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- Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Your favourite burnley manager
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2620
Re: Your favourite burnley manager
Jimmy Adamson for me for the 3 seasons in the mid70s when I started going on regulary
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 6:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Artists you never took much notice of
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1694
Re: Artists you never took much notice of
Frank Zappa i know enough about him and watched documentaries and sometimes I think I must try and give some of his albums a listen but where the hell do you start with him?
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 3:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Do you irrationally like/dislike any other teams?
- Replies: 104
- Views: 4831
Re: Do you irrationally like/dislike any other teams?
I always look out for Queens Park's results I think it stemmed from being a kid when in the school yard it was either Celtic or Rangers people had for their favourite Scottish team so I picked on the lowly ranked Glasgow team. I absolute used to hate Man Utd with a passion.Although I have mellowed o...
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:58 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Terriers is looking like a sellout.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3690
Re: Burnley v Terriers is looking like a sellout.
I ended up buying tickets for every home game left last week just to make sure me and my Grandson don't miss out I wouldn't care I only went down to get couple of tickets for Fleetwood game.
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: "Tragedy Chants" - clubs face sanctions.
- Replies: 115
- Views: 5895
Re: "Tragedy Chants" - clubs face sanctions.
I think that when some of us cringe at these songs, we are mainly thinking about the children who are with us. The bad language (both spoken and sung) is something which I think you just have to accept, and most children come across these words in the school playground or on the TV, (and in some ca...
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:47 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: No Nay Never Book
- Replies: 0
- Views: 346
No Nay Never Book
Got the book for Xmas and when I started reading it was determined to read it all.After reading all about the early years ups and downs of both clubs and learned quite a lot of history from both sides.Then up into the 60s most of which I've read certainly about Burnley and what a good side we were a...
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tom Dooley Kingston Trio
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1908
Re: Tom Dooley Kingston Trio
Through seeing this thread last night prompted me to listen to some of their songs on you tube so many thanks for that
- Wed Feb 01, 2023 12:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: This is tough!!
- Replies: 84
- Views: 8343
Re: This is tough!!
How did those not drinking for a month do?
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tom Verlaine
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2527
Re: Tom Verlaine
This is sad news for me I first heard them through taking a chance on buying their second album Adventure and it took me into listening to a totally different genre other than English punk bands.It was only recently I actually dug my copy of Marquee Moon LP out and played it the first time in years ...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Good luck Sean Dyche
- Replies: 186
- Views: 13130
Re: Good luck Sean Dyche
He was brilliant for us and I was gutted with the timing of his dismissal and we couldn't give him a send off he deserved from us fans.If he ever returns to the Turf with another team I will applaud him with I presume everyone else.But having said all that I want to see Everton relegated and not win...
- Sat Jan 14, 2023 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Minutes silence booing/noise
- Replies: 59
- Views: 6972
Re: Minutes silence booing/noise
Before the game a gang of them were acting all lairy on Brunshaw road trying to wind people up into having a go with them.After the match on the corner of be!vedere road looked like both sets of fans were goading one another with missiles being thrown from the Coventry fans so just for today I will ...
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Things you don't miss about "old" football
- Replies: 95
- Views: 4193
Re: Things you don't miss about "old" football
And taking this one step further, actually going into Dixons and changing the channel to BBC1 because the TV screens were set to another channel... Watching the scores through the window downtown all the TV screens shut off just before division 2 results came on with the lady working shutting shop ...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: John Lydon
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2092
Re: John Lydon
Wasn't expecting the song to be anything like that.I think it's about his wife who has Alzheimer's.It sort of reminded me of Bowie which I'm sure John Lyndon would hate that comparison
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:37 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: This is tough!!
- Replies: 84
- Views: 8343
Re: This is tough!!
I have had my say on this topic on the many threads over the past few years so good luck to anyone staying dry this month you will certainly feel the benefit of not drinking for a few weeks and it's a fact that most people who do dry Jan. Usually end up drinking less than they did before
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 11:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Pompey support
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3008
Re: Pompey support
Always liked Pompey fans as I think the majority are similar to most Burnley fans that they are pretty grounded. It is very good support but I think we would sell out in similar circumstances. On a side note, I seem to remember some of their fans invading the pitch during the game in the 1981-2 sea...
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: FA Cup betting ... embrace or avoid ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 436
Re: FA Cup betting ... embrace or avoid ?
