Reading v Burnley play-off 2nd leg - full game

[Spijed]

The entire match:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyZ83cyXkt4

[claretdj]

2 of the best goals I have ever seen in the same bfc game!

[Buxtonclaret]

Never up for it, Reading.
Our fans put an early stamp on it. Like a home game!

[Spijed]

And Glen Little playing for Reading

[matttheclaret]

Can't think of another example where we scored 2 goals as good as that in the same game

[claretdj]

Can't think of another example where we scored 2 goals as good as that in the same game

Oi stop copying my post!

[paulatky]

Brilliant day and night

[Burnley1989]

My favourite Burnley match hands down, can see myself on the footage going wild and it only feels like a few years ago

[Wile E Coyote]

wow, what a great couple of goals !!! some good football in that game.
great to watch again.

[NottsClaret]

Sometimes it feels like nostalgia making you think that season and particularly the play off success was inevitable but watching that back, it’s ridiculous how confident the Burnley fans are defending a narrow 1-0 lead away from home.

[Stalbansclaret]

I think this is my favourite ever game too....just a sensational night and absolute euphoria of a rare kind.

[Buxtonclaret]

Brilliant was that.

[CaptainKirk]

Coppel seemed to be having words with OC at the end - did we ever hear what it was about?

[Devils_Advocate]

Enjoyed it more than the final but my memory is we were poor first half and it looked like sooner or later Reading would score and the dream would end

Second half was a different story and after the game was amazing with a couple of things standing out in my memory.

First was the Grezza at the final whistle making sure the players didnt get carried away. Go over and clap the fans but dont celebrate cos there was still one more game to win (pulling a few away and back to the dressing room)

Second was the fans turning round to the sky sports box and giving Blackwell the message loud and clear that we were ready for the final

[ClaretTony]

Coppel seemed to be having words with OC at the end - did we ever hear what it was about?

He told him he was a Judas

[evensteadiereddie]

Coppel seemed to be having words with OC at the end - did we ever hear what it was about?

I think he was probably telling Coyle that he'd just finished Coppell's managerial career.
I always remember one of the following morning's papers describing Coppell as looking and dressing like an undertaker at a particularly sombre funeral.

Ouch.

[TheOriginalLongsider]

Sh!t neil warnock. You’re just a Sh!t neil warnock !! Was always confident we would win. We had momentum !

[evensteadiereddie]

You could sense that Reading felt they'd missed their chance at the Turf. They lost but they played really well.

[warksclaret]

The dreadful way in which OC left us somewhat over shadows a phenomenal season when we got promoted. Some fantastic football, results, individual performances, minutes from a League Cup final, two stunning performances in the play-offs v Reading, then of course that game at Wembley. Clarets got their moneys-worth that season

[ElectroClaret]

Thompson's goal was excellent, but Pato's strike was outrageous.

Brilliant stuff.

[SlidingTackle]

I always bang on about this but Wade Elliot's lung-bursting effort to make a decoy overlapping run is SO important in allowing Martin Paterson to drift inside and just keeping going until shooting becomes an inevitable option - watch the defenders shadowing Elliot's run thinking that is where the ball is going.

[MT03ALG]

I booked in at Reading for hospitality along with a few other Burnley fans. After the game the Reading Chairman John Madeski was extremely magnanimous in defeat, stated that Burnley deserved to win and wished us all the best in the Play-Off Final. Well done that man !

[Bin Ont Turf]

The goosebumps pile on when you see the away end when Thompson scores.

BOOM!

[Sausage]

I still have scars on my knees from the carpet burns from doing a knee slide in my living room when Martin Paterson scored. The commentary is brilliant; the "Goodness me" from Bill Leslie is genuine astonishment when the ball flies past Hahnemann.

You watch this coverage and wonder what the hell Owen Coyle was thinking when he left Burnley. I know it's been done to death, but he could have been relegated with us in 2010 and no-one would have blinked. Just as with Sean Dyche in 2015, we would have given him the benefit of the doubt.

[Wile E Coyote]

when you know the outcome the nerves arent there, but just watching it back and seeing the quality of those goals is incredible. I remember hearing mark bright and his ludicrous bias on radio 5 for reading. so mark, if you ever find yourself on here......swear word you.

