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MalaysiaMo

I remember the interview for a student job at Safeways (evenings work, after schookl):

"What school do you go to?"

"Burnley Grammar School"

"You're hired."

Those were the days ...

MalaysiaMo

Ahhh. I hope he rests in peace. My dad was a local GP! Almost certainly our dads would have known one another then. Frank Taylor (the name above the shop fronts) was my dad's dad (my grandfather). The family business also included shops in Burnley (Coal Clough Lane - opposite the Gretna, and Manche...

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CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:48 am
Think your dad and my dad probably knew each other pretty well then !

My dad was John Taylor (he passed away in 2009, just before the playoff match with Reading). He co-ran the business with his younger brother, Bob - a keen golfer and still alive but also long-since retired.

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Ironically, and as indicated above, I think it was (heavily delayed) Government investment that started the retail decline in Nelson town centre ~ in the form of the completion of the M65. The M65 is effectively the Nelson by-pass, converting Nelson (and Burnley) into commuter towns feeding Manchest...

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My dad had two (Chemist) shops in Nelson throughout the 1970s and 1980s, before retiring in the mid 1990s ~ one on Leeds Road and one on Chapel House Road (Frank Taylor Chemists). He learnt Urdu at night school so that he could better communicate with many of his customers. His businesses did OK, bu...

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Listened to the game on a short-wave radio half-way up the Usambara mountains in Tanzania. I thought I was tuning into the FA cup final (I'd got the dates mixed up) - I had no idea of the mess Burnley was in until the commentator welcomed listeners to Turf Moor on what might be the Clarets last game...

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There was a time when Burnley was globally known for three things, it's
Football club
Building Society
Grammar School
At least it's still got its Grammar School!

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Always reminded me of the turf. 1982 down to 10 men, was it steve taylor? Great season! "Ten men two- 'uddersfield 1" was the chant ..... I was a student at Leeds University at the time and traveled to the game with a couple of Huddersfield fans. I think Steve Kindon was playing for them. After the...

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1974-1979 and part of BGS's most successful series of 1stXI football teams ever. Competed in every Lancashire schools final possible (three - from Coldstream Cup to U19?) and thrashed St Teds in the Keighley Cup final on t'Turf. For comparison - success to the year above us (Gregson, Annice, Whittam...

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I've still not forgiven Christians for canceling Ostara. I really miss the Ostara chocolate eggs!

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I saw the Clash live in Leeds Uni Student Union at the end of January 1980. Brilliant. The sweat from the packed audience was evaporating and rising before condensing on the ceiling and falling back on those below as "rain" ... Joe Strummer was a genius.

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According to OECD data Sweden's excess mortality over the period of COVID was +3.5%. UK's was +11.7%. Norway's was +1.2%. Denmark's was 4.3%. Finland's was 5.3%. Iceland's was 3.3%. Based on these data, Sweden's excess mortality was 3rd in Europe. NewZealand - with one of the world's toughest lockdo...

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It's certainly not common knowledge that locking down earlier would have saved lives, or indeed whether lockdown saved lives at all. That's what the enquiry is meant to find out, but I suspect that like you, they have made their mind up already. How many would have died if we had done it like Swede...

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You should visit Russia and you would understand why many are so surly. Dreadful place. They are conditioned. Great advert for Communism / Socialism. Not. Where've you been for the past 3-plus decades? Russia threw off the yoke of communism in December 1991 when the old USSR was disbanded and Boris...

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Try the Temple Tree Resort in Langkawi - south of the airport. Temple Tree comprises a collection of buildings from other parts of Malaysia and reconstructed on the island https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/living/2023/06/16/malaysian-heritage-houses-in-langkawi-carefully-preserved-to-retain-archi...

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Of the remaining list, I've been to:

Burundi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Laos
Rwanda
Sudan
Uganda
Zambia

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I don’t know about this club. But Brightons feeder club love it, they are getting talent and quality they have never seen before and it’s made them very competitive in their respective league. I think Union Saint-Gilloise in Belgium benefits from Bloom (owner of BHA)'s money & expertise. He has a l...

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Has anyone asked the supporters of KV Kortrijk how they feel about being a feeder club? Imagine the outrage if Burnley was bought to be a feeder club for one of the big clubs in Europe ..... and at the end of every season faced the prospect of losing the likes of Benson, Zaroury, Beyer etc to the co...

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gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑
Sat May 27, 2023 10:06 pm
Clubs were doing it before brexit you bellend. You lost. Get over it

Ahhh. You see, pre-Brexit clubs did it through choice. But now it seems it is a necessity. Not sure how that switch constitutes winning.

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Sat May 27, 2023 9:17 am
Ah you're one of those, my bad for not spotting it earlier.

yawn

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Pretty sure clubs have been sending non-european players to clubs in mainland Europe on loan for years so they can meet visa requirements, or until they do, well before Brexit too. I didn't think we were talking about just "non-european players"....... So Burnley is thinking of buying a small town ...

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Another example of "taking back control" .... In order to access just a fraction of what was freely available pre-Brexit (the deep pool of football talent playing in continental Europe), we'll borrow millions of £ to buy and then run a football club in Belgium that until recently few of us had ever ...

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oh, I forgot to mention that I also spent time as a graduate student at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in the mid-1980s. I was there during the civil war that eventually led to Museveni becoming president ....

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Born in a maternity unit in Colne, lived and educated in Burnley (Coal Clough infant and junior then BGS), Leeds (Leeds Uni) and Northern Ireland (New University of Ulster and then the University of Ulster). Been a migrant worker in Singapore for the past 12 years, and before that Ireland (12 years)...

