He certainly was. Enjoyed him in everything he’s been in, but I just get the impression it’s him, not a character.
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- Sat Oct 04, 2025 7:45 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Brassic 7
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2494
- Sat Oct 04, 2025 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: WHY do people chuck things at football grounds ?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1418
Re: WHY do people chuck things at football grounds ?
Couple of years ago they were getting away with racist chanting towards us, standing next to the coppers and doing it without being challenged. I know we have our fair share of absolute brain dead wallopers, but they abuse the privilege. I have some good friends who are Leeds fans, and to be honest ...
- Thu Oct 02, 2025 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Erling Haaland
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1699
Re: Erling Haaland
He’s an absolute beast. Not the best ever yet, but on his way no doubt.
Surprising thing for me is just how quick he goes from not moving, to moving so quickly he’s almost a blur. Crazy for a lad his size.
Surprising thing for me is just how quick he goes from not moving, to moving so quickly he’s almost a blur. Crazy for a lad his size.
- Thu Oct 02, 2025 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Manchester Today
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3900
Re: Manchester Today
It’s a crying shame that this sort of thing is happening on our doorstep.
Thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this, including the police firearms officer who has had to carry out a terrible task that he’s unlikely to ever forget.
Thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this, including the police firearms officer who has had to carry out a terrible task that he’s unlikely to ever forget.
- Wed Oct 01, 2025 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: more planned alterations at Turf Moor
- Replies: 246
- Views: 15360
Re: more planned alterations at Turf Moor
I hope the boys and girls in the CFS are aware that their walk to the turnstiles has just been shortened by a few yards!
Too soon?

Too soon?


- Wed Oct 01, 2025 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Burnley lad playing in the Champions League tonight
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2460
Re: Burnley lad playing in the Champions League tonight
He’s not got a statue in town, because Burnley council are a bunch of ne’er do wells.Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Wed Oct 01, 2025 3:25 pmCould be the reason he's not got a statue in town. Stick it outside that sh!t hole.
The lack of one is a constant reminder of their inadequacies, and their ineptitude.
I’m embarrassed for them…
- Wed Oct 01, 2025 12:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Chris Wilder red card
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4243
Re: Chris Wilder red card
Go on then …… Explain that one. What virtue? And who is signalling? And to what end? Wow! That’s a lot of questions… I’ll try to answer, whilst being aware I may have chosen the wrong phrase to make a point. On the face of it, banishing him to the stands “looks” like he’s been punished for being a ...
- Wed Oct 01, 2025 7:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Chris Wilder red card
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4243
Re: Chris Wilder red card
Won’t matter. Hardly ever does. He’ll watch from the stands and there will be some form of communication system in place. Banishing managers to the stands is nothing more than virtue signalling.Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:41 pmSo much so that he won't be on the touchline for a while.
Fat lot of use that is to his team.
- Tue Sep 30, 2025 6:36 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: This weekend's penalty situations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1522
Re: This weekend's penalty situations
I’ve given up trying to analyse everything. Utterly pointless when it’s so subjective. Add that to the fact the rules change all the time, and it’s total bamboozlement for me. All I know are these three things. 1. It’s a penalty against Burnley. 2. The Burnley goal was offside. 3. It will either rai...
- Sun Sep 28, 2025 7:28 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Post match interviews v Man City
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1032
Re: Post match interviews v Man City
I suppose it’s always a worry that if the scores remain level and he changes things with 20 to go, they bang a few in and Parker gets pelters because it looks like he’s cost us the game with the changes.
Damned if he does…
Damned if he does…
- Sat Sep 27, 2025 10:48 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rovers v Ipswich... What Should Happen?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 7078
Re: Rovers v Ipswich... What Should Happen?
We should withdraw ours as well. For years they’ve only been interested in the Barstewards, now they’ll be fawning after us to fill the drivel/ad riddled pages, so we should tell em to sod off.randomclaret2 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 26, 2025 7:01 pmNot directly connected but I see our neighbours have withdrawn the Lancashire Telegraph's accreditation
- Sat Sep 27, 2025 10:46 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rovers v Ipswich... What Should Happen?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 7078
Re: Rovers v Ipswich... What Should Happen?
