The very first spot that you saw the Reds? And have you moved since?

It was the first of it's kind in the country

& the brainchild of a man by the name of Brian Fairclough, a Police Sergeant who policed the matches & decided to get some better facilities organised.

I'm fairly sure that they also put a disabled toilet in at the Kop end when the stand went up. Trouble was, unless my memory is playing tricks on me, it wasn't until someone wanted to use it that they realised that they'd put it at the bottom of a flight of steps & hadn't provided any other way down to it!!

 

Me too.....

It was the V for victory flood lights and the reflection off the damp pitch that gave an ora of running the oppositions fans all the way to the train station!

 

Yeh it's hard to describe

but it was all though all your senses were sharpened / hightened. The smell of the bovril, the steam in the cold night air, the feeling that it wasn't the weekend but you were doing something brilliant and you were going to be late to bed ... and of course the vivid colours and the floodlights.

Great memories of night matches as a kid, still like 'em now.

 

The story about the steps rings familiar but.....

That's bloody typical to overlook what a brilliant facility was provided for the disabled supporters. In my opinion they were first class, although i never actually ventured into them, but my gripe is, and always will be, that Barnsley FC and the people involced gained hardly anough recognition. I truly believe that our disabled facilities were a guideline for other clubs' in the following years. plus, i seem to recall someone widely praising Port Vale's disabled facilities on tv as being the first - blah balh b;ah - when those at the 'well had been in use for quite some time beforehand.

 

Have to agree

Havn't been to a night match since 1986!

(cryin)

 

Les Harris and Peter Price....

Even they looked the muts' nuts on a neet game

 

Night of the Ginola goal......

That was my last night match at the 'well.

 

Incidentally Mr McDog......

Do you own any old footage from the games of yesteryear?

 

RE: Les Harris and Peter Price....

Mick Butler, John Pickering, Kenny Brown, Bobby Doyle, Ali Millar, Spud Murphy.

Proper 70's superstars.

 

Saw it on TV!

 

What about my favourite

Alan Little.

Made Norman Hunter look a puff!

 

RE: Les Harris and Peter Price....

They sure were... Graham Felton, John Peachey, Bobby Doyle, Kenny Brown and Alistair Millar

 

Mind you.....

Good goal wonnit? Can't take that away from the chap

 

RE: What about my favourite

Alan Little..... absolute animal in the tackle... brother of Brian of Villa fame.... he was great though he was, Alan Little. Last i heard he was managing York.

 

Who was it

that loooked liked he had full control of him on the by-line and then all of a sudden he realised that he wasn't there anymore. The name....... what's the name?

 

and dare I say it ....

Neil Warnock, great right winger.

 

Wash your mouth out

 

sorry I've disgraced mesen!

However, I do remember him and Graham Pugh (Captain Caveman) getting stuck into some team like men possessed and both getting sent off.

They certainly played with passion (70's euphamism for being right dirty Barstewards!)

 

Neil Warnock......

Didn't he take over from Felton. Very fast (in my youthful and impressionable opinion) chap he was. Feisty too. The game i remember Warnock mostly for if the 77/78 Huddersfield FA Cup tiw at the 'well.
On a lighter note, a mate of mine used to walk his dog for him, and to this day he reckons he's a blinding bloke.

 

RE: sorry I've disgraced mesen!

Graham Pugh... i'd forgotten about him.. Much better than his ''hardish' image stands him for. He used to spray the ball either side from midfield.... What about Mick Lester?