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Visited Belfast last month for a weekend, Friday night to Monday afternoon. City centre pubs we visited in the evenings had doormen who prevented anyone wearing a replica football shirt from entering, My son is an Arsenal fan and he was wearing an Arsenal away shirt and doormen at several pubs told ...

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One of my favourite players we've had at the club. As has been mentioned may times on this Board, that 72-73 team had many fine players that included James and they were a pleasure to watch. He didn't last long at Derby when Tommy Doc took over as manager. Apparently, Doc told James that he was dece...

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I visited Poland in 1996 and went to Krakow and onto Auschwitz. It was February and it was a bleak, sunless day at Auschwitz where the temperature was minus 17C and snowing heavily. I went to both camps, Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz - Birkenau, there were very few visitors there at either camp. The wea...

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Is this the least surprising sacking in football just now? Incidentally what a weird profession football management is. In no other industry I can think of would someone be offered a multi million pound job with a string of sackings on their cv. Very few managers have consistent success on their re...

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Brian O'Neil, with the cuffs of my long sleeve Burnley replica shirt pulled down and held in to the palms of my hands with my fingers like he did. I even imitated his walk and sometimes his tackles which didn't go down too well with my playing mates. That's a long time ago circa 1965.

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League 1 fixtures for 2022-23 has Mike Duff's Barnsley first home league of the season against Wade Elliott's Cheltenham.

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Been to Manchester Airport this morning to take my wife and son who are travelling to Jakarta, Indonesia via Doha. They were booked on Qatar Airways leaving at 14.55pm from Terminal 2. I had a pre booked slot for the car at Terminal 2 West multi storey. We arrived at the car park at 10.55 am and par...

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I'm extremely dubious about the existence of alien flying saucers and space ships flying around the Earth and of the 'reported sightings' of these. The obvious question to me is why don't the alien saucers and space ships land on Earth rather than just fly around it and mainly fly around at night un...

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I was at the Bookies this afternoon putting my bet on the Saturday Long List football. While I was there, I fancied a £50 flutter on Claret's staying so I asked the Bookie what were Claret's relegation odds. I was told that Clarets are 4/7 to go down and 5/4 to stay up. The staying up odds are prett...

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'During my student days, 1970-73, I acquired a low budget album called 'Nice Enough To Eat'. It was a compilation of various bands but I absolutely played it to death. King Crimson, Spooky Tooth, Quintessence and Blodwyn Pig were some of the bands on it, with Spooky Tooth's 'Better by You, Better T...

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Anyone ever heard of Home? I listen to their second album occasionally and it is stunning. They were tipped for big things but only made 3 albums in the early 70s. It’s titled just Home (odd for a second album). Great stuff, free flowing and occasionally intricate. Saw them as a support band origin...

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I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 7 years old, I'm now 70. I caught measles as a boy which left me with infected ears which required medical operations. Between 7 and 12 years old, I had 4 operations, 2 on each ear. The operations which entailed skin and bone grafts from my thighs to try to...

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I can also remember him being called Chunky due to his upper body shape. He was a great player for the Clarets starting out on the wing then moving inside to be a midfield general. After Brian O'Neil left, who was also an outstanding player for the Clarets, Ralph was the favourite player of many Cla...

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Mike Summerbee and Willie Morgan (after re-signing him).

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I was working in Duri, Sumatra, Indonesia, as a Contractor to American Oil Company, Caltex (Chevron & Texaco), working on the Duri onshore oilfield. I clearly remember watching the news in the Surya Hotel where I was staying and seeing film of the plane hit the Twin Tower and later seeing the sicken...

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Been a number of times. I got married there as my wife is an Indonesian muslim but we didn't want a muslim wedding so we chose Bali which is mainly Hindu religion not Islam. We married on Seminyak Beach and had the reception at Chez Gado Gado restaurant which is right on that beach. Over the times I...

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All the best, Tom. One of the best keepers that the Clarets have had. One game stands out for me. The home game against West Ham which followed the 1-5 home defeat by Everton. Dyche finally had the balls to drop Hart and put Tom in. I recall the noise when the teams walked out at the West Ham game a...

