Comments on: Barnsley Home Kit 1989-90

By: Tyke

Tyke — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:42:34 +0000

This kit is legendary around Oakwell, ask a lot of Reds fans and this is their favourite shirt of the past, its turned into a bit of an icon, probably for the wrong reasons. Its quite difficult to get your hands on it but l have a boys one and so does my brother, in fact he was the mascot in this shirt against Leeds Utd.

I do believe one sold on ebay recently for over £100.00

By: Craig Houghton

Craig Houghton — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:08:04 +0000

I collect, buy and sell football shirts from the 80’s to the current day and this is one I would love to get my hands on. I have had so many requests for this shirt in the surrounding areas of Barnsley but no joy, artwork again is fantastic John. I have both your books and have just stumbled across this site. I was always drawing kits when I was a child in the 80’s and get a real buzz from looking at these pictures.

By: Roy Ebsary

Roy Ebsary — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:40:29 +0000

Thanks, John. All painfully in the memory!

By: John Devlin

John Devlin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:01:13 +0000

Thanks for that info Roy – you certainly know your stuff!

By: Roy Ebsary

Roy Ebsary — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:35:29 +0000

“Port Vale couldn’t wear their first choice away white shirts at Barnsley”

Sorry, meant their first choice (home) white shirts!

By: Roy Ebsary

Roy Ebsary — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:34:15 +0000

Port Vale couldn’t wear their first choice away white shirts at Barnsley in October 1989 because of the large amount of white on these Barnsley shirts. Instead, they had to borrow Barnsley’s blue away shirts (the ones mentioned as being worn at Elland Road). Port Vale must not have brought their yellow away strip with them. So Vale ended up wearing blue shirts, black shorts & white socks! However, it didn’t do them any harm as they won 3-0.

Yet in the return fixture, Barnsley did wear these red shirts at Vale Park while Vale wore their first choice kit of white shirts, black shorts & white socks.

The following season (1990-1) Barnsley’s red home strip used the same design as the blue away of the previous season. So for the 1989-90 season, Barnsley home away strips had completely different designs!

By: Leeds Kits

Leeds Kits — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:36:31 +0000

Just seen a picture of Wilson Palacios in a Honduras kit .Looks to have five stars on the upper chest ?

By: Leeds Kits

Leeds Kits — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:17:28 +0000

Barnsley played in a navy shirt and white shorts at Elland Road that year.The result was five star performance, i suppose ?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:38 +0000

I remember this shirt when I was a kid and even then I thought it was a shocker. Mad to think that in Barnsley’s history every home kit design has been quite restrained, apart from this one.

Anyway its funny how someone mentioned a petrol station – white six-pointed stars on a red background looked a bit like the symbols used for leaded petrol at the time (2 or 4 star)!

By: john b

john b — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:29:11 +0000

who’s barnsleys striker? evil knievel? thats one awful shirt!!