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by SlidingTackle
Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: PL / FL / Scottish grounds visible by rail
Replies: 48
Views: 3210

Re: PL / FL / Scottish grounds visible by rail

Can't quite visualise it, but you're probably right about Hibernian's Easter Road as you approach Edinburgh Waverley from the east (on the East coast Mainline) to the north. I think, therefore, you can also see the Meadowbank Stadium (used for the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games) and now home to Ed...
by SlidingTackle
Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ticket Exchange / ticket for Everton H
Replies: 3
Views: 419

Re: Ticket Exchange / ticket for Everton H

Thanks Quickenthetempo and Winstonswhite. I'll bide my time.
by SlidingTackle
Wed Nov 22, 2023 12:49 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ticket Exchange / ticket for Everton H
Replies: 3
Views: 419

Ticket Exchange / ticket for Everton H

Due to a planned get together with some mates in Manchester on the Friday which has just been arranged, I'm going to be around the day of the Everton home game. I don't have a season ticket as I live in South Queensferry (as discussed in a recent thread), nor am I any longer a member of the Clarets ...
by SlidingTackle
Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:12 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Spotted - SQF
Replies: 9
Views: 2881

Re: Spotted - SQF

Well I didn’t check this for a few days and thought I’d started a war 😂 Lucky man living next door to Lou Lou’s! We’re up in SQF 4 or 5 times a year to visit family, love the place! Lou Lous's! Asif and Louise are good friends. My youngest daughter used to work for the rival emporium across the roa...
by SlidingTackle
Wed Oct 25, 2023 2:00 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Spotted - SQF
Replies: 9
Views: 2881

Re: Spotted - SQF

Apologies for the slow response to this query. I am indeed the owner of the red Ford Fiesta parked on the High Street in South Queensferry, and notable for having a 'My Turf, My Town' sticker (plus an old Holland's Pies era mini-kit, when it sticks properly) in the back window. And, yes, as my mate ...
by SlidingTackle
Sat Sep 30, 2023 3:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets Vs Newcastle
Replies: 538
Views: 22220

Re: Clarets Vs Newcastle

Any links??
by SlidingTackle
Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Anyone been to the Edinburgh Fringe?
Replies: 13
Views: 914

Re: Anyone been to the Edinburgh Fringe?

I live in South Queensferry (just outside Edinburgh itself). Have done for 30+ years. The fringe is just fantastic but has increasingly become a more formalised, organised and gentrified thing rather than the informal impromptu thing it once was. This isn't a change for the better. It's become almos...
by SlidingTackle
Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:51 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Advice re Shetland Isles
Replies: 11
Views: 1149

Re: Advice re Shetland Isles

Go to Shetland regularly (I'm a birder). First off it is Shetland (not the Shetlands, the Shetland Isles, the Shetland Islands, etc.). Yes, compared to Orkney the scenery can be austere but it harsh its own beauty. Great to island hop. You only pay north bound. Best to book ahead using the (very goo...
by SlidingTackle
Wed Aug 09, 2023 3:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: When was your first served beer?
Replies: 146
Views: 8158

Re: When was your first served beer?

I'm not making this up, but fantastically, and appropriately, in the New Delight Inn in the hamlet of New Delight up above Hebden Bridge in June 1975 when I was 14 (15 in September 1975). I was in the company of 'responsible' adults so it was vaguely legitimate. Become a routine thing thereafter, my...
by SlidingTackle
Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:30 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Weather Watch
Replies: 9
Views: 1114

Re: Weather Watch

equinox wrote:
Sat Aug 05, 2023 10:54 am
Haaland won't like the heat with him being Icelandic
Or Norway as some of us call it.....
by SlidingTackle
Mon Jul 24, 2023 11:03 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Worst decisions in football history?
Replies: 46
Views: 3198

Re: Worst decisions in football history?

It's been great for us admittedly, but Venky's 'investment' in Premier league B@@@@@@s.

What? Wait? There's something called relegation?

