But what memories always stick in your mind from watching Burnley that were not a great goal.

The few for me are Jensens save at Chelsea.

Balls tackle on Dunn.

Mee putting his face in front of a half volley at point blank range at Reading.

Any others to add?

Shackells unbeatable glare after he'd equalised at Deadwood

Mark monnington taking on half of Rochdale - and winning

Joey's sitter at Wembley, my fingernails have still not forgiven him!

Joey Barton and the coke bottle.

The away end roar after the Birmingham away game. ( was spine tingling )

Parachute on the Cricketfield

Ternent's tears after that Sunderland game.

Chris Pearce standing up on the St Johns ambulance dug out in front of the longside - spine tingling stuff

The crowd (us) behind the goal at York.

An odd one that I'll never forget was the QPR game last season. The players were doing a lap of honour and step up Tendayi Darikwa who walked past the CFS to 40/50 people singing "we've got Lloyd Dyer" at him.

*serious face palm time*

Bit of a weird one, I'll never forget the moment Brian Jensen raced out of his net against reading (I think) and practically rugby tackled Kevin Doyle (I think). I had nightmares about that for weeks. Not sure what season it was?

John Angus coolly rolling the ball under his studs on his own goal line in the cup at Chelsea
to clear the danger as either Charlie Cooke or Macreadie rushed in for an easy goal.

Pure class, JA.

Arthur Bellamy's own goal in the league cup semi final at The Hawthorns against Swindon Town in 1968 that levelled the scores at 2-2. Can still see it going in now as he sliced it wide of the despairing Harry Thomson right in front of me. It was extra time, we'd just gone 2-1 up and they were 'on their knees'. Felt even worse, mind you, a few minutes later.

Wardy putting life and limb on the line at Stoke. Heroic, no other word to describe it.

An injured Roger Eli eschewing the Team Coach and travelling up to Carlisle with the fans, in his red MkIII Ford Escort. That image stuck with me. The togetherness of the Team and Fans at the time, the accessibility of the Players to the people that supported them and help pay(if Roger's car was owt to go by) their pretty ordinary wages.
I was put in mind of this when Chris Eagles turned up at the Turf in his Lamborghini.

Bertie and his rugby tackle is always etched into my brain too

Conroy92 wrote:Bit of a weird one, I'll never forget the moment Brian Jensen raced out of his net against reading (I think) and practically rugby tackled Kevin Doyle (I think). I had nightmares about that for weeks. Not sure what season it was?

Wolves 09/10 season.

Stockport away can't remember the year maybe 2003/04 and a fan went to head a ball that had been kicked out of play missed the ball and went flying over the barrier/fence

bfccrazy wrote:But what memories always stick in your mind from watching Burnley that were not a great goal.

The few for me are Jensens save at Chelsea.

Balls tackle on Dunn.

Mee putting his face in front of a half volley at point blank range at Reading.

Any others to add?

Watched that Reading game in Birmingham in walkabout and everyone in the pub gasped!

Bertie Bee getting sent off at home (I forget the game)

When Little 'swallowed' his tongue. I was a young boy at the time and thought I was watching my hero die.

Derby County.....FA Cup.....Fog.....need I say more.

Also trying to keep a low profile (and failing after we took the lead) in among the home end at Mansfield Town during the Division 3(?) promotion season

Spicer in goal at Luton, wearing those Kenny Everett style oversized gloves and the shirt down to his knees...

