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AndrewJB

I met David Burnley in Faro in the summer of ‘23, on the way to the Huelva game. My partner used to work with a friend of his - Michael Rainbird, who is a Watford fan - and he got Dave’s first book signed for me. Dave’s a good guy. I wouldn’t say he’s any more on the spectrum than most people, but l...

AndrewJB

We had a winnable Cup Game at PNE, but Parker saw a bigger picture. Controversially , (at the time), he rested most of the team, but went on to win the main prize. The game on Saturday is completely meaningless to the Blades. Wilder won't be fussed about the integrity of the league and playing a st...

AndrewJB

It cracks me up that Hutchy has liked this post. He probably thinks he has someone agreeing with him about us buying promotion. The biggest difference (well it's actually massive) being that we get parachute payments as a result of past achievements. Blackburn were handed the funds that allowed the...

AndrewJB

Do you have a Kindle version?

AndrewJB

The "one-five-two."

AndrewJB

Is it really a thing of playing for a draw, or just playing a stronger defensive team that will be less likely to concede? Sheffield United have to win, and this is an advantage for us. Leeds and Sunderland have been to the Turf without scoring, though I'm sure we still played to win those games, bu...

AndrewJB

Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:23 pm
Didn’t Cloughs Forest break our 30 game record but over two seasons?

They did, and Leeds equalled the record too. Arsenal managed to get beyond it, but no other team has done it twice (I don't think).

AndrewJB

Zidane and Maradona? Oh dear. Maybe you're confusing Maradona with Sheffield United. Not sure Zidane's ever heard of Blackburn to be honest. He must have heard of Rovers, because near the end of a final the Italian player who had been nigglilng him throughout the game with comments about his mother...

AndrewJB

At a normal club with normal owners, yeah. Absolute no brainer. But something has been sus about that takeover fron day one. The theory is that they don't want the Premier League spotlight on them and they don't want to invest the levels required for Premier League football I.e on wages, signings, ...

AndrewJB

Twine went off just minutes before City were awarded a free kick just outside our box.

AndrewJB

There were a few people saying they did not want Parker, Rosenoir or Lampard. There were a few people saying they wanted RVN There were a few people saying they didn’t want Dyche, Coyle, Cotterill. We sacked Howe look at him now A bloke down the pub before we appointed Harry Potts said he would get...

AndrewJB

I'd go for our usual one nil win, and get everything.

AndrewJB

Another DIRE nil nil.

Parker in, but only as a first half manager!

AndrewJB

How long did it take to fly from Blackpool to Burnley?

AndrewJB

Their thirty-whatever year stretch against us rankled with me. But our fourteen year stretch is qualitatively better, and (for me) was worth the wait. Ten years without conceding over five competitive wins is a wonderful stat, and I hope it continues through this season. Our last six consecutive vic...

AndrewJB

There was a lot to take heart from in that performance.

AndrewJB

Snowfall is excellent, but you have to watch from the beginning. I didn't realise the last series was out.

If you want something football related, then El Presidente is very good (apologies if already put forward). It's on Prime I think, and very funny for a drama.

AndrewJB

Their wage bill continues to exceed income and that’s why they continue to lose money which the Venkys keep covering There’s no reason for them to still have a wage bill exceeding income That's a crazy business model, unless they had a plan over a number of years, but I suppose it's not much to the...

AndrewJB

They've been out of the top flight for a decade now. How has Venky's not stabilised the finances yet? What is the money being spent on (apart from buying mediocre seasons in level two)?

AndrewJB

My ticket is on the south side at the halfway line. I’ll just have to enjoy it quietly.

AndrewJB

I’m on the 10am bus from Faro.

AndrewJB

This is a great game! I know it's only a friendly, but we look good against a really good side (not sure of how many first team they're playing though). I've got my ticket for Huelva, so looking forward to seeing us against Real Betis.

AndrewJB

Jimmy Hogan - who played for us too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hogan

His influence was more felt in Europe to begin with, but it was eventually brought to our shores by the Hungarian national team that beat ours 5-2 at Wembley.

AndrewJB

I used to joke with colleagues in London that wherever I went in the world wearing something Burnley, I’d be approached by an exceedingly attractive woman who would say in an American, or other accent: “Oh wow! You love Burnley Football Club too?” :) Perhaps with the new owners and their marketing n...

AndrewJB

A bit of old and a bit of new. The standard colour scheme, but with a black outlined stencil picture of Barnes wheeling away from goal and Kaminski still falling into the net all over it in three by three inch squares.

AndrewJB

Aclaret wrote: ↑
Tue May 02, 2023 9:22 pm
Shame, really nice drink.

