The way I saw it Maurice dived over the falling player and punched the ball while in mid air, thus playing the ball before contact with the player (by landing on him); therefore not a pen.
Another who likes Thomas Frank’s honesty
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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thomas Frank
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2336
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: HAPPY MONDAY!. FOREST, points deduction?
- Replies: 119
- Views: 6611
Re: HAPPY MONDAY!. FOREST, points deduction?
Think the Premier league table needs a two new columns… current financial deductions and potential appealed deductions.
To give the fans a chance of knowing where the club is in the league. Complete farce.
To give the fans a chance of knowing where the club is in the league. Complete farce.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Lee Dixon.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3336
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Motd
- Replies: 76
- Views: 4200
Re: Motd
I’m not sure what the rule is for pundits these days, but eloquence does not seem to be among them. It has been poor often enough, but that was another level. Saturday Night’s BIG event show…CoolClaret wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:15 pmThat 'analysis' for our game was beyond amateurish. Awful that from the Beeb.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: League One
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3493
Re: League One
Came across the results from this day in 1986 earlier (we lost 3-1 to Swindon) , the following Tuesday Rochdale 1-0 Burnley 2,597. Steve Taylor scored the only goal from the penalty spot. Never forget us losing to Rochdale with our own goalkeeper playing a blinder , on loan for them. David Williams...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: League One
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3493
Re: League One
See my above post re Lincoln. Mid eighties Lincoln spent a couple of seasons where they finished above us and even in the league above us.NottsClaret wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:17 pmOxford in the 80s, Cambridge early 90s. I doubt Lincoln ever have, could be wrong.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Maatsen interview in Guardian
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2771
Re: Maatsen interview in Guardian
A link would be good. Agree, and also that signalled Tella’s intent. Maatson said around mid season he would be more likely stay if his good mate Tella was going to be with us next season….Burnley Ace wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:29 pmI don’t think there was the remotest chance that he wanted to come back to Burnley.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: League One
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3493
Re: League One
Peterborough v Stevenage tonight, 5th v 6th. Clash of the titans. 🙂 I regularly look at the teams in the lowest two leagues and think back to a time when we had to genuinely worried about clubs of that stature turning us over regularly. The last thirty years really have been a different world for B...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Assignon, Esteve and Fofana
- Replies: 68
- Views: 3473
Re: Assignon, Esteve and Fofana
What do you mean when you say 'I think there is a player in there'? It doesn't make any sense whichever way it is considered. As for the three players mentioned let all three go back to their clubs though I believe we are stuck with Esteve so that's a pity. Modern trendy speak for a player with pot...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Football's Magic Money Tree
- Replies: 9833
- Views: 970938
Re: Football's Magic Money Tree
the high level subject matter of this 16th article from Philippe Auclair and Paul Brown on the proposed 777 Partners takeover of Everton, is one I have been waiting for since the deal was announced. from Josimar Football The Russian connection 777 Partners has done business with a Russian oligarch,...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: League One
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3493
Re: League One
When have Lincoln, Oxford or Cambridge looked light years ahead of us? Oxford were in Division one… Billy Hamilton left us to play for them, making a front two of Hamilton and Aldrich. Lincoln beat us at a walk 3-0 At Sincil Bank when our keeper sweeper (Joe Neenan?) flew out to deal with a through...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: League One
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3493
Re: League One
Lincoln followed up a very impressive 5-1 win at high flying Barnsley at the weekend with a 6-0 win tonight against Cambridge. Their fans must be buzzing. Bolton also had a big win, 5-0 against Oxford. Makes you think - as painful as this season is - we've been at the same level as all of Lincoln, ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: On this day
- Replies: 77
- Views: 7144
Re: On this day
100 years ago today we reached the FA Cup Semi-Finals with a 3-1 replay win over Swindon Town at Turf Moor. Over 34,000 there for a game played on a Wednesday afternoon, many no doubt having bunked off work. Cartoon from Burnley Express 15/03/1924, courtesy British Newspaper Archive. Also 41 years ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Death of a fellow Claret
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2489
Re: Death of a fellow Claret
I've just found out a fellow Claret passed away on Saturday. I never met him but got to know him well through FB. He ran a group dedicated to our local heritage. It's come as a real shock. Even though I'd never met him he'd come to mean a lot to me. He was always optimistic about his beloved Burnle...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Stadium Tour
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1876
Re: Stadium Tour
The stadium tour used to be full of half-arsed poorly researched gosssip level insights… though it got better when they started employing ex-players to act as guides. I don’t think you can complain that the stadium tour sticks to ‘the club message’.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Movement in the Penalty Area
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1621
Re: Movement in the Penalty Area
Anticipation and confidence, sadly both need familiarity, understanding and confidence… not easy to get into a team of youngsters who only met in the summer and who are used to being overrun when overcommitted while attacking.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ekdal and Al-Dakhil
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4306
Re: Ekdal and Al-Dakhil
I’m not sure how player values increase when they don’t play. Maybe we should have sold some at the end of last season in hindsight. Not sure how this fits Pace’s project that is supposed to be on track. Different teams are looking for different attributes, and seeing a player not getting game time...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: VK post match v WHU
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2264
Re: VK post match v WHU
I like Cullen and I’m glad he’s found a bit of form and got back in the team, but let’s not pretend he was unfairly left out or didn’t get a chance before being dropped. He started the first 10 league games of the season and was poor. He was dropped and his omission coincided with some of our bette...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: VK post match v WHU
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2264
Re: VK post match v WHU
2 pts dropped from a decent first half because our defence was out muscled and not tight enough to there forwards but it's similar to last week where we didn't take our chances but creating plenty.. Think quite often it is cooler heads under pressure we are missing. It’s a confidence thing, you nee...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Vincent's Number 1 Fan
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3495
Re: Vincent's Number 1 Fan
Being greedy taking the money off you, and getting to stay up… but hey it will pay for a good night, so thanks123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:45 pmAdmire your optimism, if we finish on 34 points I would give everyone who likes this comment £100
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: motd
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2318
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tella
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3362
Re: Tella
I came down with a bump when he was so cagey in the town hall interview. It was clear he had no expectation he would be at Burnley next season, was my first reaction when I watched it. I’d have liked him to stay, but I did not expect it, as a result of the above. Great for the lad if as looks likely...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: VK post match v WHU
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2264
Re: VK post match v WHU
Yes, listened to both.
