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- Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tour de France 2019
- Replies: 226
- Views: 16110
Re: Tour de France 2019
Another great day of racing - this is really becoming quite fascinating Nice as it was seeing Brits winning every year, with Sky/Ineos no longer being so dominant, it’s a much more exciting race. Mind you, can’t help thinking that Chris Froome is lying on a sofa somewhere thinking “I would have pi5...
- Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:41 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Man on the Moon..
- Replies: 136
- Views: 9977
Re: Man on the Moon..
I'm not religious bobinho, so best avoid that one. I just find it hard to believe nobody has been back in 50 years. Such a race to be the first, then nothing. Maybe the reason we haven’t been back is because there is f**k all there! They proved they could, but once you got all the samples you need,...
- Fri Jul 19, 2019 1:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Cycling advice
- Replies: 72
- Views: 6797
Re: Cycling advice
The Pinnacle looks good. Just to throw one more in the mix, If you think you're going to mostly be on the roads https://www.evanscycles.com/cannondale-synapse-al-tia-2020-road-bike-EV360796" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The Synapse is an 'endurance' bike designed for comfort over l...
- Mon Jul 15, 2019 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: PL bring in head to head
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1576
Re: PL bring in head to head
Yeah, just like two ties in one game of cricket.jdrobbo wrote:A new rule for something that will happen once every twenty or thirty years? Fair enough.
“Sod it, just give to whoever score most boundaries. It’ll never happen anyway.”
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: New Corner Stands
- Replies: 546
- Views: 65315
Re: New Corner Stands
...which is all that really matters. But hey, we’re Burnley fans - we need something to moan about.ClaretTony wrote:Members of Burnley Disabled Supporters Group used the facility at the end of last season and they were delighted with the result.
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 11:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Aston Villa - another BOOM !!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9067
Re: Aston Villa - another BOOM !!!!!!!!!
If he’s willing to shell out 25m on Mings, I would suggest Villa’s owner certainly has more money than sense.tiger76 wrote:The op does know Villa have an owner who's worth billions,this may just help their spending spree.
Also suggests we’re significantly undervaluing Tarkowski.
- Sun Jun 30, 2019 6:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England v India
- Replies: 152
- Views: 8613
Re: England v India
They didn’t exactly start with much urgency either. Strange performance all round.
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2019
- Replies: 300
- Views: 20117
Re: Glastonbury 2019
Careful - rileybobs will hang you for homophobia.Steve1956 wrote:Nice surprise the Pet Shop Boys....oh goody.
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2019
- Replies: 300
- Views: 20117
Re: Glastonbury 2019
...and Brandon Flowers looks a bit like Rob Brydon.
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 10:33 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2019
- Replies: 300
- Views: 20117
Re: Glastonbury 2019
By the way, he Killers are shite as well!
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2019
- Replies: 300
- Views: 20117
Re: Glastonbury 2019
You said he looked like Lukaku and sounded like Dizzee Rascal. Neither of which are true. It was just an ignorant comment to make. I think he looks like Lukaku - other people do too. Sometimes I say that a white person looks like another white person, and you may agree or disagree, but because it h...
- Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:36 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2019
- Replies: 300
- Views: 20117
Re: Glastonbury 2019
Did I say that?Rileybobs wrote: True brother. All black people look and sound the same!!
- Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Glastonbury 2019
- Replies: 300
- Views: 20117
Re: Glastonbury 2019
So that was Stormzy? I thought it was Romelu Lukaku doing a Dizzee Rascall tribute act!
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rafa Goes
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10231
Re: Rafa Goes
Which ones? Paddy Power have him at 20/1.Jakubs Tash wrote:SD heavily fancied by the bookies....
If their Arab takeover is happening, no way will they go for a manager like Dyche - they’ll want a “Name”. If it isn’t, Dyche isn’t daft enough to get into bed with Ashley.
- Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England v Sri Lanka Cricket
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4222
Re: England v Sri Lanka Cricket
Tougher than Australia, India and New Zealand???Spijed wrote:Sri Lanka have a tough run-in, so should be ok....
....Hopefully
- Tue Jun 18, 2019 11:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The next Tory Leader..
- Replies: 312
- Views: 22314
Re: The next Tory Leader..
tim_noone wrote:Are we any closer to knowing yet?
‘Fraid not. The only thing I took from tonight is how bloody depressing it is that one of those people will be our next Prime Minister.
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 10:42 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: What standard of men's football would beat a top international women's team ?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 14542
Re: What standard of men's football would beat a top international women's team ?
A team of lard-bellied 30 stone 60 year olds playing walking football would tear any women's team a new one without breaking sweat. They did. Did you not see “Harry’s heroes” beating the Crystal Palace women’s team? To be fair though that’s only half the story. From the bits I’ve seen, it’s a lot m...
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Coldest Football Ground
- Replies: 87
- Views: 8924
Re: Coldest Football Ground
The coldest experience I’ve ever had at a football match was Blackpool away the season we went up with Coyle. Went in full thermals and ski gear, and still freezing my nits off.
