Barnsley Football Club's Greatest Games: 190s - 2008 by Grenville Firth

 

In over 100 years of matches, Barnsley Football Club have witnessed a roller coaster ride of success and failure. This book focuses on 54 of the greatest matches, from a total of nearly 5000 that the Reds have played. They include 2 FA Cup Finals, Semi-Finals, recent cup triumphs against Liverpool at Anfield and Chelsea at Oakwell. Also included is the historic game against Bradford City after which Barnsley obtained promotion to the Premier League. Games with a spectacular score line or where the brilliance of one or more players was exceptional also feature. From the latter, examples include Frank Eaton’s first ever five goals in one match, the great Tommy Taylor’s hat-trick in only his second appearance for the club and a brilliant individual performance by Arthur Kaye.

 

For each game there is a match report as well as background to the game and pictures and illustrations from some of the matches.

 

Grenville Firth was born at Hoyland, Barnsley and still lives locally today. He is a lifelong Barnsley FC supporter and has been to over 800 Barnsley matches. This is his 5th book on the Reds - the foreword has been written by ex-Barnsley player Ronnie Glavin.