Jackson Smith

Goalkeeper - Barnsley
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

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The Barnsley Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

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.

Squad

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 terraces

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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