Most Memorable Matches Wrong Reasons
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Ireland and England 1995.great day both sets of fans drinking together.then come the game the worst trouble i have ever seen[ second game Stockport v Burnley 1988. the two Stockport fans jumping over the big fence into the Burnley fans
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England v Holland, Euro 88. Best match I’ve ever seen but the defeat put us out.
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Been more than a few over the years but I suppose the visit of Celtic in 1978 would have to top the list.
A couple of humiliating away defeats within a few months of each other, the first at Sheff Wed in May 1967 with a 0-7 defeat then in November of the same year a 1-8 defeat at West Brom. Both very difficult journeys home.
A couple of humiliating away defeats within a few months of each other, the first at Sheff Wed in May 1967 with a 0-7 defeat then in November of the same year a 1-8 defeat at West Brom. Both very difficult journeys home.
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Stan Ternent’s debut in the Sheff Wed defeatRoyboyclaret wrote:Been more than a few over the years but I suppose the visit of Celtic in 1978 would have to top the list.
A couple of humiliating away defeats within a few months of each other, the first at Sheff Wed in May 1967 with a 0-7 defeat then in November of the same year a 1-8 defeat at West Brom. Both very difficult journeys home.
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A debut to remember.......or perhaps forget.ClaretTony wrote:Stan Ternent’s debut in the Sheff Wed defeat
Did brother Ray make his debut in the previous month?
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Ray Ternent was Ray Pointer’s cousin. He was not related to Stan.Royboyclaret wrote:Did brother Ray make his debut in the previous month?
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Scotland v England 1996
England v Holland 1996
England v Argentina 1998
Blackburn v Burnley 2001
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England v Holland 1996
England v Argentina 1998
Blackburn v Burnley 2001
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Didn’t his future Side-Kick Sam Ellis play for Wednesday, that afternoon?ClaretTony wrote:Stan Ternent’s debut in the Sheff Wed defeat
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Every chance that he did. Sam had played for Wednesday in the previous season’s FA Cup Final.Lord Beamish wrote:Didn’t his future Side-Kick Sam Ellis play for Wednesday, that afternoon?
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0-6 v Hereford January 87 and that game at Ewood we’d all wished never happened.
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The Cup game at Watford in 2003. Complete anti climax, looking forward to it as a great chance
to do well in a cup for a change.
Unfortunately, we just didn't turn up, terrible display.
to do well in a cup for a change.
Unfortunately, we just didn't turn up, terrible display.
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England v Argentina ‘98. That game had everything except for an England victory.
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The back to back hammerings we took Gillingham and City or vice versa in the third / second / first division.
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Crewe away 1987 lost and the last game v Orient was out of our hands. I genuinely thought that was it for us as a league team. The drive home was complete silence and despair in our minibus.
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That was in 1992.wembley94 wrote: second game Stockport v Burnley 1988. the two Stockport fans jumping over the big fence into the Burnley fans
Unless the exact same thing happened in 88?
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They were very unfit and small took 48 months to get over.Bin Ont Turf wrote:That was in 1992.
Unless the exact same thing happened in 88?
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Spurs at home in the league cup.
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I was on the Supporters Club coach and it was the worst journey home from a football match ever. Looked all over after that. Thought we were down.bfcjg wrote:Crewe away 1987 lost and the last game v Orient was out of our hands. I genuinely thought that was it for us as a league team. The drive home was complete silence and despair in our minibus.
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I think such events altered our and our Burnley supporing directors DNA to ensure it never happened again and some fans preach ambition borrow and gamble, the rest of us say look where that got us.ClaretTony wrote:I was on the Supporters Club coach and it was the worst journey home from a football match ever. Looked all over after that. Thought we were down.
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Selling our best players , Bob Lord , and not investing got us into that position , there’s nothing wrong with ambitionbfcjg wrote:I think such events altered our and our Burnley supporing directors DNA to ensure it never happened again and some fans preach ambition borrow and gamble, the rest of us say look where that got us.
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We invested in John Bond.joey13 wrote:Selling our best players , Bob Lord , and not investing got us into that position , there’s nothing wrong with ambition
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The night we scored five at Grimsby! And lost.
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The 1974 semi cup final Against Newcastle we had the easiest of games to get there ....and blew it irrespective of who got injured. The Geordie support was incredible!!!
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Bin Ont Turf...Sure it was the friday night game.two Stockport fans jumped into the Burnley fans.with more county fans near the corner flag on the pitch.then all hell broke loose with GMP hitting anyone
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Gmp hitting anyone......from Burnley.
