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BurnleyFC wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 05, 2025 9:54 pm
Peter Lovenkrands talks out of his backside, he thinks the Scotland defender should’ve been sent off.

Never mind a red, I didn't think it was even a free kick/yellow card; the ball only hit his upper arm rather than head because the Danish lad had given him a tug

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basil6345789 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 22, 2025 9:48 pm
One day every year they shoot cats in Helmond

That sounds like a fun day out; any idea what date and whether you can do in a few dogs while you're at it.

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It sounds as if Wilkinson was being paid £2k/month for his recommendations, while the bargain priced property in Spain they were being advised to buy was owned (having been bought for far less) by a company owned by one of their advisors' wives. The tax bills are for investments (which bombed!) in t...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 4:05 pm
Baker 56 off four overs while Archer has gone for five at the other end.

Showing improvement then, he went for 34 off hit first two, so only 22 off the second two.

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My brothers are going to get home in decent time tonight.

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Wasn't the Celtic European Cup side of 1967 all born/grew up within something like 30 miles of Glasgow?

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In 1979 Trevor Francis became the first £1,000,000 British player. 46 years later in 2025, Alexander Isak cost Liverpool £125 million. Will we in 40-50 years see a footballer sold for £1 billion ? I suspect it more likely that we'll be back down to a point where paying a million will be headline ne...

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 11:44 pm
3, can't believe we weren't in for Isak

My 'in the know' mate who drinks with the Newcastle Directors reckoned that we were, but once Isak started playing silly buggers we withdrew our £130 million offer... We don't want those sort of characters upsetting the rest of the squad squad.

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...It's 5 September for teams in Austria, Croatia and Ukraine One often sees comments suggesting that we struggle to sign players because East Lancashire's seen as a less attractive destination for players compared to the big city (most especially London) clubs. Look on the bright side... What must...

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Noooooo, I'm expecting someone in the know will be here to suggest that Nathan Tella's coming back in January, before the end of this week.

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...City bought him to stop another rival taking him on, when they had 1st dibs on him. My thoughts too. Signing Trafford was a back-stop in case they couldn't manage to get the Donnarumma deal over the line, with the added bonus that it prevented Newcastle getting their hands on him. Whatever, JT w...

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claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 02, 2025 1:40 pm
Looking forward to seeing Sonny Baker bowl he is supposed to be fairly rapid

He's going to need to be economical too.

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Given that JB's Burnley contract ended at the end of June, he's already circa £500k down on his earnings this year having effectively unemployed for July and August.

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I'm guessing the United fans are as disappointed about our second as we were about theirs

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:18 pm
Thought that was an og from Walker there! Phew

He must've been trying to score or it would have been a back pass that Dubravka caught

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Perhaps not so much a poor performance by our lads, but a very good and much better than expected/hoped for one from Manure Knighted; they appear to have got their **** together today.

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Interesting that we're unchanged from the Sunderland game... it shows that SP doesn't fear United. Why would he? We're always likely to struggle against the top sides, so midtable clubs like ourselves need to go all out for three points whenever we're playing one of the relegation fodder minnows.

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It's shocking how successive govts have neglected this over the years... We do indeed have to bring back Home Economics into the curriculum. Why is every issue with the education - I'm talking general life skills here rather than academic - of children seen as being the responsibility of the govern...

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You think hotels are a problem? My wife's been tucking in the sheet on our bed like that for >40 years, ignoring the fact that I always drag them out on my side before getting in... why?

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...starts with poor parenting, and continues through school, and into adult life. Without a buy in from parents many kids just don't bother with school... The kids fail, blame the school, struggle with building a meaningful life as an adult... It's rinse and repeat with each generation. Obviously, ...

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Man United 1 Burnley 2
Foster 23rd minute
Premiership

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Burnley 3 Derby 0
Flemming 9th minute
Premiership

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Burnley 3 Sunderland 1
4th Minute
Anthony

Premiership

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Regardless of the continually negative media hype, a lot of the Civil Service is hopelessly understaffed. You get the service you pay for. Do we? It feels as if most (all?) civil service departments moved over to home working during Covid, resulting in a substantial fall in productivity. But with t...

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Spurs 1 Burnley 2
Romero 22nd minute
Premiership

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 13, 2025 10:11 pm
Oops 2 nil up and lose on pens

Going to be a disappointing start for Thomas Franck at Spurs; snatching defeat from the jaws of victory last night, then losing their first EPL game too.

