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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Long gone nightclubs
- Replies: 173
- Views: 15691
Re: Long gone nightclubs
Surprised Basil hasn’t mentioned the Birdtrap, soul all niters in the late 60s, at homely Walter Street club in Brierfield. Now revived for monthly soul nights, same venue. Also in Burnley in the 60s was the Cavern Club, unsurprisingly at basement level underneath the Mechanics in Manchester Road
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Berge
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4145
Re: Berge
When I started watching Burnley Paul cook and lenny John rose were the players in the middle so I can’t speak for previous with the likes of Dobson but Berge is the best midfielder I’ve ever seen at Burnley, followed closely by Defour. Jack cork in his two spells has also been excellent and before ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Henry Winter
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1760
Re: Henry Winter
He’s joined the literally dozens of football reporters from local papers who have been potted in recent months by their newspaper/digital employers
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cole Palmer
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3408
Re: Cole Palmer
Fabulous player. A face only his mother could love
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley away - 1970's quiz question
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1082
Re: Burnley away - 1970's quiz question
Bloomfield Road Blackpool. Ingham and Noble stand out
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: McDonald now oldest surviving international?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1327
Re: McDonald now oldest surviving international?
Baynham played in the first FA Cup final I watched on TV, in 1959, Luton v Forest. I also remember I had a football card with him on, I think they came with packs of bubblegum
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: McDonald now oldest surviving international?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1327
McDonald now oldest surviving international?
The death of Ron Baynham of Luton at 94 leaves Burnley’s Colin McDonald as England’s oldest surviving international. Am I correct?
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Vitinho
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3731
Re: Vitinho
Against Bournemouth we sat in the posh seats in the BLS for the first time in my life, front row as well right behind the Burnley subs seating. When he came off Vitinho was absolutely spent, and was spent for the next 20 minutes too
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Directors box
- Replies: 92
- Views: 6222
Re: Directors box
….and if it’s the set of lads I saw walking across the pitch from the BL towards the tunnel they were certainly below dress standard for the directors box. What a set of scruffs
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Oldest Living Claret ....
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1721
Re: Oldest Living Claret ....
Trevor Meredith, our Man City match winner to secure us the championship in 1960 is 87
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Arsenal - Player Ratings
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4818
Re: Burnley v Arsenal - Player Ratings
The worst thing of all for me is we went 1-0 down early and it didn't bother me, I didn't care and people who know me well enough will know that it's just not me to feel like that. It might be growing old, but 64 years on from my first game I’m finding nothing to interest me on the pitch or from Pa...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dj steve wright
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4585
Re: Dj steve wright
Yes a shock. However I thought he never cared that much about the music on his daily show, as someone says further up liked to talk over a record, and rarely told you what the tune was and who it was by. And the serious jockin? I like serious DJs, like the ones who really care about the music and ca...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The 1962 FA CUP FINAL.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1928
Re: The 1962 FA CUP FINAL.
Went from Burnley central Station by special train hauled by the loco Silver Jubilee no less
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Josh Brownhill
- Replies: 76
- Views: 4974
Re: Josh Brownhill
Er, the totally untried Massengo in the heart of a Premier League midfield? Give me strengthburnley007 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:51 pmHe's still playing Dyche negative football.
Massengo needs a chance in his place. Brownhill is not our future
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Dara O'Shea
- Replies: 80
- Views: 5220
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Club kit on sale Inc first team
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2700
Re: Club kit on sale Inc first team
How about throwing in the towel as well?Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 1:49 pmThey'd have been better selling the shorts and throwing in the shirt !!
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Injured player rule
- Replies: 10
- Views: 774
Re: Injured player rule
‘Head injuries’ can be the biggest con. Because of their potential serious nature refs stop play immediately. But of course in most cases the players are cheating. The’injured’ player must go off for a mandatory five minutes, that may stop the cheating, and if it is a genuine injury give the physios...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Second half huddle
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2150
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Second half huddle
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2150
Second half huddle
Watched the game on TV and the camera homed in on our huddle before the second half kick-off. Surprised to see it was Foster doing all the talking, Brownhill next to him doing the listening. Good to see Lyle laying it in the line
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
- Replies: 311
- Views: 29650
Re: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
It’s on there Tony, watched part 4 last nightClaretTony wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:01 pmI love the Nello reference when he was Marvellous - he's outstanding in this. Unfortunately I couldn't find it on ITVX but I've watched the first three parts.
