Barnsley came from behind to draw 1-1 at Stoke City in an incident-packed game on Wednesday which saw a penalty save and four red cards for players and coa.
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Barnsley will play Swansea City in the Championship play-off semi-finals after finishing the league season with a 2-2 draw at home to champions Norwich City.
Cauley Woodrow opened the scoring then, after Norwich levelled within seconds, Conor Chaplin made it 2-1 late in the first half. City levelled again just after the break.
Bournemouth s loss to Stoke City means the Reds moved up one place to fifth and will take on fourth-placed Swansea in the semi-final first leg on Monday May 17 then visit them on May 22.
They finished with 78 points, which is their fourth best ever tally.
The home side delivered a good performance overall, as they were on top in the first half before their visitors had the better chances after the break as the game began to fizzle out.
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Where do you even start to analyse Barnsley’s magical, history-making and potentially club-changing season which, following this week’s results, will end in a play-off campaign?
Do you go back to when Patrick Cryne – having saved the club from financial oblivion as the second tier promotion challenges of 1997 and 2000 faded into distant memory – decided after relegation in 2014 to abandon the old strategy of recruiting journeymen and focus on only developing young talent?
You could concentrate on the current owners, who took over from Cryne in 2017 and – despite worrying legal disputes off-the-pitch – have delivered two of the club’s four highest points tallies ever in their first three full seasons in charge and made increasingly excellent decisions in the appointment of head coaches and recruitment of players.