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That was some goal

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I've been in Ipswich a couple of times this week and seen lots of people wearing their club shirts, but unlike Leicester there's no local competition from other clubs/sports teams

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If those wages are anywhere near to being correct, that is absolute madness. £0 fee + £100k/week x 3 years = £15.6 million Purchase someone similar for £10 million & pay them £50k/week for 3 years = £17.8 million and I think you'd be lucky tget a JB equivalent for £10 million or get him to play in ...

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There are a couple of dogs just down the road from us which I'd happily deliver for them

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mkmel wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 04, 2025 8:13 pm
I'm glad somebody got my 'failed' attempt at humour

We got it, but we couldn't reply without pointing out the apostrophe that you'd omitted and appearing picky: Before or after the 's' depending upon whether you were referencing the striker or the goalkeeper.

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Roosterbooster wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:43 pm
How many 90 minutes did Defour play for us?

Which was perhaps why we offloaded him

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As a Yorks/Lancs hybrid, a happy day to everyone on both sides of the Pennines. As another with a foot in either camp, I tend to throw my weight behind whichever's the weaker party in any argument... So rather than my being a Lancastrian or Yorkist, I suppose I'm more of a Contrarian. I have long r...

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It was mentioned to me this morning that the odds of Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland being the three relegated teams this season are only 5/1, while the previous record-low odds for the three promoted teams being the three to be relegated is 12/1... It seems the bookies don't fancy our chances.

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Nobody mentioning Manchester United? Spurs too for that matter. Have either of them made enough changes/improvement in personnel and attitude to take them away from the danger zone?

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Thanks for doing this Steve; I'll make my predictions a bit nearer the time... We might've signed signed Erling Haaland by then.

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It's criminal that this can be allowed to happen to a football club Criminal or just an economic reality? Earlier in the thread there were figures quoted suggesting that £4m+ had already been invested and £1.7m more loaned yet the club is still skint/in debt. I'm guessing that Morecambe get around ...

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Morecambe may be the first of many: The spiralling cost of running a modern football club means that the days when a wealthy and sympathetic businessman can bail out/save his local club are over. Substantial outside investment is required and as many on here struggled to grasp (some still do) when A...

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Down_Rover wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 29, 2025 9:13 am
What is a rean?

A Cornish drainage ditch

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distortiondave wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 28, 2025 9:53 pm
Oh no, I was only thinking of him the other day when I was poisoning pigeons in the park

Peanuts and cyanide?

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jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 25, 2025 8:57 pm
We’re not talking Robbie Blake v Manchester United here,..

So this is a poll to try and sort out/agree which are the silver and bronze medal winners.
Silver is surely Wade Elliott?

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They should definitely keep Montmartre in Provided that they continue to run it in line with this year's last minute amendment: Neutralise the tour times before the Montmartre circuits so it becomes a separate un-timed stage . There were big time gaps this year, but in other circumstances, the tour...

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I'm in, always enjoyed the old oy

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Agree with previous posts: 1 night's enough if you aren't going to walk in/out of it. Do they still offer mule rides in/out of the canyon?

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Hart was a far better keeper for us than he's given credit for. But in much the same way as the Trafford/Muric situation in 23/24, he was keeping the fan-favourite out of the side.

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How can signing Callum Wilson say we stay down next season? That doesn't make any sense at all. Coming onto this forum in the expectation of finding 'good sense' smacks of optimism, but hoping to find any in a coolclaret post is the equivalent of searching for unicorns or those pots of gold at the ...

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Anyone know who posted first about our interest in city players? I'm sure there'll be ample claimants crawling out of the woodwork. But a prophecy that 'we had an interest in City players' is hardly a rocket science: We're interested in signing potentially good players from anywhere and City will h...

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Not getting tattoed has worked for me safety-wise and nowadays, it appears that the best way of expressing ones individuality is in not having any tats.

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What did everyone do when all of our business was we signed Dale Stephens for £1m? Complained... Same as this summer... Same as every summer. That's what 'Summer Transfer Window' threads are for, they provide something to complain about/on until we start playing again and have player performances, ...

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ClaretPete001 wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:06 pm

Deciding something can't be true because it's uncomfortable or doesn't fit a personal narrative is a pointless.

But it does seem - in the UK especially - to be the modern approach to pretty much all aspects of life.

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