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Oakwell, Barnsley

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Tuesday 6^th December 2005

No. 54. Oakwell, Barnsley

League One: Barnsley 2-1 Tranmere Rovers

With Bury’s Tuesday night game at Barnet switched to the previous Saturday, it left us a free Tuesday. Barnsley was the chosen destination and after discussions with Bez he decided to come along too and bring the missus. Stu and Glenn set off from Bury at 17:00 and travelled to Huddersfield to meet Bez and Helen. After a slight hitch with the student cash machine, we set off heading to Barnsley. The journey was trouble free and we parked up across the road from the ground in the ‘Barnsley Disabled Horse Riding Club’. We walked across the road to the turnstiles and paid a ridiculous £18 to get in to a League One ground. Scandalous!

Unable to find a programme seller outside, Glenn wandered off to try and find one, and with still no luck we went to sit down. At which point, Glenn went to the toilet, and on his return to his seat he was collared by 3 stewards asking him for his ticket, and was told he was going up the wrong gangway to his seat and instructed him to go up the correct gangway. He wandered back to the group to tell us, only for the steward to follow him and abruptly tell us to ‘sit in our correct seats or we’ll chuck you arrt’. Astonished at the rudeness of the steward and the stupidity of being told to sit in our correct seats with an attendance of 7’000 in a 23’000 seater stadium, we reluctantly moved. Glenn was fuming by this point and refused to move until the match finished in case he got collared again!

The game itself was entertaining end-to-end stuff and Barnsley were very lucky to run out 2-1 winners with Tranmere missing big chances and Barnsley having a dodgy penalty given. The final whistle went and we couldn’t get out quick enough.

Glenn was still fuming when we got home at 23:30.