Reading midfielder Jimmy Kebe will be forced to serve a three match suspension for his sending off at Oakwell last weekend after The Royals' appeal was rejected by the Football Association.
Kebe was shown a straight red card by referee Clive Oliver in the first half of Reading's 1-0 victory last Saturday for allegedly swinging his elbow at Barnsley's Brazilian centre-half Dennis Souza.
Steve Coppell appealed the decision but it was thrown out by the FA.
Coppell told www.readingfc.co.uk:
"We expected that decision really, but I'm still convinced the referee was incorrect. You're almost actively discouraged from contesting a decision but we have never done it before."
Meanwhile former Barnsley players Mark Stallard and Adrian Moses have been placed in temporary charge of Blue Square strugglers Mansfield Town after the sacking of Billy McEwan.
Stallard was signed by former Reds boss Gudjon Thordarson in January 2004 from Notts County where he had scored 66 goals in 168 starts, but he managed only one goal in 15 appearances at Oak well (in a 3-0 win over Blackpool in the same month he joined, a game remembered mostly for Daniel Nardiello's two goal debut).
Moses meanwhile was a Barnsley legend. He joined the club from their YTS scheme in 1993 and went on to make 181 appearances at the heart of the defence, scoring three goals. He excelled in the 1996-1997 season when The Reds won promotion to the Premier League for the one and only time in the club's history, and he played in 35 of Barnsley's 38 Premier League games. He left Oakwell in December 2000 to join Huddersfield and has since played for Crewe, Lincoln and Mansfield.