I’ve been supporting BFC for about three decades. It got me wondering this week how strange it was that we never seem to cross paths with certain teams. For example, Arsenal. I think in that whole time I’ve seen us play them twice and have one player on loan? Also Villa, again I think I’ve seen us play them twice and can’t think of any kind of transfer from them. Any others were ships in the night with?
I remember we played Villa in the League cup when we only had East Stand open - we got the "you've only got one stand" chant from the fans and were soundly beaten on the field.
Everton. Formed 9 years before us and we've still only played them 16 times and only once in the last quarter of a century. https://www.11v11.com/teams/everton/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Barnsley/ Got a job on to fit in one last visit to Goodison before the end of next season.
Will beat them 3-1 at Villa Park in2017, the season we went back up. they had Grealish in central midfield and we had Gorgeous George Moncur. I can assure you this did happen!!
We've played Harrogate Town away twice that I can remember. Both were friendlies though and not competitive games.
Dan Crowley on loan. Colin Hoyle and Dean Connelly on free's in the early 90's (I think) but I can't think of anymore. I'm assuming I was dreaming or sniffing glue when we had Bergkamp on loan Quick edit - how can we forget the god like uselessness of Emmanuel Frimpong?
They haven't been able to look us in the eye since. Hiding away in that top division winning all those titles. The Ba st ards.
https://fbref.com/en/friv/players-w...?level=franch&t1=155732&t2=153995&t3=--&t4=-- Just the four guys who have played for both clubs.