The New Paul Weller Book
You meet people unexpectedly in the funniest places. For some years now we’ve been to Sunningdale in Tenerife, a collection of villas around a large pool, with restaurant and bar…
RIP Derek Gill
A good friend of mine, another writer and publisher, many years ago said to me, after the first book I ever did came out, that not everyone leaves a thumbprint…
John Bond at Burnley
It’s a name that stirs the same emotions and reactions as that of Bob Lord. There are those who say that both were villains. There are those like me that…
Eddie Gray and Jimmy Adamson
A book I seemed to put off each year, but always wanted to undertake, was the Jimmy Adamson biography. For one reason or another it had been put on hold…
Jimmy Adamson, Gary Rowell and the Battle of Turf Moor
Gary Rowell is a Sunderland legend and as his career drew to its end was signed by Burnley and played nineteen games. Burnley was his final club having arrived on…
Martin Dobson on Jimmy Adamson
This article goes back to 2013. For the Jimmy Adamson book, I contacted Martin Dobson. I explained to him that one of the themes of the book was the relationship…
A Tribute to John Connelly
I can still remember school games lessons on Centre Vale Park when I was at Todmorden Grammar School as a spotty 15-year old. There was Philip Brown, Ed Cockcroft, Jammy…
Ten reasons why Burnley won a most unexpected promotion
Again, it’s a few years since this was written but I look back at this as almost the perfect season, maybe with rose-tinted spectacles. The story goes that in the…
Ten Burnley defeats that really hurt
Once again this was written some years ago and dates back to 2010. One that could easily have gone in was the away play-off defeat at Torquay, in season 1990/91.…
Ten Memorable Burnley Goals
I wrote about the following goals several years ago and since then there have been others; the one at Everton after a 22-man passing move, a couple of Defour goals…