It will become one of those do you remember where you were moments.

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:11 pm

I'll never forget this morning, I can remember where I was for a few major events and this one will for ever be etched in my memory.
For the record sat at home just checked in to Up the Clarets whilst watching news.

Somethingfishy · Post by **Somethingfishy** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:15 pm

In bed..checking Tw****r. Yeah, i'll remember that

Shaggy · Post by **Shaggy** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:16 pm

I seen a post facebook and instantly thought someone was having a laugh until i seen it was from the BBC.

Its certainly taken me by surprise, i cant say im in anyway unhappy about it though.

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:16 pm

In bed, nursing a hangover. It made me feel worse!

lakedistrictclaret · Post by **lakedistrictclaret** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:18 pm

I was at the Brampton roundabout on the A69 east of Carlisle, driving home from my holiday in Northumberland. I heard it on the Gold Radio 11 o'clock news.

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:18 pm

Alarm went off at 6am ready to get up and take our daughter to Epcot (on holiday in Florida). I pick the phone up to check if I had any ‘UK time’ WhatsApp messages and my phone is absolutely bombarded with notifications from friends and family. Awful start to what has proven (so far) to be a lovely day!

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:19 pm

I was watering our allotment and thought I misread the text ,indeed a sad day

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:19 pm

Walking the dog when the Twitter notification of the clubs statement came through

Pearcey · Post by **Pearcey** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:21 pm

I was in my office at work with a view of Carrow Rd! I never thought that ground would be the last time I saw SD in charge of us. Im still in shock.

GodIsADeeJay81 · Post by **GodIsADeeJay81** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:27 pm

Reading a book on my phone when I got the message from a mate
I thought he was on a wind up and checked here to see Tony's thread.

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:28 pm

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:27 pm
Reading a book on my phone when I got the message from a mate
I thought he was on a wind up and checked here to see Tony's thread.

I don’t believe you, you’re never off here

GodIsADeeJay81 · Post by **GodIsADeeJay81** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:52 pm

DCWat wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:28 pm
I don’t believe you, you’re never off here

I'm guaranteed to be off for a minimum of 4hrs a night, when I'm asleep

dandeclaret · Post by **dandeclaret** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:58 pm

I was in Warren Greatrex’s racing yard, on a trip to the Lambourn Open day.

The news was the most unwanted birthday present I’ve ever received.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:59 pm

Ypsilanti, Michigan. Woke up and checked my phone and read the news on Twitter.

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:07 pm

Text message from a Leeds supporting mate followed by a couple of WhatsApp messages.

I was sat in my car waiting to go out for the day and doing my ITV 7. That turned out to be worse than the news.

KlyBfc · Post by **KlyBfc** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:17 pm

I’d been outside with the kids and walked into the kitchen to check my phone charging to see a text off a rovers mate asking who’s getting the job then. Quickly followed by one off a Leeds mate and my heart sank… then ping ping ping messages galore.

Paul Waine · Post by **Paul Waine** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:14 pm

Day 5 of covid-19 isolation, still coughing and heavy chest. Saw a YouTube notifcation about "Dyche sacked" deleted cos I just thought it was a "what if..." Then BBC R4 news mentioned it.

I'll have forgotten once my covid-19 is over.

UTC

Dark Cloud · Post by **Dark Cloud** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:21 pm

Out for my 2 hour morning walk and around 10.40? as I got close to home a car screeched to a halt next to me and a guy I know wound the window down and asked had I'd heard the news? I honestly had to double check it wasn't April 1st. Shocked doesn't describe it, especially as we'd been discussing exactly this at Norwich last weekend and nobody thought there was even the remotest chance of it.

Murger · Post by **Murger** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:23 pm

Sat on't settee reading twitter.

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:33 pm

Half way through an "" all you can eat"" breakfast at a pub in Matlock.
I was considering whether to fold my sausages in the toast slices or perhaps to eat them separately. I'd just asked the charming, generously built young waitress for some extra butter portions when my daughter messaged the news.

dougcollins · Post by **dougcollins** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:42 pm

Sat in a 4 mile queue on the M5. Cracking start to the day.

Marty Dobson · Post by **Marty Dobson** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:43 pm

Why ? What's happened ?

Foreverly Claret · Post by **Foreverly Claret** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:49 pm

Eating my lunch watching the mid-day news on BBC 1 .Phone hasn't stopped ringing since...by no means all Burnley fans .My Burnley mates were nonplussed and most of the opposition were gobsmacked .Pace is clearly desperate .I fear for our future .seventy years a claret and I can't remember feeling so bad .I've seen some terrible Board decisions in my time and one very close run thing but I can't remember feeling like this .How bad are things if he needs to take a gamble like this ?

Cubanforever · Post by **Cubanforever** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:53 pm

Was having a lovely full breakfast with wife and kids in Whitby when my wife broke the news....nearly choked on my sausage

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:56 pm

Cubanforever wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:53 pm
Was having a lovely full breakfast with wife and kids in Whitby when my wife broke the news....nearly choked on my sausage

You sound like my kinda bloke Cuban!!