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Not being pedantic here but it was after meeting Grimsby in the League Cup away, 1-1, 1968. Yes, it was the League Cup played at Grimsby, Wednesday, September 04, 1968. I didn't get to the game but went on a day trip to Cleethorpes the day after the game and I still have the the Grimsby Evening Tel...

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I went to this game but don't recall much of the game now other than that we didn't play particularly well and were well beat at the end. I walked to the City Ground from Nottingham main rail station which was a fair hike. I called in a clothes shop on the way and remember to this day the music was ...

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I'm 70 in July this year. I'm still working full time and hopefully, health wise, will still be working a couple more years past 70.

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I seem to recall that Frank played at the Turf for Huddersfield Town during Claret's relegation season in the First Division in 1970-71. I was at the game where both Clarets and Town were in the relegation positions at the start of the game and it was played October/November 1970. Town won 3-2 and I...

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I bought my first Burnley replica shirt in 1966, when I was 15 years old, from Darlows Sport Shop on West Street, Sheffield, up near Sheffield University. My Dad bought me the shirt which had a claret body, blue round neck collar, long blue sleeves with claret cuffs, with no logo or Club badge. The ...

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Re crowd the best I've seen in my time following Burnley was 37,500 v Chelsea in a cup replay. Best away was 66,000 at Goodison for a rare Burnley away win there Remember the Chelsea replay well as I was there. Also went to the first game the previous Saturday at Stamford Bridge where we drew 2-2 c...

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I'm a Yorkie born and bred in Barnsley. I've been coming over the border to watch the Clarets since my first home game in August 1996 when Clarets played Sheffield United winning 4-0 with a hat trick from Bomber Harris and one from Irvine. I know there's friendly banter between Lancies and Yorkies i...

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8 years ago. My Father, 92, was in hospital and he was in a bad way and I knew from the Doctor that he had only hours, maybe days, to live. I sat by his bedside through the night reading a book. He was breathing normally then he suddenly gave two quick breaths and he had gone. I ran to fetch the Nur...

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That was a great strip particularly the shirt and that was one of the reasons that I became a Clarets Fan. I was 10 years old at the time of the 62 Cup Final and I remember at the time having the Clarets' Team photograph in colour where the players were wearing that strip. I watched the Final live o...

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Top, top player. He was outstanding with Napoli and, dare say that, he carried them to 2 Scudettos as Serie A Champions at a time when Italian football had the biggest football stars in the world playing there. Napoli also won the EUFA Cup with Maradonna. There's a clip on Youtube showing Maradonna ...

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I lived in South Yorkshire, and still do, when Sutcliffe was doing his murdering spree. My Mother, sister, and their female friends were frightened to death to go out at night without a male escort. I remember the day well in January 1981 when he was caught in Sheffield. I was at work and heard on t...

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Brady is a left footer and and playing him on the right wing back position makes him ineffective, he disappears in games and then loses confidence. Guardiola is a big fan of playing players in positions that are not on their favourite foot - playing Mahrez, a left footer on the right, playing Sterli...

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I was a huge Thomas fan and disappointed that he left. I remember well one of his best performances with a goal in a game on the Turf.That game was against Liverpool in the first game of the 1970-71 season, a season which ended with the Claret's relegation from the First Division. In that game, Emly...

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Remember this game well. I was sat high up in the Leppings Lane End stand and was right behind James's shot for the goal. It was a really impressive display by the Clarets and the 1-0 scoreline doesn't reflect the difference in class shown by the Clarets. I live in South Yorkshire and I bought the S...

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And what if we execute someone who has been wrongfully convicted? And don't say it doesn't happen in recent times, people are wrongfully convicted all the time. And what if we don't execute someone who has been correctly convicted, done his/her time as sentenced, been released, and then kills again...

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I used to watch the One Show until I found out how much that Jones Presenter was earning. Apparently, she's earning in excess of £400K yearly. That's a ridiculous amount of money, in my view, to pay someone who, to me, has very limited talent. BBC say that they are paying market rates for people lik...

