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Good report. Thank you. No mention of the intimidating, topless Lazio ultras though.

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Charity Shield not count?

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As Rowls has said, the mining was for Limestone using the technique of Hushing. In south-eastern Lancashire hushing was used to extract limestone from the glacial boulder clay so that it could be used to make lime for agriculture, mortar, plaster and limewash. Bennett notes leases of land for this ...

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It's Burnley, not Espanyol, or Barcelona?

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Thanks for sorting all. As suggested, when the dire warning message came up, as I'm IT illiterate, I obviously thought it was an issue at my end; that it was my laptop that was under attack! Phew!

Like being reunited with an old, informative, but argumentative, friend!

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Avoid Alligator Alcatraz.

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Stewart Imlach, about whom his sports journalist son wrote the fantastic 'My father and other working class heroes' hailed from Lossiemouth. Just saying. He played for Bury, Derby County, Nottingham Forest, Luton Town, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, etc., as well as Scotland in the 1950s and 1960s. ...

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Visited Oviedo a couple of years back with StAlbansClaret during a road trip in Northern Spain. If it is his home town / home town club there's way, way worse places / teams to end his playing career in / at. 93,000 Euros / year and never having to pay for a meal or a drink when out and about in wha...

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Absolutely, John! You know, for many years I never thought we'd get back to the top tier and here we are about to enter our tenth season up there. It's a truly amazing achievement and we should be proud of our club. After we had beaten Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the 'Capital Punishment' cup-run ...

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Made me proper proud - and emotional - that.

Excellent to see.

Best of all, very Burnley, proper folk.

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Persimmons / Sharon Fruits (only downside is the Israeli connection).

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I'm not a golfer, but ever since 2004 I have been involved with the development of the Castle Stuart / Cabot Highlands property. Initially, I did ornithological surveys to support the Environmental Impact Assessment that accompanied the first planning application. Then when they achieved planning ap...

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Was strongly going to recommend you check out the bar owned bar Manuel Caceres, the drum-pounding Spanish football super fan known worldwide as "Manolo el del Bombo" which is very close to the Valencia stadium. Certainly, if you are a certain age you will have seen him on television during World Cup...

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Boss Hogg wrote: ↑
Thu May 01, 2025 9:53 pm
Doesn’t surprise me that Souness was annoyed that someone didn’t know who he was.

Even Yosser Hughes knew who Graeme Souness was....

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All I'm bothered about is winning the title. Amusingly, they've been debating how they'd happily lose to prevent our auto promo v Sheff U. How ironic that we actually have the power in reverse. Doesn't change anything. This made me laugh. What, the Shadsworth Debating Society???? :lol: :lol: :lol: ...

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Clearly 'Up the Clarets' was a well established thing when I first started going to Turf Moor at the beginning of the 1970s - the book of the same name by the Rev. David Wiseman (a season by season history) was first published in 1973, and obviously, as a commercial venture, wouldn't have had the na...

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maidenover wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 15, 2025 5:59 pm
Antony’s first touch is the best I’ve seen of any Burnley player since Doug Collins

Invariably immaculate. Kills the ball instantly - often tricky long balls.

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Surely combining 'Mowbray' and 'happy' is an oxymoron?

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Love Roberts pushing the celebrating Barnes and Laurent into the ex-bastards net when they are celebrating Bashley's goal.

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Yes, Pires decoy run is right up there with the stupendous one made by Wade Elliot at Reading in the playoff semi-final second leg, distracting defenders and making space for Martin Paterson for THAT goal.

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I know this is meant to be more about pundits, but another here strongly defending Mark Chapman. He's excellent. If Wile E Coyote perceives him to be disinterested in football, I can only surmise that this is a misconstrued take. Sure, he's very, very disillusioned about Manchester United (who would...

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1. Inadvertent or not, Scott Parker standing at least very close to (if not in front of) the mirror in the dressing room immediately before saying he spends hours looking at (videos) :D 2. Josh Brownhill very eloquently trying to explain what it's like to beat Wovers "It's like an out of body experi...

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Loved both The Skids and Big Country, and I saw the latter at Wembley Stadium in 1984. Much more recently, and I have taken a liking to Dean Owens / Dean Owens and The Sinners. Saw him in Edinburgh with a support act who was also his backing vocalist. She said between songs that she never really kne...

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I've touched on this before I'm sure. All of my family was from Bolton on both sides. We moved to Burnley when I was 10 (not from Bolton). My Dad was a huge Wanderers fan - Nat Lofthouse - being from Bolton was his absolute hero. Although he took me to a few games both home and away he never tried t...