Going back a good few years you could get terrific value betting on 3rd round day with inflated odds on a 3rd or 4th tier team playing an average top division side one example I remember Southampton then a 3rd tier team were 7/2 to beat premiership side Blackpool.If I recall correctly it was 3-1 and...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tonight's footie 3/1
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2751
Re: Tonight's footie 3/1
Brighton lead at Everton
- Mon Jan 02, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Last time 3 wins over Xmas?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1683
Re: Last time 3 wins over Xmas?
In 1979 we beat Wrexham 21st Dec.Newcastle on Boxing Day then Notts County away on the 29th but lost at Shrewsbury on NYD.Does that count? But we got relegated that season
- Sat Dec 31, 2022 5:40 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accy Clarets coach 1 to Stoke
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4082
Re: Accy Clarets coach 1 to Stoke
I took my grandson to Utd my first away game for a few years and his first one.We both enjoyed our trip and I fully applaud you for the effort you all put in and even trust on us turning up.We are hoping to get to another game this season if we can get tickets and it saddens me to read about this an...
- Thu Dec 29, 2022 12:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Vinyls
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1801
Re: Vinyls
I won't buy nothing but vinyl and I try and look after my lips always being careful and cleaning them before playing them.But fell into the trap of buying CDs in the 90s when you couldn't get a lot of new releases on vinyl and even reissues on cd had loads of extras and bonus tracks.They certainly c...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 9:13 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: What they thought
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3479
Re: What they thought
Worst league leaders? 11 points clear of third place just beat them 3-0 after scoring 3 in 4 consecutive games.The previous best league leaders must have been awesome
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:31 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Favourite season
- Replies: 59
- Views: 2543
Re: Favourite season
1973-74 my first full season watching the Clarets and reaching the semi final of the FA cup
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 1:23 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Boxing Day footy
- Replies: 224
- Views: 8206
Re: Boxing Day footy
Attending the big derby at the Arbories Padiham entertain B'arlick
- Sat Dec 24, 2022 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spare time over Christmas to watch some cult movies
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1215
Re: Spare time over Christmas to watch some cult movies
Delicatessen totally forgot that one used to have that on VideoHipper wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 5:11 pmA few on this thread if you've missed it:
https://www.uptheclarets.com/messageboa ... 71b3e47db5
I may watch:
Amelie
Les Visiteurs
Delicatessen
All French odd comedies.
- Sat Dec 24, 2022 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Spare time over Christmas to watch some cult movies
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1215
Re: Spare time over Christmas to watch some cult movies
Depends on your definition of cult film but a few I liked
She Devil's on Wheels
Faster Pussycat Kill
Performance
The Wild Bunch
She Devil's on Wheels
Faster Pussycat Kill
Performance
The Wild Bunch
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 6:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Oh Burnley is wonderful….
- Replies: 275
- Views: 15344
Re: Oh Burnley is wonderful….
Wouldn’t it be ‘woke’ to not want your grandchild to swear - therefore making you woke - or are we just making definitions up as we go along now? I don't really know what a woke is but back in my day if you lived a life shall we say on the straight you were called old fashioned hope that clears up ...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 5:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Oh Burnley is wonderful….
- Replies: 275
- Views: 15344
Re: Oh Burnley is wonderful….
My family was poor and had little when I was growing up but I was fetched up in a household where bad language was frowned upon.Im not saying I don't swear but never in front of kids.And I certainly don't want to hear it off my 10 year old grandson maybe im just old fashioned and not woke
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Oh Burnley is wonderful….
- Replies: 275
- Views: 15344
Re: Oh Burnley is wonderful….
I tell my 10 year old grandson off if I hear him swear.Even though he here's it everywhere especially on games and like someone said people have no regards of what they say in front of any one including women and kids.He sings along to no nay never though I tell him not to say the substitute word fo...
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:05 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Terry Hall.........
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3090
Re: Terry Hall.........