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.... but the reason many have fallen out with the 'new' left is the nastiness we see displayed here. Nothing compared with the nastiness on display, every day, by the current and previous Tory governments. I guess one major difference is that the tories have over the last 13 years been able to ensu...

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Surely it is not unusual for someone to be regarded as first choice - or the favoured candidate - going into an interview, and for the ranking of candidates to change following interview. What would the point of interviews be otherwise?

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PS Same person last year (June 2021) started an appeal to raise money for fund bone marrow treatment for a student from Makerere University (the main public university in Uganda) https://www.gofundme.com/f/ywgf8?qid=cf31f72373f6c60264dacae27e92dcd0 . Since launching the appeal - which is still going...

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Just to follow-up my earlier message - two possible areas of concern here. First does Busingye Football Academy exist and do what we are told it does? Second does the Gofund.me account transfer money raised to the Busingye Football Academy? There are some great things in Uganda that deserve our supp...

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steady-on fellas - is this organisation for real? The District of Rukungiri in western Uganda already has one soccer academy ~ Team Kibuuka select soccer academy, set up by a prominent business man (reported on here https://newslexpoint.com/benevolent-businessman-kibuuka-launches-sports-academy-in-r...

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I remember that visit in 1968 well and was thinking about it earlier today. We didn't have any Union flags to wave, so my uncle gave me a New Zealand flag instead (close, but no cigar). I think my uncle had a New Zealand flag because that is where he was taken to hospital, to recover, having been re...

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Jeez - only six years? That's a tad precarious. My current contract runs till I am 67 years old.

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It's great that everyone is now coming round to the realisation that if you effectively take money out of the economy (whether it be to pay for the spiralling cost of energy, or because of politically-driven "austerity measures" or whatever) the economy quickly slows down, with all the consequences ...

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I have thousands of clients all over the world and trust me, they are having it just as hard, if not harder in many of those countries... They have also looked on in envy at the handouts the government has given us in the UK over the last 2 plus years and are always mentioning to me that they have ...

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Hi Tarkys Ears I live in Singapore. We're currently in a semi-lockdown because of a rise in COVID infections. We are able to move around freely so long as masks are worn in public places. However, no more than two people can sit at a table in a restaurant/bar - and you have to show that you are full...

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200 years of rising poverty levels? :?: It's a complicated issue and you raise valid concerns. But the safety procedure does have to work from both sides. It's necessary IMO that the government needs to be in on the process, partly to express specifically what the concerns are and what needs to be ...

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The earth tremors are only part of the concern regarding the process of hydraulic fracking. Of much greater concern - because of its potential long-term effects - is the risk of pollution of groundwater by the mass of chemicals used in the process ~ chemicals that include human carcinogens such as b...

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.... and of course Myanmar ....

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Africa's second smallest nation state - São Tomé and Príncipe (Saint Thomas and Prince (Afonso)) islands ...

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PadihamThickNeck wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:18 pm
Why ? Wheres the link ? His wiki page says he's from Perth in Scotland.

Isn't everyone a Burnley fan, just that some go through their entire lives without realising it?

MalaysiaMo

In Britain and most of the world it’s still known as ‘British Isles’ and in Ireland it’s known as ‘Britain and Ireland’. There really is no issue in the wording used. Given that the Government of Ireland does not recognise the term "British Isles" and that many people in Ireland (north and south) s...

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Now the ESL idea is over for another year or two I am expecting the big six to push for an expanded champions league meaning the League cup will end (or at least will end for clubs in Europe) to give room to stuff more European games in. Think the league cups days are certainly now numbered. Surely...

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I played soccer at the Brandywell ~ an Irish Cup game v Oxford United Stars (the team that Danny Lafferty played for as a youth) - in 1984. That was the year before Derry City was allowed to re-enter senior football (but in the Republic of Ireland rather than Northern Ireland) and during the peak of...

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Central America, both physically, legally and any other way consists of 7 countries, of which Mexico is not one of them Exactly, including economically and politically, what with Mexico being one of three countries forming the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ~ the other two being Canada...

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And yet PL teams fall over themselves to market themselves to the Asian market where matches are shown live in the morning. PL football is pushing to be global. Central America - including Mexico is an easier sell than Asia due to the footballing tradition. We are irrelevant as fans, we are just me...

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Burnley Cricket Club on a Tuesday night, followed by Accrington Royal British Legion on a Friday. Those were the days of claiming to be 12-years-old on the train (to travel half-price from Burnley Central to Accrington) and, 30 mins later, 18-years-old on the door at RBL in Accrington in order to ga...

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My dad requested (and got) Smoke gets in your eyes .....

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I would like to disagree with you about recycled polyester. Most of the big sports brands are active in this. But much more could be done. Well, I heard that Real Madrid's third strip was partly made from recycled ocean plastic .... Problem with polyester football tops is that the polyester is mixe...

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Wow - thanks everyone. Very helpful. I contribute a lecture on the "Worlds of Football" module - on football's two-way relationship with the environment. I started my lecture by informing the students, many of whom are wearing replica Liverpool, Man City or Man Utd tops, that I am from Burnley and, ...

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I'm a member of Geography faculty in the National University of Singapore. We recently launched a module "Worlds of Football" that received a lot of media coverage here at the beginning of this academic year (August 2020), and has proven popular with students across the campus (about 200 students ar...

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I bet slaves throughout the world in the 1800's would have loved the British Empire to expand in their direction. Slave owners, less so. It's interesting to speculate what would have happened in the USA if they had lost the War of Independence and still been part of the Empire when slavery was abol...

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