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Definitely 1992 when the Stockport fans jumped the fence. We lost 2-1 with Stockport scoring in last minute.
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I don't think the Friday night game was as early as 88, but I could be wrong.wembley94 wrote:Bin Ont Turf...Sure it was the friday night game.two Stockport fans jumped into the Burnley fans.with more county fans near the corner flag on the pitch.then all hell broke loose with GMP hitting anyone
The only reason I remember the 1992 one is because it was on my Birthday.
Two County fans ran from their end to the left of us. I think that because they saw all kids, women and older fans at the left near to them, they thought it would be easy pickings.
They jumped over the fence just to the left of our goal, and then there was a tsunami of Burnley fans who descended on them. One of them had their teeth knocked out all over the stand. Then two big jobbies joined in with their truncheons (ooh err).
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We played them quite often on Friday nights bu the last of them was in 1990
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. remembers being at Goodison Park recently and a man sat in front of him was stood up for most of the game obstructing his view.
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The 1992 game was on a Saturday.
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I've misread things, I assumed it was relating to a Friday game. On that basis, I assume you will be celebrating your birthday early in the season.Bin Ont Turf wrote:The 1992 game was on a Saturday.
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Yes, 22nd of August.
Do we have a game on that date this year?
Do we have a game on that date this year?
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. thinks CT should go to bed.ClaretTony wrote:I've misread things, I assumed it was relating to a Friday game. On that basis, I assume you will be celebrating your birthday early in the season.
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The FA Cup game away at Scunthorpe 1989. We arrived just after kick off in a hired Transit van which attracted the interest of the local gendarmerie. When they looked in the back and saw it resembled a cross between a mobile off licence and a bottle bank, with the help of a Lincs police German Shepherd we were rounded up, loaded into the van and despatched back to East Lancashire. I think we were back in the Prairie not long after the final whistle and watched the draw for Italia 90 on TV.
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Palace v Burnley 1982/83 both stood on the same number of points last game of the season everyone had finished their games in the league
Because of the fixture pile up as we had done so well in both domestic cups it was a rearranged fixture on a Tuesday night down in South London.
We had to win and better a two goal difference it was packed to the rafters, i think supporters from other London clubs came in support of Palace It kicked off quite a few times in our end as their ends were packed and neutrals were in their supporting rivals.
We had done well against them that season drew in the FA cup down their beat them in the replay and home in the league
They had a very good striker called Vince Hilaire the atmosphere was electric we had done well in our previous two games getting a 0-0 draw away at Champions Leicester
and winning at Shrewsbury so high hopes was in the camp sadly it wasn't to be we got a tough footballing lesson and got turned over 2-0.
The six hour journey back was very hard to do arriving back in Burnley five in the morning and straight to work on the back of just being relegated after just one season.
Exceptions was good for that season we played so well in the cups but the League was a bridge to far.
Because of the fixture pile up as we had done so well in both domestic cups it was a rearranged fixture on a Tuesday night down in South London.
We had to win and better a two goal difference it was packed to the rafters, i think supporters from other London clubs came in support of Palace It kicked off quite a few times in our end as their ends were packed and neutrals were in their supporting rivals.
We had done well against them that season drew in the FA cup down their beat them in the replay and home in the league
They had a very good striker called Vince Hilaire the atmosphere was electric we had done well in our previous two games getting a 0-0 draw away at Champions Leicester
and winning at Shrewsbury so high hopes was in the camp sadly it wasn't to be we got a tough footballing lesson and got turned over 2-0.
The six hour journey back was very hard to do arriving back in Burnley five in the morning and straight to work on the back of just being relegated after just one season.
Exceptions was good for that season we played so well in the cups but the League was a bridge to far.
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I wasn't there because i was too young but i thought Easter Monday 1983 at Ewood might have got a mention. It's certainly gone down in folklore for the wrong reasons.
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Yes, this is a good match for this thread. I thought we were awful, clueless, in such an important game.Longside4evr wrote:Palace v Burnley 1982/83 both stood on the same number of points last game of the season everyone had finished their games in the league
Because of the fixture pile up as we had done so well in both domestic cups it was a rearranged fixture on a Tuesday night down in South London.
We had to win and better a two goal difference it was packed to the rafters, i think supporters from other London clubs came in support of Palace It kicked off quite a few times in our end as their ends were packed and neutrals were in their supporting rivals.
