The ups and downs for ex-Clarets at Oldham
The Oldham Athletic manager’s office has seemed to have had a revolving door over the last month or so with two former players exiting through it and two moving in,…
A half century of goalscorers with Odobert
This story came to being in the fifteenth minute of last Saturday’s home defeat against Chelsea but it all started on the evening of Wednesday, 18th August 2009 when Robbie…
First goals and first games
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about all the former Burnley players who had been involved on the opening day of the Football League season, those who had started,…
600 up for post-war Clarets
Back in February, following our 3-0 win at Norwich, I reported that Hjalmar Ekdal had become the 350th player to score a league goal for us in post-war football, that…
Thirty-one opening day Clarets
The Football League got underway over the weekend with 35 games played, a full house denied with the late postponement of the Colchester v Swindon game in League Two. Those…
Promotion Season Number Nine
What constitutes a good season? You would definitely include five years ago when we qualified for Europe and there have been others in my time watching Burnley when, despite winning…
Aye Aye Thank You Ashley Barnes
Within minutes of the final whistle at Middlesbrough, as we all celebrated our promotion back to the Premier League, Ashley Barnes, who had opened the scoring on the night with…
Clubs should hang their heads in shame over derby tickets
On Tuesday, 25th April, Burnley will be playing Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park in front of a crowd that will be reduced because of the shameful antics of the hosts…
Vincent Kompany is in the top fifty
Sean Dyche, for a period of time, was the second longest serving manager in English football so it’s ironic that Gareth Ainsworth, the one who kept him off the top,…
No 350: Hjalmar Ekdal
On the final day of August in 1946, Burnley kicked off the new season with a home game in the Second Division against Coventry City and a week later travelled…