Worth it for Kalvenes’s late winner though!
Worth it for Kalvenes’s late winner though!
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:05 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 2019 - 2020 Fixtures
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7191
Re: 2019 - 2020 Fixtures
If I recall, the day before leaks have been spot-on for the last couple of years.edison wrote:Every. Single. Year
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:43 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Campbell as Labour leader?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3362
Re: Campbell as Labour leader?
He’d need to become an MP first.Im_not_Robbie_Blake wrote:Alastair is on the Jeremy Vine programme. One caller suggested that he could be the best leader Labour never had.
....but could he yet become that leader?!!!
- Tue Jun 11, 2019 11:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: All time classic LP's
- Replies: 119
- Views: 10894
Re: All time classic LP's
Quadraphenia - the Who
Sound Affects - the Jam
Imperial bedroom - Elvis Costello
London Calling - The Clash
Different Class - pulp
Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
Sound Affects - the Jam
Imperial bedroom - Elvis Costello
London Calling - The Clash
Different Class - pulp
Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: BFC TRANSFER NEWS (MUST CONTAIN LINK)
- Replies: 5242
- Views: 694991
Re: BFC TRANSFER NEWS (MUST CONTAIN LINK)
If jayrod is available for £5m and we bid £16m for the same player last year, what on earth can hold this up?
Plus, why not use some of the money saved to get Adams over the line?
Please, just for once, f**kin get on with it!
Plus, why not use some of the money saved to get Adams over the line?
Please, just for once, f**kin get on with it!
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The next Tory Leader..
- Replies: 312
- Views: 22314
Re: The next Tory Leader..
Sorry to disappoint your Brexiteer fantasies, but she was just canvassing for the local elections! Proud to say I helped her lose her seat last time out...brexit wrote:I am eager for the next part of this
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Worcs Vs Lancs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1423
Re: Worcs Vs Lancs
Two bonus points before lunch but the forecast from around 3pm today for the rest of the week is awful with weather warnings for Worcester tomorrow and Wednesday. It would be nice to get three quick wickets and that last bowling point after lunch before the heavens open. Apart from this match, this...
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The next Tory Leader..
- Replies: 312
- Views: 22314
Re: The next Tory Leader..
I had Esther McVey on my doorstep oncebrexit wrote:£10 on McVey @ 175 to 1
Women is perfect leadership material, scouser, nearly a northern MP, would switch off a life support machine to charge her phone.
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Victoria Derbyshire
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4423
Re: Victoria Derbyshire
Did she mention Boris Cnut at all?
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: When did Burnley erect the fences?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5581
Re: When did Burnley erect the fences?
Definitely a fence there, but it seems strange that they would do the Bee Hole End before the Longside. Presumably it was a work in progress at that point, which would give you your answer.
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: When did Burnley erect the fences?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5581
Re: When did Burnley erect the fences?
that would kind of suggest the summer of 1980...Quickenthetempo wrote:I have narrowed the pitchside fences being erected, to between the stoke game on January 6th 1980 and the Brentford game the next season in October 1980.
Thankyou I will keep looking for references in between these games.
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley v Stoke FA Cup 1980
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3080
Re: Burnley v Stoke FA Cup 1980
Wow - a proper homer of a ref at the Turf. Never been seen since!
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 10:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Extended home section in cricket field stand
- Replies: 219
- Views: 17733
Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand
The principal that it can only be one or the other is ridiculous. Every other club is trying to do both because they feel the two go hand in hand. Improved facilities and increased capacity can have a long term relationship with success on the pitch. But the Chairman and some narrow minded Burnley ...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:40 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Extended home section in cricket field stand
- Replies: 219
- Views: 17733
Re: Extended home section in cricket field stand
Bloody hell. Here we are about to go into our 5th season as a top flight football in 6 years, and we have a 3 page thread of people whinging about the state of the ground! We started to prioritise the ground ahead of the team last time we were at this level for any length of time and it didn’t end w...
- Thu May 30, 2019 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rory Stewart
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4122
Re: Rory Stewart
I've put £20 on him @16/1. Don't really know much about him but lots of the others are unelectable to the public and when they have leadership elections the Tories always seem to pick outsiders going right back to Thatcher even. One of the few acceptable faces of the Tory party these days, but even...
- Mon May 27, 2019 11:49 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Newcastle to be sold
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5882
Re: Newcastle to be sold
Really? Only it the sense that it once again confirms the premier league as the world’s premier dick-swinging contest for the unimaginably wealthy. Not really sport, is it?Devils_Advocate wrote:If this happens its bad news for Burnley but good news for English football in general
- Sat May 25, 2019 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Everest Que
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4907
Re: Everest Que
Looks like one of farage’s immigration posters.
- Sat May 25, 2019 9:04 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The next Tory Leader..
- Replies: 312
- Views: 22314
Re: The next Tory Leader..