Springing to mind out of nowhere as random thoughts:
Mid 70s, Arsenal’s bustling forward John Radford gave Colin Waldron a finger wagging after a challenge, seconds later in a risky attempt to embarrass Radford, Waldo let a pass roll between his legs and turned sharply leaving Radford flat on his backside – how the Longside loved that.
‘Calamity’ Joe Corrigan’s impression of ‘a man trying to catch a piece of soap in the shower’ after trying to dummy Paul Fletcher at the Beehole End, resulting in Fletch’s gentle toepoke from 18yds trickling slowly into the net with Joe in forlorn pursuit. 3-0 win over City about 74.
Watching the lads walk out at Wembley for the Sherpa final in 88. Never thought I would see us play there. And fulltime at Wembley 2009. Never thought I would see us get back to the top flight.
Napoli’s Panzanato stamping Andy Lochhead’s head into the Turf Moor mud – and my old man’s explosion or rage at the incident.
Our non-stop singing of “We Shall Overcome” from the travelling Clarets at Watford (4-0 down at halftime) on the final away game ‘relegation outing’ in 1980. We certainly have.
Wondering if I would ever be able to feel my feet again after being forced to hand over my ‘toe-tector’ boots and so stand on the open terrace at Luton in my socks with freezing rain coming down, Dec 77.
Crying when my hero Willie Irvine got his leg broken by an awful challenge In the cup replay at Everton.
Receiving a ‘Best Wishes’ card from Stan Ternent when I was emigrating to the US.
Being staggered at the huge number of Clarets on the old Kop at Blackpool on my first away game probably 66.
Taking my lad to the Turf for the first time – lost 3-0 to Gillingham….
Glenn Little’s “unplayable” second half at Bradford in 3-2 win 2001.
Full time, May 9th, 1987, on the pitch…

- Any time Andre Bikey got sent off
- Any time David Eyres went on a dibbling run and beat two or three men (Have we had a better winger since who could actually beat a man?)
- When you could get a pie and a pint for less than a fiver!
- Robbie Blakes Pants?
- When Bertie Bee won penalty shoot out vs Deepdale Duck
- When Bertie Bee rugby tackled a streaker!
- I know you said no goals but I'm fairly sure Gifton Noel-Williams once got a hat-trick which was absolutely gobsmacking? Correct me if I'm wrong...
- Chicken on the pitch at Ewood.
- Playing Graham Branch as a centre forward...
- The likes of Chico at half-time? (You didn't say the memories had to be good ones!)

A few there just off the top of my head.

I can remember talking to a bloke on the Longside once who beamed 'We have to keep Ron Futcher and Junior Bent together, it's the perfect combination.

I can also easily recall the era when, we just had to sign David Reeves buckets and all, he's our saviour. But alas, we were thwarted by Notts County.

Dyched wrote:When Little 'swallowed' his tongue. I was a young boy at the time and thought I was watching my hero die.

I'd forgotten about this til' you mentioned it. Was a scary time as it wasnt clear what was actually happening straight away.

Carlisle when we took over 3 of the 4 sides.
Baseball Ground - the fog replay
My first drink on the Bee Hole, a brandy, aged about 6. Still coughing
The announcer on the Turf when we won the old 3rd Division advising that we'd all but won the title on goal difference, even though we hadn't sealed it at the time.
Long Side "toilets"
Lads walking around the pitch at half time selling pies
Ben Lee's death
Kevin Francis being gracious in defeat at Wembley
Dancing Pearce
Ian Wright's debut
When the Wrexham winger got tripped up by a fan on the touchline and the referee decided to cut his losses and blew early
John Bond hiding at the back of the stand
Whoooosh

Away at Blackpool in the 90's. A Blackpool fan was getting interviewed for some BBC documentary in front of the Burnley fans and made the mistake of goading us. Naturally the Burnley fans responded in kind and the chap ended up getting arrested.

Still one of the funniest things I've seen at a football ground (along with Preston's keeper going beserk at the Burnley fans after the great 4-3 comeback a few years ago)

Easy.
Taking my mum to games for the best part of 20 years, starting at a snowy Shay. Now she is barely aware where she is and talks constantly to imaginary people that only she can see. Dementia takes away the people you love in front of your eyes.
So my memories of The Clarets will always be of grounds we visited together including the Wembley play off vs Stockport and her being able to see us from the depths of the 4th Division to the Premier. If only she knew.
Oh and her fav player was Steve Davis mk2, she loved his big calves.

Barnet away one night match and all the fans having a go at a steward for looking like Mr Bean.

Blackpool away when we got beat (hammered) and a fan had an arguement with Mark Kendall after the whitsle and promised to get his gun and shoot him if he saw him in Burnley the week after.