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Saw this.

An infinitely better record to have than that of our near neighbours, the Knob Enders - the most 0-0s...... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Excellent summary here. Haven't been able to keep up. As I said elsewhere, rather different to the early 1970s when we would inevitably sell our best player and possibly sign a replacement (or more likely promote a couple of players from the youth system / Central League team), but otherwise start t...

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I just miss a good Lancashire pie,all I get up here in Scotland is rock hard pastry mashed potato topped with baked beans pies ,I've seriously considered returning home just to get a decent pie...but the wife wouldn't consider moving back to Lancashire....I suppose I could divorce her. ;) I regular...

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Enjoyed that.

Never a dull moment playing Celtic clearly.

Have we played them on any other occasions besides the games described and the Anglo-Scottish Cup Semi-final legs?

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You can get a cream for that.

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Can't quite visualise it, but you're probably right about Hibernian's Easter Road as you approach Edinburgh Waverley from the east (on the East coast Mainline) to the north. I think, therefore, you can also see the Meadowbank Stadium (used for the 1970 and 1986 Commonwealth Games) and now home to Ed...

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Thanks Quickenthetempo and Winstonswhite. I'll bide my time.

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Due to a planned get together with some mates in Manchester on the Friday which has just been arranged, I'm going to be around the day of the Everton home game. I don't have a season ticket as I live in South Queensferry (as discussed in a recent thread), nor am I any longer a member of the Clarets ...

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Well I didn’t check this for a few days and thought I’d started a war 😂 Lucky man living next door to Lou Lou’s! We’re up in SQF 4 or 5 times a year to visit family, love the place! Lou Lous's! Asif and Louise are good friends. My youngest daughter used to work for the rival emporium across the roa...

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Apologies for the slow response to this query. I am indeed the owner of the red Ford Fiesta parked on the High Street in South Queensferry, and notable for having a 'My Turf, My Town' sticker (plus an old Holland's Pies era mini-kit, when it sticks properly) in the back window. And, yes, as my mate ...

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Any links??

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I live in South Queensferry (just outside Edinburgh itself). Have done for 30+ years. The fringe is just fantastic but has increasingly become a more formalised, organised and gentrified thing rather than the informal impromptu thing it once was. This isn't a change for the better. It's become almos...

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Go to Shetland regularly (I'm a birder). First off it is Shetland (not the Shetlands, the Shetland Isles, the Shetland Islands, etc.). Yes, compared to Orkney the scenery can be austere but it harsh its own beauty. Great to island hop. You only pay north bound. Best to book ahead using the (very goo...

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I'm not making this up, but fantastically, and appropriately, in the New Delight Inn in the hamlet of New Delight up above Hebden Bridge in June 1975 when I was 14 (15 in September 1975). I was in the company of 'responsible' adults so it was vaguely legitimate. Become a routine thing thereafter, my...

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equinox wrote: ↑
Sat Aug 05, 2023 10:54 am
Haaland won't like the heat with him being Icelandic

Or Norway as some of us call it.....

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It's been great for us admittedly, but Venky's 'investment' in Premier league B@@@@@@s.

What? Wait? There's something called relegation?

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https://www.efl.com/news/2016/january/f ... gue-clubs/

This. As a result it was no longer a level playing field in terms of finding and attracting players, and we could no longer compete with the 'big' clubs.

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Clegs, please.

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One of the most erudite threads on 'ere.....

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One of the most erudite threads on 'ere.....

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There's only one derby on here.

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Whenever the whole beauty of Pato's goal that night is discussed, I always flag up Wade Elliot's lung bursting run that took half the Reading defence out wide to the right leaving a 'massive gap' (TM Jamie Carragher) for Pato to continue on into. Not taking ANYTHING away from the run and shot, but i...

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Going to be quite a sess, clearly.....

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Billy Balfour wrote: ↑
Tue May 02, 2023 9:52 pm
I'm not a fan either. It's like drinking syrupy cough medicine.

WWWWHHHHAAAATTTT? Wash you mouth out with Benedictine!!!!!

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I'm another 62 coming up 63 type chap. The one who moved to Burnley when he was 10, and lived opposite Arthur Bellamy, and was given complimentary tickets for me and my Dad by him for every home game. I never looked back.

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.... I was walking around in Haughton Hagg Wood near Worsthorne as a 14 year old, listening on my trannie radio. Not a good experience.

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