Characters in the fanbase

[Quickenthetempo]

Do we have any characters left in our fanbase or have they all passed away/drifted away?

The one's everyone recognises?

Or have the Rocky's been replaced with match day Vloggers that the youngsters know?

[AGENT_CLARET]

Their's a few around me in the CFS

[Quicknick]

Does anyone remember Koster, maybe spelled Coster from the '60s/early '70s?

[Carwin261]

Bobby Driver anyone ?

[StayingDown4Ever]

Do we have any characters left in our fanbase or have they all passed away/drifted away?

The one's everyone recognises?

Or have the Rocky's been replaced with match day Vloggers that the youngsters know?

I don’t like them vlogs that the younger lads do. The one I did enjoy that I saw on the Turf was done by a couple of brothers who were Preston fans. They got ****** out their head in the cricket club before hand then hand some sort of downing competition at half time and it took about 2 minutes 30 to do half a pint

[Quickenthetempo]

I don’t like them vlogs that the younger lads do. The one I did enjoy that I saw on the Turf was done by a couple of brothers who were Preston fans. They got ****** out their head in the cricket club before hand then hand some sort of downing competition at half time and it took about 2 minutes 30 to do half a pint

Yeah they seemed like good lads.

[ŽižkovClaret]

Who's the fella that does full face paint? He'd probably count, and well, Dave Burnley is still around isnt he?

[bfcjg]

There's that bloke who dresses like a goalie and flaps his arms around.......oh hang on.

[Herts Clarets]

There's that bloke who dresses like a goalie and flaps his arms around.......oh hang on.

The one who prevented it being a cricket score on Saturday you mean?

[bfcjg]

The one who prevented it being a cricket score on Saturday you mean?

That's him !

[Nori1958]

There's that bloke who dresses like a goalie and flaps his arms around.......oh hang on.

Christ....every bloody thread....

[Loyalclaret]

Who's the fella that does full face paint? He'd probably count, and well, Dave Burnley is still around isnt he?

Not sure first one counts but Dave Burnley is a bonafide character. Probably a few others

[todclaret]

Whatever happened to Albert Cunliffe?
As featured on many a half time tannoy announcements around the country.

[Woodleyclaret]

Saw Dave on Saturday at Brentford match

[StayingDown4Ever]

The one who prevented it being a cricket score on Saturday you mean?

Him who has let in 23 in nine games.

[Mondsley]

Bobby Driver anyone ?

Blimey, that's a blast from the past. Remember him in the early Seventies when I went to away games with Brian Wren and Pete Hodgson, both characters in their own right. Anyway, Bobbie Driver, dressed in a long white coat, carried a rattle and wound the opposition fans up! Funny chap.

[bfcjg]

Christ....every bloody thread....

Not really.

[sjb]

Blimey, that's a blast from the past. Remember him in the early Seventies when I went to away games with Brian Wren and Pete Hodgson, both characters in their own right. Anyway, Bobbie Driver, dressed in a long white coat, carried a rattle and wound the opposition fans up! Funny chap.

Knew Brian & Pete well. I recall coming back from Wrexham in 78/9, Pete sampled his first ever pizza - and pronounced it pizzer.
Both sadly missed along with lads like 'Sexy' Steve Mackriel who had the strongest Wolverhampton accent imaginable.

[todclaret]

Blimey, that's a blast from the past. Remember him in the early Seventies when I went to away games with Brian Wren and Pete Hodgson, both characters in their own right. Anyway, Bobbie Driver, dressed in a long white coat, carried a rattle and wound the opposition fans up! Funny chap.

I remember Brian Wren and Pete (Scandalous!) Hodgson well. Perhaps you also remember Keith Rigby from Tod who used to travel with them on occasion?

[durhamclaret]

Does anyone remember Koster, maybe spelled Coster from the '60s/early '70s?

Yes, I do. “Costers silver hatchett came down on the Leeds fans head” to the tune of Maxwells silver hammer.

[Rowls]

Knew Brian & Pete well. I recall coming back from Wrexham in 78/9, Pete sampled his first ever pizza - and pronounced it pizzer.

"Pizzer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NjTWvl8x-U

[ClaretTony]

Brian Wren gave up on us but Pete Hodgson didn’t. Both passed away too early and I don’t think Pete made fifty.

Whoever mentioned Bobby Driver must be old. He was the one on the League Liner trip shouting ‘Of course it’s tripe.”

Mention of Brian, Pete & Keith Rigby (Rigger) should also include Roy Kilby who travelled with them and never missed a game. Thankfully Roy dragged his son to the Turf as well.

[cocotheclaret]

Mad Kelly anybody?

[ClaretsPadiham]

Golden gamble women behind jimmy mac with jesters hat

Used to be a lad traveled with Accy Clarets around 2002-2006 sure he was called Jason, lad was tapped. Maybe Leisure knows who he is ??

[Mondsley]

Brian Wren gave up on us but Pete Hodgson didn’t. Both passed away too early and I don’t think Pete made fifty.

Whoever mentioned Bobby Driver must be old. He was the one on the League Liner trip shouting ‘Of course it’s tripe.”

