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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 29, 2025 2:50 pm
Very good player, but half a season doesn't make you a legend.

And this sort of comment is why I'm done with this forum, thank you.

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Sorry if this has been mentioned before but I couldn't find anything on it - Steven is running the Manchester marathon in April, for a children's charity called Ronald McDonald House Charities. Best player in my lifetime as a Burnley fan (2000 onwards) and an all-round legend. There are links to don...

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I was born and raised down south and didn't go to school with any Burnley fans, but my mother is from just outside Burnley (father was from Norfolk and not into football). I was brought into the fold by my uncle who has been a fan since 1970s. It was a close call, though. My grandfather had zero int...

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The "imported Spanish lager" Cruzcampo is actually brewed in Manchester and Madri is brewed in Tadcaster, near York. Cruzcampo is Spanish in origin, though, unlike Madri. Coors, the brewers of Madri, are coming under some fire for false advertising etc over their promotion of Madri as a Spanish bee...

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Did Bali earlier this year. Stayed in a 5* luxury spa hotel just on the outskirts of Ubud - taxi ride into the main town was about 15 minutes / £1 each way. It was brilliant - the people were amazing, food fantastic, scenery beautiful. https://www.tanadewaubud.com/ If you go I highly recommend taki...

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Hi - I am working on a project and there are two books quite crucial to it. They are in Swedish and have never been published in English. Does anyone have any recommendations for a company that provides professional translation services? There are plenty of AI-type tools out there but 1) most only o...

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Hi all, if anyone is still looking for a ticket I have one - in the HOME end unfortunately, but pretty near the away fans.

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Probably not what you're after but I have a single ticket spare in the home end, near the away fans?

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Hi, I have a ticket for the Oxford game and cannot attend now - available for face value (£30). Please note it is unfortunately in the HOME end. It is in the North stand so at least you'll be quite close to the away end, even if not in it. Please message if interested - it is an e-ticket so no need ...

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Big fan of Sean Dyche but that just shows that all managers spend money on players that don't end up performing. True although I agree with other posters that we prioritised infrastructure and non player spending that summer - and it shows how awful this season was, in that we got less points that ...

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I agree it's gone up in levels but so have we and everyone else. As an example we've got Belgium internationals in this team who don't even make the squad. That's a long way from when we just had a few Welsh/scottish/Irish players on our books. More of a reflection of Belgium I think, their golden ...

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It is remarkable we’ve managed to get six points fewer than 14/15.

I agree the PL is a different place nowadays but it is still a pathetic inditement of this season.

Just think how bad some of the players were signed were 10 years ago - Sordell, Jutkiewicz, etc - and we still managed more points!

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Yep I'm sure Cork's opinion is going to be coloured somewhat by natural self-bias, but I do suspect Kompany has his favourites. Every manager does, it's to be expected, and Cork wasn't his signing. Just more that I don't believe the idea that Kompany, or any manager, is entirely fair & objective in...

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I think it may be Howe syndrome as others have suggested. He's a young manager and he's actually played against some of the older lads. By all accounts, both from Anderlecht and the likes of Micah Richards discussing his personality as City captain, he's a very demanding, at times selfish "my way o...

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the constant chopping and changing of the side is a massive issue, you can't like a player when you don't know if they are playing from week to week or will be sold every window. Something the club need to think about, not too many in this team I'm fond of that's for sure. I read somewhere earlier ...

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I know people don’t like my opinions but this truly the worst Burnley team I can remember. Does anyone actually like any of these players? None of them care one bit It's unfair to say they don't care. I'm sure one or two of them probably aren't bothered, but most will be. It can't be nice getting h...

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He really isn’t tho,he gets better service than our strikers get.I would’ve scored both of his goals today. One, you wouldn't have (you could be Robbie Blake for all I know...) But if you put Foster or Rodriguez in this Forest team I doubt they'd get anywhere near 14 league goals. Maybe in a few ye...

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Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Sun May 19, 2024 4:17 pm
Of course VAR will give it.

Because it was onside.

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NL Claret wrote: ↑
Sun May 19, 2024 11:42 am
Opens thread to read about Bolton v Oxford.............

Frustrating isn’t it…

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat May 18, 2024 12:07 pm
Oxford for me - new ground to get ticked off next season rather than going to the Tough Sh!t Stadium.

Have a good day hetheclaret

Great day. Oxford battered them

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Probably in the same way we signed a player in Koleosho, who other than 5 appearances for the first team, had only played for Espanyol B in the Spanish 4th tier. When McNeil made his debut for us he’d only played for the academy team. Just because a player has only ever played at a certain level do...

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Brilliant juxtaposition in these two posts that followed one another on this thread :D I've never been to Bolton watching Burnley amazingly. One that seems to have evaded me over the years. Went to watch Bolton v Inter in a preseason friendly, must be going on for 20 years ago. So I'm leaning towar...

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Having seen them both first hand this season I'd say they are very evenly matched. But I see Oxford adopting the same negative spoiling game plan that got them past Posh in the play off semifinals second leg and stealing a win via a penalty! Strange that as they were the best footballing side at St...

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Today at 4:15pm. Who do we all want to win this one? Oxford likely considered the underdogs having finished 10 points behind Bolton. Would be Oxford's first season in the second tier since 98/99 should they be promoted. Would be fantastic to see them do it and would certainly give many of us a new ...

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I'm sure by now that a lot of you couldn't give a toss but it seems to be splitting opinion and allegiances everywhere. Spurs fans wanting themselves to win to keep alive their faint hopes of Champions League Spurs fans wanting themselves to get beat so Arsenal cant win the title Arsenal fans wanti...

