[Official Site] 1912 | How We Won The Cup

Barnsley were not winning friends with their tactics and the punishment dealt out to Swindon Town’s England centre forward Fleming in the Semi-Final drew criticism from the press of the day.

I wonder if the press of the day got the names of our players correct or referred to us as Burnley.

 

The line in the article " news of the victory soon reached Barnsley " made me smile. Today
with Sky, BT we have wall to wall football, so it's easy to forget that 108 years ago, getting
to know any scores must have been very difficult. I wonder if the news of our memorable win was spread
through the town by supporters returning from the game.?

Always remember as a kid, if I went to a game at Donny you would have Sports
reporters in the press box and they would be phoning in their reports to their respective papers
at the end of the match so you quite often had to wait until the Sunday to read any in depth Match reports.


There was of course the Green ' Un but the reports in there were limited to the local teams in
Yorkshire. It's amazing how technology has moved on. During the lockdown, I've been very grateful
to You Tube to enable me to watch some of the more memorable games that have taken place in the past.
Must say, I never tire of watching our 3-1 triumph over Millwall at Wembley. What an occasion that was.

 

Probably sent the result back to tarn via homing pigeon in 1912

 

Still have that play off final video on my work laptop desktop!

 

As a kid I remember they used to have a grid in the programme with that days fixtures printed on it
and there were some hooks on the wall at the side of the pitch. In the second half a club employee
would hang a little sign with each teams half time score on.

If you bought a Yorkshire Evening Post on the way home, you might find some final scores in the
stop press column on the back page, but unless you listened to Sports report on the radio, it was the
following day before you got the full reports and scores in the Sunday paper.

 

I was told that my grandad and some of his mates walked from Wombwell to Bramhall Lane to go to the game.

 

You can bet it was a very memorable occasion when the team got to parade the Cup in the town.
One hundred and eight years later, it's amazing that the old West Stand still stands as proud as
it did back then.

 

The thing that strikes me about the 1912 cup win is how the reverend Tiverton Preedy must have felt when he heard the news.

He was retired by then and back living in London. Wonder how he felt when he heard that that little sports club he set up 25 years earlier in Barnsley to occupy 'the feckless and wanton men of the town' (his words not mine) had just won the biggest prize in English football.

 

The Reverend Preedy was Barnsley's guest of honour at the game. At its conclusion, he was given the
match ball which he had on show in his study until his death in 1928.

 

Was he guest of honour at the first game in London or the replay in Sheffield?

 

I don't know if he was at the first game, but he was at the game at Bramall Lane.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiverton_Preedy