Your favourite season

[hoskinsgoalatswansea]

What’s your favourite season ever? Mine’s this one.

I put £50 on us to win the league at 12-1 before the season started, but I didn’t really expect us to. I just thought they were decent odds, and that Kompany might make a decent fist of it.

I never expected anything like this. To turnover that many players (at a profit) and have a team performing like this is absolutely astonishing.

I’m about forty years in now as a fan (82 div 3rd champs my first real season), and this is my favourite season by a long chalk. Just love watching how this team play. The fluidity, the confidence, the style, and how you never know which player is going to be amongst the goals. I no longer get nervous about the outcome, and can’t wait for each game to come.

Only thing that bothers me, is the thought of next season with VAR, billionaire’s clubs, entitled ‘big club’ fans, and whiny two hats like Klopp and Arteta.

I do think we’ll do ok when we’re there, but I’m in no rush, and intend to enjoy and savour these last 17 games (and maybe a cup run too).

I suppose it will depend how old you are, but for me this one tops the list.

[roperclaret]

91-92 for me. Buts that’s because I was 18 and going to all the games home and away with my mates. Loves that team

[Milltown1882]

08/09, this is rapidly topping it though.

[ElectroClaret]

Got quite a few, but think this one will be up there with the best.

[bobinho]

This one.

[Jimmymaccer]

91-92 for me. Buts that’s because I was 18 and going to all the games home and away with my mates. Loves that team

Probably the same for me………dare I say it, a tad older but there was something about going to all those away days at Lower League clubs, their fans generally just being proper fans and Burnley usually taking cracking away support…….

That whole season was a rollercoaster and the scenes at Wrexham, Carlisle and obvs York………

And my son was born at the end of that season!!!!!!!

[roperclaret]

And it was the first time we could sing e-i-e-I-e-i-o and actually mean it!

[Loyal Supporter]

We meant it all 72/73 season...

[Stalbansclaret]

91-92 for me too for all the reasons already given , coming off the back of our dismal times in the '80s, Just edges out the surprise joy of 2013-14 with Ing, Vokes and Trippier in their pomp and that excellently settled well-oiled machine XI .
This season is starting to run these two close though and is definitely less stressful than any season I can remember, which is an odd thing to say in a (likely) promotion season.

[Tricky Trevor]

It was 72/73 but this season is starting to top it.

[gandhisflipflop]

08/09 up until this season. Just utterly incredible what is happening.

[expoultryboy]

Yep 72/73 for me as well , but this is almost as good.

[roperclaret]

We meant it all 72/73 season...

Unfortunately I wasn’t there then

[jedi_master]

It was 08/09 as it was just so unexpected, but this is going to top it.

Winning at Ewood would top it off.

[HiThere]

08/09 for a few more weeks.

[aclaretinstevenage]

91-92 for me too for all the reasons already given , coming off the back of our dismal times in the '80s, Just edges out the surprise joy of 2013-14 with Ing, Vokes and Trippier in their pomp and that excellently settled well-oiled machine XI .
This season is starting to run these two close though and is definitely less stressful than any season I can remember, which is an odd thing to say in a (likely) promotion season.

Exactly the same for me and I agree that watching Burnley currently carries no stress. maybe that will change at Luton when I'll be in the home section!

[Hipper]

This is like the 72-73 season in many ways. We and QPR were the outstanding teams that year. We only lost four matches and felt we could win every game. There was real quality amongst the players.

Where it differed was that both us and QPR were able to make a real mark in Division One. We weren't relegation candidates. We finished sixth and just missed out on Europe by goal average (as it was then). QPR ended eighth.

[thehistorylecturer67]

2023 is my fiftieth year of actually going on .. I’ve not missed many games over that time and in truth I must have enjoyed them all even the bad times and there were plenty … favourite season ? Any spent in the top division because to me you can’t beat it even when it’s such hard work

[NRC]

I’m 50 years in…… this one. It has everything - exciting football, good club capability development off the field, a good business plan, the potential to be competitive in the Premier League (we shall see), a capable manager with upside potential….. and so on. Not all of those things have aligned in any previous season IMO

[Royboyclaret]

As an impressionable teenager, seasons '59/'60, '60/61 & '61'/'62 were equally special, particularly the last one when we won seven Division One games on the bounce scoring an incredible 27 goals in those games........BUT, today's sensational performance gave me every bit as much pride as anything that has gone before........Sensational is the only word to describe it, we really were that good.
Now, two home League games against Preston and Watford to come to match, then beat the all-time record of 10 successive League wins since the Championship was rebranded back in 2004.
Come on Clarets, the football world is watching.

[Cajun]

I don’t think 72-73 can ever be dislodged from being my all time favorite season mainly because I was there, and at that time football was the center of my life – I was 15, banging in goals for my school team and playing regional schools representative football until I broke an arm. Plus, I went to lots of games that season with my dad. A season of superb flowing football from the Champion Clarets.
This 22-23 season has been a revelation. It seemed like the struggle to stay in the PL had become a crushing weight those last two years, and this season has allowed us to breathe again and completely recharge every aspect of our club. I was happy to see VK appointed, I thought it was a bold and exciting move (but I also thought that about Waddle and Buchan). What has resulted though has been beyond my wildest expectations and I am full of admiration for what has been achieved and the total transformation of the way we are playing. A fearless, focused, determined team playing with flair and imagination. I love being able to watch most games on TV here with my son and grandkids all proudly decked out in this season’s shirts, (which I think are terrific). But I am still 3,000 miles away, and there are so many other things in my life at this rapidly advancing stage of it. So if the trajectory of this 22-23 season continues, and we achieve what seems increasingly likely as every week goes by, then it will be a fitting 50th anniversary tribute to those glorious golden teenage days of 72-73 which ended with my dad and I hugging and dancing around in ecstasy amid the thousands of celebrating Clarets at Deepdale.

[DHClaret]

I don’t think 72-73 can ever be dislodged from being my all time favorite season mainly because I was there, and at that time football was the center of my life – I was 15, banging in goals for my school team and playing regional schools representative football until I broke an arm. Plus, I went to lots of games that season with my dad. A season of superb flowing football from the Champion Clarets.
This 22-23 season has been a revelation. It seemed like the struggle to stay in the PL had become a crushing weight those last two years, and this season has allowed us to breathe again and completely recharge every aspect of our club. I was happy to see VK appointed, I thought it was a bold and exciting move (but I also thought that about Waddle and Buchan). What has resulted though has been beyond my wildest expectations and I am full of admiration for what has been achieved and the total transformation of the way we are playing. A fearless, focused, determined team playing with flair and imagination. I love being able to watch most games on TV here with my son and grandkids all proudly decked out in this season’s shirts, (which I think are terrific). But I am still 3,000 miles away, and there are so many other things in my life at this rapidly advancing stage of it. So if the trajectory of this 22-23 season continues, and we achieve what seems increasingly likely as every week goes by, then it will be a fitting 50th anniversary tribute to those glorious golden teenage days of 72-73 which ended with my dad and I hugging and dancing around in ecstasy amid the thousands of celebrating Clarets at Deepdale.

Beautifully put, can relate to a lot of that. Also living overseas and my 13 yo son is starting to understand his Dads obsession.

[Quicknick]

1972-73 and 2022-23, at least, so far.