Barrow boss Phil Wilson - sunbed king of football, beating previous long-standing champion Phil Brown of Hull City.
His missus will be platinum blonde owner of hairdressers and they'll live in a mock tudor exec home with brick feature fireplace and electric gates.
He was a star,what is politely called a competitive player.He once ran 30 yards to join in a mellee,you just knew,that before he had gone 5 yards.He was going to tw** someone and get sent off. That did indeed happen,we pi**ed ourselves.
Met him on holiday May 2000 just after we lost in the playoff final. He'd just lost with Wigan. I went up to him and said 'Are you Darren Sherriden ?' he reponded 'Might be' I explained I was a Barnsley fan and we shook hands and that was that. My wife told me not to bother him as he was on holiday so I obeyed the 'order' and kept contact to a nod of the head in acknowledgement when passing on the corridor etc. Anyway a couple of days later I was lying on a sunlounger near the pool and I became aware that some one was standing next to the lounger. I heard this voice...'we were a good side weren't we ?' to which I responded 'aye .. not half'. We then talked for an hour or two about the team at Barnsley when he was there, the almost Jeykell and Hyde change in his 'best mate' John Hendrie when he became manager. He was very modest about his own part in the team, except when it came to his battles with ***? Bullock the Hudderfield player.he said the taunting on the pitch nearly came to aftermatch fisticuffs on a few occasions. I also told him I didn't know why he got sent off against Liverpool as he didn't do anything wrong At that he creased up laughing and told he smacked one of the Liverpool players right on the chin (think it was Redknapp).</p> Big Man Utd fan, but at least he's from Manchester. </p> Quite a quiet bloke IMO but I've always thought if i had the misfortune to have to go into battle he's the kind of person I'd want on my side.</p> </p>
He was a great player in that side and did all the horrible jobs that allowed Redders and Jovo to get forward. Good example of a player getting the most of the talent that he's got, unlike some of this sides wastrels.
