Clarets inevitably exit League Cup as Stoke win again
It didn’t come as a surprise that Burnley went out of the League Cup at the second round stage in 1997/98 season against Stoke City. Having lost the first leg…
A first home goal of the season and another point
Having scored a first league goal at the seventh time of asking at York, Burnley notched their first home league goal of the season on this day in 1997 in…
Outclassed by Stoke
Burnley had no answer to Stoke City in the first leg of the League Cup second round and fell to a 4-0 defeat with a trip to the new Britannia…
A goal at last but no points for the 1997 Clarets
Burnley finally broke their scoring duck in the seventh Division Two game of the season but it counted for nothing with the game against York City at Bootham Crescent ending…
Sunday defeat at Chesterfield
It was a sixth goalless game at the start of the 1997/98 season for the Clarets when we went down to a 1-0 defeat at second place Chesterfield. Burnley, as…
Burnley draw another blank against Oldham
Having drawn the first two home games of the season 0-0 against Gillingham and Bristol Rovers, Burnley secured another 0-0 home draw against Oldham Athletic on this day in 1997.…
A fourth goalless game for Burnley
Burnley secured a second successive 0-0 home draw in Division 2, this one against Bristol Rovers, as the difficult start to the season continued. There had been another tragedy in…
Second leg win against Lincoln takes Burnley through in cup
We might have still been looking for our first goal and first win of the league season in 1997, but a 2-1 home win against Lincoln saw us go through…
Waddle’s Clarets draw another league blank
Burnley suffered a 1-0 defeat at Southend which left us with just one point from our first three league games and not a solitary goal scored. Football is often put…
Ten man Burnley draw a blank in opening home game
Having lost at Watford on the opening day of the season, we couldn’t respond with a win as the home programme kicked off in 1997 with Gillingham holding us to…