2004: buckets, verbals and Mo
I was rummaging again in the old mags and trying to erase the images of losing to Leeds on penalties. Had this been a league game and ended at 2-2…
2002, In Praise of old Magazines
Thank goodness for old Claret magazines you can leaf through and see how things were way back in the yesteryear. Someone posted somewhere that anyone under 17 will have no…
Carry on up the Douro – Part Two
Pinhao, Barca d’Alva, Castelo Rodrigo; what gorgeous places these were. But we still hadn’t signed Chris Wood or anyone else for that matter even though Sean D was saying he…
Carry on up the Douro
August 2017, and it was a one-off, a very expensive luxury trip to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. It took a determined saving-up campaign, a big dip into some ISAs…
Jelly and Ice Cream
It was the twilight zone for neighbours Blackburn Rovers after the last day drama in the Championship that saw them relegated despite a 3-1 win at Brentford. Meanwhile for Burnley,…
Oh what a beautiful feeling
Oh what a beautiful feeling, oh what a beautiful day, I’ve got a wonderful feeling, everything’s going my way. And who could blame us for feeling so good the day…
Hang out the flags
After the defeat at home to Manchester United, and just one win since January, debate was intensifying and differences of opinion were increasing. The old chestnut came up; was is…
The circus comes to Turf Moor
Manchester United hadn’t lost for months in a run of more than 20 unbeaten games. Mourinho’s tactics had stifled Chelsea and seen them off 2-0 so that Chelsea were no…
You’ll never take the sunbeds
We were in Tenerife. Trump was squaring up to Assad. Trump was squaring up to Putin. Trump was squaring up to North Korea. He was just one side short of…
No pie shops in Seattle
It was an astonishing seven weeks since the last home league game. There was a decided absence of Burnley April Fool’s day jokes. Perhaps it was because the day was…