Think VK came across as I’d expect.
He knows they lost two points and more importantly a real confidence booster.
Think VK came across as I’d expect.
He knows they lost two points and more importantly a real confidence booster.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BOURNEMOUTH
- Replies: 2248
- Views: 142855
Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BOURNEMOUTH
West Ham United 1 v Burnley 2
Fofana 34 min,
Championship
Fofana 34 min,
Championship
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Hiring a band
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2133
Re: Hiring a band
I spend a lot of time in the studio but you really can't beat playing live. I loved The Beat, really underrated musicians. I think most of that Two Tone crowd were better musicians than they were given credit for…. Even Kix could play… it was teaching him the right key to play in that lost Madness ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Possible affordable targets for next season
- Replies: 82
- Views: 4354
Re: Possible affordable targets for next season
I think it depends who leaves. Priorities will surely be LB as Charlie will go, CDM as Cork will go (possibly Brownhill if we get a bid) and RB if Leeds go up and Roberts gets an offer. Tresor I wonder whether his loan was contingent on us staying in the Prem so may go back. I think we’ll look at E...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Hiring a band
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2133
Re: Hiring a band
Anyone wanting to see a decent Small Faces tribute (lookalikes of Steve Marriott included) I recommend the Small Fakers… (they cost a lot less too) often found supporting bands with original members… both Loving Spoonfull and Kinda Kinks loved them.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Hiring a band
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2133
Re: Hiring a band
The cost of hiring a band has significantly reduced in the last five years, as a member of a band it’s hardly worth the effort to bother performing anymore. Even festivals don’t pay as much as they used to, but at least you don’t have to cart a P.A. System about for those. I reckon when on a gig it...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fan’s View (version 2)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 4006
Re: Fan’s View (version 2)
I agree. I thought the same thing on the Kompany quote thread the other day. I think it's perfectly fine to say you learn more from tough times than good. Yet a load of people that hate Kompany were saying it was a ridiculous statement. I don't hate Kompany, but it's Burnley that I love. A lot of p...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fan’s View (version 2)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 4006
Re: Fan’s View (version 2)
That's not exactly the case. He might say that in his ending line but if you actually read the content of the article he absolutely speaks for "all fans" for example: "So I would say (fairly) categorically that despite Burnley being second from bottom of the Premier League, Vincent Kompany has noth...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Stoke
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4338
Re: Stoke
definitely a place you needed eyes in the back of your head as an away fan ! Once saw a fan when hit on the head by a pie, pick it up, wave it in the air in thanks and take a bite; but it wasn’t just pastries that rained down. That concrete tunnel in was pretty intimidating from memory too. Liked g...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Which is more important for you on Sunday?
- Replies: 85
- Views: 3681
Re: Which is more important for you on Sunday?
Result for me. We need something to put some belief into the team.
Performance… we need players feeling they have every right to be playing at this level.
Line up - I don’t care who plays as long as they get on the pitch and are ready to fight their demons.
Performance… we need players feeling they have every right to be playing at this level.
