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Downhill Second Half started out in 2009 as an alternative viewpoint on Barnet
FC.
Totally independent of the club, we set out to talk about amusing away day
stories with minimal emphasis on the actual football side of it. However, as
time went on we often used the site to vent our frustration on how things were
progressing (or not) at the club, as the articles of 2010-2013 will certainly
demonstrate.
As well as this though, we set out to be a definitive home for Barnet FC
statistics and records. We were able to get some of the way there, but a lot of
the information simply didn't exist out there, so the jigsaw remained
incomplete.
We called time on the site in 2013, partly out of apathy, partly out of cost,
partly as a reaction to relegation and the impending move away from Underhill.
The Return
However, when the UK went into lockdown in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we
wondered whether there was something we could do to reminisce and that's where
the idea of a podcast came along, and naturally we thought we'd bring back the
site to sit alongside it.
We've added all the recent records, delved into some more research to find some
more, but we are still a way short of finding everything we need to complete the
Barnet FC statistical picture. We have appearances and goalscorer data now back
to 1979 and are working on going back to 1965 and beyond.
We have had a lot of help along the way from individuals to bring the site
to where it is now. In particular, John Snow was the original compiler of the
professional results history and was kind enough to share them with us when we
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