I'd get rid of the Big Six in a heartbeat. And I'd throw Everton in too as a leaving gift.
I'd also support a boycott of next season's FA Cup.
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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Premier League / European Superleague / Footballing Pyramid
- Replies: 10
- Views: 481
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Boiler/flue question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 731
Re: Boiler/flue question
As others rightly suggest on here, let the experts tell you what is needed. However, I had my fingers burned on this matter a few years back when my boiler and flue was replaced and signed off by a Gas Safe engineer, only for it to be condemned 18 months later when it was serviced by another company...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Aston Villa August 1972
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1517
Re: Burnley v Aston Villa August 1972
I still find it odd to see footage where the Longside has no perimeter fencing.
Also love the strange little dance that Alan Stevenson always did after he punted the ball up the pitch.
Also love the strange little dance that Alan Stevenson always did after he punted the ball up the pitch.
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Price if a pint where you live
- Replies: 144
- Views: 12676
Re: Price if a pint where you live
Either £4 or £5 (depending on ABV) for a cracking pint at my local in Petts Wood (Kent/SE London). Usually at least six ales on the go, with the board changing daily.
Someone earlier in the thread mentioned government tax. Pint for pint, petrol is about a third of the cost of beer. Crackers.
Someone earlier in the thread mentioned government tax. Pint for pint, petrol is about a third of the cost of beer. Crackers.
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Spurs - The Big Match Revisited
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2993
Re: Burnley v Spurs - The Big Match Revisited
Worth getting to 37:27 just to see Frank Worthington's barnet.
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 5:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: When was your first served beer?
- Replies: 146
- Views: 8472
Re: When was your first served beer?
Pint of Heineken at Preston Guild Hall, 1 October 1990, aged 15, waiting for Iron Maiden to come on stage.
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 11:53 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Instagram Threads
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1956
Re: Instagram Threads
Signed up for it this morning. Following Up The Clarets already!
I'm not a huge fan of Meta but Zuckerberg is less of a twunt than Musk.
I'm not a huge fan of Meta but Zuckerberg is less of a twunt than Musk.
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Your biggest sporting achievements?
- Replies: 145
- Views: 7027
Re: Your biggest sporting achievements?
Made it to the second round of the UK Subbuteo Championship in 1986. Got knocked out with four seconds of extra time left on the clock. Still hurts. but I made the later edition of the Manchester Evening News, photographed with Denis Law, for the official 'flick-off'.
- Tue May 16, 2023 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 100 years ago today
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2033
Re: 100 years ago today
Thanks Goobs..is Seedhill still standing? The only remnant of the old ground is a red brick wall with 'Visitors' in white paint, marking the boundary between Victoria Park and Seedhill at the western end of the ground. Used to be visible in the 80s and 90s but now lost beneath the scrub growth. The...
- Fri May 12, 2023 11:49 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
- Replies: 278
- Views: 16989
Re: Where are Clarets fans from outside of Burnley?
Burnley born and Padiham/Burnley educated, but if pushed I'm a proud Padiham Thickneck. Now living in Orpington, Kent, where I've been for the last 23 years. It's mainly Palace and Millwall territory round here and it's great fun winding them up about their empty trophy cabinets.
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Interview with Alan Pace
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3042
Re: Interview with Alan Pace
'City of Burnley' has a lovely ring to it.
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Info for Ipswich
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2106
Re: Info for Ipswich
Yeah I am, just thought the season we're having we might have taken a few more. There'll probably be 600/700 there from London and the South East. Perhaps supporters are bit meh about the whole gig as the club hasn't taken the FA Cup seriously for more than a decade. Anyway, I'll be there (travelli...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Weghorst to… Man United?
- Replies: 543
- Views: 48291
Re: Weghorst to… Man United?
We loaned Glen Little to Bolton in 2003.claret2018 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 11:47 amWhen was the last time a championship side loaned an outfield player to a premier league team?
- Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:01 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Hatters.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2520
Re: The Hatters.
In the mid-90s Stockport attempted to ditch the Hatters in favour of the Cobras, after they struck a deal with the vindaloo-quenching beer brand (brewed at Robinsons, if I recall correctly).
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:53 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England match in London
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1329
Re: England match in London
Depends whereabouts in Hammersmith you're staying. There are a few pubs on King Street, notably the Salutation, Hammersmith Arms and the Hop Poles (where I watched a lot of the 2002 World Cup). It's a short walk from Hammersmith Broadway (the huge 1990s development that featured on the opening credi...
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 3:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Playing against Burnley FC players...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2822
Re: Playing against Burnley FC players...
Genuinely logged in just to like this.
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Playing against Burnley FC players...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2822
Re: Playing against Burnley FC players...
Not exactly a football match but in the days when you could just wander into Gawthorpe and watch the players train, Chris Pearce asked me (a 12 year old) to take some penalties against him after the training session had finished. I honestly can't remember if I scored any but I vividly remember the f...
