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Never saw Jimmy Mac play as I only started supporting Burnley in April 1967 but I rate Taff as the best Claret ever.Lots will disagree but he was a supreme two footed player of immense class.

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I think the problem is that Burnley FC thought that last season’s results meant we had cracked it & it would be plain sailing with a great young manager who could walk on water & a sustainable policy of buying & selling that would turn a profit.Unfortunately it’s not easy to win football games as th...

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 31, 2023 2:31 pm
Proper investigative journalist. Him and Paul Foot were the best of their breed.

Paul Foot was my hero…amazing journalist!

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Guller Bull wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 30, 2023 6:31 pm
What is PGMOL??

Asking for an enema?

A pain in the arse!

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Can anyone tell me how to highlight Garnerssoap’s comments?

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Post by Garnerssoap » Sun Dec 17, 2023 8:03 am Waddle season lol. Bit harsh. I remember leaving York after a 3-1 defeat about 5 games in but being chuffed because we’d finally managed to score. Yes,remember those nil- nils & then the York defeat but I was disappointed when Waddle left at the end of ...

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I was thinking the same myself as his experience,alongside Nathan Redmond could have been invaluable.His cross against Man.City was superb but would we have anyone as commanding as the guy who powered home the header? I’m very relaxed about everything as Alex Ferguson’s wonderful quip…”Football…Bloo...

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Watched the game right through & thoroughly enjoyed it .Never in it first half with our keeper poor for the second goal but boy what a second half as we came roaring back.Don’t watch too much women’s footie but love the big tournaments.Terrific skill from all of them!

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No wonder I was flummoxed as in 76/77 I worked every Saturday in Leeds,travelling from Bacup,to pay for an extension to my house.I let my friend Brian Baron have my season ticket so missed Billy’s wonder goal.I would have to say that the write up of his goal certainly gives him the right to be known...

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I’ve supported Burnley since 1967 but just seen a Bradford City team Photo about 1980 or so & one face leapt out at me…Billy Ingram. I had to comment on it & referred to him as the “Ginger Pele”….but exactly how did he get his nickname…feel a right fool in asking but getting on now & losing grey cel...

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I don’t think I’ll ever forget the Plymouth game as we could have gone down but it was a cracking game where we played really well with,if I remember correctly,Little supplying Coke with two crosses & Cooke rewarding Little with two goals! Hope that’s right. I thought that Waddle had come to grips w...

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Every time I see that the referee is Robert Jones & see him strutting his stuff all around tge pitch with that arrogant demeanour I am reminded oh first ever Premier League appearance at Elland Rd.when we were the visitors.He gave a penalty for Leeds when a 50/50 ball between Nick Pope & Patrick Bam...

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A rather good change of the offside law was suggested to me recently,namely that if ANY part of a forward was on the same plane (line drawn) as a defender then it is onside.The current law where the opposite is true robs us of goals which are superbly created only to be disallowed because of a big t...

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Heard a useful definition of offside recently that said if ANY part of the attacker was in line with the defender then it is onside.This means that instead of being offside by a nose you could be onside by a big toe… I like this as it favours the attackers & the game is about goals,is it not?

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Really enjoy watching high level women’s matches on the tv.Amazing ability,both technically & physicality,and I forget the gender & just watch good football & the drama that competitions bring.I was born in 1946 & women playing football was definitely a no-no but why should a game that is probably t...

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Lovely thoughts Tony & mine are with you!

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I was in Blackburn when I heard the news…having my hair cut somewhere near the library…it was about 1pm so 6am on the west coast.Why do the good guys get assassinated when the evil ones prosper? Nixon or Kennedy…no contest.

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Born in Oldham & moved to Bacup when I got married in 1966.Was persuaded to go to the Eintracht Frankfurt 2nd leg in April 1967 by a salesman at NCR Burnley & here I am.Lots of ups & lots of downs but hey,that’s life!

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Ha,ha Blackburn! but Clarets might prefer my spelling!

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PS Coming from Shaw,near Oldham & living in Bacup I loved the different accents in the phone-in after the matches.Blackpool,Preston,Blackbipurn & Burnley,all so distinctive to my ear…great days now I’m old!

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Strange reading this about Jack Holden as I used to love his ever so fluent summarising after the matches…a real treat whereas Norman Shakeshaft was almost boring by comparison.I never spotted Jack’s bias but never expected any from BBC broadcasting…how naive am I?

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I spotted the same on the throw in for their first goal ie the thrower had a foot up but foul throws rarely given these days.Difficult for referees to book players who go down to break up play as the “injury” may be real! Perhaps playing 30 mins each way with time added on by a separate adjudicator ...

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Football ... oh football makes you laugh it makes you cry, tears of joy tears of misery I walked from Burnley to Haslingden when Eintracht Frankfurt put us out of the Inter Cities Fairs cup, I was a kid who didn't want the adults to see me crying on the bus. The orient game then One Night in York 2...

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Just had a read of Ray Bennion & Billy Doudal & found that both died at the age of 71 in the mid sixties. Ray played over 300 times for Manchester United before joining Burnley in 1932 before retiring two years later & joining the coaching staff,giving 20 years of faithful service. Billy played abou...