Line up - I don’t care who plays as long as they get on the pitch and are ready to fight their demons.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Louis XVII
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2834
Re: Louis XVII
They were certainly better than an often drunk executioner with an axe ! And how otherwise could I have shoehorned the size of VK’s head in ( so to speak ) the dipping of hankies in his blood was of course also surely utter nonsense . Was it a later Masonic thing inserted into folklore ? I think Du...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Louis XVII
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2834
Re: Louis XVII
Who’d have thought so many forumites would be so well versed in French Renaissance political intrigue allied to a cheeky side of regicide ! My main concern would be a clean execution, due the sheer size of Vincent’s Head . Early guilotines were as erratic as an old Renault 5 . How ironic if Pace wa...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Louis XVII
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2834
Re: Louis XVII
As a result of the Black Death towards the end of the 14th century which wiped out in excess of a third of the population and in some areas a half, everything in England was in short supply, including labour. This caused living standards to rise dramatically as artisans and farmers could get good p...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Louis XVII
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2834
Re: Louis XVII
Oh yes, there was a degree of middle class support for the ideals of the Revolution but it never transferred to any real action and our population were relatively free and well-fed compared to the Frenchies. It undoubtedly frightened the ruling class and there was a lot of disruption but we never h...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Louis XVII
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2834
Re: Louis XVII
Oh yes, there was a degree of middle class support for the ideals of the Revolution but it never transferred to any real action and our population were relatively free and well-fed compared to the Frenchies. It undoubtedly frightened the ruling class and there was a lot of disruption but we never h...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Louis XVII
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2834
Re: Louis XVII
Nice and knowledgeable. I don't think we came close to a revolution here in GB though. I’d recommend a bit of late eighteenth/early nineteenth lit Rowls…. The leading light of American Revolution enlightenment was Thomas Paine… the English theorist… then there was Shelley, Byron and the whole Age o...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Brian Clough interview.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2025
Re: Brian Clough interview.
Historical proof that even a football genius needs an experienced Peter Taylor to bounce ideas off.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Louis XVII
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2834
Re: Louis XVII
Yes - so who is Burnley's Robespierre?! Robespierre is most famous for creating the motto… Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and tried to steer the ship… so that role can only go to Alan Pace, it is a bad fit though as the Morman church did not exist until being founded in New York in 1830 by Joseph Sm...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Louis XVII
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2834
Re: Louis XVII
I just want to know who our Robespierre is! Robespierre has been used as a scapegoat for many things… Louis’s demise amongst them. He was guilty of a lot, but the king did accept proportional representation and was retained as head of state. Robespierre was a lawyer trying to prevent anarchy while ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rovers protest
- Replies: 140
- Views: 7682
Re: Rovers protest
Worth watching the match for that alarming protest. Bet the Venky’s can’t sleep tonight seeing such passion on and off the pitch. Wonderful to see it go to the last penalty, although it will give them something to crow about… last thing they needed.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rovers protest
- Replies: 140
- Views: 7682
Re: Rovers protest
Perfect game. Losing after extra time, on the last penalty… with a big few games ahead of them this season; was about what I hoped for before kick off. They showed a lot more fight than we are at the moment though, sadly. Glad it wasn’t us playing them tonight tbh.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Stan Bowles RIP
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2057
Re: Stan Bowles RIP
Great player and a true maverick, something he paid a heavy price for under several managers. As others have said that QPR team was unbelievably talented. RIP
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: pace
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5589
Re: pace
I think (don’t know) that will have been one of Kompanys demands to come. He’s an astute business man. VK’s qualification is business theory and models, is no slight to his qualification to point out that it is one thing to demonstrate his understanding in academic essays, and another to be able to...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
- Replies: 424
- Views: 14527
Re: Simple vote for Kompany to stay or go…no debate
This question gets harder with every passing week. Stay. Not debate but my reasoning:- But I think we need to give VK a long break from the club this summer in order for him to contemplate this season and able to reevaluate his choices this term in the cold light of day, without the noise. I think V...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: whatever happened to John Cofie?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3404
Re: whatever happened to John Cofie?
The headline is a hook, and while factually correct is deliberately misleading to grab attention. Had the Headline read ex-footballer’s had their careers destroyed by claims the court decided where unsubstantiated… it would have had a whole different emotive feel: and would have only appealed to a f...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: PL Prediction League - All Fixtures and Updates - WEEK 29 PREDICTIONS
- Replies: 1453
- Views: 116715
Re: PL Prediction League - All Fixtures and Updates - WEEK 25 PREDICTIONS
Aston Villa 2 -1 Nottingham Forest
Brighton 2 -1 Everton
Crystal Palace 2 v 3 Burnley Fofana 34mins
Man-Utd 3-1 Fulham
Bournemouth 1-3 Man-City
Arsenal 2 - 2 Newcastle
Sunday 25th
Wolves 3 v 0 Sheffield United
Monday 26th
West ham 2 v 1 Brentford
Total goals = 29
Brighton 2 -1 Everton
Crystal Palace 2 v 3 Burnley Fofana 34mins
Man-Utd 3-1 Fulham
Bournemouth 1-3 Man-City
Arsenal 2 - 2 Newcastle
Sunday 25th
Wolves 3 v 0 Sheffield United
Monday 26th
West ham 2 v 1 Brentford
Total goals = 29
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v BOURNEMOUTH
- Replies: 2248
- Views: 142855
Re: 23/24 Season - Burnley Predictor Game - BURNLEY v ARSENAL
Palace 2 - 3 Burnley - Jay Rod 34 mins
Championship
Championship
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: V.K.'s press conference.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2764
Re: V.K.'s press conference.
Press conferences are an obligation. We used to get press conferences when there was a big announcement, the rest of the time it was for the journalists to make the phone calls. Being dragged out before every match is not something managers want to do. Why give advance warning to opponents? Therefor...