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Jakubclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:38 pm
That's all good & well when we are in the championship I guess.

So you would not have had Winston Churchill as PM during the Second World War?

Good call.

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Not seeing much sympathy on here for those who have suffered an horrendous death. Well I for one feel deeply for the injured dead and injured whatever their nationality So do I, imagine your own regime allowing a massacre to happen, despite warnings because it feeds your leaders wider political age...

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Not enough research goes into signing these players, take foster for example the amount of games he's missed for whatever reason(s) & that's being sympathetic to his problems but for a team fighting relegation you simply cannot afford to have your star striker missing for so long. Alternatively you...

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If Trump gets in and does what he is threatening it is not just Ukraine that needs to worry. All this penny pinching now is only going to end up costing much more. The trajectory at the moment suggests within the next 5-10 years Russia will roll over Europe. When they attacked a friend I did nothing...

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Change the plinth and it would look great outside the public conveniences in the town.

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Newcastle 2-3 West Ham
Bournemouth 1-1 Everton
Chelsea 1-2 Burnley Foster 34 mins
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Crystal Palace
Sheffield United 1-3 Fulham
Spurs 3-1 Luton
Aston Villa 3-1 Wolves
Brentford 1-2 Man-Utd
Liverpool 3-1Brighton NAP
Man-City 2-1 Arsenal

35 GOALS

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Might sound odd but looking back I enjoyed those times when you could walk onto an away end and pretty much recognise the same faces…. Crowd changes on the tannoy as Leighton James put it. There was a real camaraderie that went with being that bad. Though obviously I hope we never go anywhere near t...

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Burnley

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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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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.

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yTib wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:28 pm
he's 60 years old today.

god i feel old.

Oh dear me too. Remember his debut game, and wondering if he was Paul Dixon’s son; much to my dad’s amusement at the time.

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:15 pm
That 'analysis' for our game was beyond amateurish. Awful that from the Beeb.

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…

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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...

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NottsClaret wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:17 pm
Oxford in the 80s, Cambridge early 90s. I doubt Lincoln ever have, could be wrong.

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.

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Burnley Ace wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:29 pm
I don’t think there was the remotest chance that he wanted to come back to Burnley.

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….

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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’.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:45 pm
Admire your optimism, if we finish on 34 points I would give everyone who likes this comment £100

Being greedy taking the money off you, and getting to stay up… but hey it will pay for a good night, so thanks

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MT03ALG wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:18 pm
Was it not Given who thought that Luton's goal was a perfect goal ?

Thought Trafford was too weak, and should have cleared them all out; hard to disagree with that: but for me it was still a foul.

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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...

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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.

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West Ham United 1 v Burnley 2

Fofana 34 min,

Championship

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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 ...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Historical proof that even a football genius needs an experienced Peter Taylor to bounce ideas off.

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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...

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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 ...

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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.

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