Fans stunned at 1981 prices
Burnley Football Club stunned their supporters some 39 years ago when, after a disappointing first season in the Third Division, they increased the prices for the 1981/82 season. The prices…
The 1970s completed
Two weeks ago we introduced the results, league tables and programme covers from the first half of the 1970s and today we complete the decade, featuring all of the seasons…
Hart turns quizmaster for hospice
During the current crisis, a lot of organisations are losing money and that is very much the case for hospices around the country. Our local hospice will be very much…
Beginnings
Who started it? What is it that lies at the heart of football and our chosen team, and keeps drawing us back like an umbilical cord? Who did this to…
Mark Winstanley winning fight for life
Marc Iles, who writes for the Bolton News, has revealed today that former Bolton and Burnley defender Mark Winstanley is winning his battle against leukaemia having received a life saving…
Cliff Britton – May 1945 to September 1948
With the war at an end, Burnley, who had been without a manager since the departure of Alf Boland in 1940, moved to appoint former England half back Cliff Britton…
Glennon was enjoying life on loan
Back in January, several of our under-23 squad went out on loan to clubs from League Two, such as Grimsby Town, Morecambe and Oldham Athletic, and into the National Leagues.…
Title hopes take a knock at Leicester on Easter Monday
Burnley's hopes of winning all three Easter games ended at Filbert Street when we fell to a 2-1 defeat on Easter Monday 1960, and after all the games had been…
Jimmy Mac lines up against Burnley for the first time
In February 1963, we had sold Jimmy McIlroy to Stoke City and it was on 2nd November in the same year that the Northern Ireland international played against Burnley, the…
Alf Boland – August 1935 to 1940
Following Tom Bromilow's decision to move on to Crystal Palace the club chose a different policy regarding team selection with the prominent figure being the club secretary Alf Boland. In effect,…