Ffs Rory Stewart as PM. Just watched this guy doing an interview he has zero charisma, looks a cross between Mr Zippy and a vicar. I might vote for Boris but never Stewart who looks weak and is unelectable Might not be the most charismatic, but he’s one of the few tories who talks in a sensible, ba...
- Sat May 25, 2019 8:59 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The next Tory Leader..
- Replies: 312
- Views: 22314
Re: The next Tory Leader..
I think it’s rhyming slang.tim_noone wrote:I think it's Jeremy.
- Thu May 23, 2019 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Premier League finance article in Guardian
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3958
Re: Premier League finance article in Guardian
City are he subject of an FFP inquiry which could see them chucked out of the Champions League, but don’t hold your breath...
I was more referring to cases like Brighton - £230m in hock to Tony Bloom, yet he “lent” them another £32m last season.
I was more referring to cases like Brighton - £230m in hock to Tony Bloom, yet he “lent” them another £32m last season.
- Thu May 23, 2019 2:06 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Premier League finance article in Guardian
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3958
Re: Premier League finance article in Guardian
What exactly is the rule with regard to director loans?
I thought beyond a certain level,directors/owners could only pump money in as equity, yet several still seem to be giving big loans despite the clubs being £100s of millions in debt to them already.
I thought beyond a certain level,directors/owners could only pump money in as equity, yet several still seem to be giving big loans despite the clubs being £100s of millions in debt to them already.
- Tue May 21, 2019 10:16 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: YES! Farage Milkshaked
- Replies: 579
- Views: 34934
Re: YES! Farage Milkshaked
An immensely puerile act that is unjustifiable on any sort of political, intellectual or moral basis.
F***ing funny though...
F***ing funny though...
- Sun May 19, 2019 3:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: I like Boris Johnson but..
- Replies: 64
- Views: 6280
Re: I like Boris Johnson but..
I would argue he’s more of a lying, cheating tosser than most politicians.
- Sun May 19, 2019 3:25 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Eurovision 2019
- Replies: 75
- Views: 5334
Re: Eurovision 2019
I’ve never understood the point of this event for this very reason, even back in the days when we got a fair crack of the whip.Clarets4me wrote: Meanwhile, in the real world, British " Pop " music outsells any other Country in the world apart from the United States
- Sat May 18, 2019 10:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: 18th May 1994
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3578
Re: 18th May 1994
One of the great nights. Helluva journey down, but the locals were all very welcoming when we arrived - all smiles and handshakes and “well done for coming.”
Very different on the walk back to the car...
Very different on the walk back to the car...
- Fri May 17, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: I like Boris Johnson but..
- Replies: 64
- Views: 6280
Re: I like Boris Johnson but..
He simply cannot speak fluently and it drives me mad ,I think one of the most important skills of any so called leader be it in politics or even sport is to communicate clearly to the people your trying to convince.. Boris Johnson is a highly educated and (though he hides it well) a very intelligen...
- Fri May 17, 2019 9:36 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Walters on Talksport
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5878
Re: Walters on Talksport
I never knew that was a thing.
Still, how did he manage to cut his leg playing it? He must’ve climbed on the table?!!
Still, how did he manage to cut his leg playing it? He must’ve climbed on the table?!!
- Fri May 17, 2019 9:31 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Tarks out of England Squad
- Replies: 57
- Views: 12835
Re: Tarks out of England Squad
Not sure that’s true. He might conclude that if he wants an England career, he will have to move to a “big”COBBLE wrote:Might help keep him at BFC for a bit longer.
Club.
- Wed May 15, 2019 8:44 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Chris Wood should get a trophy for this.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7423
Re: Chris Wood should get a trophy for this.
I suspect it’s more down to his own lack of mobility.deanothedino wrote:Ever considered that it might be because we’re so bad at getting the ball forward that he is caught offside so often?
- Tue May 14, 2019 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Chris Wood should get a trophy for this.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7423
Re: Chris Wood should get a trophy for this.
I know his scoring record is good but I still find Wood a difficult footballer to like.
- Tue May 14, 2019 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: West Brom v Villa
- Replies: 76
- Views: 6154
Re: West Brom v Villa
I hope by the you meant “bye” Tammy Abraham and not “buy” Tammy Abraham.tim_noone wrote:By tammy abram...
- Tue May 14, 2019 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is staying in the Prem the be all and end all?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6776
Re: Is staying in the Prem the be all and end all?
“Be all and end all”? No, but I’d rather be here than not, and if you don’t want to see your team play at the highest possible level, there isn’t a lot of point to it all. Having said that, the history of clubs like ours suggests our time at the top level will be limited, and I’d like to have someth...
- Tue May 14, 2019 12:43 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Mike Dean
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5571
Re: Mike Dean
Like a lot of refs he obviously craves attention. Jumping up and down and going mad to celebrate is one thing, climbing on a barrier when you’re one of the country’s leading refs is quite another. He’s 50 years old for Christ’s sake!