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: BBC star again.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2748
Re: BBC star again.
Not fit for purpose people go on and just tick any old thing even if they’re not interested in the match
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: REPORT: Enjoyable game as Burnley go through in Youth Cup
- Replies: 10
- Views: 973
Re: REPORT: Enjoyable game as Burnley go through in Youth Cup
Who was in charge of our boys on the touch line Tony?
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Chop for football reporters
- Replies: 1
- Views: 676
Chop for football reporters
Newspaper owning company Newsquest blazed the trail on this just a few years ago, dispensing with a dedicated reporter to cover the Premier League Clarets. What an own goal, think most people only bought the Lancs Telegraph for Clarets news and reports anyway, so another blow for its dwindling circu...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Price if a pint where you live
- Replies: 144
- Views: 12698
Re: Price if a pint where you live
Basil will know the cheapest pints aroundbasil6345789 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:33 amWhat are you drinking? Ruddles 1.77, real ales 2.55, low priced keg, cider, lagers, etc
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Price if a pint where you live
- Replies: 144
- Views: 12698
Re: Price if a pint where you live
Crooked Billet Worsthorne, Reedley Hallows Billet Blonde and their New Zealand Pale, £3 IF you pay cash, £3.20 on a card. That’s a new wheeze introduced this week. Also, I quite like Neck Oil
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: RIP another Claret
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2602
Re: RIP another Claret
Please call him Alex. Alec was not his name. RIP
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 6:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Crystal Palace - Player Ratings
- Replies: 73
- Views: 8509
Re: Burnley v Crystal Palace - Player Ratings
46 out of 10 for Beyer?!!!!ClaretTony wrote: ↑Sat Nov 04, 2023 5:56 pmTrafford 6
Vitinho 5
O'Shea 5
Beyer 46
Taylor 6
JBG 6
Berge 7
Brownhill 5
Koleosho 5
Amdouni 4
Rodriguez 6
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:20 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Angel Inn, Accrington Rd
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3874
Re: The Angel Inn, Accrington Rd
When you taking us walking football lads then?Stalbansclaret wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:26 amThe excellent Bankers Draft micro pub in Barrowford has a good tap-room type feel to it and consistently great beer selection which varies week to week. I live just round the corner and am available for guided tours
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
- Replies: 145
- Views: 9898
Re: Your lowest point as a Burnley fan
Not a specific game but a frame of time for example The Orient game zzzzz : :lol: (Even though at the end it would of been pure joy) 19 game winless run under Cotterill. Boring football and getting beat every week in the Prem under Dyche. The toxicity under Laws. Waddle era where we was awful. Few ...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: R.I.P Another Claret
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6196
Re: R.I.P Another Claret
Attended Dermot’s funeral and wake today in Poole in Dorset. Great send-off to a proper Claret, and great to meet the OP sjb. Also met up with a mutual friend in former Burnley Express Clarets reporter Peter Higgs, in rude health at 78
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 6:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Clarets held by Manchester United in Turf Moor bore draw
- Replies: 6
- Views: 491
Re: ARTICLE: Clarets held by Manchester United in Turf Moor bore draw
I must have been at the game but I have no recall of it, nor Clive Griffiths, he only played 7 times for United then made the rest of his career in the USA
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is this v Burnley
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4870
Re: Is this v Burnley
Coates and Thomas for me, unmistakably
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: the new frasier
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2319
Re: the new frasier
Frasier is my favourite ever US comedy. There was a trailer for the reboot on YouTube which I saw, which actually didn’t give much of a clue about how the new series would work. The magic of the original series was the ensemble itself. But the ensemble hasn’t been reassembled for various reasons so ...