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Owen Coyle - Undr the Cosh
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5339
Re: Owen Coyle - Undr the Cosh
Thoroughly enjoyed the podcast. I just can't get angry about his departure any more. He left, we moved on, we moved up and, most importantly, we had the last laugh. I must say he redeemed himself in the podcast a little bit by conceding that he should never have taken the job at Ewood. He also clear...
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Joey Barton discussing Mens Health with Alistair Campbell
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1662
Re: Joey Barton discussing Mens Health with Alistair Campbell
Elwa - your posts on this thread are amazing. I hope you keep speaking out about mental health issues because it's people like you who are breaking down barriers.
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lenny Johnrose RIP
- Replies: 126
- Views: 5817
Re: Lenny Johnrose RIP
Gutted.
Sincere condolences to all who knew and loved him.
Sincere condolences to all who knew and loved him.
- Tue Feb 08, 2022 4:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: fao hoskinsgoalatswansea
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2290
Re: fao hoskinsgoalatswansea
For some reason the game was played on a Friday night and Ash's goal was so good that it was shown on Football Focus the next day; this being a time that we got naff-all coverage on the BBC. Actually, some things don't change.
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ARTICLE: Burnley fans want both Franks Out
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4215
Re: ARTICLE: Burnley fans want both Franks Out
I must have been one of the few who wasn't shouting 'Casper Out' at the end of the match, though that was undoubtedly because I left after 60 mins and sat on the coach while the heavens opened.
One of the most inept 60/90mins I've ever seen from a Clarets side, and that includes the 86/87 season.
One of the most inept 60/90mins I've ever seen from a Clarets side, and that includes the 86/87 season.
- Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Best name for a pub quiz team
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4483
Re: Best name for a pub quiz team
In the mid-90s we entered a quiz at a pub called Hardy's Well at the end of Platt Lane in Manchester, where the gable wall had a freshly-painted Lemn Sissay poem on it called 'Wait Waterless Wanderer'. Lemn Sissay.JPG We won, but the landlord initially refused to hand over the prize because of our t...
- Tue Sep 07, 2021 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2021/22 Third Kit
- Replies: 76
- Views: 7723
Re: 2021/22 Third Kit
In fairness, most of the people complaining about the shirt sponsor were doing do so when the club was in the black to the tune of tens of millions.ChristheViking wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 4:56 pmEasy to complain about the shirt sponsor when you don’t have to manage the debt.
Morals don’t pay the bills. Alan Pace gets it.
- Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Home kit unveiled
- Replies: 197
- Views: 18961
Re: Home kit unveiled
Great shirt, bold sleeve design. Won't be buying it.
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: New Kits 21/22
- Replies: 493
- Views: 53809
Re: New Kits 21/22
You're perfectly entitled to your opinion, and I'd never ask anyone to stop having an opinion. But yet again, you're against it, but cannot put any alternative sponsors forward. Probably because they're weren't any. So the club either give up on 7 million quid, or go with something a few people obj...
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: New Kits 21/22
- Replies: 493
- Views: 53809
Re: New Kits 21/22
I'm firmly with JDRobbo on this one and I applaud him for consistently putting his head above the parapet on this subject despite being sniped at every time. Why? Because advertising works. It's obvious that it works; if it didn't, betting companies wouldn't spent eye-watering amounts on it. And it'...
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: FIFA’s latest idea
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3087
Re: FIFA’s latest idea
In fairness to Devil's Advocate, there have been some astute changes over the years. A few examples: Introduction of the backpass rule Offside amended so that level is onside not offside Changes to the interpretation of the 'interfering' rule in offsides Although not a change to the rules, the intro...
- Fri Jul 16, 2021 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: RIP Andy 'The Viking' Fordham
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1626
Re: RIP Andy 'The Viking' Fordham
Met Andy Fordham a few years back at a bar in London called the Porter's Lodge where I was playing in a darts tournament. He was the special guest and was supposed to be playing a few legs with the punters and generally adding a bit of star quality to proceedings. But he just sat on his own all even...
- Wed Jun 09, 2021 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: John Angus
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5952
Re: John Angus
Always sad to hear about the passing of a Clarets legend.
How many of our Championship winning squad are still with us?
How many of our Championship winning squad are still with us?
- Wed May 26, 2021 4:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Interview with Barry Kilby
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2699
Re: Interview with Barry Kilby
I have it on good authority that Barry was a great bloke to work for but perhaps wasn't the sharpest tool in the box himself. However, he was smart enough to surround himself with talented (and sometimes lucky) people. Hence, as organ-grinder he was exceptional; as a monkey, less so.
- Fri Mar 19, 2021 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Our Best XI - 3rd/4th Division Players
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5078
- Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Our Best XI - 3rd/4th Division Players
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5078
Re: Our Best XI - 3rd/4th Division Players
Geoff Palmer - played most of his career in the top flight with Wolves and won two League Cups with them. Played for the Clarets in 84/85 as we slid into the Fourth Division.
