Quote Originally Posted by Young_Nudger View Post
I started watching the club early to mid 60s when the club was anchored in the 4th Division.
Alan Clarke appointed manager many years later in 1978.

Now then - it’s been claimed on this thread …. Clarke said - in 2 years this club will be in the second division “I don’t know where the money came from but new players arrived and Alan (Clarke) got us into the second division.

….. ‘I don’t know where the money came from’ !!!

Could I suggest that the money was always there - it was a running joke at the time that the money was there but the owners weren’t going to spend owt - and it was Alan Clarke that insisted that the purse had to be opened or else he wasn’t coming to Barnsley.
Alan Clarke came to Barnsley because he knew there was money there.

In conclusion - the club run as little more than a pub team from the 1960s to 1978.
During that time IMMEASURABLE DAMAGE was done to the fan base at Barnsley Football Club.

That damage is still being felt to this day as many people I know continue to follow Leeds and the Sheffield clubs because their father or grandfather switched from supporting Barnsley and started watching one of those clubs.
Please don’t tell me this didn’t happen - because I was there.
Did anyone else count the buses leaving Hough Lane car park and going to Elland Road.

1960s to 1978 was probably the longest period of inactivity in Barnsley Football Clubs history.
A dark dark time in the history of the club.
Complaining about this consortium compared to the dark age of the club is like complaining about having an automatic washing machine when we used to have a peggy tub.
It’s beyond ridiculous.
Once again you are inventing your little stories by saying Alan Clarke knew there was money in the club,how the hell could you know that? Stop and think that Alan Clarke was still a big name in football and that alone was big enough to attract investment from the directors who joined the club at the same time.Go on now tell me that Alan Clarke told you about it.Nudger,we would get along a lot better if you stopped making things up.I was at the club at the time and you were not but even I didn’t know everything that was going on at the time so how the hell can you know what went off,you were not at the club.You could have a new career writing about a fictional football club,you could be on a winner there and invest some money into Barnsley Football Club.Please save me a first edition.