Defeat today confirms Barnsley’s relegation to League One and ends their eight-year stay in the Championship.
The Reds now reside five points adrift of safety with just one match remaining after a fifth defeat in seven matches.
Danny Wilson becomes the first Barnsley manager to be relegated twice with the club, and it hurts even more that this was confirmed exactly 17 years to the day that Wilson led the side to the Premier League.
It is Barnsley’s ninth relegation in their history, compared with eight promotions.
Barnsley can only now gain 10 wins this season. If they do not beat QPR next weekend it will give them their first single figure amount of wins in the Football League since 1971/1972 when they also only managed nine.
Today was Barnsley’s 24th league defeat this season, the joint most in the Championship along with bottom side Yeovil. Should the Glovers better Barnsley’s result next Saturday The Reds will finish bottom of a division for the first time since 1964/1965.
Those two injury time goals conceded this afternoon also means The Reds have conceded the joint most goals in the division along with Millwall (74) and they have the worst goal difference (-32)
Barnsley lost a league match after going 1-0 up for only the second time this season. The only other occasion was the 5-2 defeat at Blackburn in August. In that game, The Reds led for four minutes, today it lasted less than one.
The stark reality for Barnsley supporters is that the club were bottom of the table after the first game and their highest position of the season was 21st (for one week) back in September.
A striker has scored just one of Barnsley’s last six goals; three have been netted by defenders, two of those from Jean-Yves Mvoto.
Remarkably four of the division’s bottom six sides lost 3-1 today.
Barnsley Team:
Luke Steele
Tom Kennedy
Martin Cranie
Jean-Yves Mvoto
Kelvin Etuhu
Ryan McLaughlin
Stephen Dawson
Liam Lawrence
Dale Jennings
Marcus Pedersen
Chris O’Grady
Substitutes:
Jim O’Brien (for Lawrence 60)
Nick Proschwitz (for Pedersen 60)
Danny Rose (for McLaughlin 81)
Unused Substitutes:
Iain Turner, Peter Ramage, Tomasz Cywka, Jacob Mellis.
Match Reports:
Sky Bet Championship results Saturday 26th April 2014:
Burnley 1-0 Ipswich
Birmingham 1-3 Leeds
Bournemouth 4-1 Nottingham Forest
Charlton 1-3 Blackburn
Derby 4-2 Reading
Doncaster 1-3 Reading
Huddersfield 0-2 Leicester
Middlesbrough 3-1 BARNSLEY- Barnsley are relegated
QPR 1-1 Millwall
Sheffield Wednesday 1-3 Bolton
Wigan 0-2 Blackpool
Friday 25th April 2014:
Brighton 2-0 Yeovil – Yeovil are relegated
Barnsley lie in 23rd place in the Sky Bet Npower Championship with 39 points from 45 games.
We are 31 points off the Play-Offs 53 points off the Automatic Promotion Places, 60 points off First place and 5 points inside the Relegation Zone.
Up to 26/4/14
Next Up:
On The Road:
N/A
At Oakwell:
Sky Bet Championship Matchday Forty-Six: Barnsley v Queens Park Rangers, Saturday 3rd May 2014. Kick-off: 12:15pm
Tickets:
Adults £23.00
Over 65's £16.00
Student (aged 18-20) £16.00
Under 18's £16.00
Under 12's £5.00*
*Under 12's tickets must be purchased with an adult or over 65's ticket