Originally Posted by
Shadrack the Red
I wonder where to start , impossible really but I started going to Oakwell in 1961 & attending away matches on a regular basis from about the mid sixties which included long distance trips to the likes of Plymouth , Exeter & Torquay where we would have to board a coach from Barnsley bus station on a friday night to get to the south west for the following morning & then setting off back straight after the match & getting back Sunday morning , happy days , as the years went by I got a car & went to most games home & away in the seventies which included a 6 year spell when we lived in Buckinghamshire & every home game became a 280 mile round trip , during the 80"s & 90 "s I would attend all home games & an average of about 10 games a season away but since the turn of the century I never miss a home game but rarely go to away games , but summing up after 60 years the amount of travel I have done is not measurable in miles but more in memories .