The Barnsley Gazette
Match16 Sep 2026
Vimal Yoganathan sends Barnsley through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Vimal Yoganathan obliged against Swindon Town. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Barnsley.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Barnsley
Tawanda Chirewa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Barnsley supporters have found a favourite in Reyes Cleary
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Reyes Cleary has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match19 Sep 2026
Reyes Cleary sends Barnsley past Stevenage
It finished 1‑0, and it was Reyes Cleary’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Barnsley.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kieran Green falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One of those days for Reyes Cleary
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Charlie Lennon runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Reyes Cleary finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Barnsley have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Charlie Lennon dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Market The Patrick Kelly question follows Barnsley around
- Player ratings The referee tires of Luca Connell
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Jackson Smith