• Most Embarrassing Burnley moment.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:28 pm**

For all the good, there's some bad. I'm sure the older fans will have some good ones but can any beat the loss to Lincoln at home with a full strength team?

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:34 pm**

Losing in the FRT 6-1 to PNE, Burnley had a free kick in there own half. Pierce took a short free kick to a player who wasn't looking and it went out for a throw in. Dont think I stayed much longer than that.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:36 pm**

My most embarrassing moment at TM was when a Trebor mint went down 'the wrong way'. I found myself gasping for breath and honestly thought I was going to die. I was on the Longside and decided to try standing on my hands to get the thing out of me. I didn't get all the way upright but it must have worked as I suddenly felt fine again. People around me looked at me as if I had gone all looney.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:36 pm**

Getting beat by 9 man Rochdale with our reserve Goalie in Rochdales nets ( was onloan) will take some beating I guess.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:38 pm**

Has to be the time my missus gave birth to our son....in Queens Park blackburn.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:43 pm**

Those dogs in coats takes some beating, despite some of the dross on the pitch over the years!

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:47 pm**

Turning backs away from the pitch was pretty embarrassing

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:47 pm**

1-6 Man-City,player fecks off to pub at half time....has to be in top 5

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:48 pm**

Steve1956 wrote:1-6 Man-City,player fecks off to pub at half time....has to be in top 5

Not surprised, did you see the weather

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:49 pm**

No one really feels embarrassed do they?

I'm a bit grumpy if we lose, particularly if it's underserved. But I've laughed at most of the above.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:51 pm**

KRBFC wrote:Not surprised, did you see the weather

Yea I was sat in the James Hargreaves lower....pizzed wet through,but I stayed to the end,unlike one of our players

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:54 pm**

Burnley 0 Hereford 6 was fairly epic
Wycombe 5 Burnley 0 was another thrilling away performance

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:55 pm**

Chico. End of thread.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:02 pm**

1986 - Telford 3 - Burnley 0

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:07 pm**

Burnley 0 Wimbledon1 3rd round of the FA Cup was pretty bad

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:07 pm**

This could be an exceptional long thread there has been many.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:13 pm**

Results apart as every team can list them I think the FA Cup semi final against Newcastle when we couldn't sell all our tickets and had to send some back. I was stood with the Clarets in Leppings Lane feeling positively outnumbered by Geordies. To add insult to injury we got beat by a one man team who we spent most of the afternoon outplaying.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:21 pm**

I suppose 5-0 Rovers wasn't embarrassing.. We were quite good..

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:25 pm**

There's a parachutists on the roof...they think it's all over...
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Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:33 pm**

houseboy wrote:Results apart as every team can list them I think the FA Cup semi final against Newcastle when we couldn't sell all our tickets and had to send some back. I was stood with the Clarets in Leppings Lane feeling positively outnumbered by Geordies. To add insult to injury we got beat by a one man team who we spent most of the afternoon outplaying.

Beaten 'off the pitch' that day, houseboy. We played Liverpool at home in the FA Cup in 1963, drawing 1-1 before eventually losing the replay 2-1. The home tie was something that has stayed with me ever since. The volume of noise generated that day was indescribable only to be surpassed 11 years later in the semi at Hillsboro and the Kop' end of the ground had no roof. Just incredible noise and support willing on a team that was at best distinctly average.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:37 pm**

Watching our ‘supporters’ dismantle the roof of the Darwen End in 1983. I was 14 at the time and then I’ve never been as embarrassed or ashamed watching the Clarets.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:45 pm**

Japebe43 wrote:I suppose 5-0 Rovers wasn't embarrassing.. We were quite good..

nah you weren't, we were just awful Saxo !

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:52 pm**

Silkyskills1 wrote:Beaten 'off the pitch' that day, houseboy. We played Liverpool at home in the FA Cup in 1963, drawing 1-1 before eventually losing the replay 2-1. The home tie was something that has stayed with me ever since. The volume of noise generated that day was indescribable only to be surpassed 11 years later in the semi at Hillsboro and the Kop' end of the ground had no roof. Just incredible noise and support willing on a team that was at best distinctly average.