Peter Hampton too.
Peter Hampton too.
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 1980 Umbro Top
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8147
Re: 1980 Umbro Top
My shirt arrived this morning - size large - and I'm also a 42" chest.eastanglianclaret wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:32 pmICL.....would your large fit a 40-42" chest if it's not too personal a question? No medium sized in stock.
Couldn't care less that the Umbro logo is gold instead of blue - the shirt is class.
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Worst miss you've seen at t'Turf
- Replies: 71
- Views: 5636
Re: Worst miss you've seen at t'Turf
I think it was against Millwall actually. Anyway, you can see it here: https://twitter.com/burnleygoals/status ... 17665?s=20
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 3:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Shirt sponsorship
- Replies: 75
- Views: 5153
Re: Shirt sponsorship
I'd go the whole hog and ban shirt sponsorship completely. Shirts look crap with any sort of sponsor. The quid pro quo would be a free-for-all on training kit: Jack Daniels tracky tops, Bet 365 shorts, Benson & Hedges socks, Pablo Escobar boots. Sorted. Seriously, though, the day betting companies a...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 10:56 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: dull commentator phrases and comments.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2684
Re: dull commentator phrases and comments.
"Took it with aplomb"
Aplomb - a word never used in any other context than a goal being scored.
Aplomb - a word never used in any other context than a goal being scored.
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Bands beginning with 'B'
- Replies: 120
- Views: 7061
Re: Bands beginning with 'B'
Beloved - Hello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3F2z4UPwQI
Football connection: the song namechecks Vince Hilaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3F2z4UPwQI
Football connection: the song namechecks Vince Hilaire
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 2:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Poppies
- Replies: 58
- Views: 4555
Re: Poppies
Wearing a poppy is just virtue-signalling, isn’t it? “Look at me! I’ve donated to the RBL!” If you equate virtue-signalling with visible displays of support then, yes, wearing a poppy is virtue-signalling. On the other hand, if you're serving in the armed forces or a war veteran, isn't it reassurin...
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Re: Dale Stephens
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5915
Re: Dale Stephens
Ashley HoskinsEarbyClaret wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:37 pmThere's probably scope for a full 11 names regularly misspelt on here - ably managed by Shaun of course:
Off the top of my head
Dale Stevens
Jeff Hendricks
Chris Woods
Dwight O'Neill
Eric Peters
Peter Daniels
- Fri Sep 04, 2020 3:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Do we really need H2O?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5452
Re: Do we really need H2O?
I'm all for HS2 (and H2O, for that matter) purely because I think it's worth spending eleventy hundred billion pounds to p!ss off the tweed-wearing elite who are complaining that they will hear and see the trains from 1000m away in their country piles in the Chilterns.
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:11 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Champions Burnley are back!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2992
Re: Champions Burnley are back!
Still have mine in the loft. Bought from WH Smiths in town on release day when they were supposed to have Mike Conroy and John Pender there signing them. 1 of them didn't turn up though, can't remember who, so it's only signed by 1! John Pender was definitely there. Still got my copy signed as "Pen...
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:05 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: SPOT THE BALL End of Season Cup (Last 32) Now ended
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3649
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: SPOT THE BALL Game 21 - now ended - See Wild Card Game 1
- Replies: 73
- Views: 3547
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Banned Audi Advert
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3918
Re: Banned Audi Advert
I'd be more than a bit worried about the people who think that the little girl is there for sexual attraction. I think you're right. This is only offensive if you have a dirty mind. My mum and dad have a photo of me somewhere as a three year old, wearing a tracksuit and red wellies, laughing while ...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 10:29 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Poor Spelling / Grammar
- Replies: 105
- Views: 7224
Re: Poor Spelling / Grammar
People who say expedentially when they mean exponentially. Not quite grammatical, but annoying nonetheless, is the phrase "the proof is in the pudding" which makes absolutely no sense. The correct phrase is "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" which means something cannot be declared to be a ...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: SPOT THE BALL Game 20 - now closed See Game 21
- Replies: 97
- Views: 4591
Re: ***SPOT THE BALL*** Game 20
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- Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thomas Frank
- Replies: 68
- Views: 6262
Re: Thomas Frank
I can't see Brentford spending shed loads like Sheffield United with their new stadium to pay for. If they go up they will be nailed on for relegation Brentford sold Griffin Park to developer EcoWorld for £32 million. Bizarrely, they have also sold the new stadium for £52 million. I can't tell if t...
- Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:24 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: SPOT THE BALL Game 19 - Now closed - See Game 20
- Replies: 86
- Views: 3810
Re: ***SPOT THE BALL*** Game 19
BO
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- Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: SPOT THE BALL Game 18 - Now closed See Game 19
- Replies: 90
- Views: 5074
Re: ***SPOT THE BALL*** Game 18
BO
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