Tykes toilet tale takes some beating...

BARNSLEY’S season has been going down the pan for a while – but one supporter has taken it to extremes.

Firefighters had to rescue the trapped fan who claimed he had fallen asleep on the toilet at half-time of last Saturday’s 1-0 home defeat by Fleetwood Town, waking up seven hours after the match had ended.

The man apparently told emergency services that he he’d had a ‘few beers’ and gone to the toilet. Perhaps if the Tykes had scored, the noise of the crowd would have woken him up.

Meanwhile, manager Lee Johnson is still looking for 11 players who went missing for 90 minutes on the same afternoon…