The Barnsley Gazette
Squad20 Sep 2027
Jayden Stockley damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match15 Sep 2027
The small margins put Barnsley out
Out, 1‑1 to AFC Wimbledon, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Barnsley
Layton Stewart 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The step up is real for Lewis Gould
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Georgie Gent was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
The crowd has taken to Reyes Cleary
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match18 Sep 2027
Barnsley get the job done against Stevenage
A 1‑0 win over Stevenage, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Barnsley
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Palmiero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Kelechi Nwakali fails from the spot
Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Reyes Cleary
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Melker Widell left out for tactical reasons at Barnsley