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…
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…
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…
The Dyche era is over
Almost four years ago, I saw the Clarets beaten 5-0 by Arsenal at the Emirates. It was a special day of a kind for the home club with manager Arsène…
Farewell to the brilliant Jimmy Greaves
It was the spring of 1986 and Ian St. John & Jimmy Greaves, the former Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and England striker, were the guest speakers at a…
The merry-go-round stops for now
As of last week, all the twenty Premier League clubs finally had a manager (or head coach) in place to prepare for the oncoming season with Crystal Palace's search concluding…