I’ll be willing to bet the goal scorers bonus remains….Im_not_Robbie_Blake wrote: ↑Thu Sep 25, 2025 6:04 pmI think the red card will be null and void because the abandoned game has been removed from the records, so no red or yellow cards, no goalscorer credit, no other match statistics will exist.
- Fri Sep 26, 2025 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Harry Kane
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1562
Re: Harry Kane
Why? Has Vardy banged in a shed load since leaving Leicester?No Ney Never wrote: ↑Fri Sep 26, 2025 9:15 pmNot surprised Spurs wouldn't sell him to any other Prem club, he's proper class, which is why we should have gone for Vardy.
- Fri Sep 26, 2025 9:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Broja- SP's view
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4582
Re: Broja- SP's view
It was ********, absolute ********, written by bollockers…
- Thu Sep 25, 2025 9:09 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Brassic 7
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2494
Re: Brassic 7
Loved it. Utterly Convinced that Joseph Gilgun is no actor… I reckon he’s just being himself. Some great characters, and I hope they go out with a bang.
- Wed Sep 24, 2025 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Looking for a word that might not exist
- Replies: 15
- Views: 937
Re: Looking for a word that might not exist
Meniscus. (Sp)
- Wed Sep 24, 2025 1:28 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sonne & Broja
- Replies: 115
- Views: 6527
Re: Sonne & Broja
Not yet I don’t think… but I didn’t say he had. Is his career over? So there’s still time yeah?
- Wed Sep 24, 2025 9:12 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sonne & Broja
- Replies: 115
- Views: 6527
Re: Sonne & Broja
Some people are looking at the overall picture it's impossible to not take into consideration what he's done previously elsewhere as it's a good indicator what could possibly lay ahead. A bit like Akinbiyi? Even Blake to a certain extent. How about Arfield? They may well be looking at an overall pi...
- Wed Sep 24, 2025 8:36 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sonne & Broja
- Replies: 115
- Views: 6527
Re: Sonne & Broja
When you say whipping boy do you mean calling it how it is ? No. I mean whipping boy as in he’s only featured for literally minutes, and he’s being hammered and written off on here already. Historically, we have always had this type of player, but it says more about the fan base than the player. He...
- Tue Sep 23, 2025 10:35 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sonne & Broja
- Replies: 115
- Views: 6527
Re: Sonne & Broja
Broja would be fine at City or Arsenal who tend to play all out attack ,playing for us when he’s to run his ******** off will not work . To give this some balance, he shouldn’t have to be working his ******** off against this Cardiff side. I’m confident there’s a player in there. Whether there is o...
- Tue Sep 23, 2025 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Sonne & Broja
- Replies: 115
- Views: 6527
Re: Sonne & Broja
Broja is a million miles away…. From being written off surely? I’d like to think he’s going to be given time to become match fit, and then if and when he does break into the team, I’d like to think we are as patient with him as we have been with others…. I doubt it tho - looks like he’s gonna be a w...
- Tue Sep 23, 2025 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Rovers v Ipswich... What Should Happen?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 7078
Re: Rovers v Ipswich... What Should Happen?
Agreed.
Or Blackburn to forfeit the points for this game, for allowing a bit of rain to disrupt the whole day, and then to be subsequently relegated to the north west counties league, for being so tin pot it beggars belief.
- Tue Sep 23, 2025 7:06 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Mighty Kebab
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4644
Re: The Mighty Kebab
Tara’s…
- Mon Sep 22, 2025 9:58 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Mighty Kebab
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4644
Re: The Mighty Kebab
They used to…. They were most excellent. Then they stopped making their own naan breads, and replaced em with the nasty supermarket version. Not had one since.
- Sun Sep 21, 2025 7:31 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Name the ex Claret
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2530
Re: Name the ex Claret
Mark Monington….
- Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:45 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Us and Rovers...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2526
Re: Us and Rovers...
