IT wasn’t quite Manchester United v Chelsea.
But a local charity football match played in the mid-1960s, is still remembered to this day.
It was between two teams with the delightful names of ‘Mummy’s Babies’ and the ‘Henpecked Husbands’.
The game took place on the Hoyland Common School playing fields.
Representing Mummy’s Babies and wearing brown shirts, were: Barry Utley, Wally Sylvester, Alan Sylvester, Bill Lomas, Austin Grain, Graham Sylvester, Peter Sylvester, Richard Button, Barry Stacey, Alan Hague and Glen Hattersley.
The Henpecked Husbands, who wore white shirts, were: Graham Steele, Maurice Firth, Ken Armitage, Bryan Mann, Barry Mann, Geoff Grain, Frank Sykes, Eddie Mann, Don Mellor, Denis Booth and Barry Sylvester.
One Henpecked Husband, on the far right of the photograph, top, got into the spirit of things by wearing a frilly pinny.
Do any of our readers have any more information about the match? E-mail Kath Parkin: sport@barnsley-chronicle.co.uk