From a quick look online, it appears to be mixed fifty-fifty, so could be made at home.

AndrewJB

I think B&B is more a North American thing.

AndrewJB

Are there any other examples in sport where those who have basically finished 3rd are allowed to have have a bigger celebration than the best team in the competition? Whoever wins the play-offs even gets a bigger report in the papers and a prime-time slot on the sports news. Crazy when you think ab...

AndrewJB

It's the Sun FFS. Not worth the paper it's printed on.

AndrewJB

Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 26, 2023 4:03 pm
Does Weghorst become the first existing Burnley player to play in a major cup final since the FA Cup final in '62 when todays cup final kicks off?

Don't you mean 'since '88'?

AndrewJB

5 or 6 for me. I didn't believe it would be likely that so many new players could gel the way they have.

I wouldn't call us a 10 right now though. More like a 12.

AndrewJB

I used to teach English to foreign adults in London, and a key thing to aim at in learning another language is to think in that language. People who have a large vocabulary in their native language find this difficult, as it means becoming childlike in the new language, however removing that "step" ...

AndrewJB

We're slowly puling away from Sheff Utd too. They dropped two points recently.

AndrewJB

He can go for me. Tonight was the final straw against a poor Watford team. Their first clean sheet was inevitable. The team cannot be strengthened now the window has shut and we can blame Pace/Garlick whoever but we are left to go with what we have. As it stands we are not getting a tune out of thi...

AndrewJB

Watford could have won, so on the whole I'm pleased with the result. The conditions were really awful, for both teams of course, and that I think marred the game. My partner watched the second half with me, and thought Burnley were the better side. I think we were too. Our new players look good, and...

AndrewJB

alf_resco wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:28 pm
You're correct.
It is a tedious thread tbf.

The subject is quite a lot deeper than your quote.

AndrewJB

Well, there are a number of things that pull us towards negativity. Claretpete001 pointed out the evolution certainly isn't ridding us of negative thinking. If it were such a successful mindset, why isn't evolution doing away with it? Well, fearing the worst is a very necessary survival instinct. F...

AndrewJB

Nobody has claimed she skippered the ******* things. She sailed, using wind power. That is the point. What does it matter how much the boats cost? Only by rowing herself over could she be considered genuine enough. Meanwhile the so called world leaders take short haul flights and the carbon foot pr...

AndrewJB

1-1 draw.

AndrewJB

The Radio 6 podcast is brilliant.

AndrewJB

Burnley 1 Liverpool 0.

AndrewJB

superdimitri wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:36 pm
Doesn't quite have the same effect. Even Capello managed to learn some English.
https://showsport.me/football/champions ... ds-5243492

No, I meant Dyche speaking English with a Spanish accent, to give us that continental feel!

AndrewJB

superdimitri wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 25, 2020 12:43 pm
It's all about the translator.
https://youtu.be/U--_8tXE75o

Get some Spanish lessons in Sean and before you know it you'll be branded a cultural phenomenon.

Or just speaking English with a Spanish accent?

AndrewJB

Hamilton just has to appear in a Waitrose Christmas ad singing an edited version of Fairytale of New York now, and some people on here will combust with rage.

AndrewJB

expoultryboy wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 21, 2020 1:02 pm
Blockheads : still touring ( when allowed ) , with Ian's mate " Derek the draw " as the front man . Still got a few of the original lineup and occasionally wilko makes an appearance . Pam's moods .

His son, Baxter Dury. A chip off the old...

AndrewJB

The germans had a different agenda to what the allies had. For Germany they would have “won” so to speak. From my point of view at least, when fighting for peace you don’t win. You stop the enemy. We did that at great cost to civilian lives. Like I said, you don’t win wars when those amounts of peo...

AndrewJB

These things happen. In WW1, civilians were not targeted and the population of Germany believed (correctly) that they had been shafted by the Allies, and perhaps that they shouldn't have surrendered; this led to the combined circumstance of a collapsed economy and the breeding ground for popular su...

AndrewJB

Your brothers team ? What went wrong Andrew ? I was born in Burnley, and he was born in Mansfield. We moved to Canada when he was still a baby, and he made his decision on which team to support during a brief moment in history when Mansfield were in a division above us. He claims to have no regrets.

AndrewJB

Mansfield are my brother’s team. He’ll be pleased at this appointment.

AndrewJB

andrewjb, As well as answering for the anti-semitic attitudes of some of the party members, right? You seem more wrapped up in the party's reluctance/slowness to deal with it than the fact it existed in the first place. Whether the party was full of them or not is really irrelevant... for there to ...

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