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When Jimmy was made available for transfer there was a lot of protest from us fans and as a young boy I went along to one of these held outside of Banoldswick Town Hall. There was a decent sized crowd there , as at other venues, and we naively thought we cold have some impact I seem to remember that...

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Have we actually signed him ? This post makes it sound as though he s a Burnley player but I cannot find a specific post on him or the signing,

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My first reply was lost some where, deleted from above? ) I trust not as I remember his exploits in the A and B Teams, and CL. We young fans of my generation could not wait for his first team debut. We wrote to Harry Potts to hasten the day when we could see him in the First team. This is sad news b...

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Her songs were / are still great for line dancing. Lipstick on your collar is an ever popular favourite. RIP

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I have four adult sons and not one of them has the slightest interest in football although they are well aware of my attachment to Burnley FC and so at my birthday or Christmas they know to buy me something relating to my claret addiction. My house is full of Burnley memorabilia of some sort. At a r...

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Why do we have to have a blasphemous comment repeated ? We have long since thankfully abandoned any descriptive comments that might (or will,) cause offence but to use the name of Jesus as some kind of swear word is still fair game. When we see players coming on to the pitch at the start of a game a...

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I visited this site expecting t be 'lifted up' after two really good results and excellent team play., instead I find myself somewhat depressed having read this post. The team is playing as a team that believe in themselves and getting good results. Why the panic to change things?

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It used to be a 'minority sport' but is becoming increasingly popular. There were over 60.000 spectators at a friendly international match last week. I particularly like how many children exhibit their enjoyment of it. I get the sense that they feel it is something they 'own' and is free of nastines...

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I get fed up with reading how 'three games in seven days' is some kind of excuse for lacklustre performances. It is often just as accurate to say three games in 14 days which should mean an eagerness to play as opposed to just putting in an appearance without motivation.

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We will fight them on the beaches and in the hills. We will never surrender.

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I remember watching out for his progress during his youth team experiences as he played in the A and B teams and then the Central League. His goal scoring rate was phenomenal and we waited anxiously for his first team call up. He obviously did not disappoint. A fantastic player . I think he made his...

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Keeping a message-board going all these years must be incredibly demanding. I only know'of ' you as a name and what you do for us fans. Thanks for all this that keeps us in touch with our favorite club but your health must come first.
All the very best Tony for a full and speedy recovery.

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I feel badly let down. This should have been a memorable season but has proved to be something of a shambles on too many occasions, both on the pitch and in the running of the club.

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I am one of those dinosaurs who hasn't a clue as to what social media is about. I manage on here because of my advancing years and distance from the Turf it is my one and only Burnley 'fix' at my disposal. But when someone tells me to get the 'App' I have only the vaguest idea as to what they are wr...

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All very despondent and rightly so but it could have been so different if we had just one player who could score goals. We started the season , and continued through it, without a recognised goal scorer. I am unsure if its true that we chose not to play Luton in that first game but if so it was a mi...

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I occasionally read on here that Trafford has a clause in his contract that he must be selected to play except for injury Is this correct? He is a signed player not a loan. Is he , or his previous club able to enforce such a contract condition? (apologies if this is a repeat query. My computer skill...

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So what we are advocating here in the majority of opinion is not a National Health Service but a National Death Service. Would all those in favour of Assisted Dying think the same if it was renamed Assisted Killing or State Sanctioned Killing ? Like many. others I have seen one of my parents in grea...

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I am beginning to worry more about next season than this one. There seems to be a total expectation that we will be promoted back into the PL when it is just as likely that league one beckons. There are hardly any redeeming features that suggest that the weaknesses in the team and management that ar...

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An interesting set of stats for the PL this season show Arsenal top of the league with 14 goals scored from set pieces whilst the clarets are second bottom with just 2 goals. Conversely the most set piece goals conceded show Burnley second most with 18 conceded against Man City with just two. I know...

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Years ago there was a TV documentary of how women in both the UK and Germany tried , and nearly succeeded , in brokering a peace deal because they were horrified at the loss of life and all that went with it. I cannot remember why it failed I think that Britain was just starting to get the upper han...

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When Burnley beat Spurs at WHL the season after losing the Cup Final to them I recall that Spurs reverted to rough house tactics. Cannot recall any sending's off or names taken but there was quite a lot of adverse publicity for Tottenham.

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'It's completely crazy I can't think of any other environment that rewards so much for failure.'

The Post Office have perfected it

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Tonight's TV is now highlighting serious moral failings in nearly all the Fire and Rescue forces in the country. The list of their activities and what was openly perpetrated was ignored by those in authority and leadership roles for years. What sort of country are we?

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I have followed this as best I could since it first became 'public.' A kid of ten could soon work out that the chances of countless number of post office proprietors who have given years of faithful service to the PO are not suddenly all going to turn to criminal activity at about the same time.It h...

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Interesting feature on Chelsea this afternoon's TV in which they seem to be trying out a similar recruitment model to Burnley and with very limited success to date. They have spent a fortune on new players none of which are yet good enough for first team football. They are , supposedly, buying for t...

