Clarets in popular culture

Middle-agedClaret · Post by **Middle-agedClaret** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:09 pm

I know I could probably just “Google “ an answer to this question - but where’s the fun in that?
I caught the start of an “Inbetweeners “ movie on TV recently. It was about a foreign holiday that the four main characters take after leaving school. The premise was that it was a dire holiday in a rubbish resort. The scene was set, in terms of how dreadful the holiday would be, by the coach journey from airport to resort featuring some loud and boorish football supporters...Burnley fans, chanting more-or-less incessantly.
That made me think of any other BFC references I’d seen in my 50-odd years as a Claret. Not many!
As a lad I read the Jim Starling books. The main character was a Burnley fan, and one book even featured the 1962 Cup Final, (as remember, Jim got conned out of his match ticket, and had to watch the game on a tv in a shop window.)
In the 1990s there was a tv series called “All Quiet on the Preston Front “, where one character, played by Colin Buchanan, was Burnley fan.
So that’s it - only three instances I can remember. Anyone (without help from Google) know any others?

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:12 pm

A seventies band, forget their own name had an album cover with a Claret and blue scarf on it one of them was a Claret.

jdrobbo · Post by **jdrobbo** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:14 pm

On Corrie a few years ago, there was a scene in a hospital. Above the bed, there was a whiteboard, noting the nurses on duty. Four names, three of which I’m sure were Kilby, Farrell and Eyres.

kritichris · Post by **kritichris** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:16 pm

If you can class Bargain Hunt as popular culture presenter Eric Knowles is a Burnley fan. I can't think of any fictitious ones other than those you mention.

Quickenthetempo · Post by **Quickenthetempo** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:17 pm

Emmerdale used to have a character who was a Burnley fan who used to wear claret scarves on the show.

Coronation st has a claret that's a producer or writer.
One scene in a hospital he listed all the doctors that were working in the hospital on the board. They were all Burnley players.

claretburns · Post by **claretburns** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:23 pm

Middle-agedClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:09 pm
I know I could probably just “Google “ an answer to this question - but where’s the fun in that?
I caught the start of an “Inbetweeners “ movie on TV recently. It was about a foreign holiday that the four main characters take after leaving school. The premise was that it was a dire holiday in a rubbish resort. The scene was set, in terms of how dreadful the holiday would be, by the coach journey from airport to resort featuring some loud and boorish football supporters...Burnley fans, chanting more-or-less incessantly.
That made me think of any other BFC references I’d seen in my 50-odd years as a Claret. Not many!
As a lad I read the Jim Starling books. The main character was a Burnley fan, and one book even featured the 1962 Cup Final, (as remember, Jim got conned out of his match ticket, and had to watch the game on a tv in a shop window.)
In the 1990s there was a tv series called “All Quiet on the Preston Front “, where one character, played by Colin Buchanan, was Burnley fan.
So that’s it - only three instances I can remember. Anyone (without help from Google) know any others?

Story behind the Inbetweeners scene, the writers took it from their first lads holiday when they were 18 and got on the coach with Burnley fans who sang for 2 hours all the way to the hotel from the airport. At the time of filming, I am sure a producer for the film came on the old board asking for any Burnley fans wanting to be in the film to go to a location in London, might be some posters on here are the Burnley fans on the bus?

For popular culture, if Coronation Street can be considered, one of the writers is a Burnley fan and likes to add a few Burnley things to the scenes, Amy Barlow once went to football training wearing a Burnley kit, Roy Cropper had a rattle he used to take on Burnley games and in a hospital scene once there was a whiteboard on the wall with a list of doctors names which were, D.Eyres, W.Elliott, J.Francis, J.Jakub, S.Davis and M.Beresford.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:24 pm

The lad that plays Chesney in Corrie is a Claret, and I've seen rumours that the Roy Cropper actor is a Claret, but i'm not sure about that.

I'm not aware of anyone else in Corrie that's a Claret, but i might be wrong.

morpheus2 · Post by **morpheus2** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:24 pm

Not a reference but on the subject of clarets on coaches......I feel sure someone on here must know this Burnley fan...or maybe even his children post on here??

Classic song too from Jilted John Shuttleworth -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCM-SUOvgts

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:28 pm

tiger76 wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:24 pm
The lad that plays Chesney in Corrie is a Claret, and I've seen rumours that the Roy Cropper actor is a Claret, but i'm not sure about that.