The Geordie fans that day were indeed incredible but they should never have got to Wembley where they were easilly beaten by Liverpool whose fans said we would have given them a better game. Aah, happy days eh?

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:54 pm**

I always remember (probably 20 years ago) a tannoy announcement that so and so had to go home as his wife had locked herself out of the house and she needed his keys.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:55 pm**

I was only young so I am not sure of the score but I remember watching us get well beaten at home to Brentford in Div 2 in the late 90's (I think they were top of the league) and Carl Asaba ran past Mark Winstanley who did a strange forward roll attempt tackle on the wing and they proceeded to score.

Perhaps my kid brain made it more than it was but it felt embarrassing!

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:55 pm**

Leisure wrote:1986 - Telford 3 - Burnley 0

Some of these young fans don't understand how good they have it

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:57 pm**

Watford in the quarter finals.
That was an embarrassing performance.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:04 pm**

Sheffield wednesday was pretty horrific when we subbed keepers and conceded 7

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:05 pm**

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Watford in the quarter finals.
That was an embarrassing performance.

with Blake and Little on the bench

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:11 pm**

Chesterfield away in the Waddle season when they chanted "couldn't score in a brothel" was pretty grim.Think it took us 7/8 games to net a league goal that term,after all the fanfare of the Waddle arrival.

thankfully the season had a happy ending with the last day win over Plymouth and the ensuing pitch invasion.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:12 pm**

The minutes being sponsored.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:14 pm**

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Watford in the quarter finals.
That was an embarrassing performance.

Don't think we managed a shot on target in that game,and in full public glare of the BBC cameras as i recall.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:14 pm**

In a similar vein to the Wednesday defeat, I recall a home defeat by Watford (7-4). Also the 6-5 defeat away at Grimsby comes to mind.

I do remember that 5-0 away defeat at Wycombe (my first ever away match), I think we 'only' lost 4-1 the next season and I remember thinking that if we kept 'improving' like that then in another 2 or 3 seasons we might beat them.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:15 pm**

houseboy wrote:The Geordie fans that day were indeed incredible but they should never have got to Wembley where they were easilly beaten by Liverpool whose fans said we would have given them a better game. Aah, happy days eh?

They certainly shouldn't have played us in the semi. Nottingham Forest played three games against them in the 6th round, none of which were at their home ground. A pitch invasion in the first game at St. James" where a number of the Forest players were physically threatened and then two games at a neutral Goodison Park. Wouldn't happen now. The final, as you say, was a total non-event, perhaps one of the most one-sided of all time.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:25 pm**

KRBFC wrote:with Blake and Little on the bench

Yes. Set up for the draw to try and get more cash from the reply.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:33 pm**

Silkyskills1 wrote:They certainly shouldn't have played us in the semi. Nottingham Forest played three games against them in the 6th round, none of which were at their home ground. A pitch invasion in the first game at St. James" where a number of the Forest players were physically threatened and then two games at a neutral Goodison Park. Wouldn't happen now. The final, as you say, was a total non-event, perhaps one of the most one-sided of all time.

Do you remember Malcolm Macdonald's famous quote before that final? 'Wembley will be my stage, watch me go'. I watched that final (in the days when people actually still watched the FA Cup final) and laughed my socks off at the sight of a lumbering Newcastle trying to cope with a Liverpool side who had yet to hit the peak of their domination of not only England but Europe.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:54 pm**

Trevor Sinclair being named as man of the match, despite never having played for Burnley....

Parachutist on the roof of the Cricket Field Stand, kick off delayed for an hour, and then a tannoy announcement advising the parachutist was off the roof and the game would start soon, but the parachutist was still on the roof!