:-)
by SlidingTackle
Fri Jul 14, 2023 1:26 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Moments that could have changed BFC forever
Replies: 63
Views: 3377

Re: Moments that could have changed BFC forever

https://www.efl.com/news/2016/january/f ... gue-clubs/

This. As a result it was no longer a level playing field in terms of finding and attracting players, and we could no longer compete with the 'big' clubs.
by SlidingTackle
Sun Jun 25, 2023 12:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Horse flies
Replies: 39
Views: 3791

Re: Horse flies

Clegs, please.
by SlidingTackle
Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dean Marney
Replies: 33
Views: 2511

Re: Dean Marney

One of the most erudite threads on 'ere.....
by SlidingTackle
Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Dean Marney
Replies: 33
Views: 2511

Re: Dean Marney

One of the most erudite threads on 'ere.....
by SlidingTackle
Fri Jun 02, 2023 5:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Derby 2023
Replies: 17
Views: 1533

Re: The Derby 2023

There's only one derby on here. :-)
by SlidingTackle
Fri May 12, 2023 7:53 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 14 Years Ago Today: Play-Off Semi Final Vs Reading
Replies: 36
Views: 2353

Re: 14 Years Ago Today: Play-Off Semi Final Vs Reading

Whenever the whole beauty of Pato's goal that night is discussed, I always flag up Wade Elliot's lung bursting run that took half the Reading defence out wide to the right leaving a 'massive gap' (TM Jamie Carragher) for Pato to continue on into. Not taking ANYTHING away from the run and shot, but i...
by SlidingTackle
Thu May 04, 2023 12:42 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pubs for tomorrow
Replies: 12
Views: 2329

Re: Pubs for tomorrow

Going to be quite a sess, clearly..... ;)
by SlidingTackle
Wed May 03, 2023 12:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Bene ‘n’ hot
Replies: 44
Views: 5336

Re: Bene ‘n’ hot

Billy Balfour wrote:
Tue May 02, 2023 9:52 pm
I'm not a fan either. It's like drinking syrupy cough medicine.
:o :o :o :o WWWWHHHHAAAATTTT? Wash you mouth out with Benedictine!!!!! :D :D :D :D
by SlidingTackle
Wed May 03, 2023 7:56 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: How many old 'uns/over 60's post on here?
Replies: 167
Views: 7112

Re: How many old 'uns/over 60's post on here?

I'm another 62 coming up 63 type chap. The one who moved to Burnley when he was 10, and lived opposite Arthur Bellamy, and was given complimentary tickets for me and my Dad by him for every home game. I never looked back.
by SlidingTackle
Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: 49 years ago today
Replies: 39
Views: 2864

Re: 49 years ago today

.... I was walking around in Haughton Hagg Wood near Worsthorne as a 14 year old, listening on my trannie radio. Not a good experience. :( :( :(
by SlidingTackle
Sat Dec 17, 2022 2:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clarets+
Replies: 54
Views: 4886

Re: Clarets+

Yep, me too. Entire Burnley Football Club website seems frozen....
by SlidingTackle
Sun Nov 13, 2022 5:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Highlights
Replies: 1
Views: 535

Highlights

Just been watching this on repeat. Thought I'd share.

https://www.skysports.com/football/burn ... ort/468066
by SlidingTackle
Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:27 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Any Streams ?
Replies: 18
Views: 1739

Re: Any Streams ?

boatshed bill wrote:
Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:21 pm
I've paid the club a tenner to watch on Clarets+... no illegal streams here :D
So've I but I really not sure how or where I get the service having done so! No link or 'owt once I'd given my details? Eh?
by SlidingTackle
Mon Aug 08, 2022 1:47 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Radio " 5Live " ... Classified Results
Replies: 65
Views: 2745

Re: Radio " 5Live " ... Classified Results

Slightly off topic, but please reassure me that on leaving grounds at around 5pm you'd sometimes see random groups of blokes following someone who had a transistor radio to glean just anything about the afternoons' games (whether or not he was going in their direction)? Just like men standing outsid...
by SlidingTackle
Sat Jul 30, 2022 2:48 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Today's Football
Replies: 72
Views: 3233