Yeah. He wanted to name the dog Jensen instead of Schmeichel.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:29 pm

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:17 pm
Emmerdale used to have a character who was a Burnley fan who used to wear claret scarves on the show.

Coronation st has a claret that's a producer or writer.
One scene in a hospital he listed all the doctors that were working in the hospital on the board. They were all Burnley players.

Richard Moore who played Jarvis Skelton on Emmerdale

Coronation Streets Chesney (Sam Aston) is a Burnley lad who apparently has a Season ticket....

The actor who plays Roy Cropper is a Foxes Fan and used to sneak references into his script...

dushanbe · Post by **dushanbe** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:35 pm

Bosscat wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:29 pm
Richard Moore who played Jarvis Skelton on Emmerdale

Coronation Streets Chesney (Sam Aston) is a Burnley lad who apparently has a Season ticket....

The actor who plays Roy Cropper is a Foxes Fan and used to sneak references into his script...

I remember scene a long time ago where Roy Cropper was ordering a part on the phone for a fryer or something. I can’t recall the actual details but the part number was something like a LCFC96/97

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:39 pm

One of the characters in 'All Quiet on the Preston Front' used to wear Burnley t-shirts.

Devils_Advocate · Post by **Devils_Advocate** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:47 pm

There's an Amazon Prime series called 'All or Nothing' and Burnleys one all draw with Man City in 2018 when JBG equalised is featured in one of the episodes

redwasp · Post by **redwasp** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:47 pm

Many years ago The Likely Lads mentioned a guy they knew who was a good footballer and had had trials with Burnley.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:51 pm

Bosscat wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:29 pm
Richard Moore who played Jarvis Skelton on Emmerdale

Coronation Streets Chesney (Sam Aston) is a Burnley lad who apparently has a Season ticket....

The actor who plays Roy Cropper is a Foxes Fan and used to sneak references into his script...

Sam Ashton is a well-known Claret, i didn't know David Neilson was a Leicester fan, i always assumed he supported a Northern team, but having looked up his bio he was born in Loughborough, so now it makes sense.

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:51 pm

Oz mentioned the 1974 cup semi final in Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

There was something on recently that a character wore a Burnley shirt but can't recall what it was.

The Fall's 'Kicker Conspiracy' video filmed on the Turf.

Chumbawamba had a recording of a football crowd on one of their albums that was apparently from The Longside.

mill hill claret · Post by **mill hill claret** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:59 pm

Juliet bravo if I remember rightly had loads of burnley fc references ...

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:04 pm

In the parable of the good samaritan, the injured traveller claimed he was left for dead until a lone figure walking by intervened.
the attackers fled, and the valiant stranger was heard to shout "We are the longside Burnley"

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:12 pm

Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:04 pm
In the parable of the good samaritan, the injured traveller claimed he was left for dead until a lone figure walking by intervened.
the attackers fled, and the valiant stranger was heard to shout "We are the longside Burnley"

Didn't Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a Motorcycle....

It says in the NT "The sound of the Lords Triumph was heard throughout the land"

huw.Y.WattfromWare · Post by **huw.Y.WattfromWare** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:13 pm

Still on youtube but I can’t remember it’s name.
A lad watching us training at Gawthorpe, sat on a wall. Falls off, ends up in hospital and has to listen to the match on hospital radio. Early C4 show I seem to remember.

AndrewJB · Post by **AndrewJB** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:30 pm

claretburns wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:23 pm
Story behind the Inbetweeners scene, the writers took it from their first lads holiday when they were 18 and got on the coach with Burnley fans who sang for 2 hours all the way to the hotel from the airport. At the time of filming, I am sure a producer for the film came on the old board asking for any Burnley fans wanting to be in the film to go to a location in London, might be some posters on here are the Burnley fans on the bus?

For popular culture, if Coronation Street can be considered, one of the writers is a Burnley fan and likes to add a few Burnley things to the scenes, Amy Barlow once went to football training wearing a Burnley kit, Roy Cropper had a rattle he used to take on Burnley games and in a hospital scene once there was a whiteboard on the wall with a list of doctors names which were, D.Eyres, W.Elliott, J.Francis, J.Jakub, S.Davis and M.Beresford.