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Am I right in believing that he never wanted to leave Burnley but that he was just the latest in the 'sell to survive' a player a season?

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Hope its not been mentioned elsewhere on here but I read that Burnley FC are the least expensive of all the PL Clubs to support. A number of criteria have been used to calculate the approx.. cost of physically supporting each Pl Club. Calculations such as the price of a season ticket, the cost of an...

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Didn't we sign a goalie from, I think, Leyton Orient in the summer ?

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You occasionally hear the pundits and commentators saying something along the lines: 'If the refs took action for shirt pulling then that would mean just about everyone would get booked at some point." So that is where it has become legal, viz lack of enforcement. This could be remedied in quick tim...

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Did I hear correctly when Shearer referred to the clarets as 'Our' and 'Us' ? Also was the lady Saturday presenter on the results programme a Burnley supporter? She sounded a bit like she was but perhaps the result has dulled my senses(or heightened them!)

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Forgot to mention I was 16 years old at the time and remember going to the Catholic Youth Club in Barnoldswick and how shocked we all were. It seemed especially poignant for us because of JFK's religion.

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This explains why there has been so much coverage of the JFK assassination on TV recently. One of the theories not mentioned was the one of him being accidentally shot by one of his own security guards who was travelling in the car ( or the one behind it,) and when the first shot was fired got his o...

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Just to add my condolences too on the passing of your Dad. My own Dad died many years ago but I still find myself talking to him and forgetting for a brief second that he is not around to talk to and thinking : "I'll just show this to Dad and find out his opinion." As or Taffy I remember all his tim...

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It may have been exported on here already and if so apologise for the repetition but there was a long documentary on Paul Gascoine's playing career on TV last week. I sat through it all in the hope that as Burnley was his last league club that there would at least be mention of that momentous event....

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I am not too sure about Leicester's position in this. Didn't they renege on their creditors when they were digging themselves out of a financial hole of their own making? Not much fuss made of their financial failings yet it left debtors in difficulties and Leicester got a new stadium out out it. Pe...

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Every other team in the PL who we have yet to play will be looking forward to playing us and saying to themselves 'this game is an easy three points for us.' We have just about got to the point where we give up before we start because the end result is already known.

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I am of an age to remember how close we came to WW3 during the Cuban Missile crisis. Evidently we were only a few hours away from nuclear war. Here we are again on the precipice of WW3 but with different alliances about to drift into an all out gradual war rather than some catastrophic 'trigger' eve...

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One of my favourite ever clarets. Saw him and Lochead tear Man Utd apart at the Turf. I think it was an Easter weekend and Utd introduced a certain George Best for Man U in the very next match of that Easter and got revenge. Great as Willie was he had an irritating habit of beating his man and then ...

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Apologies if mentioned elsewhere (although I have not seen it,) but the clarets featured on Yesterdays morning TV on BBC 1. (Wed 27th,) Evidently the club host regular social meetings for dementia sufferers at the ground and this has come to the attention of Morning Live. Obviously the main coverage...

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WE seem to be employing the old short corner routine that we supposedly perfected about 50 years ago. It was a waste of a corner then (except once and hence repeated endlessly.) There were ample opportunities for taking corners in the 'traditional way' and yet we never looked comfortable until we we...

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Jesus wept.

No need for blasphemy. I thought this disrespect for Christian Burnley supporters had gone the same way as racial and homophobic comments on here.
Obviously not.

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Women's football showing the way that football can enjoyed without the necessity to have any suggestion of 'tragedy chanting.' How can football ever be a family occasion when this type of conduct is being pursued? One of the images that sticks in my mind with women#s football is how very young child...

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Tella got a good write up in he opening Southampton fixture of the Championship. Evidently he showed a lot of skill and a good finish to one of his teams 'goals' that was attributed to a team mate instead of Tella as the shot ( on target) had brushed against his team mate on its way into the net. In...

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We had, for a brief period, a 'Heath Robinson' strike force. Not many clubs ( probably none,) could boast of the same.

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Perhaps Leicester could now afford to pay off some of their creditors who were left high and dry when they began trading again.

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In addition to his goal at the FA Cup final did he not have another ruled out for offside ? If true was it debatable?

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There are obviously economic reasons why betting companies ( and other organisations, ) are queuing up to pay clubs handsomely for sponsoring their products on their shirts. Most of us would like to think that we are not influenced in any way by sponsorship but the companies themselves are anxious t...

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Christ on a bike be quiet!

As you seem unable to express yourself without blasphemy perhaps you should act on your own advice and keep quiet.

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"I know it's a forum and therefore a free for all but I wish people who don't have a clue what they are talking about would think before posting. Christ you read some rubbish on here."

You would do well to take your own advice and think before posting. No need for blasphemous comments.

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I was one of those who eagerly waited for the weekly 'Pink' so I could read of his exploits for the A and B teams. My memory may be a bit clouded with age but every time I checked the A and B results he seemed to have scored a bagful. All of us claret boyhood fans of those times were desperate for h...

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