Peppa-red Sam’s pig sick after late blow
WEDNESDAY striker Sam Winnall had a toy pig thrown at him on his return to Oakwell but silenced his former fans until Angus MacDonald’s late equaliser.
Winnall incensed Barnsley supporters when he moved to Hillsborough earlier this season and they booed him throughout, with one going a step further by launching a stuffed Peppa Pig at him.
It was a reference to the nasty nickname Barnsley fans have for the Owls but Winnall shut them up after a 50th-minute blunder by Tykes keeper Adam Davies.
Trying to watch the ball out for a goal-kick, Davies was caught out by Adam Reach.
He poked it to Winnall who tapped into the empty goal from 10 yards out.
Barnsley coach Paul Heckingbottom sent on strikers Marley Watkins and Adam Armstrong and the double switch almost had an immediate effect.
Armstrong broke down the left and shot from inside the box only to be denied by the outstretched leg of keeper Keiren Westwood.
Reach then had the chance to put the game out of sight, cutting in from the right and bending a left-footed shot just over.
And MacDonald grabbed an unlikely equaliser in the third minute of stoppage time, rising highest to power Adam Hammill’s cross into the far corner.
With the game turned on its head, Hammill’s curler was cleared off the line by Morgan Fox before Matty James fired over the Wednesday bar.
Heckingbottom said: “It shows the spirit in the team. What could go wrong did go wrong, but it shows the spirit and determination to get something out of the game.
“There were a lot of positives in terms of attitudes and application from the players.”
The dropped points were a setback to Wednesday’s play-off hopes and boss Carlos Carvalhal said: “If you don’t score the second goal all teams are very strong mentally and believe they can score in the last minutes, which is what happened.
“We didn’t play fantastic football but we played with discipline.”