I can recall that request on the previous board, but I think it was for voice recording only, and probably the actors merely lip sychnd. I remember the "ad" calling for Burnley fans willing to sing Burnley songs. I'm happy to be shown wrong. It was a funny scene.

Every Burnley fan in the arts should throw in a reference.

4:20 · Post by **4:20** » Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:43 pm

A few years ago I saw Amy Lame in a segment on a show, could've been a keep fit programme, weight loss, something like that. Anyway, she was sporting a 91/92 home shirt throughout. Turns out her partner is from Accrington and she is indeed a Claret.

gandhisflipflop · Post by **gandhisflipflop** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:20 am

The Inbetweeners scene was funny at the time but whenever I went on holiday from then on for about 10 years after when someone found out I was from burnley I got 'i like football but not Burnley, Burnley can f-off' which is funny to begin with but got very boring very quickly and became annoying.

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:30 am

Not football club related as such but ‘there’s been a Burnley’ is a Monty Python line.

elwaclaret · Post by **elwaclaret** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:36 am

I stood in Oran camera on Corrie while at uni, the guy who plays/ed Norris was a Burnley fan and for a time a framed Burnley shirt adorned a pillar in the Rovers ( Quay Street, studious... old Corrie location).

As mentioned Eric Knowles, who for many years was expert on Going for a Song regularly interjected Burnley references at every opportunity, despite at the time having his antique shop in Blackburn.

Campbell’s comments to world media At the G7, and Kettley’s infamous weather from Treleborg...

Stacky_claret · Post by **Stacky_claret** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:42 am

Giving someone a Burnley wallet

Phoenix nights or Max n Paddy
And always though The weatherman and John Ketley was a claret

Commy · Post by **Commy** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 3:56 am

Wasn't their someone on Corrie or Emerdale that wore a claret and blue woolly hat as he was a Burnley fan?

Colburn_Claret · Post by **Colburn_Claret** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:24 am

HELP the movie had the 62 Cup Final crowd singing Beethovens 5th Symphony

Vintage Claret · Post by **Vintage Claret** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:30 am

The Robert de Niro line in the movie 'Taxi Driver'...

"You talkin' to Mee?"

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:31 am

I remember seeing the actor Peter Adamson, who played Len Fairclough on Coronation Street, in the Brunshaw road/ Bob Lord stands almost every home game.

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:02 am

Stacky_claret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:42 am
Giving someone a Burnley wallet
Phoenix nights or Max n Paddy
And always though The weatherman and John Ketley was a claret

He was certainly a weatherman....

And so was Michael Fish.

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:03 am

The inbetweeners also had that mongy ******* fan at the hotel, anyone see his tattoo?

BenWickes · Post by **BenWickes** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:43 am

We tend to get mentioned on sporty shows a lot. We were even on TV the other week playing Wigan! We get about a lot.

the_magic_rat · Post by **the_magic_rat** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:46 am

bfcjg wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:12 pm
A seventies band, forget their own name had an album cover with a Claret and blue scarf on it one of them was a Claret.

Is it possible that the album cover that you were thinking of was Five-A-Side by Ace, bfcjg? The front cover showed the five band members sporting blue and white scarves, superimposed on a shot of Liverpool fans at Wembley On the reverse were pen pictures of the band with football card style photos. Tex Comer, the bassist, who was from Burnley was shown taking a throw-in on his.

Culmclaret · Post by **Culmclaret** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:57 am

Episode of Yes Prime Minister featured our 3-1 defeat at Fulham in October 1982. Was there and was not happy to be reminded about it afterwards. Part of a horrible run of defeats at Fulham , Charlton, QPR and Chelsea all within a few weeks. Later in the season we turned the tables and won all four home games scoring 13 goals in the process but it wasn’t enough unfortunately

BenWickes · Post by **BenWickes** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:00 am

Culmclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:57 am
Episode of Yes Prime Minister featured our 3-1 defeat at Fulham in October 1982. Was there and was not happy to be reminded about it afterwards. Part of a horrible run of defeats at Fulham , Charlton, QPR and Chelsea all within a few weeks. Later in the season we turned the tables and won all four home games scoring 13 goals in the process but it wasn’t enough unfortunately

I thought my mind was playing tricks on me with that one. Good shout and what a comedy show. They don't have writers like that anymore.

