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There was a lot wrong with the earlier offside law. Whether a player in an offside position was interfering with play was entirely down to the opinion of the referee! Just take a look at the England v Portugal semi final in 1966, for both of Charlton’s goals, Roger Hunt was stood in an offside posit...

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Earlier in the day David James and Pat Nevin were on another quiz programme called Bridge of Lies. They were both very impressive!

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It’s like a player attempting a tackle but missing the ball and tripping the opponent, the act of making the tackle is deliberate but the act of missing the ball is accidental., but it’s a foul. Most trips occur when a defender attempts to play the ball but the opponent shifts the ball before he get...

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Reading’s old ground at Elm Park on Oxford to London Paddington.

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I remember Steve McMahon doing the same thing years ago in division 1, playing for Liverpool.
The game was on match of the day and while it was suggested that technically it should have been a penalty it was not ‘in the spirit of the law’.

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Not an answer to the exact question 2, but similar.

In 1965/66 in the old division1 a team beat Northampton 6 - 1 and finished bottom with only 20 points.
Don’t want to mention the name of the team but they did lose 3 - 1 today

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My favourite ever Burnley player, that performance against Man Utd (Boxing Day 1963) is the best ever performance I have seen by a Burnley player. On another occasion he tore an in his prime Bobby Moore to bits on the Turf. Great memories

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About 15 years ago in May and June we took our motor home, complete with bicycles, to the Shetland islands (whatever you do don’t say The Shetlands to the locals!). If you were looking for advice on nightlife then I cannot be of help! We loved it there but think we should have visited slightly later...

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Not my biggest sporting achievement but, as a Burnley supporter posting on this site, it was very satisfying to clean bowl two of rovers best players, Brian Douglas and Mike England.

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A fabulous article about a fabulous player and a fabulous man. I played against him at school as a centre forward but obviously he reached his peak in midfield, but I always thought that if he had continued in the middle of the defence that he could have become the successor to Bobby Moore that Engl...

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I was 76 at the start of the year so might just about squeeze into the top ten of oldies. I think I was going into the 6th form at BGS as CT started there. Only moved to Burnley in the summer of 61, my first game was a 4-3 win over Ipswich. The next 7 months was an unbelievable time to be a Burnley ...

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Everton were promoted to division 1 in 1953/54, the first season I have clear memories of. They were runners up to Leicester, who were the closest top flight team to where I lived at that time. Everton finished just one point ahead of Blackburn, who were not promoted.
How sad!

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Thanks sjb, it’s good to have that confirmed, excellent knowledge!

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I have a distant memory of Harry Thomson scoring for the reserves. If that is correct that gives a No 1 scoring.

Perhaps CT will know!

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Excellent goal from Rovers, they are looking better than we might have hoped!

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Who’s the guy in the Burnley shirt in the crowd? I’m

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I was always a fan of Kevin Hector, I remember a game at Turf Moor soon after Derby had been promoted, probably January or February. The game would not have gone ahead these days because the pitch was frozen. Most of the players could barely keep their feet but Hector and Martin Dobson seemed to sim...

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FAO Vino Thanks for the reply Vino, French not good for me, failed first time with Ken Brown before Bill Grey got me through. I did double maths with Nobby Stokes among others, so would not have spent classroom time with you. In fact class room did not feature much at all, football and cricket pitch...

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THE GOALKEEPER IN THE PICTURE IS RODNEY JONES. I was so confident of this that I decided to look into it further. I found an article by Claret Tony from ClaretsMad from 2013 which showed a picture of Rod Jones, this photo made me more certain. I then climbed into the attic to search for a copy of Th...

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I am becoming more convinced that the mystery goalkeeper is Rod Jones. I suggested earlier that he left Burnley to join Ashton United before returning. I have just looked Rod Jones up on Google, which shows he moved from Ashton to Rotherham and then to Burnley, that has to be too much of a coinciden...

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I am sure the goalkeeper in the picture is not Bernard Kay, the BGS goalkeeper from 1962/63. (By chance I arrived on a campsite in Spain about 7 years ago and ended up camping next to Bernard) I think it might be Rod Jones because I have a memory that he left Burnley to join somebody like Ashton Uni...

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Don’t know how to start a new thread so I will post here.

A review of 2015/16 is just beginning on sky, a very good season.

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I am not agreeing that Kane does not show up for big tournaments but the main reason he won the golden boot at the last World Cup was largely down to the number of penalties England were awarded. To put it in perspective, if John Stones had taken and scored England’s penalties then he would have won...

