TYKES TOLD: GO ON A RUN OR GO DOWN

ALEX MOWATT vowed Barnsley will keep fighting despite hitting rock bottom of the Championship.

Defeat to Cardiff, combined with results elsewhere, leaves the Tykes propping up the table and seven points from safety.

Skipper Mowatt (above) said: “We are more annoyed than down because the second-half performance wasn’t good enough.

“There’s only nine games left and we have got to fight every minute of those nine games to try to get some wins.

“We will keep believing until the last day of the season, and we know we can go on a run. We had three wins on the bounce, so we can hit good form again.”

The game sparked into life in the second half as Cardiff scored twice in two minutes through Will Vaulks and Callum Paterson to seal the points.

And Cardiff boss Neil Harris felt his side should also have had a penalty when Brad Collins sent Paterson tumbling in the box.

He said: “Neither Sean

Morrison nor Callum Paterson get much protection from referees and we saw that again today.

“But we had to deliver and we did. The two quick goals gave them a mountain to climb. The final games are all that matter now – it is all to play for.”

A bad day on the pitch could get worse for Barnsley as there were reports of offensive chanting from both sets of fans.

In a statement on Saturday evening the club confirmed there would be an investigation.

The unsavoury events come just weeks after Barnsley were fined for their fans’ abuse of

Stoke City’s James Mcclean. BARNSLEY: Collins 6, Sollbauer 6, Halme 65, B Williams 6, Ludewig 6, Thomas 6, Mowatt 6, Ritzmaier 5, Woodrow 6, Brown 5 (Simoes 72, 6), Chaplin 6 (Schmidt 83) CARDIFF: Smithies 6, Sanderson 6, Morrison 8, Nelson 5, Bennett 5, Vaulks 7, Bacuna 5, Ralls 6 (Pack 82), Adomah 6, Paterson 7 (Glatzel 88), Hoilett 6 (Murphy 85) REF: James Linington ATT: 12,751 MOTM SEAN MORRISON (CARDIFF)