The Barnsley Gazette
Match27 Oct 2035
The wait goes on for Barnsley
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market29 Oct 2035
Jonathan Cunningham is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Barnsley is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad29 Oct 2035
Layton Stewart in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barnsley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Oct 2035
Words at Barnsley training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Montanier is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout29 Oct 2035
The manager makes an example of Enzo Montanier
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout29 Oct 2035
When it matters, Body Samir plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match27 Oct 2035
Barnsley share the spoils with AFC Wimbledon
A 1‑1 draw with AFC Wimbledon leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout29 Oct 2035
Interim Coach: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Market29 Oct 2035
Daniel Atkinson told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Daniel Atkinson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Barnsley.
In brief
- Player ratings Bartłomiej Juszczyk runs at them all day
- Market Patrick Kelly linked with a move away
- Squad A first senior shirt for Peter Phillips