Corky · Post by **Corky** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:59 pm

In bed in Washington DC when the news filtered through.

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 9:22 pm

I saw it first on t'internet, but if I can be literal, I heard it first a couple of hours ago while sitting at a bus stop in Milwaukee and a random American bloke saw the badge on my coat and told me he thought Dyche didn't deserve it.

Billy Balfour · Post by **Billy Balfour** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 9:22 pm

Walking up Pendle with my lad. The phone rang and my wife told me. At first, I thought she was taking the mick. I had to look on Sky Sports News. Our lad was heartbroken. He's only 13 and Dyche is all he's ever known.

Longtimeclaret · Post by **Longtimeclaret** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 9:51 pm

Got a what’s app message from my Spurs supporting mate ,”Why sack Dyche”?
Couldn’t believe it

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:11 pm

I was walking up Pendle hill with some of the family when my son in law read it on his phone.

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:13 pm

Looking at my computer. At home.
The only two I remember where I was are Kennedy and Elvis.

jos · Post by **jos** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:15 pm

No it won’t

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:32 pm

In bed about to masturbate.

Right killed the mood it did.

Buxtonclaret · Post by **Buxtonclaret** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:37 pm

fatboy47 wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 15, 2022 8:33 pm
Half way through an "" all you can eat"" breakfast at a pub in Matlock.
I was considering whether to fold my sausages in the toast slices or perhaps to eat them separately. I'd just asked the charming, generously built young waitress for some extra butter portions when my daughter messaged the news.

Worst places than Matlock to stock up in a morning.
Down that way earlier this week.
Be there again Monday, but don't think it'll be as friendly.

timshorts · Post by **timshorts** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:28 pm

Just got out of hospital. I'd already found out that all but one supermarket in town had no petrol as I'd missed out on news of that. I thought I must still be on the opiates.

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:30 pm

Sat at computer organising trip early May trip to Alnwick Gardens, Inverness and Fort William ... thought I would have a look and see if Seans Pre Wet Spam presser was on line ... hey ho ... here we go, been here before ... whatever will be will be, nowt we can do but hope the board have a clue what they are doing ... its either a masterstroke or a bloody nightmare ... my moneys on the 2nd but am open to being proved wrong ...

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:30 pm

Driving car to Anglesey….. nearly bloody crashed.

Fone went mental from non Burnley supporting mates asking me what we were playing at!

Imagine handing the initiative to your fellow relegation rivals in one simple move….

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:31 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:32 pm
In bed about to masturbate.

Right killed the mood it did.

I bet a few on here upped the stroke rate BOT

elwaclaret · Post by **elwaclaret** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 7:49 pm

I think I’m still recovering from the shock. I was sad when Stan left and hugely disappointed when Coyle bailed (though unlike many on here I was far from heartbroken, as by then I thought he’d been found out), that was more how many went with him… this one was the end of an era. I cannot say I ever really took to Sean Dyche after the first heady days, but I thouroughly respected him. Only this season for me has it become apparent that he often put his mental capacity to plan ahead as more important than what he saw unfolding before his eyes. The unbalance of our team had been found out and time and time again he refused to see it. He kept faith with his midfielders, because he realised it was his need for an attacking left that made them nervous about losing the ball in advanced positions; but until recently did nothing to rectify that defensive frailty. I didn’t like SD in the end, but I still respected him. The coming weeks will tell me if that continued respect was due.

ian · Post by **ian** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:36 pm

An out-of-body experience, driving towards Irlam listening to a supposedly non-sport channel, LBC News, when all of a sudden the "and finally" moment, Burnley Football Club have announced..........................

gawthorpe_view · Post by **gawthorpe_view** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:40 pm

I was in the Dallas book depository.

Devils_Advocate · Post by **Devils_Advocate** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:41 pm

.......I started singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie

Oshkoshclaret · Post by **Oshkoshclaret** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:42 pm

Live in the USA, and the news was breaking at about 4.30am my time. Asleep, vaguely aware of my phone buzzing a lot on my nightstand. Woke up properly at 7am with 160 WhatsApp notifications. Thought: ‘have the Russians dropped a nuke?’

elwaclaret · Post by **elwaclaret** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:44 pm

Oshkoshclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:42 pm
Live in the USA, and the news was breaking at about 4.30am my time. Asleep, vaguely aware of my phone buzzing a lot on my nightstand. Woke up properly at 7am with 160 WhatsApp notifications. Thought: ‘have the Russians dropped a nuke?’

No much more unexpected than that,

clarethomer · Post by **clarethomer** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 10:47 pm

Was in the middle of updating my CV…. It’s now in the mail ha ha

Jamesy · Post by **Jamesy** » Sat Apr 16, 2022 11:36 pm

I’m not sure it is that important in the general scheme of things. I remember clearly where I was when Diana died and 911. I know where I was when Dyche got fired but it’s only football, not life or death. And don’t forget, in this crazy world of Premier league football his pay off probably amounts to what most of us would earn if we lived for four lifetimes.