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After the play-off weekend which the Reds just missed out on, Doug O’Kane looks at the 23 clubs who will join them in the second tier from next season
Fulham, Last season: 18th in the Premier League. Distance from Oakwell: 179 miles.
Reds’ record: Played: 85. Won: 26. Drawn: 23. Lost: 33.
The Cottagers have now been promoted, relegated, promoted and relegated in their last four seasons as they tend to thrive in the Championship but have been double figures for points away from safety in each of their last two top flight seasons. Scott Parker looks set to remain in charge despite collecting just two points from the final nine games of the season. Alfie Mawson, the former Barnsley captain, still has a year left on his contract after his loan at Bristol City was ended by injury.
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Doug O’Kane looks at Barnsley’s next 5 games as well as theircurrent situation on and off pitch
We have just witnessed one of the most unusual, memorable and action-packed years in Barnsley’s history, but 2021 has the potential to be even more special – if January goes well.
2020 saw the Reds collect as many Championship wins, 18, as in the previous three years combined. They avoided relegation in extraordinary circumstances last season, then have picked up as many points at the halfway stage of this campaign as any season since 1999/2000 which ended in a Wembley play-off final.
Memories such as Patrick Schmidt and Clarke Oduor’s injury-time winners which secured the great escape in July or, more recently, Dominik Frieser’s goal at Hillsborough could be eclipsed if the Reds continue flirting with the play-offs to the Premier League.