Gutted to wake up to this news I would say More Specials Waiting by Fun Boy Three and Virgins and Philistines were in the turn massive soundtracks to my life back then so sad another icon gone
RIP Terry
RIP Terry
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 6:04 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: John Francis and Roger Eli
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1909
Re: John Francis and Roger Eli
It was definitely Scunthorpe it was the first replay which finished 1-1 and I'm sure he came on as a sub and scored.The second replay we won5-0 and he got a couple.For the record Altrincham was in the 1981-82 season
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:16 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Gary Glitter
- Replies: 82
- Views: 6298
Re: Gary Glitter
He won't be released until February then he will be tagged so won't be able to leave the country.Theres still a chance he won't be released(fingers crossed)
- Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Fantastic picture
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6520
Re: Fantastic picture
That picture is in one of my Burnley books can't recall which and the caption for it states it's Crewe away 1987 game before the Orient game.Though I couldn't swear to it but one of my old mates Clarkey is in the picture
- Sun Dec 11, 2022 11:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Penalty takers
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2200
Re: Penalty takers
Growing up in the era when Peter Noble took Burnley's Pens. I still have the belief that a professional footballer should never miss a penalty
- Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:30 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Top 3 Christmas movies
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1965
Re: Top 3 Christmas movies
Miracle on 34th Street
It's a Wonderful Life
Bad Santa
It's a Wonderful Life
Bad Santa
- Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:09 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England v Burnley
- Replies: 53
- Views: 2911
Re: England v Burnley
Although I always want England to win Im not generally that bothered when they get beat after years of disappointments.Where as when Burnley get beat it still ruins my weekend
- Thu Dec 08, 2022 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jet Black RIP
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1549
Jet Black RIP
Stranglers drummer and elder statesman of the punk scene has sadly passed away today aged 84.Yet another one of my icons passes away RIP
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:26 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Thoughts on the World Cup so far?
- Replies: 147
- Views: 5892
Re: Thoughts on the World Cup so far?
I can see Brazil are half decent, but there's an overreaction from all the pundits. They seem to want to regard every pass and move as somehow breathtaking, but its not. I can see england taking them apart quite easily . Totally agree I try and blank commentators out but Ally McCoist last night was...
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1979
Re: Any Christmas songs you just can't stand or even hate?
Another good one by The Fall (we wish you) A Protein Christmas also check out Hark The Herald Angles Sing from Peel Sessions
- Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:51 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2022/23: Manchester United – Ticket Information
- Replies: 239
- Views: 27976
Re: 2022/23: Manchester United – Ticket Information
Went down to ticket office 9.15 not that many queing for them about 30ish I'm sure everyone who went down got one.Im taking my Grandson his first ever away match and my first away trip for years
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ban the "Usual Suspects"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 6027
Re: Ban the "Usual Suspects"
Not wishing to cause an argument but wasn't Keyser Soze a made up person and not a Usual Suspect?
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:31 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clitheroe FC
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8573
Re: Clitheroe FC
Yes was called off last night I was looking forward to going up Saturday fingers crossed for a bit of dry weatherQuickenthetempo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:46 amBe a miracle if their pitch can be fit with all this rain.
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:17 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clitheroe FC
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8573
Re: Clitheroe FC
PS yes it's usually half price for Burnley season ticket holders if the Clarets have no gamePtangyangkipperbang wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:08 amPadiham usually get between 200 and 300 sometimes a few more on a decent day weather wise or a decent away following.Speaking of which they entertain Northwich this Saturday KO 2pm
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:08 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Clitheroe FC
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8573
Re: Clitheroe FC
949 not a good crowd? I'm out of touch with all this, how many do Padiham get on? Is it half price for Burnley fans with a season ticket? Padiham usually get between 200 and 300 sometimes a few more on a decent day weather wise or a decent away following.Speaking of which they entertain Northwich t...
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: When did McDonalds open in Burnley?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3801
Re: When did McDonalds open in Burnley?
It was either 1983 or 84
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 11:40 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England v Iran
- Replies: 258
- Views: 9016
Re: England v Iran
Just seen a report on sky sports from outside the ground and absolutely nobody there
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: House of Cards - on BBC4
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1019
Re: House of Cards - on BBC4
Cheers for the heads up missed it at the time just watched the first one and you are right nothing changes
- Tue Nov 15, 2022 3:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accy Clarets to Man Utd - Wed 21st Dec ko 8pm
- Replies: 164
- Views: 8289
- Tue Nov 15, 2022 3:30 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Accy Clarets to Man Utd - Wed 21st Dec ko 8pm
- Replies: 164
- Views: 8289
Re: Accy Clarets to Man Utd - Wed 21st Dec ko 8pm
Hoping to get tickets for myself and Grandson so would like to book seats under the name Brown.But I'm a non season ticket holder so would it be ok to provisionally book them setting off from Turf?
- Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:03 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Good Songs
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1056
Re: Good Songs
Lorraine by Explainer I first heard this brilliant Calypso track in lockdown and it became a soundtrack of that period for me I have just played it on you tube and discovered the artist in guestroom passed away last week.Anyone who likes an uplifting song check it out
- Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:27 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: When You’re Smiling 2022-23
- Replies: 285
- Views: 28642