Half time against Nottingham Forest in 11/12. Forest were 4-0 down at half time and McClaren sent his team out early before the second half, only for them to be interrupted by a mini-carnival on the pitch from local primary school pupils. The players' faces were a picture.

One of the best celebrations I remember is after Mellon had scored against Blackpool (long distance screamer). When he ran backwards towards the Blackpool fans who had been goading him all game, pointing to the name on his shirt.

Ade Akinbiyi's worldy that never was (still to this day don't know why it was disallowed).

Ade Akinbiyi's debut!

Andre Bikey's implosion in the Play Off semi final.

Bertie Bee tackling the streaker.

Robbie Blake with the ball at his feet.

A really weird one for me that I'll never forget was a home game (against York, I think---around 1997-98) where one of our defenders hoofed a ball onto the roof of the Bob Lord stand. The ball rolled off just as the York player was about to take the throw and knocked the ball out of his hands, cue laughter erupting around the stadium. I was only a kid at the time, and I remember finding it hilarious.

The 1968 youth team doing a lap of the pitch after winning the FA youth cup against Coventry with the cup aloft.

Croydon Claret wrote: Whoooosh

Mark Winstanley


Dark days

Seeing the Bob Lord, Jimmy Mac and James Hargreaves simultaneously at a match! I thought a return to The Cricketfield End, our Kop was a distant memory, a pipe dream. I hope it remains untouched for another 50 or so years and we stay in there. Its one of the last links to our heritage and memories of the Old Turf Moor days.

bf2k wrote:Mark Winstanley


Dark days

Definitely not the original whoosh!

Being 4-0 down at ht away at ******* bury. LittleJohn is still a tosser

Those dogs at half time

Spotting a Burnley top from my hotel balcony in Tenerife and shouting "Chris Waddle's our new manager!" and the guy shouting back "boll0cks he is.."

Celebrating our first goal of the season away at York in the middle of September

Watching Bambo train down at Gawthorpe

Craig Hignetts trudge to the dressing room after his sending off with
cries of "you'll always be a ba***rd" ringing in his ears.

Unsure if I remember this correctly but I'm pretty sure I remember Darren Purse being sent off for taking a chunk out of Andy Cole's leg then Cole proceeded to sprint down the tunnel to confront him?

whiffa wrote:- Any time David Eyres went on a dibbling run and beat two or three men (Have we had a better winger since who could actually beat a man?)

Glen Little!

The parachutist on the Cricket Field roof against Ipswich is one I won't forget in a hurry. Think we lost 3-0 with 2 own goals, don't think many people would have believed you if you'd told them how that season would finish!

Ade Randall pre match ball juggling

Barnesy counting the five goals on his fingers

Walsall pre season where the home fans had to be moved to accommodate the masses of Burnley fans arriving

Chants to Steve Bull

Boing boing boinging at WBA

Paxton scoring at Wrexham and then revealing his born claret t shirt

Going to Wrexham in the snow and not being able to see their goal at the far end of the pitch due to said snow falling.

Que Sera Sera in extra time vs Spurs

Copying the "you've lost that loving feeling "scene from Top Gun on the platform coming back from Bolton (I think it was) not long after the film came out with a large group of drunks

Rocky and another bloke sumo wrestling topless at Wycombe when we were 5-0 down. 5-0 at Wycombe

Remember stopping off somewhere en route to Stoke away and some lad being really angry over something outside the pub.

Rocky ran out of the pub and picked up a wet pizza box off the floor and wrapped it around the lads head and ran off screaming "ai yai yai yai yai".

Was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Was once waiting for a coach to an away game at the old ticket office and it was the middle of winter and about 7am..... A lad who must have had a long night on the Friday went jogging along the decking at the front of Park View and there must have been an ice patch he hit....... He then did a full somersault and landed on his face and I was rolling around on the floor laughing..... He shot up and brushed himself off and tried to run off to avoid further embarassment and ended up on his backside again within about 3 seconds.

Lord Beamish mentioned Eli. I remember a reserve game when the opposition kicked off knocked the ball back to a midfielder who passed it out to a winger on the touchline, Roger put him in the third row of the stand and was back up the tunnel with less than a minute on the clock.