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FCBurnley wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 26, 2020 5:07 pm
Is there any video of Harry v Napoli ? Wasn’t there but his performance was reportedly the best ever

I have seen video from the game in Naples but no idea where to find it linked now. I do have these old scrapbook pix that I posted on the BFC in Pictures thread a few weeks back.

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Whether you like Andy Pilley and his input or not, it is surreal to see my old hometown club Fleetwood now challenging for a place in the Championship. Best of luck to the Cods and to Joey. Used to enjoy standing on the old railway sleepers and cinders at Highbury Avenue with my dad now and again ba...

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Then of course we had Newcastle in the final which didn't get played til April when we got well sick of playing the Geordies in the league / cup / and this competition in quick succession.

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 07, 2020 10:23 am
QPR 7-0

I was stood behind the goal at Loftus Rd for that game, October 79. Billy O'Rourke debut in goal. RIP Billy.

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I played in that game Covclaret, strange to see my name there in the line-up - I still have the "Lanway" shirt, very battered now and with the sleeves cut out purely for gym use. I recall you refusing to pass to me at one point when I could have had a great chance to score and keeping the ball yours...

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A few that stand out in my memory that I have seen in person… = Waldron at Preston 73 – already up, his long-range volley made us Champions on a wonderful day at Deepdale. = Casper vs Chelsea 73 – (see scrapbook photo below), midweek match after winning the opening game at Sheff Utd back in the top ...

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Stunning achievement, never thought I would see us back in the top flight again. Had been back visiting England a few weeks before and saw the Sheff Weds, B'Pool, Palace and Forest games, but just had to fly back again for this final (and thanks to a member of the message board for snaring me a tick...

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I was happy to see Willie come back, shame it didn't work out for whatever reasons. Summerbee was an odd one to me. There was a game at the Turf, can't recall who against or at what stage of the game, but I think there was an injury and he was being told to come off the right wing and fill in at lef...

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Good read as usual. For me, "lump in throat" games can be very different to "favourite" games. A quick reflection on 10 games in date order that I have attended that I class as "lumpers". (Would be a little different if I were to include some games I have not been at that have had the same emotional...

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Yes definitely Hankin partly obscuring Casp. Maybe Probert, Bradshaw? Also that is not the championship trophy which we didn't get our hands on until the John Angus testimonial a few days later. Wasn't that little cup they are holding some charity trophy or similar they were messing around with?

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Prime of life :) I'm 62 also, and despite the virus restrictions here in Philly, the 9 weeks that I have been on furlough have certainly shown me that I will have no problem at all with being retired if I can ever get into a position to do so. Even though I have only been working as a driver for the...

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I've thoroughly enjoyed all the reflections and reports on the 59-60 title winning season. Wonderful stuff - the social and news memories as well as the football. Looking forward to the centenary of the 20-21 title winning season next

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I watched the 2nd series through in two sittings recently and thoroughly enjoyed it - have to admit to a kind of perverse pleasure in watching the fans having their hopes built up so much while I knew it was all going to come crashing down about them :) I had forgotten that it was my old hometown cl...

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I like these pix as you can see the old Brunshaw Road Stand packed for the games Vs ManU and Derby. Can also just make out the CFS under construction (or original being demolished) in background of one of the Derby pix. Think I got to see Best, Law, and Charlton line up together in that 1968 win ove...

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Have been trying to rescue some of my old crumbling scrapbook pages - mentioning "Sir" Harry Thomson on the Cult Heroes thread made me find these, from the Napoli games home and away, along with the Eintracht Frankfurt special edition paper for the semi-final.

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Well at least we lifted the FA Cup in 1914 - team pic below is a postcard that my grandad had. He used to watch the lads pre-WW1 then again when he got out of the Army and came back to Burnley after that war.

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He liked a night out, he liked to interact with the fans - maybe rose to cult status when he became the "God in a green jersey" and then revelled in the "Sir Harry Thomson" chants when he would go down on one knee to acknowledge the knighthood? (RIP Harry.)

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rayzer wrote: ↑
Wed May 13, 2020 9:16 pm
Pele. October 23rd. Beat that.

I'm with you Rayzer. When I was young I used to have a poster on my wall of Pele in his Brazil Kit celebrating a goal and I especially liked it because it had his birthday printed boldly.

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"Everything I did that day I thought I might be doing for the last time." -- Agree with that comment from CT. Whole weekend was surreal. No doubt the club would have folded if results had not gone the right way and we'd gone down - and also no doubt in my mind the game would not have been completed ...

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The cover of the programme is as poor as some of the football we played then. I have two copies, one bought, one picked up off the pitch later on

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You're right CT, we must never forget how close we came to folding. Makes our achievements in the last 20 years seem all the more remarkable. I was in the seething mass of humanity that was the Longside that day, and if ever a crowd won a game for a team, that was it. Have watched quite a bit of foo...

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I' ve studied that photo carefully, Cajun, on the off chance that our dads were on the same ship, but I don't see him. Lakedistrict - He has all the crew signatures on the back and bottom of this photo. When my dad joined up in Burnley he and one of his pals were offered the option of serving with ...

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I 'm not sure where my Dad was on VE day, but he was in the Navy escorting merchant ships backwards and forwards across the Atlantic. Despite the carnage meted out by German u-boats, my Dad's ship was only shot at once, and it missed! My dad's destroyer, Kootenay, did the same thing most of the tim...

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I had to be at work, organizing football pages with Press Association Sport in Leeds, and it was virtually impossible to focus on what I was supposed to be doing while getting updates from Scunthorpe and Wrexham. In the end I just couldn't wait for the shift to end so that I could celebrate!!

