Barnsley vs Sheff Wed Match Preview

Fans of one of the biggest football clubs in the world will travel the short distance to Oakwell and could be forgiven for thinking they’ve stepped back in time upon arrival. Leaving behind the metropolis that is Sheffield is always difficult, but it’s unfathomable that two places less than twenty miles apart could be so different.

Barnsley, referred to as ‘tarn’ by the locals due to lack of basic education and inbreeding, is absolutely nothing like Sheffield. Not in the slightest.

The game on Saturday is known to Barnsley fans as the Dingle - Dee Dar derby, and is the single biggest sporting event in the calendar year. The streets around the town will be lined with red and white bunting, families and friends will gather together to enjoy the carnival atmosphere. Effigies of Ozzie and Barney Owl will be burned by locals as the whistle is blown for kick off.

The magnitude of the game cannot be overlooked. Barnsley FC have faced their neighbours just eleven times in the last decade (meetings are so rare of course due to the superiority of Sheffield Wednesday) and will hope to finally get their hands on the elusive S Postcode trophy - this is a cup final that you will not want to miss!

 

Wednesday 2-0.

 

Mauling !!

 

I will be pretending football doesn't exist for 2 hours on that day. We'll play badly, they'll play badly, but they'll end up with a result by virtue of an appalling refereeing decision or by a hilariously lucky deflected goal. It is the way of things.

 

Wednesday 6/4.

 

Lmao the first paragraph made me howl and cheered me up “the worlds biggest football club”. Even when everything’s doom our fans still have that sarcasm about us

 

Was 60 million in debt and for what, just so they can sell their ground, I wonder if it was worth it?

 

Haha thanks - my intention was to try and cheer people up a little bit after Saturday. Obviously a bit of a sarcastic preview playing on the fact that we’re always told it’s our “cup final”.

 

We’re gunna get shagged.

It’s only apt that i was sat in the away end back in august watching us play awfully against these thinking if we keep this up we might struggle to stay in this division, to now be sat there on Saturday with that being all but confirmed for me.

If we lose, we lose. That’s fair enough, but at least let’s go down swinging lads.

 

Sadly, few - if any - of our current team will realise the importance of this fixture.

It’s three points like any other fixture but in the past you could generally count on the lads to raise their game a bit - particularly when you had locals in the side.

I suppose we could tell them it’s FC Blau-Weiß Linz vs. LASK Linz or similar.

 

Mowatt needs to round the lads up and tell them they can have a panda pop and some monster munch if they win.

 

I don't know of any scrap dealer who has that sort of money to buy it?