Burnley: Jensen, Duff, McGreal (Sanokho 80), Sinclair, Camara, Grant, Roche, Hyde, O'Connor, Duffy (O'Neill 86), Blake.
Subs Not Used: Pilkington, Scott, Yates

Wow what a poor team, Cotterill really did a fantastic job here with them players and such a small squad.

Sanokho, Roche. Pilkington. O'Neill. Scott. Yates...... Simply Awful

Steve Cotterills Claret & Blue Army !!!

Started the season with 13 senior players and 3 young lads to fill the bench. Worked miracles with the miniscule resources he had

It actually wasn't that bad a team for the time, and considering we had absolutely no money. The bench was truly awful though.

I quite enjoyed the first half of that 04/05 season.

I liked Cotterill & Cotterball.

Huge injury problems so used full backs in midfield.

A very surprising win at the time.

Steve1956 wrote:I liked Cotterill & Cotterball.

Much more enjoyable than the hoofball we have to to put up with now.

I enjoyed it all thoroughly....

...after the first 12 seconds.


Duffy and Roche!

Needs must. What was needed at the time and did really well initially but thank goodness Coyle arrived when he did.

One of the biggest surprise wins i could remember.

Memorable day for all the wrong reasons for me. Didn't even get to see the game.

I was in the home end for that one. For some reason I thought Nathan Dyer was playing for us that day and that it was Brian Deane who scored for Leeds; clearly the memory is not what it was!

MattBFC wrote:I was in the home end for that one. For some reason I thought Nathan Dyer was playing for us that day and that it was Brian Deane who scored for Leeds; clearly the memory is not what it was!

I too had a memory of Dyer playing for us that day. Weird!

UTC!

What a trip, 15 years old on the beer in Leeds after bunking off school.

Big bother but worth it!

Took a Leeds based girlfriend to the game. She’d never been to a match. Told her how poor our team was. She loved every second. Fullbacks for wingers. Amazing result. Hyde and Grant were very good.

Amazing to go into a game with three right backs, play two of them in midfield and they score the goals.

As an aside, Leeds scored in the first minute through Jermaine Wright. In the following season the same player scored against us in the first minute for Millwall and then in the first minute for Southampton although the last of those deflected in off Phil Bardsley.

ClaretTony wrote:Amazing to go into a game with three right backs, play two of them in midfield and they score the goals.

As an aside, Leeds scored in the first minute through Jermaine Wright. In the following season the same player scored against us in the first minute for Millwall and then in the first minute for Southampton although the last of those deflected in off Phil Bardsley.

We had a minibus from our local pub... even split Leeds and Burnley fans. As everyone got on the bus my mate Kevin's (Leeds fan) younger brother James (he was 19 at the time) stood up and said "Hey K**py theres only one result tonight 4-0 to the Leeds Leeds Leeds Leeds" and was ponting at me and generally being a pain.... and all the way he was vocal even though his mate and his brother tried to shush him up"

We stopped for a pint or two on the way, even in the pub he was giving me grief.... when we got to the bus park wll went our seperate waysinto the ground.

Funniest moment came after the game and we got on the minibus, we were the 1st back on and as young James got on the bus all he said was a very tearful "K**py you can shut the f**k up ... just don't say a f**king word" I just smiled and said "No need to sonny, you've said everything for me" all the others on the bus laughed and James slumped in his seat and was extremely quiet all the way home for all the 40 miles of the journey.
When we got back We said are you coming in for a beer as our local was still open and only Kevin joined us.

I still remind James of that evening when I see him. He has mellowed now he is in his 30's

I went after school and remember queues to get in - when I finally got in right at kick off they scored as I just popped my head into the stand from the concourse.

Was a great night and a real unexpected win - I remember a lot of angry leeds fans outside that night too

I went with a Leeds supporting mate on the North Devon Leeds supporters bus

It was fairly well civilised although i did smile at one of the lads saying to me on the way home: "no disrespect mate but we shouldn't be losing to teams like Burnley"

I drove there with a couple of mates. We missed the 1st 5 minutes.

I drove there with a couple of mates. We missed the 1st 5 minutes.

I went with my lad who was 16. We had tickets in the home area just behind the Burnley dugout. When we saw the team we expected very little and soon we were one down. The comeback to 2-1 was extraordinary.
Late on Sanoko came on and proceeded to waste time in the corner. A Leeds fan shouted to Cotterill 'why don't you get him to f***ing cross it?. Cotters turned round and said 'because I haven't got anyone who can f***ing head it!'.
Leeds fan in front of us clocked us as Clarets and got a bit aggressive, but we found a group of my lad's schoolmates and left in that group so nothing came of it. We returned silently to the car, parked behind the pub, looking glum. However once the doors were closed we let out a very loud 'YESSSS!!'.
Great evening and all the better for the unexpectedness, and the sheer anger of the Leeds supporters, who thought they only had to turn up. Nothing changes.

I’m confused. Surely it wasn’t Mark Yates on the bench or was it down to lack of numbers?

Any team with Bad Beat Bob in it had a chance

wow its a long time ago now.

it was the one and only time I got ejected from a ground.

did we equalise quite quickly ? I was on the back row of the lower bit right behind the goal and it went a bit silly when we scored I guess and I ended up in the upper bit.
few minutes later I was removed. kept my cool even if we had been on beer all day

said copper was well chuffed and I sat out back of away end for rest of game with a leeds fan. when we got winner he went from being fairly normal kind of lad to wanting to set up a fight "up road".

we stayed in Leeds for student night that night too.
good days

Murger wrote:I drove there with a couple of mates. We missed the 1st 5 minutes.

haha...still not sure how we managed that, wern't we in city centre from about 12

What a diamond in the rough Robbie Blake was that season.