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Here's a lucky 13 who I really like. Joan Armatrading I think is fantastic, and have been listening to a lot of her older stuff recently. Seen her live numerous times: Joan Armatrading Aretha Franklin Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn Billie Holiday Bonnie Raitt Natalie Merchant Etta James Irma Thomas E...

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Excellent story CT. I was only 4 then so no memories, but my dad told me he managed to get an early work shift so he could be home in time to watch the game, only for some unwelcome non-football fan visitors to show up uninvited just before kick-off. He said that he banished them away from the livin...

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David Wiseman is still around. He wrote the book ‘Up the Clarets’ and then the pictorial ‘Vintage Claret’ at a time when there were so few Burnley related books. My dad knew David Wiseman in the 70s. He visited my mum a couple weeks after my dad died and wrote a dedication in a copy of his book for...

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Cajun, to try and solve your mystery I think the answer is that for many, many years tradition had it that our team would visit Blackpool (and often the Norbreck Castle) for a few days "special training" prior to a big game. Even as far back as the 1914 FA Cup Final Tommy Boyle and his famous team ...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:57 pm
72/73 was my season too. Loved it and still talk about it every opportunity I get.

I still have this little gem produced by the Burnley Express at the time. Great memories.

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Found this menu with most of the title-winning squad autographs on. Believe my dad got them. No idea what the event in Blackpool was for though. I thought it was from the 1959-60 season but now realize it is the previous one, but will post pix anyways. :roll: Pilkington, Miller, Angus, Connelly, Che...

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Wearing the shirt with pride today. Would have loved to have been there - only a toddler at the time - but at least I can say we have been Champions in my lifetime

Enjoyed the report, and the descriptions above from those that were there.

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We are doing weekly quizzes on Thursdays and I sit in the kitchen where behind me is nothing other than a plain, plastered wall still waiting for the decorator. So last week, I did my own improvements. Amazing how much you can do with a bit of blu tack. Kitchen Wall.jpg No need for the decorators n...

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and also hanging about in the house.....

still carrying stuff around after 40+ years -

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two of a kind -

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and it's goodbye from Stan -

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Bored, just took pix of odd Clarets stuff dotted around the house

A little light reading -

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Ball on a wall -

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Up for the cup

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Enjoy this thread, especially the walks photos. Sadly can't do my long runs anymore, but while I am stuck on extended furlough I'm trying to do a regular 1-hour walk along Wissahickon Creek that doesn't involve me having to drive anywhere. Top pic shows Walnut Street Bridge which was the highest con...

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My late '60s set lining-up in a Dyche formation on a frozen surface. Used to love playing that game.

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Yes, like the Jimmy Mac one.
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” - George Best

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For an individual spin, tried to think of a top few albums by artists I have actually seen play live, although preferences change by the day, or by mood: Crawfish Fiesta - Professor Longhair The Nevillle Brotherss - The Neville Bros World Without Tears= Lucinda Williams Back To the Night – Joan Arma...

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They watered the wings and narrowed the pitch at Deepdale to try to negate Taffy's influence. Was sat with my dad just in front of the press box. Believe the estimates for the following that day at Preston were at least 14,000+ Was living in York for the 92 champions game. Fantastic night, I was rig...

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Sorry to hear this, played at schoolboys level with him in Blackpool (and George Berry) so was always interested in his career. He has a very good reputation in the Spanish media and was apparently even working for the Liverpool/Atletico game just before the shutdown.

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Don’t panic guys it will soon be November and Mr sharp as a tack Biden will be in control 😂😂😂. So how many on here will actually vote for Biden. Come on don’t be shy. Seeing as how you ask -- Not a citizen so I don't have a vote here, but in my immediate circle my wife, son, daughter, her boyfriend...

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I went through journalism school with him in the mid 80s. He was a pompous a-hole then and has just got worse. Made the most of knowing some very influential people to climb the ladder to edit national newspapers but got found out pretty quick at that level. (He never liked me after a didn't pick hi...

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The Golden Shot. "And it's Bernie, the bolt..."

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Thanks for the programme image Tony - I actually looked it up recently when you added the late-60s section of matches and programmes to the online database. Just rooted about again in my old souvenir stuff in the basement and was delighted to find that I also still have the original hat that my mum ...

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Plain bar scarf my dad gave me as a birthday gift when he decided I was ready to start joining him at the Turf, Oct 23 1965, beat Sheff Utd 2-0. It remains one of my most treasured possessions, somewhat battered and worse for wear nowadays - a bit like me. Thought I had the match programme but unabl...

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Only 17 for me also. But think I've seen Burnley play on about 60 different grounds old and new, will have to work it out sometime.

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The 2-2 is another memory of Cambridge away even though I didn't go. Think my dad and his mates hired a van to go the game. They were sharing the driving (I'm guessing before drink drive laws came into force) and having met some these characters a few years on (like a booze) the standard of driving...

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Found bunch of old photos rotting in a box in basement, mostly degraded beyond recognition apart from these 3 where you can just about make out some people. 80-81, Blackpool away pub, Plymouth away, Beehole after last game of season. Seems like yesterday.... At least a couple of people I remember no...

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Just watched the second half of this, fantastic. will never tire of seeing it. Could not watch it live or follow it live at the time, but remember the sheer elation on finding out the result. I was at the previous win at Ewood in April '79, also 2-1, when I was in a van out of the Swan pub which was...

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That is a stark reminder of the way things were at that point in time CT. I remember as a teenager being sat in the old South Stand at B'pool that day, was living in Fleetwood with numerous friends who were Pool fans, and being totally dejected at half time. The mood was indeed very dark at that tim...

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