Live Forever
We’re on the tele!! This was the first time that a whole Burnley match had been covered live on terrestrial television since the 1962 Cup Final. What better proof was…
Vincent Kompany is in the top fifty
Sean Dyche, for a period of time, was the second longest serving manager in English football so it’s ironic that Gareth Ainsworth, the one who kept him off the top,…
No 350: Hjalmar Ekdal
On the final day of August in 1946, Burnley kicked off the new season with a home game in the Second Division against Coventry City and a week later travelled…
Busy window closes for the Clarets
When we made the journey to Swansea by car on the second day of the year, one of the discussion points was the month’s transfer window and what business we…
My list of special goalscorers
It was February 1961, the 25th of February to be exact, when my dad took me on the Turf for what was to be my first ever East Lancs derby…
Will the North Rise Again?
A review of ‘Northern Exposure’ by Tim Quelch. Tim’s diaries were a mainstay of the London Clarets’ magazine Something to Write Home About back in the pre- and early-Internet days.…
Fifty not out – Jay Rodriguez
When Jay Rodriguez slammed his penalty past Angus Gunn on Tuesday night last week, it took his total of Burnley league goals to fifty, thirty-nine of them in the Championship…
A Mexican Standoff in Burnley
A review of A Director's Tale by Dave Thomas. The years in the early 1980s that saw Burnley relegated, promoted, relegated and then relegated again is one of the more…
Brave Lenny Johnrose loses battle against MND
Anyone with any connection with Blackburn Rovers, Hartlepool United, Bury, Burnley and Swansea City Football Clubs will be devastated today with the news that former player Lenny Johnrose has passed…
Tarky and Ben
Let’s go back to the 23rd of February in 2016 and a 1-0 home win over Nottingham Forest that came courtesy of a Sam Vokes goal scored in the 68th…