We had done well against them that season drew in the FA cup down their beat them in the replay and home in the league
They had a very good striker called Vince Hilaire the atmosphere was electric we had done well in our previous two games getting a 0-0 draw away at Champions Leicester
and winning at Shrewsbury so high hopes was in the camp sadly it wasn't to be we got a tough footballing lesson and got turned over 2-0.
The six hour journey back was very hard to do arriving back in Burnley five in the morning and straight to work on the back of just being relegated after just one season.
Exceptions was good for that season we played so well in the cups but the League was a bridge to far.
It led to Frank Caspers dismissal, John Bond, and, well, plenty of more contenders for this thread.
My contribution - the 7-0 defeat at QPR, 1979:
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Billy O'Rourke's debut in front of an atrocious Burnley defence - I'd say it's only the fourth goal for which poor Billy is culpable. He went off at the end of the game and it was left to QPR players to console him - the Burnley players just sloped off. I think it was Brian Millers first match as manager. I heard a loud bang after one of the goals went in and wondered if he'd shot himself!
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Semi-final defeat by Newcastle at Hillsborough. Absolutely devastated after that loss. Joined a ship two days later that was full of Geordies
Crewe away when the trapdoor to non-league looked to be wide open. I was in shock after that one
Stockport away in 88. Got caught up in all the nonsense. My son was only a few days old and I recall the midwife giving me a talking to before putting butterfly sutures on a bad cut to my lip the following day, when she visited to check up on the baby
Everton at home last Boxing Day. Not a word was said on the drive back to Chester. We all thought our time in the Prem was up
Crewe away when the trapdoor to non-league looked to be wide open. I was in shock after that one
Stockport away in 88. Got caught up in all the nonsense. My son was only a few days old and I recall the midwife giving me a talking to before putting butterfly sutures on a bad cut to my lip the following day, when she visited to check up on the baby
Everton at home last Boxing Day. Not a word was said on the drive back to Chester. We all thought our time in the Prem was up
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Sheffield Wednesday away 1st game of the season under Owen Coyle.
Lashed it down all day, we played awful, lost 4-1 I think it was, did get to see the world beater that was Van Der Schafe play though!
Lashed it down all day, we played awful, lost 4-1 I think it was, did get to see the world beater that was Van Der Schafe play though!
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Think it was March 78 we won 3-1 at Hull. Hitched up from Staffordshire, and after game and a few beers had hitched a ride as far as the Warrington / Irlam turnoff on the M6 south by sometime after midnight. Then torrential downpour and as I was in my usual denim jacket I was completely soaked to the skin in minutes. Squelched to a phone box up the road that smelled equally of urine, vomit, and smoke and shivered in it for about 5 hours until the storm finally passed as it got light. Took at least an hour to get a ride down the M6 to Keele from where I was able to walk a couple miles along a back road to my pad and spend the rest of the day drying myself out.
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Talking about rain that was a bad one away at Boothery park Hull
It was that bad they were taking our fans out with them tin foil thermal blankets it was horrendous weather
It was that bad they were taking our fans out with them tin foil thermal blankets it was horrendous weather
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We had two of those days at Boothferry ParkLongside4evr wrote:Talking about rain that was a bad one away at Boothery park Hull
It was that bad they were taking our fans out with them tin foil thermal blankets it was horrendous weather
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Not sure about the “easiest of games” seeing as they beat us in the Texaco cup final and got a point ont’Turf last game that stopped us getting into Europe. On the whole I’d rather we’d played the Nottm Forest team, who’d earned the gig.tim_noone wrote:The 1974 semi cup final Against Newcastle we had the easiest of games to get there ....and blew it irrespective of who got injured. The Geordie support was incredible!!!
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Wasn't one of them in 1992/3? Remember a real downpour then.ClaretTony wrote:We had two of those days at Boothferry Park
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1993/94.ElectroClaret wrote:Wasn't one of them in 1992/3? Remember a real downpour then.
Early January.
2-1 win (Davis and Deary with the goals).
A rare away win that season.
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One was definitely 1993/94 - the New Year’s Bank Holiday gameElectroClaret wrote:Wasn't one of them in 1992/3? Remember a real downpour then.
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Yeah, early 1993, that'll be the one I'm on about. Could have floated an ark.
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Early 1994.ElectroClaret wrote:Yeah, early 1993, that'll be the one I'm on about. Could have floated an ark.
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Watching Gazza at Sheffield United away.djemba-djemba wrote:Early 1994.