They got Worthy out
Today should have seen us play our final away game of the season at Norwich. It was the game we'd chosen for a weekend away but our group are all…
The Orient Game – National Press
In Living Memory - They came to bury Burnley and stayed to sing their praise is how Ian Wooldridge began his report of the Burnley v Orient game. Below are…
The Orient Game – Local Press
Here we take a look at the reports from the local journalists Granville Shackleton and Keith McNee from their respective newspapers. Keith was taken ill at the game but still…
The Orient Game – Match Programme
We were told that they would become collector's items and that they would be worth a lot of money in years to come but so many were printed they really…
The Orient Game – Dedication
This section of Up the Clarets, devoted to the most important game in the club's history, is dedicated to Keith McNee the former Burnley FC reporter for the Burnley Express,…
The Orient Game – Introduction
It is 33 years since the day our great club almost died - the most emotional day I can ever recall in over sixty years of watching Burnley. There have…
Jimmy Adamson – February 1970 to January 1976
It was no surprise to anyone when Jimmy Adamson became manager of Burnley. He'd been in waiting for a number of years after retiring from the playing side and becoming…
Twenty-first century goals
When Scott Arfield scored Burnley's winning goal against Watford in December 2017 I'm sure not many of us realised it was our 1,000th league goal since the turn of the…
Jim Thomson on Jimmy Adamson
The Daily Express was headlining severe arctic weather again when I went to see Jim Thomson in January, several years ago. If I could forecast football results as accurately as…
Wembley 1962 in pictures
A reminder of the day we last played in an FA Cup Final, beaten 3-1 by Spurs at Wembley on 5th May 1962 with our goal scored by Jimmy Robson.…