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Tella should be looking at an England call up for sure. Had Southampton not loaned him to us they’d not have gone down. Had they kept him they might have got promoted. For whatever reason the coaches never rated him down there. He’s locked down for Nigeria now - played a World Cup qualifier for the...

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Quicknick wrote: ↑
Fri May 10, 2024 2:16 pm
Why did you start supporting Burnley?

Chosen by God (and my mum grew up in Wiswell)

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Was a battle won by the supporters of the two clubs to prevent the Maxwell merger. He then got control of Derby and decided to move players there from Oxford. A bit like Watford do now I suppose with Udinese. Thank god the supporters prevailed! Oxford's recent success is all the more sweeter given ...

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Yes definitely one of Robert Maxwells ideas, not the clubs.

Oxford Utd does have a colourful and great history. They would have played in Europe after winning the league cup in 1986, but were denied because of the ban after Heysel.

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I’d still put Leicester winning the PL well up there. They were one of the favourites for relegation. For me this is the greatest achievement in modern football. I think because of their success in the subsequent seasons, until relegation, people have forgotten that they only stayed up because of a...

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Whereabouts are they hoping to build their new ground? I know the Kassam ground (and Oxford City's ground) is quite a way out from the city centre It will be on the north edge of Oxford, in Kidlington, just off the A34. I think most Oxford fans are pretty happy with the location, altho the good peo...

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Fretters wrote: ↑
Thu May 09, 2024 10:02 am
I read that he named it after himself to 'demonstrate his commitment to the club'

Yep!

He also sold the old Manor Ground site for a healthy profit (I think he made about £10m), and didn't give a penny of that to the club. It's now Manor Hospital.

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Their lease at the Kassam expires in 2026 and they have 'no hope' of renewing it, or so I've just read, which is why they're building another one. Better be quick if you want to go to this one! It's a legacy of their former owner, Firoz Kassam, a horrible bloke by all accounts (I used to work for h...

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I grew up just outside of Oxford and still live there - Oxford Burnley hasn’t happened since I started supporting the clarets, would love it if they met in the league. Oxford are my no.2 team It’s a great club that has suffered at the hands of a rotten owner for many years - long after he actually s...

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whiffa wrote: ↑
Wed May 08, 2024 7:55 pm
Arguably the only Blackburn player I'll publicly admit to being an absolutely brilliant player.

I would add Tugay Kerimoglu to that. Scored some thunderbolts.

Similar to Defour - had circumstances fallen more favourably he’d have played for a top club.

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Swizzlestick wrote: ↑
Sat May 04, 2024 8:37 am
It is impossible to win our three games and Forest to get 7 points. Because we play them. So, arbitrary, farcical points appeal decisions aside, it very much is.

Ha, you're all correct. I'd manage to completely forget we play Forest. Put that down to a blurry Saturday morning.

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morninbob wrote: ↑
Sat May 04, 2024 7:04 am
For the first time this season, it's genuinely in our own hands, win our games and we're safe.

We could win all three of our games and go down if Forest get 7 more points. It isn’t in our hands.

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Not sure injured players playing through the pain barrier is a thing anymore. Vydra played 90 minutes against Watford for us with a torn cruciate ligament not long ago. Players definitely do play through the pain barrier - but if you've got a pulled hamstring it doesn't matter how hard you are, you...

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Think I'm right saying a point at a very feisty Southampton in 2009 got us a play off place. 2-2 at the end of the match. I was at the game, all sorts happened! They had received a points deduction a few days before and the draw relegated them - the football league had said if they weren’t relegate...

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Called in insolvency advisors amid fresh doubt over takeover Get them into administration https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/30/everton-call-in-insolvency-restructuring-advisers-777-takeover-doubt Administration would probably be the best thing for them - it would allow someone far more ...

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My hope is that Muric stays no.1 and Trafford goes out on loan to a lower half championship team. He reminds me of when David de Gea first started at Utd - he needs a summer or two in the gym to bulk up.

Unfortunately I can see Muric leaving and Trafford being no.1

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La Liga president Javier Tebas has announced that La Liga will play official league matches in the USA from the 2025-26 season I wonder if the PL will try and follow at some point (it will) He said they want to play them in the US, not that they will. Tebas has said this several times over the past...

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Well... we will never know, because he doesn't have that extra yard of pace does he :lol: But effort, fitness and his quality of goals from open play gives him a lot of the attributes you need for me. His passing range and general control of the ball aren't really good enough for any PL team, let a...

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Bin Ont Turf wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:32 pm
I don't need any conclusive evidence to know that a club like Man City with stupidly rich sand dwellers are bent.

More bent than a game of Snakes and Ladders between Vladimir Putin and Julian Clary.

Neither do I, but a judge does.

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Lola and Willa - sadly former no longer with us

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There's no comparison between City's situation and Everton/Forest/Leicester. Apples and oranges. To elaborate, the question with City is whether they have broken the rules or not - that itself is a massive legal case that will take months/years to decide. And that's before you even get to any punis...

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Funkydrummer wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:14 pm
Meanwhile, Citeh plod on regardless, and Everton remain, having been rewarded for offending twice.

You couldn't make it up.

There's no comparison between City's situation and Everton/Forest/Leicester. Apples and oranges.

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Hi - has anyone rented a car recently from Marseille airport, and if so, have they any recommended companies/ones to avoid? Nothing fancy needed, just a car to drive around the countryside in the week for 2x people.

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helmclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:38 pm
Every single company doesn’t have a material uncertainty around Going Concern.

Yes it does, and football clubs are far more at risk than others.

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‘Material uncertainty’ with regards to Going Concern would suggest otherwise. That part is stating that if clubs don't pay what they are owed then the club would be in trouble - a "no sh*t" statement that I imagine every football club has in its annual reports. The press love to pick up on the "goi...

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