The Barnet Herald
Match16 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Barnet
0‑4 against Blackburn Rovers, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Barnet are taken apart by Blackburn Rovers — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Barnet
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Barnet are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Barnet
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Barnet
Matthew Cox 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jonathan Hogg 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Barnet against Notts County
0‑1 to Notts County, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Barnet dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Mark Shelton
“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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Ryan Glover
- Squad 4 past Matthew Cox
- Player ratings Mark Shelton spends the afternoon fouling