Mention of Brian, Pete & Keith Rigby (Rigger) should also include Roy Kilby who travelled with them and never missed a game. Thankfully Roy dragged his son to the Turf as well.

I don't think Brian ever gave up on us Tony. He stopped coming to games after some sort of fall out and his pride, or stubbornness, stopped him from returning. From the many conversations I had with him after the fall out it was obvious he was still a Claret through and through. I remember Rigger and travelled to a couple of away games in Roy's Jag. As you say, both Brian and Pete taken too young.

[Les Lawrence]

Kenny Schappcott is a crackpot,who dropped the jackpot,then ate a snackpot.

[StayingDown4Ever]

Paul Ward in the seasons he supports us rather than Rotherham or Colne.

[Loyalclaret]

Kenny Schappcott is a crackpot,who dropped the jackpot,then ate a snackpot.

Good shout.

Pete Barton as a tag-team with Beaky, still the smartest dressed geezer on Brunshaw Rd before home games. Acid tongue on terraces and coaches when u was growing up!

Not to embarrass but CT too.

[ClaretTony]

I don't think Brian ever gave up on us Tony. He stopped coming to games after some sort of fall out and his pride, or stubbornness, stopped him from returning. From the many conversations I had with him after the fall out it was obvious he was still a Claret through and through. I remember Rigger and travelled to a couple of away games in Roy's Jag. As you say, both Brian and Pete taken too young.

Wrenny came and sat with us for one game years after he'd packed in going but he sadly passed away soon after. I think he was only 64 too. Really nice bloke who I got to know really well during the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. So many of that group were lost far too young, I think Roy was only in his 60s too when he died.

[Jamesy]

Not sure first one counts but Dave Burnley is a bonafide character. Probably a few others

Dave Burnley is a bit like Rocky was ……. Ok in small doses.

[longhair]

Selwyn from todmorden sadly passed away a few years ago remember him and Rocky belly barging during a game once maybe Bradford away

[Jambounchained]

Selwyn from todmorden sadly passed away a few years ago remember him and Rocky belly barging during a game once maybe Bradford away

Think it was away at Wycombe - 5-0 down at the time

[ClaretTony]

Selwyn from todmorden sadly passed away a few years ago remember him and Rocky belly barging during a game once maybe Bradford away

We were talking about Selwyn at a recent meeting - over 12 years now since he passed away. His last game was the 2-1 defeat at Peterborough in September 2011.

[FCBurnley]

Bobby Driver anyone ?

Ate Tripe on league Liner

[TsarBomba]

Think it was away at Wycombe - 5-0 down at the time

I have a vague recollection of this.

I had this exact same conversation with my Mum recently about all the Clarets that have passed away in recent times.

I used to travel with Colne Clarets and the coaches were very ‘lively’ for a kid. I used to love it.

There was a chap called ‘Hodgy’- think his last name was Hodgkinson. He passed away far too early as well. He was always great with me, my sister and Mum, and my Mum said he would always shepherd us out the way of there was a bit of bother.

[Pickles]

For about four or five years I sat next to two blokes. We never really spoke much but god they made me laugh. One game against Norwich when for what felt like the full ninety minutes they made jokes and chants about Lee Croft's massive head. Silly and must've been about fifteen years now but still makes me laugh remembering it. We all have those people around us, not friends as such, people you just recognise, who become as much a part of the match than what happens on the pitch.

[Big Vinny K]

Norman Jones was definitely a character.
Not sure he was the nicest of human beings shall we say.

I was at St Teds and playing for the first eleven in upper 6th form (so 17 or 18 year old). For some reason the headteacher (Gerry Martland) agreed we would play a team of adults who had formed a team from unemployed blokes at the job centre.
Norman Jones played - and they tried to kick the living shite out of us. We won 6-0 I think but could not wait to get off that pitch…..funny how Norman was playing. I thought he had a job as a coach driver !

[JohnDearyMe]

Norman Jones was definitely a character.
Not sure he was the nicest of human beings shall we say.

I was at St Teds and playing for the first eleven in upper 6th form (so 17 or 18 year old). For some reason the headteacher (Gerry Martland) agreed we would play a team of adults who had formed a team from unemployed blokes at the job centre.
Norman Jones played - and they tried to kick the living shite out of us. We won 6-0 I think but could not wait to get off that pitch…..funny how Norman was playing. I thought he had a job as a coach driver !

Haha brilliant story (although probably only in retrospect for you!)

[Big Vinny K]

Haha brilliant story (although probably only in retrospect for you!)

Not sure what the school were thinking tbh !!!!

[Carwin261]

Ate Tripe on league Liner

I’m glad someone else is old enough to remember him,he always wore a bowler hat.

[Leisure]

Golden gamble women behind jimmy mac with jesters hat

Used to be a lad traveled with Accy Clarets around 2002-2006 sure he was called Jason, lad was tapped. Maybe Leisure knows who he is ??

If it's the Jason that I'm thinking of, you're being very generous by only describing him as 'tapped'!