Re: Today's Football

Nine boring nil-nils following by another one tomorrow and one more on Monday will do for me..... . UTC!!!
by SlidingTackle
Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:06 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: General Info - Huddersfield (a)
Replies: 51
Views: 4729

Re: Pubs for Huddersfield

Slubbers Arms. Proper old pub!!!!!
by SlidingTackle
Sat Jul 23, 2022 2:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: BURNLEY 1882. New Team. New Brand.
Replies: 28
Views: 2461

Re: BURNLEY 1882. New Team. New Brand.

I didn't imagine the name would be changed, just the 'brand' as the OP alluded to. Good grief - there are so many on this board who are ready to come out with fists flying.................get a life and GET REAL - LUDDITES. Eh? It's called a debate and involves banter. I am well aware there are @@@...
by SlidingTackle
Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:27 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: BURNLEY 1882. New Team. New Brand.
Replies: 28
Views: 2461

Re: BURNLEY 1882. New Team. New Brand.

:D :D :D :D What a load of twaddle! IF anyone is interested the 'founded in 1882' factoid is surely something to be found in the first paragraph of the Club History or Background chapter? Sure, in my day, we had football annuals, etc., and you read them until you knew them off by heart, or, like Rip...
by SlidingTackle
Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Transfer Rumours Thread - NO FINANCIAL DISCUSSION
Replies: 10054
Views: 1086349

Re: Transfer Rumours Thread - NO FINANCIAL DISCUSSION

We need to start thinking "16 man team" under VK. Can see him using all 5 subs with some players not on their game coming off at half term. A far change from Barnes or Rodriguez coming on with 16 minutes to go and Vydra coming on with 3 minutes to go. Add to that 46 games a season, injuries and sus...
by SlidingTackle
Wed Apr 20, 2022 1:09 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Haaland
Replies: 67
Views: 6038

Re: Haaland

Slight change of topic, but father and son footballers? The fathers are usually the better footballer, right; for example, Johan Cruyff versus Jordi Cruyff? Or our own Brian Miller compared to his son Dave, who also played for us. However, Erling Braut Haaland is very definitely a better player than...
by SlidingTackle
Thu Mar 24, 2022 2:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Barnfield Training Center
Replies: 30
Views: 3707

Re: Barnfield Training Center

What, brown instead of green? It looked great when first done, but the grass looks to have died in that video. It's liable to be a so-called green roof and planted up with stonecrops (sedum spp.) which hold water but tolerate drought rather than grasses species. https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/advic...
by SlidingTackle
Sat Mar 05, 2022 2:05 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Pack Horse good news
Replies: 13
Views: 2089

Re: Pack Horse good news

Echoing LS7,it was REALLY, REALLY good news when I read this as the Pack Horse Inn was very much part of my Worsthorne teenage years along with Gorple, Widdop and Walshaw Dean Reservoirs and the moors around about. Made me emotional when I read the news and drifted off into memories of summer evenin...
by SlidingTackle
Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:01 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Favourite one word title songs
Replies: 100
Views: 4413

Re: Favourite one word title songs

One - U2
by SlidingTackle
Thu Dec 23, 2021 6:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: One Small Act - A film by Burnley FC
Replies: 21
Views: 2007

Re: One Small Act - A film by Burnley FC

I appreciate that it is an inevitable evil that our club has to be increasingly corporate, but long may it continue to reflect the values we all cherish, homely, little, caring...... .
by SlidingTackle
Wed Dec 22, 2021 6:52 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Who is Single and Lives Alone?
Replies: 60
Views: 7966

Re: Who is Single and Lives Alone?