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If only everyone brought just one item!

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Just reading Dave Roberts excellent book “32 Programmes” & no.3 is England Schools v German Schools on April 30th 1966.One D.Thomas(Bishop Auckland) scored the winner.He was also 220 yds junior sprint champion.It must be our DT surely & if so I saw his debut in my first ever Burnley league game in M...

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The stand on the right was called (I think) the Ford stand as Ford Motors sponsored a fair play award & Oldham won it in perhaps the only season it was offered.The award payed for it.The stand opposite it (partly obscured) was the main stand,a lovely old Victorian type.I was born in the hospital nea...

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Manchester United were recovering from the Munich tragedy & lucky to reach the final with a side cobbled together & for the second year running were handicapped by “robust” challenges on the keeper…Nat Lofthouse in 1958 & Peter McParland in 1957.

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Same as Pommieclaret,Steve Kindon to Wolves.Remember reading an article in the Sun newspaper that said let’s all have a good cry as Burnley sell another star in order to survive…it was always thus!

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Spot on Pommieclaret…Steve Kindon to Wolves for me too! Remember reading an article in the Sun newspaper that said let’s all have a good cry as Burnley sell their star players in order to survive…it was always thus!

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Happy birthday Tony & I fervently hope that the Clarets can somehow get the results that lets us have a seventh season in the sun for your seventieth!

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No messing with Ray…took the English players off the pitch when the Aussie spectators were throwing stuff at John Snow(my favourite fast bowler!) and led England to a ashes win.

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PS,watched the live feed from Burnley crematorium a few minutes ago.

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Only found out last night at the West Yorkshire Clarets meet in Halifax & felt really sad.Known Stephen for years but only to chat to at the match & once memorably at Bacup Cricket Club when they played Rawtenstall & I asked him how long he had supported Bacup CC…knowing he lived at Waterfoot.He gen...

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Same as you Devon Claret(happy birthday!) but someone has juggled the numbers & they have landed as 75!

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The vessel with the pestle is in the flagon with the dragon…..go figure…I can’t!

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Latest binge was Dave Thomas’s “Russians don’t land here” about season 2006/7 which included the 19 winless run under Steve Cotterill.These books on Burnley FC’s dim & recent past recall plenty of memories but also much that has been forgotten.My memories include the home win against Ipswich in whic...

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Just finished Dave Thomas’s “It’s Burnley not Barcelona” about the 2002/3 season & although it’s now 18 yrs ago who can forget Grimsby 6 Burnley 5 or Burnley 4 Watford 7 or Burnley 2 Sheffield Wednesday 7.Some good results included a run to the 6th round of the FA cup where we capitulated to Watford...

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Continuing the books,I’ve just read Dave Thomas’s “Etntertainment,Heroes & Villains” covering Cotterill,Coyle & Laws reigns & whilst it is more of the same re the others it is still worth reading.I lived through this but many of the details & games have been forgotten so it was good(and not so good)...

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Started & finished Brendon Floods book “Big club,small town & me.” It’s a quick & easy read & very good but as it was published in 2009 it praises Owen Coyle to the highest degree.Quite right for he was indeed a “god” to all of us Clarets until he decamped to Bolton with most of the coaching staff.I...

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Yes,this period of lockdown & reflection has enabled me to get out those Burnley books that sit on the shelf.Read Tim’s “Underdog” & “Never had it so good” plus just finished the posting’s book with the happy ending! Lots more to go at.Reflecting on time,it’s accelerating now whereas when I was youn...

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Reading the excellent book by Tim Quelch of Burnley FC’s roller coaster of a ride from the bottom to the top of the football world & remembering the good & bad times,I’m struck by the many wrong paths we went down.The many managers,who with the best of intentions,couldn’t bring success & likewise th...

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Disappointing game with too many changes & being well beaten.Clearly the league is the first priority but one more win would have took us to the semi’s.Football has changed since I first started watching it as it was a given that you always put out your strongest team & had a right go.These lads are...

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Not sure about hard but one of the toughest players was good old Andy Farrell.Never one to shirk anything,he was always in the thick of things...a real,mean,ornery hombre!

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Loved reading all these posts as I sit enjoying a Peroni & listening to the FA Cup match at Craven Cottage...0-3 just now!

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I was at both games re Leeds but don’t remember lots now.Can’t remember Ralph sitting on the ball but we were 2-1 up at half time & Billy Bremner got the Leeds goal after two by us.Remember thinking that Leeds would come after us second half but bloody hell we got three more! Unbelievable! Also went...

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Wow,what a wonderful post...it was my first ever visit to Turf Moor & the start of a long & winding road to now! I’d just got married & lived in Bacup(from Shaw,near Oldham) & I went on the tie with a salesman from the National Cash Register Co.Ltd.at 18/20 Sandygate,Burnley,where I was a cash regis...

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Happy birthday Tony!

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Can’t get a full list of teams to support,no Burnley there.Any ideas guys n’ gals?

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It’s a really difficult job reffing & they get two out of three decisions correct but if you believe the statistics put out by the refs body it’s well over 90% correct! I know what I believe but as long as the technology is overseen by the refs themselves nothing will change or if it does it’s at a ...

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