Players from Barnsley Football Club’s first team have kicked off Christmas with a visit to Barnsley Hospice. The entire squad, along with manager Paul Heckingbottom, dropped in yesterday to deliver presents, pose for photos and spread some festive cheer amongst patients and staff. It was defender Liam Lindsay’s first visit to the hospice and he… Read more »
Nineteen-years-old midfielder Jared Bird has signed a two year contract extension with Barnsley Football Club. Bird joined the Reds in the summer of 2016 after impressing in a trial period with the Under 23s and he has since captained that team on numerous occasions. He has forced himself into first team reckoning this season and… Read more »
On Sunday 24 members of Birdwell Wheelers met up at the Bulrush Bistro at Barnburgh lakeside for their annual Christmas lunch. Four of them – Chris Jenkins, Paul Mynett, Tony Lodge and Steve Myatt – braved the wintry weather and cycled there. At a break in proceedings Dave Scargill was presented with the Roadman Trophy… Read more »
Kendal 0, Barnsley Ladies 33 Barnsley’s match against Kendal was able to go ahead, despite the icy weather, due to the fact that the new home of Kendal rugby has an all-weather artificial grass pitch, and victory enabled them to go clear at the top of the table. Kendal started brightly, forcing Barnsley to defend,… Read more »
Barnsley mascot Toby Tyke found a new friend in Buzz Bee at the Reds’ home game with Derby County on Saturday and together they encouraged the crowd to #Bee_Kind. BuzzBee is a Football mad 3D Character, innovated and brought together by Barnsley based Active Response Security Services as a teaching tool to safeguard primary school… Read more »
Barnsley 0, Derby County 3 (SkyBet Championship) “Paul Heckingbottom has done a fantastic job at Oakwell.” So said opposite number Gary Rowett after Derby County’s victory this afternoon. And not even a run of five successive defeats can alter the validity of that judgement. Rowett pointed out that the Reds were doing very well last… Read more »
Nine members of Birdwell Wheelers were out on the Sunday club run when Roger Bacon, Steve Myatt, Rodger Holmes, Austin Watson, Dave Hudson, John Woodhouse, Tony Lodge, Chris Jenkins and Phil Adams completed the 65 miles to Sherburn. This week the club’s Sunday run sets off at 9am from Brewers Fayre roundabout, Wombwell, and heads… Read more »
Barnsley Ladies 58, Sunderland Flames Playing their first match for three weeks, Barnsley Ladies recorded their biggest league win of the season as they ran in ten tries against Sunderland in an encounter they totally dominated.. Captain Alix Taylor opened the scoring after only three minutes, jinking through the Sunderland defence and then kicking the… Read more »
Bolton Wanderers 3, Barnsley 1 (SkyBet Championship) The scoreline suggests a convincing win for the team from the Lancashire side of the Pennines. But not a bit of it. Statistics show that Barnsley had considerably more of the possession than the home team (59% to 41%); they had almost double the number of attempts at… Read more »
Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club were in action again at the City of Sheffield Snow Frills Meet at Ponds Forge last weekend. Jonathon Wightman (13) won silver in the 200m Butterfly and Jasmin Ball secured a bronze medal in the 11 year old breaststroke. Other swimmers who took part were Holly Atkinson, Nathan Billingham, Neve… Read more »
