Ground number 059 (revisited)
Date of this Visit: 18th
October 2016
Oakwell, Barnsley
Barnsley 0
Newcastle United 2 (Gayle 2)
EFL Championship
Attendance: 18,597 (nearly
6,000 Toon fans)
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| CELEBRATIONS AFTER WOR 2nd GOAL! |
“THE LONG AND GRINDING ROAD!”
The short trip to sooth
Yorkshire took less than 2 hours but ‘Big Al’ who waz drivin’ (NOT the sheet
metal workers son!) got lost in Barnsley toon centre az we tried to find The
East Dene Workin’ Mens Club where he’d been on a previous visit!
We eventually foond it, but
it waz heavin’ with Toon fans singin’ a certain mackem peedo song (yi naa the
one!) and slaggin’ the place off with renditions of: “Barnsleee’s a sh**hole—a wonna
go home!” az they banged the tables and waalls!
(Bitin’ the hand that feeds
yoo iz not very nice lads!)
After just one ‘liquid
lubrication’ we decided to ‘move on’ to ‘The Dove’ boozer just alang the road
and within sight of the ground!
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| "A VIEW TO DIE FOR!----IF YOO ARE A BARNSLEY FAN THAT IZ!" |
It waz less noisy here (and
more friendly!) so we stopped there til ‘lowse’ <(ie: it waz time to gan to
the match!)
Yi walk doon a steep hill to
the ground which winds around newly built hooses like a snake and heeded for
the away end.
“DEEPDALE!---DEEPDALE!---HERE I COME!”
News filtered through that ‘Blondie
Alan the Morris Dancer’ could’nt find the tornstile to match hiz ticket which
had @BILL SHANKLY KOP’ written on the front?---The legendary Liverpool manager
never played for Barnsleee, so why waz there a stand named after him, Blondie
thought?---and then ‘the penny dropped’—he’d brought hiz PRESTON away ticket
instead and left hiz Barnsleee ticket at yem! (Shankly HAD played for Preston
and Preston waz wor next away game!)
We leave yoo to draw your own
conclusions! (the tickets wernt even the same colour!) Luckily for him, Toon
fan ‘International Russcue’ came to hiz ‘rcscue’ and foond him a spare ticket!
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| BARNSLEY'S MAIN STAND WOULDN'T LOOK OOT OF PLACE IN BEAMISH MUSEUM! |
The forst half waz dominated
by ‘us’ az we attacked the far end from the near 6,000 away section followers,
but we could’nt make the breakthrough in this half!
That soon changed not lang
after the restart when Dwight Gayle scrambled the baall into the back of the
net to break the deadlock and lift the roof off (wait for it!)---‘The Palmer
Cons. Ltd North Stand’!
We were grindin’ oot a result
in the long grind to the top of the leegue az we hord that Norwich were 2-2 at
Fulham, havin’ blown a 2 goal lead---‘WE’ were top!---for the mo at least!
And then the ‘clincher’!---Matt
Richie played the baall through to Gayle and he expertly lobbed their keeper az
the baall heeded for the net in wot seemed like ‘slow motion’!---2-0 up---there
waz ne way back for The Tykes nuw! (see top pic)
The ‘lang grind’ continues
unabaited!--- I wonder if ‘Blondie Alan’ will take hiz ‘spare’ BARNSLEEE ticket
to wor next away game at Preston???
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| "WE WOZ THERE!" (WITH the reet ticket!) |
Toon team: Darlow, Anita,
Lascelles, Clark, Dummett, Shelvey, Hayden, Richie (Atsu 82), Diame (Colback
92), Gouffran, Gayle
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