The club's nicknames
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The club's nicknames
Just come across this article about our nickname and how we are referred to by others:
Never heard of a few of them, even if they seem obvious, just never heard us being referred to, such as, Gene Puddle, Royalites & Turfites
Here is the link:
https://thevillagefootballer.wordpress. ... es-the-bs/
Never heard of a few of them, even if they seem obvious, just never heard us being referred to, such as, Gene Puddle, Royalites & Turfites
Here is the link:
https://thevillagefootballer.wordpress. ... es-the-bs/
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Never heard of Gene Puddle before. Have heard us called the other ones though not often. Got speaking to an old fella a good ten or so years ago who saw my shirt and asked if I was a Turfite.
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only a matter of time before we're the ALKies
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I think Royalites goes back to either Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's son) watching a game at the Turf when he came to open Victoria Hospital.diamondpocket wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 3:06 pmNever heard of a few of them, even if they seem obvious, just never heard us being referred to, such as, Gene Puddle, Royalites & Turfites
Turfites - always known as that when I first started watching, no one ever then referred to us as Clarets.
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Is that because we played in Geeen and Black when you first started watching?ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:56 pmI think Royalites goes back to either Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's son) watching a game at the Turf when he came to open Victoria Hospital.
Turfites - always known as that when I first started watching, no one ever then referred to us as Clarets.
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Green & black, that was 1993/94. No I started watching some time before then.Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:59 pmIs that because we played in Geeen and Black when you first started watching?
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You tell the young whippersnapper Tony, when we were lads, Burnley and indeed every other club played in shades of black and white.ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:00 pmGreen & black, that was 1993/94. No I started watching some time before then.
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Yes, you're right. I always thought it was brought back in recognition of an earlier strip.ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:00 pmGreen & black, that was 1993/94. No I started watching some time before then.
The nearest was green shirt and white shorts with black socks.
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I thought it referred to the 1914 cup final- the first to be attended by a member of the royal family, and to have the trophy presented by them. We won- hence “royalties”.ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:56 pmI think Royalites goes back to either Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's son) watching a game at the Turf when he came to open Victoria Hospital.
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I know during the early to late 80's we were known as something that sounded fairly similar to Turfite and Royalite...
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No, it was Albert's visit and that's why we were allowed to wear the royal arms on the shirt in 1914 whereas Liverpool weren't. It had been granted to us by Prince Albert.BurnleyPaul wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:12 pmI thought it referred to the 1914 cup final- the first to be attended by a member of the royal family, and to have the trophy presented by them. We won- hence “royalties”.
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We will soon be known as the "has beens".
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I started in the early 60s and we were the Clarets....I seriously thought that "Turfite" was kind of pre WW1....but maybe you are 120 years old???ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 4:56 pmI think Royalites goes back to either Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's son) watching a game at the Turf when he came to open Victoria Hospital.
Turfites - always known as that when I first started watching, no one ever then referred to us as Clarets.
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No, and when the club shop opened which would have been late 60s I would guess they sold stuff with Turfites on. Clarets just evolved over time.
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I have never seen anything in a club shop with Turfites on it. My grandad Joe of Park View fame never used the name Turfites either and he had been watching us since the early 20th century. However, I don’t remember Clarets being used before the sixties. Maybe nicknames weren’t as popular then.
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Where did our ground's name 'Turf Moor' come from?
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The area where the ground is now became known as Turf Moor because it was used for the cutting of squares of turf to be burnt on fires, the area was marshy and covered in heather and this type of turf burned particularly well on fires, in the same way that peat does.
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Would this have been in the press of the time? And did the fans use the term? (Our family lived in Castleford near Leeds so only got to the town on match days or visiting my Aunt). On the other hand my Dad was from the area and was born in 1909 and I never heard him use the term Turfite so this is quite a revelation to me.
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I remember The Turfites being used when I was at Primary School from 1960, and I'm from "down sowf"!!
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I have one of those "Turfites " pin badges too. Not the one advertised on eBay though
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In my 1970 Tiger Book of Soccer Stars there's a pic of the team with the heading "Turfites"
"Clarets" was never really a nickname. We used to sing "come on you clarets" and other songs with the word claret in them but that was just because of the colour of the shirts in the same way that Manu fans say come on you reds. Over recent years, the media just began saying it was our nickname as well.
"Clarets" was never really a nickname. We used to sing "come on you clarets" and other songs with the word claret in them but that was just because of the colour of the shirts in the same way that Manu fans say come on you reds. Over recent years, the media just began saying it was our nickname as well.
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This.ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:22 pmNo, it was Albert's visit and that's why we were allowed to wear the royal arms on the shirt in 1914 whereas Liverpool weren't. It had been granted to us by Prince Albert.
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Turf as in horse racing so Turf Moor refers to the area’s original use as a racecourse,ClaretMov wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 12:27 pmThe area where the ground is now became known as Turf Moor because it was used for the cutting of squares of turf to be burnt on fires, the area was marshy and covered in heather and this type of turf burned particularly well on fires, in the same way that peat does.
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There was a racecourse on that site in fact Burnley had 3 racecourses around 1820/30 around 60 years before the football club was formed, but its name comes from the Turf burning area around 900 years before.
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Yes I know about the racecourses ... do you have a source for the turf burning story ? ... other than the original theory posted on CM back in 2003 which failed to reference the racecourse ... we’ll probably never know in truth.
That doesn’t read well my apologies, but if anyone can prove the turf burning theory I would be interested
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In my youth I had a football sticker book, the ones before Panini-forget the name, there was a sticker of Willie Morgan & underneath was written "The Touchline Terror of the Turfites"Claret wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 4:59 pmIn my 1970 Tiger Book of Soccer Stars there's a pic of the team with the heading "Turfites"
"Clarets" was never really a nickname. We used to sing "come on you clarets" and other songs with the word claret in them but that was just because of the colour of the shirts in the same way that Manu fans say come on you reds. Over recent years, the media just began saying it was our nickname as well.
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My dad bought me a cap with Turfites on it in the 70s.
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I can't answer that, keith. I was a bit young to be reading the papers, but I vaguely remember reading it somewhere.keith1879 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 4:06 pmWould this have been in the press of the time? And did the fans use the term? (Our family lived in Castleford near Leeds so only got to the town on match days or visiting my Aunt). On the other hand my Dad was from the area and was born in 1909 and I never heard him use the term Turfite so this is quite a revelation to me.
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Amazed at this because I started watching probably late 60’s, but deffo early 70’s and have no recollection of anything other than “Clarets”......maybe wrong but the programmes had “Clarets” as a header?......either way not arguing just my own memories, and they were fab growing up in my claret shirt with no sponsor bought from Ben’s Shop in town...(sorry not sure how to spell it but also bought my subbuteo teams from there!)