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BARNSLEY 1980-81

DIVISION THREE RUNNERS-UP

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
By Neil Fissler

DERRICK PARKER believes the catalyst for Barnsley’s promotion 36 years ago was Leeds United appointing Allan Clarke as manager in September 1980.
Clarke, who played his football in Don Revie’s Leeds United side, was not popular in the Barnsley dressing room, according to Parker.
Despite Clarke leading them out of the Fourth Division, Parker thinks he would not have taken them up into the Second Division.
Instead it was another of Revie’s all-conquering side, Norman Hunter, who took control and plotted a secon...

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