ŽižkovClaret · Post by **ŽižkovClaret** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:15 am

AndrewJB wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:30 pm
I can recall that request on the previous board, but I think it was for voice recording only, and probably the actors merely lip sychnd. I remember the "ad" calling for Burnley fans willing to sing Burnley songs. I'm happy to be shown wrong. It was a funny scene.

Every Burnley fan in the arts should throw in a reference.

I was asked to do it through a mutual friend of the show's writers, but turned it down as it was 50 quid with no travelling expenses. I pointed them to London Clarets who i believe got a few people together for it.

Jambounchained · Post by **Jambounchained** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:51 am

Not clarets related but I'm sure in The League of Gentlemen somebody utters "I don't wanna go to Burnley!"

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:53 am

Albert Modley in the film "Up for the Cup" showed clips of the 47 Final. I think managed to miss the game and asked the score, 0-0 was the answer so Albert then asked "What were't score at half time". Comedy film from the early 1950's. I saw it as a child at the Tivoli on Colne Road, anyone remember that flea pit?

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:55 am

Jambounchained wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:51 am
Not clarets related but I'm sure in The League of Gentlemen somebody utters "I don't wanna go to Burnley!"

John Cooper Clarke ref, obvs.

Claret Till I Die · Post by **Claret Till I Die** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:57 am

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:31 am
I remember seeing the actor Peter Adamson, who played Len Fairclough on Coronation Street, in the Brunshaw road/ Bob Lord stands almost every home game.

Did he give you a thumbs up ?

jamesisaburyfan · Post by **jamesisaburyfan** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:08 am

claretburns wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:23 pm
Story behind the Inbetweeners scene, the writers took it from their first lads holiday when they were 18 and got on the coach with Burnley fans who sang for 2 hours all the way to the hotel from the airport. At the time of filming, I am sure a producer for the film came on the old board asking for any Burnley fans wanting to be in the film to go to a location in London, might be some posters on here are the Burnley fans on the bus?

For popular culture, if Coronation Street can be considered, one of the writers is a Burnley fan and likes to add a few Burnley things to the scenes, Amy Barlow once went to football training wearing a Burnley kit, Roy Cropper had a rattle he used to take on Burnley games and in a hospital scene once there was a whiteboard on the wall with a list of doctors names which were, D.Eyres, W.Elliott, J.Francis, J.Jakub, S.Davis and M.Beresford.

Yep.

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Roy is a Leicester fan who was at our second round League Cup game in 2011. In the first round, we beat Coventry and John Stape was there supporting them.

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:10 am

Claret Till I Die wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:57 am
Did he give you a thumbs up ?

Never went swimming with him.

sandy richardson · Post by **sandy richardson** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:31 am

Jimmy McIlroy was on the cover of the first Sunday Times magazine.

Willie Morgan's best man at his wedding was Johnny Mathis.

claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:36 am

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:31 am
I remember seeing the actor Peter Adamson, who played Len Fairclough on Coronation Street, in the Brunshaw road/ Bob Lord stands almost every home game.

...the admission was a Tanner!

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:56 am

Natalie Gumede who played mad Kirsty in CS was definitely born in the town, but whether she's a Claret IDK.

But this chap certainly claims to be.

Ric_C · Post by **Ric_C** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:56 am

bobinho wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:03 am
The inbetweeners also had that mongy ******* fan at the hotel, anyone see his tattoo?

Funny story about that. I saw the Inbetweeners at the cinema and I thought that guy looked familiar.

Turns out it was Matt Wilson who I used to go to school with. Bit of a mad case, but pretty sound for a B****** fan.

Strange thing is that he was never an actor at school, so I guess he just knew the directors or something

Ric_C · Post by **Ric_C** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:59 am

Didn't Windsor Davies in "Carry on Behind" say: "I used to play left back for Burnley you know"?

Stalbansclaret · Post by **Stalbansclaret** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:01 am

The Milltown Brothers...'90s indie heroes and Clarets

AlargeClaret · Post by **AlargeClaret** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:48 am

Didn’t the Emmerdale guy always wear something Claret (no matter how small ) for yrs and yrs ? or was that just up there with Bob Holness playing sax on Baker st?