Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:09 am

ClaretTony wrote:
Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:48 am
I can only think of the last 12 minutes at Hull in 2011/12. Due to illness I was unable to make the trip and had to make do with audio commentary. We were 2-0 down after 78 minutes and apparently very fortunate to be only two goals behind, so inept had we been. We were dropping into the bottom three of the Championship and then Hull decided to take off the two chief tormentors, two players in turn who then went on to wear our shirt.

Cameron Stewart was the first to go. He'd murdered us. Within three minutes of him going off we were level with two David Edgar goals, I know hard to believe. Hull boss Nicky Barmby then inexplicably took off Robbie Brady and we won it with Jay Rod scoring in stoppage time.

The lads I travel to away game with do occasionally mention this game as if it were a national disaster to miss out. I always point out that they had opted not to go to the same ground on the day we got our first ever away win in the Premier League.

Generally a dreadful afternoon but that last few minutes did make me feel a bit better even though I still wasn't well enough to go to West Ham a week later.
I went to visit a friend who was doing some work for her majesty that day :o :D

Went in at 2-0 and we both moaned for the duration how crap we were.

Came out and couldnt believe the radio!

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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:16 am

also not sure how I forgot this. But went skiing on the day we played Rovers - the game where we beat them at home with an Andre Grey penalty.

Watched it in a pub in Luton (flying from Luton) with a blackburn supporting brother in law! (And a Spurs and Luton fan who both wanted Rovers to win!)

Needless to say I nearly didnt get on the plane that evening :D
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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by ten bellies » Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:53 am

Mine has to be listening to Radio 2 in Raf Aldergrove when we played Spurs in the League Cup in 1983. I was 6 months in to a 2 year tour so didnt get to many matches. We weren't the main game, so coverage only started when that game had finished. I nearly fell off my bunk when first they said Burnley were 2-1 up. Then we go and score 2 more!

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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by aggi » Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:09 am

Dyched wrote:
Wed Jul 29, 2020 11:58 pm
I was in NYC when George Boyd struck that volley against Man City. Great little bar tucked away somewhere on the upper west side. Bit nippy out so had my claret and blue scarf on afterwards and a local shouted come on Burnley :lol:. Had a few passport control people say they like our team in the past few years. Ended up in bed by 4pm after a few and woke up 2am, bright awake. So strolled about on my tod for a couple of hours.
I watched that in NYC as well.

I'd met up in a football bar just near the Empire State Building with a friend who was a Hull supporter to watch their game (which was dire) and then stayed on to watch us beat City.

One which sticks in my mind was the Preston match where Iwulemo saved the match with a hat-trick. I was watching that in a hotel room in Tokyo at about 4 in the morning.

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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by icu81b4 » Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:26 am

ZizkovClaret wrote:
Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:38 pm
For me, it has to be Reading away in the play-offs

Watched it in the Red Lion in Withington. When i saw the tiles on the floor of the entrance were claret and blue, i just knew.

Then 10 minutes after FT i got a call that we'd had a major system failure at work and could i come in at 12pm rather than 8am lmao

So i got more ale in
Same game fo me also, I was in Florida watching in a bar in a shopping mall full of Reading fans and the odd Claret.

The bar steward was a Burnley fan too.

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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by tim_noone » Fri Jul 31, 2020 11:39 am

Guitargeorge wrote:
Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:11 am
Going mad on the long side, watching The big screen as Glen Little scoreD at Scunny
:D

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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by JonBerro » Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:25 pm

Got to be Aberdeen away
To watch Burnley in Europe was special, and a good result in the end.
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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by whalleyclaret » Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:41 pm

FCBurnley wrote:
Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:09 am
Same for me. Watched in The Cricketers Arms in Orlando Florida. Place was full of Clarets and Blades. All good humored. What a day
Remember it well FC! Trust you are well!

Would have preferred to be at Wembley tbh but it was great craic in the Cricketers Arms that day!

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Re: Your favourite time watching Burnley not at the game

Post by turfytopper » Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:23 pm

Reading would get my vote

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