The view from Tenerife
I was thinking a bit. It gets harder as you get older but you have to keep trying. We were on the plane and I looked out the window and…
I-I-Irvine-Irvine-I and it’s 50 years
On 21st August 1965, Burnley kicked off the new football season with a 1-1 draw at Chelsea. It was a Chelsea side that included the likes of Chopper Harris at…
So what kind of Claret are you?
The psychology of being a Burnley fan Is it really less than a fortnight since we were seven points clear at the top and the bookies had us 8/1 on…
Into the final furlong
The pundits and hacks were still dissecting the Joey Barton incidents in the Brighton game. The words ‘past misdemeanours’ kept re-appearing. Anyone else and the two flare-ups would have been…
A Great Britton
We’d been in Kent for the week and drove home on the day of the Brighton game hoping to get back in time to watch at least the second half…
The money and the power moves east on the M65
Back in the early 1990s, although two divisions higher than us, our local rivals Blackburn Rovers were in dire straits financially. On more than one occasion they had their phone…
It’s been a strange Easter weekend
It's hard to imagine there being no league football over Easter although it might be something we need to get used to in these days of international breaks. It's strange,…
Of wheelbarrows and earthquakes
There’s a team in the land of the weavers, their colours are claret and blue. They’re a team of renown, the pride of the town, and their football so clean…
When twenty was plenty
The £50 ticket After we'd won at Scunthorpe in May 2000 to clinch promotion, someone said to me on the way back home that we would now face extortionate prices…
Who will crack first?
Sunday after the Blackburn game was spent looking at the league table, not quite all day, but more than usual, then watching the game again, and then writing up the…