[Carwin261]

Blimey, that's a blast from the past. Remember him in the early Seventies when I went to away games with Brian Wren and Pete Hodgson, both characters in their own right. Anyway, Bobbie Driver, dressed in a long white coat, carried a rattle and wound the opposition fans up! Funny chap.

I sure he always wore a bowler hat.

[Carwin261]

Brian Wren gave up on us but Pete Hodgson didn’t. Both passed away too early and I don’t think Pete made fifty.

Whoever mentioned Bobby Driver must be old. He was the one on the League Liner trip shouting ‘Of course it’s tripe.”

Mention of Brian, Pete & Keith Rigby (Rigger) should also include Roy Kilby who travelled with them and never missed a game. Thankfully Roy dragged his son to the Turf as well.

Thanks Tony ,I’m sure 75 and still rant and rave in mi seat in the BL stand.

[ClaretTony]

One person not mentioned on here was my old friend Brian Lucas. I'm not sure anyone who travelled to away games back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s didn't know him.

I could write a book about his antics over the years but one story prior to me knowing him cost him his job. He wanted to go to the Fairs Cup tie in Frankfurt but he couldn't get time off work. Not to be beaten, he went off sick. He'd have got away with it too had the photograph below not appeared in the Burnley Express. Brian - Dustbin to those who knew him from the 60s, then Monster and finally Box Car - received his cards on his return home.

He always wanted a word with referees too and after a defeat at Fulham he decided the referee had cost us. "You're a cheat," he bellowed at the ref as they left the field at the end. The fool of a referee (Eric Read from Bristol) decided to respond and shouted back: "Your problem is you're biased." Not to be outdone, Brian screamed at him: "To true I'm biased and I haven't come all this way to see you ******* cheat us."



Brian is on the left of the picture, almost looking young there (he'd have been 19 at the time), Malcolm Moss (who still watches us) is third and second from the right was a bloke from Preston whose name I can't recall but we always called him Preston Prick.

[Herts Clarets]

One person not mentioned on here was my old friend Brian Lucas. I'm not sure anyone who travelled to away games back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s didn't know him.

I could write a book about his antics over the years but one story prior to me knowing him cost him his job. He wanted to go to the Fairs Cup tie in Frankfurt but he couldn't get time off work. Not to be beaten, he went off sick. He'd have got away with it too had the photograph below not appeared in the Burnley Express. Brian - Dustbin to those who knew him from the 60s, then Monster and finally Box Car - received his cards on his return home.

He always wanted a word with referees too and after a defeat at Fulham he decided the referee had cost us. "You're a cheat," he bellowed at the ref as they left the field at the end. The fool of a referee (Eric Read from Bristol) decided to respond and shouted back: "Your problem is you're biased." Not to be outdone, Brian screamed at him: "To true I'm biased and I haven't come all this way to see you ******* cheat us."



Brian is on the left of the picture, almost looking young there (he'd have been 19 at the time), Malcolm Moss (who still watches us) is third and second from the right was a bloke from Preston whose name I can't recall but we always called him Preston Prick.

I was on quite a few away day coaches in the mid to late 80s when we were truly crap. Trips usually featured one of the organisers shouting 'Box Car with the rest of the coach giving it Whoo Whoo. I don't think Box Car was too fond of it!

[The Hung Juror]

One person not mentioned on here was my old friend Brian Lucas. I'm not sure anyone who travelled to away games back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s didn't know him.

I could write a book about his antics over the years but one story prior to me knowing him cost him his job. He wanted to go to the Fairs Cup tie in Frankfurt but he couldn't get time off work. Not to be beaten, he went off sick. He'd have got away with it too had the photograph below not appeared in the Burnley Express. Brian - Dustbin to those who knew him from the 60s, then Monster and finally Box Car - received his cards on his return home.

He always wanted a word with referees too and after a defeat at Fulham he decided the referee had cost us. "You're a cheat," he bellowed at the ref as they left the field at the end. The fool of a referee (Eric Read from Bristol) decided to respond and shouted back: "Your problem is you're biased." Not to be outdone, Brian screamed at him: "To true I'm biased and I haven't come all this way to see you ******* cheat us."



Brian is on the left of the picture, almost looking young there (he'd have been 19 at the time), Malcolm Moss (who still watches us) is third and second from the right was a bloke from Preston whose name I can't recall but we always called him Preston Prick.

Not sure about football fans, look like a bunch of Oxbridge students!

[ClaretTony]

Not sure about football fans, look like a bunch of Oxbridge students!

That's how it was in the 1960s

[Jamesy]

It’s the claret and blue college scarves that make them look like students. These were slightly more expensive than the traditional bar scarves in the club shop. They were decent scarves but after a few years the stitching came apart where the thin blue stripes met the claret.

[ClaretTony]

I was on quite a few away day coaches in the mid to late 80s when we were truly crap. Trips usually featured one of the organisers shouting 'Box Car with the rest of the coach giving it Whoo Whoo. I don't think Box Car was too fond of it!

I can't imagine who would have been shouting Box Car but I think he loved it really.

[Quicknick]

That's how it was in the 1960s

Apart from the geasers in their bike jackets.