Okay. Very interesting thread, and perhaps the most un-judgemental and non-confrontational thread on here ever! Really good, so much so that I am minded to join in, even though in a 'it's a bloke thing' kind of way, it is not necessarily easy to talk about such things. I eventually got married later...
by SlidingTackle
Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: David "Bumble"Lloyd retires
Replies: 49
Views: 3623

Re: David "Bumble"Lloyd retires

I am not belittling Bumble in any way, as he was way more than that, but how many other professional Lancastrians can we think of? By which I mean people who have fantastically succeeded at making their being Lancastrian a positive asset? George Formby, Victoria Wood.......? I mean, people who make ...
by SlidingTackle
Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Your favourite growler
Replies: 45
Views: 3270

Re: Your favourite growler

They don't do decent pies in Scotland. Meat pies are full of some glutinous mutton based stuff. There are also oddities as described and of course, macaroni pies. Have lived here since 1992 but regularly smuggle pies back over the border following trips south. Take the Blacko-Gisburn-Long Preston ro...
by SlidingTackle
Sun Oct 31, 2021 9:47 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Ian Woan interview
Replies: 16
Views: 4167

Re: Ian Woan interview

Enjoyed that as a read. Their gaff in Whalley is made to sound like a bedsit in bedsit land, a la the Soft Cell track.
by SlidingTackle
Mon Oct 25, 2021 7:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Clydebank-Elgin on BBC Scotland
Replies: 6
Views: 1128

Re: Clydebank-Elgin on BBC Scotland

It's all Greek to me...
by SlidingTackle
Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:27 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Best intro to a film
Replies: 56
Views: 4035

Re: Best intro to a film

For some reason I can't now delete my earlier attempts above. Apologies.
by SlidingTackle
Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:23 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Best intro to a film
Replies: 56
Views: 4035

Re: Best intro to a film

Once Were Warriors Initial shot is of idyllic NZ mountainous scenery at dawn or dusk - stupendous....... but camera slowly pans back to reveal this is just a billboard in a impoverished part of Auckland with a population which is predominantly comprised of displaced Maoris trying to make a go of it ...
by SlidingTackle
Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:19 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Best intro to a film
Replies: 56
Views: 4035

Re: Best intro to a film

<iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/66461262" width="640" height="512" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
by SlidingTackle
Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:07 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Best intro to a film
Replies: 56
Views: 4035

Re: Best intro to a film

Once Were Warriors Initial shot is of idyllic NZ mountainous scenery at dawn or dusk - stupendous....... but camera slowly pans back to reveal this is just a billboard in a impoverished part of Auckland with a population which is predominantly comprised of displaced Maoris trying to make a go of it ...
by SlidingTackle
Thu May 13, 2021 8:07 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Steven Thompson TV presenter
Replies: 20
Views: 3597

Re: Steven Thompson TV presenter

I don't necessarily watch the entire programme, but he IS good (at least as good as the 'professional' presenters would be!) and as such has seamlessly moved from pundit in the studio (which he was for a long time) to presenter. I like him, which is, admittedly, a lot to do with witnessing 'that' go...
by SlidingTackle
Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:02 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: What were the Clarets doing the year you came into the world?
Replies: 70
Views: 4598

Re: What were the Clarets doing the year you came into the world?

Still celebrating being reigning First Division Champions for the second time, by thrashing Nobbers 5.0 at Turf Moor two days before the momentous day...... .
by SlidingTackle
Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:17 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Steve Davis MKII
Replies: 49
Views: 3704

Re: Steve Davis MKII

Apparently he was scouted by the famous scout Jack Hixon, being that he was from the NE of England. I remember an interview with Jack Hixon on Radio 5 years ago in which he was asked were there any players he scouted who he was surprised hadn't gone on to bigger things. He responded 'Steve Davis' st...
by SlidingTackle
Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnden Park tragedy
Replies: 14
Views: 2195

Re: Burnden Park tragedy

My father, grandad and a great uncle, were all there (my folks on both sides originate from Bolton) on the end where disaster occurred. I've written about this on here before, I am sure. In the immediate post-war years football was immensely popular as people had been deprived of attending competiti...