Barnsley have taken to condemn the ‘sexist, misogynist and defamatory’ chants which have been sung by fans during recent matches.
In a brief statement via their club website on Monday (5th January), they wrote: “Sexist, misogynist and defamatory chants will not be tolerated at Oakwell and those who continue to do so will be ejected and banned from the stadium.”
@COYRCOYRCOYR tweeted: The song’s aimed at JAQ, a part shareholder. It was originally sung without the bit in brackets
“We don’t care about Julie (wanker)
She dont care about me (slag)
All we care about is Barnsley FC”
It was fine before the added bits, because it was tongue in cheek, not so much now
It comes days after Barnsley made it two wins out of two in 2025 with a victory at home to Crawley thanks to goals from Jon Russell, Max Watters and Davis Keillor-Dunn, meaning their side currently sit 5th in League One with 42 points from 25 games played.
Club Statementhttps://t.co/LAWOF62khL
— Barnsley FC (@BarnsleyFC) January 5, 2025
Twitter users gave their reaction as Barnsley condemn sexist, misogynist and defamatory chants sung by fans during matches…
@jordie_bfc: Worst chant in world.
@ads0608: No problem if people wanna chant about the board etc but the current one with the added bit about JAQ is just pathetic
@kylem1887: It’s reyt. Can chant about your unhappiness with the board without singling out a female minority owner with sexist comments. Literally just change the lyrics to “we don’t care about the board, they don’t care about me..” simple as that. #barnsleyfc
@davbroom:
didn’t see you put a statement out for mclean last week
or when we abuse steve evans and them sorta figures
fuck off xoxoxox
@TeamHemsleyUK: @BarnsleyFC didn’t do anything when my 2 young kids had to sit through 90 minutes of it last Wednesday. Reported it too. Took another couple beside us to raise their voice at the lad and almost cause a fight in the stands before he finally shut up. Family end. Full of mouthy kids
@TrofferJenkins: Quite right. Make sure you do this though. And the plebs that sing the IRA song too. Flush the idiots out instead of just threatening it.
@BarnsleyFCFans: The song is childish, cringe worthy and the club have done right to issue this warning in my opinion.
@Alex_Red_87: Rightly so. It’s a stupid and disgusting chant
@j98str: It’s vile to be fair
@Karlhickey1:
Song was originally a bit of banter !
Gone to far with singing SL@g
If you don’t agree you are braindead x
@DAMO_RUSSKY: We all know what this is aimed at. So lets give up with it.
@ibboryan: Absolutely shameful. Stop the JAQ chants ffs and focus on backing the team instead. The club as a whole could end up getting punished for these chants if it keeps up
Barnsley boss Darrell Clarke said, per Yorkshire Post: “The performance for 65-70 minutes was fantastic; lots of chances, which we should’ve finished more of, and then a really sloppy final 20 minutes, but I’ll cut the boys a bit of slack on that.
“There were some changes, we were looking after minutes. I’ve had to be careful with Josh Earl and Donovan Pines.
“Marc Roberts is just coming back too, so there are a lot of reasons why we maybe lost that flow in the final 20 minutes.
“Ben Killip has had to pull a couple of saves off, but let’s focus on the positives. Four wins out of four, it’s great for the boys to respond in that way and also to make sure that we haven’t picked up any more injuries, because four games in 10 days is absolutely ridiculous.”
On his side’s early opener, Clarke said: “I thought we were really strong in the first half. I can’t remember Ben Killip having to do anything. We were on the front foot, the press was right, they couldn’t play through us or over us.
“We just need to be a bit more composed in the final third to create more chances. We said to the boys at half time that we needed to start again brightly and put the game to bed and we did that to a certain extent.”
Crawley’s Rob Elliot said, per Sussex Express: “They are a very good side, its always going to be a tough game but you can’t give them goals the way we did and then put yourselves on the back foot.
“So even though I thought we showed glimpses, it’s a performance which gives us a real look at where we need to improve and how things need to change and we all need to take responsibility to get better.
“When the games done the pressures gone and you can start playing let’s be honest, its happened a couple of times now and it’s not acceptable. You need to be in the game at 60 minutes. You’re playing against top professionals’ sides and top professional players. Some of these have played in the Premier League for Barnsley.
“You need to make sure you manage it better. We didn’t manage the game well enough in the first 60 minutes. We didn’t do the basics well enough and then we get to 1-0 fortunately maybe and we start to get some more control first half and then second half we set everything up to go again and then we have a completely mad 15 minutes and we end up 3-0 down, the games gone and then we can’t have any impact on the game.”
“Even if we score those chances can we come back from 3-0 I don’t know but you don’t want to be 3-0 down when you start playing and obviously, they made substitutions to sit back a little bit so I’ll take the fact that we can hurt teams and we can score goals but I don’t want to be seeing that at 3-0 I want to be seeing that at 0-0.”
