Gordon Shepherd (born 21 December 1935) is the former chairman of Barnsley F.C. He was chairman since 2004 after Peter Ridsdale resigned. He retired at the end of the 2007–08 season.
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“But carpe diem, Juan, carpe, carpe!
To-morrow sees another race as gay
And transient, and devour’d by the same harpy.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)