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In February 66, tickets went on sale and I bought a package of tickets for 9 games, 8 in the north west as well as the final. I had always thought that the north west group would be the best and so it proved. I was able to watch Pele, and Eusebio and Albert were brilliant. After watching Eusebio alm...

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Like Woodleyclaret I was lucky enough to see him play at Goodson in1966. He really was kicked out of both matches, sadly it was English referees who allowed it. At least I have the memory of being behind the goal where he scored his free kick. It was a privilege to have seen him despite the fact tha...

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I remember most of the games on tiger 76 list but the most remarkable hammering I remember was Hungary 8 West Germany 3 in the group stage from 1954 but in the final a much changed German team beat Hungary 3-2. Strange things can happen.

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i am obviously a lot older than previous posters as i remember Ralph Coates and Johnny Price joining in our kickabouts next to St Stephens school and what became the short second hole on Towneley golf course.

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Another one here who was there when we won 5th? Round of the cup in 1962. A 1-0 win with John Angus clearing of the line from Derick Pace, I think.

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Got them all but not before I had made the mistake of including one wrong team. I remember going to Valencia to find the place full of this team’s supporters for a Europa league match so I thought they might be one of the tough ones.

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Herts claret asked who played for England when Ray Pointer was in his prime. For the 1962 World Cup Winterbottom chose Gerry Hitchens of Inter Milan and Alan Peacock of Middlesbrough as centre forwards, both played in 2 games and Hitchens scored one goal. Englands only other goal scorer was Ron Flow...

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Edit
Parker had played AND SCORED the previous season but not on debut.

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Parker had played the previous season.

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Think the West Ham game referred to was Kindon’s second game.
John? Murray also scored in that game but probably not quite his debut.

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Chris Iwelumo in our first game back in the championship

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Woakes does have a better test match batting record than Mark Ramprakash had!! Nobody ever questioned his ability as a bowler, but that probably shows how bad we were back in those days!

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When I moved to Burnley in 1961 I had a quiz book that gave Burnley’s nickname as the turfites, when I mentioned this I was told that I did not know what I was talking about and that the nickname was definitely the clarets.

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As many have said the best header of a ball I have ever seen. One of my favourite players and I was lucky enough to meet him many times when he came to our church youth club to take gym classes.

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A bit off topic, but in the early years of the premier league Norwich once finished 3rd with a negative goal difference.

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Don’t know how to edit but previous post should read Finney not Finley. This was the only time I ever saw him in the flesh, but he played in the first match I watched on tv, the 1954 cup final.

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Not a competitive game but I watched Tom Finley play in the Tommy Cummings testimonial. The game finished 10-10, Finley would have been 41 or 42 but still showed a lot of skill.

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Will never forget him flying down the wing in the 1960 European cup final in which Real beat Eintracht 7 - 3. Great entertainment and Gento was brilliant.

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I remember that season well. I was away at university and having played football in the afternoon we would gather in a cafe (paying 6d for a cup of tea) and find out the scores on the wireless. I got some stick from friends when the Burnley/Blackburn result came through. Blackburn experimented by mo...

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Thanks CT for the info that the game I referred to was Kindon’s first game but ,then, you know a lot more than me, so here is a tough question for you. Whilst I can name all of the 67/68 team I cannot come up with any other player who was in the Willie Morgan team. I guess Merrington and Todd would ...

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For me the first three are easy, McIlroy , O’Neill and Dobson, then it gets difficult. There have been some great wide players: James for one, were Steven’s best days not as a wide player and after he left Burnley? I hardly saw him play for Burnley so difficult for me to judge, others will know far ...

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My earliest memories of the youth cup are both from matches at Turf Moor a long, long time ago. I remember Willie Morgan who became my favourite claret destroying Grimsby in the 62/63 season. Then in 1967 I was stood in what was called the enclosure in front of the Brunshaw road stand and marvelled ...

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There are a number of people who would prefer Roberts to Bardsley as substitute. Wilf Zaha might be one of them.

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Thanks for the line up CT but one player missing, is Glennon at left back?

Are Richardson, Thompson and Mancini all out injured?

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A lot of mentions for JFK assassination, I remember it well and I remember who told me, it was Jimmy Mac’s sister.

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The Matthews cup final followed by ascent of Everest and then the coronation all within a few weeks of each other. My wife remembers being woken by the VE Day celebrations so she beats me.

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Traore can do some incredible things at times and I am certain I was not the only Burnley fan to be delighted to see him score a sensational last minute winner against Fulham recently.

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