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:05 pm**

Undoubtedly going to the wrong ground for a match. There was a early season match against Stockport way back when. It was scheduled to be in Stocky and my dad and I duly turned up at Edgeley Park only to find out that due to ongoing work they had rearranged to play at the Turf

We felt like a right pair of plonkers and duly had a pint and went home.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:07 pm**

tiger76 wrote:Chesterfield away in the Waddle season when they chanted "couldn't score in a brothel" was pretty grim.Think it took us 7/8 games to net a league goal that term,after all the fanfare of the Waddle arrival. thankfully the season had a happy ending with the last day win over Plymouth and the ensuing pitch invasion.

I vividly remember the Chesterfield fans signing ‘let’s all laugh at Burnley’

******* Chesterfield. The away terrace was packed as usual, and I remember stepping out of the ground at the end of the game to see hundreds of Burnley fans fighting with the Chesterfield lot. We were rank bad under Waddle. It’s an absolute miracle we weren’t relegated.

There’s some good candidates, but I think the hiring of Laws is up there. We pretty much told the football world that little ol’ Burnley being in the PL was too much.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:17 pm**

Hillsborough 1983

5 Nil

Enough said.....

I’ve never felt more like singing the blues...hate that song to this day and Gary Megson for some reason...

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:22 pm**

Two that spring to mind is David Jones debut away at Leyton Orient and Nick Pickering at home to someone I can't remember.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:23 pm**

For me it was just prior to the Orient game when we went grovelling to the Football League asking them to consider delaying implementation of automatic relegation from the bottom division to the Conference . It summed up just how pathetic a club we'd become. For me no on-the-field performance or result comes close. I was ashamed of my club that day.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:27 pm**

the_magic_rat wrote:For me it was just prior to the Orient game when we went grovelling to the Football League asking them to consider delaying implementation of automatic relegation from the bottom division to the Conference . It summed up just how pathetic a club we'd become. For me no on-the-performance or result comes close. I was ashamed of my club that day.

Certainly desperate times were they.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:29 pm**

Hanover. For a football match to be called off in this day and age or any age was a total embarrassment.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:49 pm**

I once opened a post from KRBFC

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:58 pm**

South West Claret. wrote:Two that spring to mind is David Jones debut away at Leyton Orient and Nick Pickering at home to someone I can't remember.

Not Pickering's debut, though. Wasn't that against York City, 6-0 win? He looked a good player that day.

Or did you mean every other game Pickering played for Burnley? Because there, you'd make a good point.

For our younger readers, should we perhaps stress that this isn't the David Jones we got from Wigan via Blackburn. This is a very very tall centre forward who could still be outjumped by small full backs. One of the Tony Hancock "forward who never scored" school. At least, I hope that's who you mean!!!

(Actually, come to think of it, the goal Jones scored for Doncaster against Burnley after he had left, must be high on the embarrassing scale.)

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:13 pm**

Watching the half time show of the Fancy Pants Dog Troupe parading around the pitch at the Turf dressed in the burnley kit

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:14 pm**

Every time I turn up to a game and try to fit through the Bob Lord turnstiles.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:14 pm**

KRBFC wrote:For all the good, there's some bad. I'm sure the older fans will have some good ones but can any beat the loss to Lincoln at home with a full strength team?

When I promised never to post on a messageboard if we got more than 4 away points, and then had to pretend it was a bet not a promise even though my words were still there for everyone to see. I had to get the admins to delete the thread.

Hang on...that wasn't me.

Posted: **Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:23 pm**

dsr wrote:Not Pickering's debut, though. Wasn't that against York City, 6-0 win? He looked a good player that day.

Or did you mean every other game Pickering played for Burnley? Because there, you'd make a good point.

No correct and Yes I did.

For our younger readers, should we perhaps stress that this isn't the David Jones we got from Wigan via Blackburn. This is a very very tall centre forward who could still be outjumped by small full backs. One of the Tony Hancock "forward who never scored" school. At least, I hope that's who you mean!!!

Yep that's bloke I think I'm right in saying that later he admitted that he wasn't fit but might be wrong.

(Actually, come to think of it, the goal Jones scored for Doncaster against Burnley after he had left, must be high on the embarrassing scale.)

It certainly was he looked a completely different player that day probably because he was fit.

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