Barnsley F.C.

Barnsley Football Club are an English football league team, based in the town of Barnsley and nicknamed the Tykes. They were founded in the 1892 as Barnsley St. Peter's. The height of their success was in 1912, when they beat West Bromwich Albion to win the FA Cup. They also reached the final in 1910 but lost to Newcastle United.

Modern Times

In the summer of 1994, Barnsley appointed 34-year-old midfielder Danny Wilson (formerly of Sheffield Wednesday) as their new player-manager following the departure of Viv Anderson, who had taken the assistant manager's job at Middlesbrough.

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1994 - Danny Wilson - Sheffield Wednesday - Viv Anderson

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Barnsley finally reached the Premiership at the end of the 1996-97 season after 100 years of trying for a place in the top flight of English football. They finished runners-up in Division One thanks to the efforts of manager Danny Wilson along with key players including Adrian Moses and David Watson. Barnsley reached the F.A Cup quarter final in 1998, having beaten Manchester United 3-2 after a Fifth Round replay. But Wilson's team were unable to stave off relegation and they were relegated along with the other newly promoted teams, Bolton Wanderers and Crystal Palace. Wilson left soon afterwards to take charge of Sheffield Wednesday.

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Manchester United - Bolton Wanderers - Crystal Palace

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Barnsley striker John Hendrie, 35, was given the manager's job for the 1998-99 season but was dismissed after failing to get to the playoffs. His successor Dave Bassett, who had achieved five promotions in 14 years with Wimbledon, Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest, took Barnsley to the Division One playoff final in 1999-2000 but they lost to Ipswich Town at Wembley in the last-ever playoff final before the old stadium was closed for redevelopment.

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John Hendrie - Dave Bassett

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Dave Bassett resigned a short time after Barnsley's playoff final defeat to make way for the inexperienced Nigel Spackman. This change had little effect on the club and Spackman was dismissed within a year. He was replaced by Rochdale's Steve Parkin, who appeared to have secured a mid table position before a slump during the final weeks of the season saw Barnsley condemned to relegation from the upper tier of the league for the first time in over 20 years. Parkin was let go soon afterwards and replaced by Glyn Hodges, who prevented Barnsley from suffering a second successive relegation in 2002-03.

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Nigel Spackman - Steve Parkin - Glyn Hodges

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Gudjon Thordarson, who had won the Division Two playoffs with Stoke City in 2001-02, was named as Barnsley's manager for the 2003-04 season and had an impressive start. But a dip in form during the winter saw Barnsley's promotion challenge fade away and Thordarson was dismissed in February in favour of former Nottingham Forest manager Paul Hart.

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Gudjon Thordarson - Stoke City

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Paul Hart remained in charge at Barnsley until February 2005 before being sacked, as Barnsley had failed to get anywhere near the playoff places in Coca Cola League One. Andy Ritchie, Paul Hart's assistant was given the job on a temporary basis and was confirmed as the permanent manager in the summer of 2005, despite speculation that previous manager Danny Wilson was set to return.

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Paul Hart - Coca Cola League One - Andy Ritchie - Danny Wilson

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