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It was an awful game and Scotty's performance suggested that he's brought down to that level. As mentioned in other replies, the plastic pitch didn't help Rangers. On that showing, Rangers won't beat Celtic to the title this season and that will give Celtic 10 in a row for League titles. I was watch...

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For me, a positive of this pandemic has been the wonderful silence of the climate change brigade. They haven’t been as loud with their predictions of doom and disaster during the pandemic as COVID 19 has been the priority on most people’s mind. COVID 19 is a real time disaster affecting all classes ...

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67-68 game, I was on the Stretford End just behind the goal and saw Lochead head in a beauty.
68-69 game, I was on Stretford End just behind the goal and saw Waldron head in a beauty, it was own goal though and we lost 2-0.

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I always presumed Courtney had been chosen for the Orient game because there was so much at stake and it was bound to be a high pressure game. Courtney was no stranger to big games. In 1986, the year before the Orient game, I went to the 1st leg of the EUFA Cup Final in Madrid. The final was betwee...

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Remember watching on TV Barnes playing for Liverpool against Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi final, played at Hillsborough if I recall correctly. He gave the full back, a Mr Brian Laws, a real chasing that day.

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Respect the loyalty for Vydra and no-one can deny his recent contributions.There has been much constructive comments Lets not forget the 3 recent victories out of 5 have been v the bottom 6 clubs. We are playing the European Champs who also walked away with the PL this season.Very physical at the b...

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AndrewJB Re your comment that Corbyn’s and Labour failure to win the last election was down to the media influencing voters not to vote for Corbyn. From myself, an ordinary guy on the street to my relatives, friends, & work colleagues, we all said the same thing, that we wouldn’t vote for Labour bec...

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Hipper ‘At that early stage in the season wasn’t it the case that all outfield players had scored’. No, not quite. Nine of the ten outfield players scored (nine out of eleven if you count the one substitute at the time, Steve Taylor, who was the substitute for these games). Only outfield player not...

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Yesterday I was watching the Sky documentary, ‘Everton, Howard’s Way’ made in 2019 which covered Howard Kendall’s Everton in the mid 1980s. The documentary had footage from Everton games and from Everton players of the time giving their personal input. Hearing Trevor Steven who was a big part of Ken...

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I usually shop at Tesco (mainly) and Morrisons (occasionally) and buy whisky there. Since the pandemic, I've also been using Lidl mainly because there is less queuing than at Tesco and Morrisons. Lidl sell 3 types of single malt Scotch Whisky and I've tried them all. The whiskies go under the name o...

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I use Investec. They are good but what I pay monthly for having my portfolio managed is not cheap as I not only have to pay Investec but also the Financial Advisor who introduced me to Investec, in addition to a lump sum payment of around £2.5K paid to the Financial Advisor. The Financial Advisor in...

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I was aged 15 during the 1966 World Cup. I watched almost all the games that were televised which included all England games. Quite a few memories from the tournament not just from the Final: -Pele getting kicked all over in the the Group matches and effectively getting clogged out of the tournament...

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Following on from the article of Ten Burnley defeats that really hurt, I’d like to add my listing of Burnley’s heavy away defeats that I attended. All these games were in the 1st Division. I was a teenager at the time and everyone of these defeats hurt badly as did the ridicule from friends and work...

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Couple of pictures of Paul's headed goals. First picture shows his headed goal at Oldham in the FA Cup 4th Round in January 1974. Clarets won 4-1. Second picture shows his headed goal at Coventry in the 1st Division in March 1975. Clarets won 3-0 and were sitting 2nd in the First Division on 39 poin...

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Does Bobby say in his autobiography why he and Tony Hicks didn't attend the Hollies induction into the USA Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010?

Terry Sylvester was present at the Induction and, on such a honourable occasion, he wore a Liverpool FC football shirt.

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With Brady extending his contract, I wouldn't be surprised that Lallana is interested in joining the Clarets. Recall reading an article last year where Brady and Lallana were both recuperating from their long term injuries in Dubai and seemingly they got on famously. Brady may well have 'sold' Burnl...

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