Friday, 11 May 2012

A plea to all Barnsley FC fans

The Football Blogging Awards 2012


The awards ceremony, recognising and awarding the best of football blogging.

The FBAs are the only awards designed for football blogs and bloggers which are decided entirely by the public.


OnThePontyEnd.com has been running since 2008, entirely on a non-profit basis. Our content has grown from being simply a personal blog from the perspective of "Wilky", to a host of articles submitted by regular and one-off contributors.

(Ed: A special mention to Michael Roach @MichaelRoach55 for his regular input!)

This year, The FBAs offer us an opportunity in three categories and WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

- Male Football Blog #Male
- Veteran Football Blog (Running for at least 3 years) #Veteran
- Football Club Specific Blog #Club

There are two ways you can help and vote. Twitter and Facebook. For a vote to be counted it must follow the simple rules below.

Twitter: To vote for a blog using Twitter, tweet to @TheFBAs with the blogs username @OnThePontyEnd and the relevant #category hashtag

Example @TheFBAs @OnThePontyEnd #Veteran

Facebook: Find polls on the award's Facebook page and vote for the blog on the drop down list. If you cannot see this blog you can add it to the list.

It would be amazing to receive the recognition from our readers for such an auspicious occasion that The FBA's promise to be. It's a chance to look back on the positive material we have brought to fellow Barnsley FC fans, above and beyond that of the traditional or official sites.

Our own highlights have probably been the Podcast, especially our time with Red's Legend, Eric Winstanley, but we've loved to tackle the bizarre and funny inside track at Oakwell too. Do any of you remember the satirical "Remake of Sgt. Peppers"?

Your following, your backing and your votes (in instances like this) give everybody who donates their time to this site the energy to keep going. Please spare just a couple of minutes to lend your voice to the cause of OnThePontyEnd. We're grateful.

Best wishes,

Wilky (Editor)
Enhanced by Zemanta

Sunday, 6 May 2012

End Of Season Report


Guardian Football League Blog

Continuing on from earlier this year, OnThePontyEnd was asked to provide our "End of Season report" on Barnsley FC for The Guardian's excellent Football League Blog.

Whilst the structure of the article and its content are brief, we would love to hear your reports, styled in a similar format, in the comments section to this post.

Read the Barnsley FC End of Season report here.

Enhanced by Zemanta

Saturday, 14 April 2012

Robbie Savage and Chris Kamara launch the Fanpower Stadium

Chris Kamara and Robbie Savage are promoting npower's new campaign "The Fanpower Stadium". To claim your seat and win cash prizes for yourself and your team go to Facebook/nPowerFootballLeague





Fanpower Stadium could help Barnsley to win up to £30,000. As you may already know, the app is available on Facebook and is already measuring the power of Tykes fans online.






Some basic info: to sign up and start using the app you just have to enter your name and email address, and whether you’re an existing npower customer. npower will not use this information for promotional offers unless you opt in. After that, any time you mention Barnsley, Keith Hill or the surname of any of Barnsley’s first eleven on Twitter or Facebook, it will count towards your team’s ranking in the Fanpower league table. The team whose fans shout loudest win! Barnsley are currently top of the Championship Fanpower rankings, so there’s a great chance of holding on to that position until the competition’s close on June 1st.

We might win something then!

Friday, 10 February 2012

What Ever Happened To ...

With Barnsley supporters looking for a late assault on this season's play-offs, some of our younger fans may not realise that 15-years ago, the Tykes were playing Premier League football. Even though they finished second-bottom during the 1997-98 season, they earned a famous victory at Anfield, beating Liverpool 1-0 and also knocked Manchester United out of the FA Cup with a 3-2 win at Oakwell.

Here is a reminder of the starting line-up from that glorious Saturday 22 November 1997 at Anfield and a look at what became of those players.

Latest Updates From The Reader's Forum