Jimmy Robson played his cards right
Today’s look back at former players takes us to the 1959/60 title winning team for the first time and to Jimmy Robson who was the inside-left in that team. Jimmy…
Eyres scored Burnley’s first Sunday goal
It’s just over 29 years since Burnley travelled to Wembley in May 1994 to play Stockport County in the Division Two play-off final and we got a couple of firsts…
Shannon – a key player in the fifties
When Peter Crouch made his Burnley debut in February 2019, he became the eighth player to have played for both us and Liverpool in post-war football. It’s a small number…
Wembley Winner Wade
Back in January 2005, we beat Liverpool in the third round of the FA Cup, a game that will be remembered by Burnley fans for the bizarre Djimi Traore own…
Our greatest ever goalscorer
There are footballers who score goals and then there are goalscorers, those special players who have that knack of being in the right place to score on a very regular…
He scored our most important goal
Which was the most important goal ever scored by Burnley and who scored it? It’s a question oft asked and one I would always answer with a selection of four…
Super Taff
We’ve had a number of Welsh internationals at Burnley over time, nine to be exact. The first of them was Stan Bowsher and the most recent is our current player…
We had Robbie Blake – Twice
Back in October 2000, we travelled to Nottingham Forest for a midweek game on the back of a run of four consecutive victories that had lifted us into the top…
Our Bedlington Terrier in Claret and Blue
Ask Burnley supporters of the 1960s to name some of their favourite players from that era and rest assured that the name Brian O’Neil will come up time and time…
World Cup Billy
It’s often said that a manager’s first signing for a club is key to how things might go for him. I’m not sure of that but there is no doubt…