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:40 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: R.I.P Another Claret
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6196
Re: R.I.P Another Claret
So sad, especially remembering he was always a such a bundle of energy. I had the pleasure of working with Dermot at the Burnley Express for four or five years in the 1970s, in the days when going to work were fun as well as busy. Like northeastclaret he played with me on Sundays with Pike Hill Bomb...
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:14 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Kompany's pragmatism
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2617
Re: Kompany's pragmatism
Interesting tweak during the first half. Taylor started seemingly on the left of a back three, with Browny wide left, but with us not gaining control of the game Taylor went wider to play as an orthodox left back, with Brownhill tucking more infield. It seemed to have the desired effect of improving...
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Shameful Spurs win point in Turf Moor draw
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1194
Re: ARTICLE: Shameful Spurs win point in Turf Moor draw
I was there, truly shocking from Spurs. I hated Cyril Knowles forever after he cropped Frank. And my memory is it was tiny Phil Holder who delivered the coup de grace on Frank. Perhaps I’m wrong
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Martin O Neil
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2250
Re: Martin O Neil
His book is a good read
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lost Pubs of Burnley
- Replies: 98
- Views: 7010
Re: Lost Pubs of Burnley
That’s it Tony. Got my licensees mixed upClaretTony wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:04 pmThey were called Albert & Edith Howarth. They had two daughters who both married goalkeepers. One married Jeff Parton and the other married Luton goalkeeper Keith Barber.
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lost Pubs of Burnley
- Replies: 98
- Views: 7010
Re: Lost Pubs of Burnley
His daughter married Burnley goalkeeper Jeff Parton. Can’t recall George’s surname or his daughters name. Think she was what they used to call ‘a beauty queen’ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:16 pmGriffin had a landlord some years ago who set up a grumpy hour to match his personality. Beer prices went up during grumpy hour.
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 1:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lost Pubs of Burnley
- Replies: 98
- Views: 7010
Re: Lost Pubs of Burnley
I went into the Cricks a couple of times with my older journalist colleagues. Ron Kennedy (By Ronald Kennedy in the Sunday Express) ran his own sports agency, and he was a lovely man to boot. Pretty certain he was the man who sorted it with the Cricks so the national boys could use the phone there t...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Northern Soul
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3919
Re: Northern Soul
I bumped into it by mistake last night, having avoided it during the Proms season a few weeks ago. But really enjoyed it, particularly marvelling at that full sound from the BBC Concert Orchestra that really nailed the arrangements and were note perfect too. The singers did a great job too, glad the...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Annika
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2202
Re: Annika
Yes, really enjoyed the series we've watched. So is the series on Alibi new to screens? We watched on BBC2/iPlayer
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Happy 50th TuftyBeamish
- Replies: 7
- Views: 602
Re: Happy 50th TuftyBeamish
But Happy Birthday Damian
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Happy 50th TuftyBeamish
- Replies: 7
- Views: 602
Re: Happy 50th TuftyBeamish
50????? must have had some bad digs
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rodri
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3907
Re: Rodri
He’s one of the very few these days who does
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Casper at the double in pre-season opener
- Replies: 17
- Views: 919
Re: ARTICLE: Casper at the double in pre-season opener
My favourite Claret. A pity our younger fans never saw him play, apart from heading he had the lot as a forward, could play centrally, wide and as a 'No.10', a position in which he was often unplayable
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fleetwood Town Owner Guity of Fraud
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5056
Re: Fleetwood owner gaoled
Gaoled is archaic. I've been in journalism 53 years and I've never seen it used yet in either my papers or others I read. Jailed, yes, locked up is the usual tabloid version
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Goalkeeper Vigouroux arrives from the Orient
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4252
Re: ARTICLE: Goalkeeper Vigouroux arrives from the Orient
SwanseaAfloatinClaret wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 12:54 pmI await your article regarding the departure of BPF.
- Sat May 27, 2023 11:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Name the players
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1511
Re: Name the players
The person extreme right is obviously not from BFC he’s got a jacket on without the badge. And of course he doesn’t look like a footballer
- Fri May 26, 2023 11:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Strongest Burnley 11 Under Dyche
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1317