRy Tyke
Please dont Mourn your Dad ,
Raise your hand in thanks,
for the Post he sent us
and the memories you give him
once again
COME ON BARNSLEY

 

Nice fella your dad.

And I don't suppose your'e that bad either. Nice words well said.

 

Top class post. Best I've read in a long, long time.
Puts things into perspective.
Very moving and humbling.
I don't know you but all the best to you and your family. Your dad must be proud.

 

Thanks for that, great post

brought a tear or two.

Enjoy the holiday.

 

RE: Thanks for that, great post

Brings back many memories of my own relationship 'wi mi fatha'. Top post.

 

eyup, sam...... nt

 

eyup, lad..... nt

 

So moving.

I lost my dad last year from cancer that crept up on him, and lost my mum to cancer a month earlier. They say time heals but it never goes away, you just learn to get on with living. I remember being away at Plymouth last season just after my mum died and thinking, mum will be watching and will be so pleased for us that we're winning!

But my little girl's smiles help the hurt.

 

great post....i lost my mam 8 years ago and the pain never goe,s away...think of the good times mate...all the very best.

 

Airtyke
your words have made my heart smile and remember my deceased loved ones - my dad who stood me on a box in the wall bottom of the brewery stand and my father in law who stood on the same step higher up in the brewery he had his foot marks on it - may you have a peacefull holiday with your family and you mam and dad will be smiling down at you - lump in the throat bigger than a snooker ball and not bothered to admit it - respect

 

Well said old boy. You should write more, maybe it was your calling in life........

Leicester City at home, 1982. We left 10 mins early as we were losing 2-0. Don't remember anything about the game, except as we left the West Stand a young lad behind me as we were walking out said to his Dad, in hope,

"But we might score yet!"

To which his Dad replied,

"Son, they wouldn't score if they played all week."

Then we stopped on the way home in Cudworth to get fish and chips. The radio was on. A news bulletin announced HMS Sheffield had been sunk in the Falklands war. We couldn't eat fish and chips after that.

My old man's not too clever these days. I always tell him i love him, for as a certain songwriter once said,

"No man, no woman knows the hour that sorrow will come".

 

Dear AIRtyke....

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Thankyou for your post, i'm not ashamed to admit,it brought a tear to my eye and a lump to my throat. You are very lucky to have a Dad who has left you with such warm memories and someone who has obviously been an amazing influence on your life.</p>

The reason it touched me so much is not because it reminded me of my own Dad, I never knew the man,he left me and my Mum when I was a few months old.It was the fact that I now have an8 year old son of my ownand if he remembers me after i've gone withas muchlove and respect as you have for yours thenI will have been a good Dad.</p>

Cheers mate</p>