Nah. Lancs police explained it’s because of a lack of interest in anything football related down the road….
- Sat Sep 20, 2025 9:00 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Mighty Kebab
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4644
Re: The Mighty Kebab
Can’t believe someone said cucumber belongs on a kebab. What has happened to this country….. I must confess I was usually a Sumbul’s visitor at 2am post Panama’s! Knocking cucumber in one sentence, then advocating sumbuls in the next… :roll: :lol: There isn’t enough beer in the country to get me in...
- Sat Sep 20, 2025 8:06 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Best song intros?
- Replies: 134
- Views: 3360
Re: Best song intros?
Pretty vacant- pistols
Where the streets have no name - u2
What difference does it make? - smiths
Where the streets have no name - u2
What difference does it make? - smiths
- Fri Sep 19, 2025 4:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The Mighty Kebab
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4644
Re: The Mighty Kebab
The “meat” is always at its best when taken straight from the spit, as opposed to having it steamed soggy for a couple of hours in a Bain Marie… Bin the lettuce, it has NO place on a kebab. Plenty of shredded cabbage with a few cucumbers and tomato slices, fresh onions and chili sauce liberally appl...
- Fri Sep 19, 2025 9:10 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: O/T........EVs
- Replies: 207
- Views: 12278
Re: O/T........EVs
Cheap to run at the moment dsr….as you suggest in the final paragraph
Once we are all in them, the charging costs will go through the roof. No way does the treasury lose out on all that money generated from petrol/diesel sales. They've started already with the road tax that used to be nothing….
Once we are all in them, the charging costs will go through the roof. No way does the treasury lose out on all that money generated from petrol/diesel sales. They've started already with the road tax that used to be nothing….
- Tue Sep 16, 2025 9:07 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: The "Hillsborough" Law
- Replies: 6
- Views: 904
Re: The "Hillsborough" Law
Absolute disgrace that in this day and age we need to have these people monitored by an independent agency in order for them to behave with integrity.
- Mon Sep 15, 2025 1:55 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Milos Kerkez
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2905
Re: Milos Kerkez
As poor as Kerkez was, Wirtz still has a way to go to be worthy of the price paid for him.
- Sun Sep 14, 2025 9:48 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Penalty - indirect freekick for encroachment
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4161
Re: Penalty - indirect freekick for encroachment
No we don’t, but we do it anyway.daveisaclaret wrote: ↑Sun Sep 14, 2025 9:25 pmIt would have given us a second chance today but I think generally nobody wants to sit around after every penalty waiting for the bloke in the VAR box to spend 2 minutes looking for a toe over the line
- Sun Sep 14, 2025 10:27 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is anyone else feeling apathetic today?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3220
- Sun Sep 14, 2025 10:24 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Is anyone else feeling apathetic today?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3220
Re: Is anyone else feeling apathetic today?
Essentially it’s a free hit….
I’d love to catch them with a late left hook tho…
I’d love to catch them with a late left hook tho…
- Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:34 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Boxing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1155
Boxing
No thread for tonight’s big fight? Love to read the boxing threads in here - plenty of knowledgeable folk when it comes to the noble art. I know Bud is unbeaten, and a fabulous fighter, but I just can’t see past Canelo. It’s his natural weight and Bud is stepping up two classes. Either way, two fabu...
- Sat Sep 13, 2025 10:29 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: ID may be required for entry to Turf Moof
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2388
- Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:38 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Food that is completely 'wrong'
- Replies: 84
- Views: 3629
Re: Food that is completely 'wrong'
Bi-valves. Molluscs. Snails. Raw (smoked) salmon. Sushi.
Strangely, pigs in blankets. Deconstructed one once, and it looked like a dead man’s finger.
Guilty of eating with my eyes. If I don’t like the look of it, it ain’t going in my gob.
Strangely, pigs in blankets. Deconstructed one once, and it looked like a dead man’s finger.
Guilty of eating with my eyes. If I don’t like the look of it, it ain’t going in my gob.
