READING – There are 447 Barnsley supporters present in Reading’s Select Car Leasing Stadium, although that number likely includes those who bought a ticket and sacked off the idea. Which… fair enough. It’s raining, it’s pouring and Barnsley don’t look much like scoring.
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Outside the Premier League, away attendance is a pretty effective barometer of a club’s health. Only last season, Barnsley’s average was over 1,100. Now they are finding excuses not to bother and the principal one is that their club is breaking or maybe already broken.
Nobody absent can be blamed and everyone in that corner of a sodden stadium wants their head checking, or so goes the dark humour in the wait for buses after the match. Barnsley have one point from their last seven games. They haven’t played in the fourth tier since 1978. On recent evidence, it is their only destiny.
Source: The i Paper