- Sat Sep 13, 2025 9:33 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Food that is completely 'wrong'
- Replies: 84
- Views: 3629
Re: Food that is completely 'wrong'
As a person that doesn't have a normal top to his stomach, anything that tastes bad second time around. From the list above, that includes sprouts, celery and tripe. Add in anything that has a lump of fat still attached to it, cabbage (school dinner type. White/red cabbage is fine), pesto, salad dr...
- Fri Sep 12, 2025 8:47 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jaguar Land Rover
- Replies: 72
- Views: 4149
Re: Jaguar Land Rover
Yes, that’s the place. It’s bloody rammed with vehicles. Hardly a glowing reference….Claret Till I Die wrote: ↑Fri Sep 12, 2025 4:00 pmDown by L.E.D. ? If so yes, it's where the workshop is and I agree that there are far too many vehicles sat waiting to be looked at. Unfortunately I had to go there several times with one of our cars
- Fri Sep 12, 2025 3:51 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jaguar Land Rover
- Replies: 72
- Views: 4149
Re: Jaguar Land Rover
Unsure if there’s a workshop there. Far too many registered vehicles imho. Seeing that amount just sat there waiting is enough to put me off…
- Fri Sep 12, 2025 7:50 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Jaguar Land Rover
- Replies: 72
- Views: 4149
Re: Jaguar Land Rover
There’s an overflow car park on Lomeshaye in Nelson specifically for repair/warranty repair of LR’s…. It’s well away from the main dealers, obviously. It’s jam packed to the rafters. I owned a freelander 2 (yeah, not a “real” landrover for the brand snobs) but by far the best car landrover have made...
- Thu Sep 11, 2025 10:21 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Beyer’s Limp
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6627
Re: Beyer’s Limp
He’s been out for 2 years…. How on earth is that just an assumption that it’s serious?
- Thu Sep 11, 2025 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Beyer’s Limp
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6627
Re: Beyer’s Limp
Does he have to limp for ages before it’s a real limp?
Sadly, he’s in a bad way. It’s a shame, and I’m sure everyone’s rooting for him, but simply refusing to see what’s in front of your faces is utterly bizarre.
Sadly, he’s in a bad way. It’s a shame, and I’m sure everyone’s rooting for him, but simply refusing to see what’s in front of your faces is utterly bizarre.
- Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: New football terminology
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3028
Re: New football terminology
It’s all nonsense. Derived claptrap from pundits who want to sound cleverer than they are.
- Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: New football terminology
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3028
Re: New football terminology
A bit like Andrea Pirlo then?dougcollins wrote: ↑Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:01 pmA pivot is generally something that turns through 180 degrees without changing its position.
- Tue Sep 09, 2025 12:44 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: Ashley Barnes breaking story
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3928
Re: Ashley Barnes breaking story
You missed a comma out….welsbyswife wrote: ↑Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:24 amSounds like a murky business. Used to love a Dick Francis.

- Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:22 am
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England vs Andorra
- Replies: 109
- Views: 4233
Re: England vs Andorra
Give it a rest ya drama queen… someone puts some flags up and paints a couple of roundabouts and it’s the fourth reich?
“Oooh, someone put flags up in 1933 and look what happened next!!”
“Oooh, someone put flags up in 1933 and look what happened next!!”
- Sat Sep 06, 2025 10:07 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England vs Andorra
- Replies: 109
- Views: 4233
Re: England vs Andorra
I agree. Which is why I think Southgate gets far too much **** than he deserves. Gareth Southgate led England to a final and two semifinals. That's a phenomenal achievement. With the players at his disposal, and considering in one of the finals we were 1-0 up at home against a poor Italian side and...
- Sat Sep 06, 2025 10:04 pm
- Forum: The Bee Hole End
- Topic: England vs Andorra
- Replies: 109
- Views: 4233
Re: England vs Andorra
I don't recall all this fuss over Sven. But we didn't have right wing morons painting the flag of St George all over the place then either. What fuss? A bit of a discussion on a footy message board? Wake up to yourself. Anybody does anything even remotely passionate with the Union Jack/flag of St G...