[Woodleyclaret]

Living in Reading then going to work the day after at the John Madejeski Academy was a memory thats up there with my best Burnley moments.

[padihamclaret]

I still have scars on my knees from the carpet burns from doing a knee slide in my living room when Martin Paterson scored. The commentary is brilliant; the "Goodness me" from Bill Leslie is genuine astonishment when the ball flies past Hahnemann.

You watch this coverage and wonder what the hell Owen Coyle was thinking when he left Burnley. I know it's been done to death, but he could have been relegated with us in 2010 and no-one would have blinked. Just as with Sean Dyche in 2015, we would have given him the benefit of the doubt.

I really don't think we would have gone down that season if Coyle had stayed. We couldn't defend and our away from was terrible but I think we could have nicked enough points at home to stay up. Might have gone down to the wire but we had momentum and belief. As soon as he went (especially to a relegation rival) we were doomed.
However, it all ended up well for us when Sir Sean arrived and saved us with the added bonus that Coyle helped relegate them lot to league 1!

[Clarets4me]

I really don't think we would have gone down that season if Coyle had stayed. We couldn't defend and our away from was terrible but I think we could have nicked enough points at home to stay up. Might have gone down to the wire but we had momentum and belief. As soon as he went (especially to a relegation rival) we were doomed.
However, it all ended up well for us when Sir Sean arrived and saved us with the added bonus that Coyle helped relegate them lot to league 1!

I suspect if Owen Coyle hadn't left and was still here, the defense would still not be sorted out properly !!

[Corky]

I live about 30 mins. drive from Reading. We sold out of tickets, as expected, and I didn't even think to try to get one from Reading. When I saw the match on TV and saw all the empty spaces around our fans I could have kicked myself.

[mdd2]

Pessimistic me also thinks we would have stayed up if Coyle had stayed. From memory I think OC had lined up one or two players to come to us who then went to Bolton. His departure ripped the heart out of the club at that time. Averaging one point/game before he left and then just 10 points from 18 games.

[Clarets4me]

Pessimistic me also thinks we would have stayed up if Coyle had stayed. From memory I think OC had lined up one or two players to come to us who then went to Bolton.

Stuart Holden was the one I remember, had a great 14 months or so with Bolton, as they finished 7th in 2010-11, but a tackle from Johnny Evans that required 26 stitches and caused other damage, which caused him to be out for nearly a year. On his return, he then did his cruciate playing for the USA in June 2013, and then suffered the same injury after 24 minutes in his comeback game v Everton's reserves in March 2014, and he retired aged 27. He now works as a broadcaster, and is part of the ownership group of RCD Mallorca, promoted to La Liga last year, but battling to avoid an immediate return to the 2nd tier in Spain.

[Rowls]

Never up for it, Reading.
Our fans put an early stamp on it. Like a home game!

Au contraire. I recall we had our backs to the wall for the first 45.

[mdd2]

Au contraire. I recall we had our backs to the wall for the first 45.

True from viewing the video and the reports at the time. I locked myself in the loo for most of the game as is my won't when we are playing away on most occasions, only flushed the loo and came out when my son told me we were 2-0 up.

[Rowls]

True from viewing the video and the reports at the time. I locked myself in the loo for most of the game as is my won't when we are playing away on most occasions, only flushed the loo and came out when my son told me we were 2-0 up.

[Commy]

Jack Wilshere was one of the loans. Went to Bolton when Coyle moved.

[Buxtonclaret]

Au contraire. I recall we had our backs to the wall for the first 45.

I'm always nervous watching us.
Remember watching this in a pub with 3 friends.
Yep. They had lots of possession. But never really hurt us.
At halftime, hand on heart, I genuinely wasn't worried.
My 'neutral' friends were also of the view they were there for the taking.
Even their fans played 2nd fiddle to ours for almost all the game.
They'd about as much self belief as their team.
It was a good time to play them. A good, strong side, but devoid of confidence.

[Cubanclaret]

I think confidence was high among the visiting fans for sure after a great trip down.
Don’t recall being overly concerned by their threat. The longer it stayed 0-0 the more likely we were to win. And once Pato did ‘that’ it was curtains for Reading.

[dsr]

I can imagine the next training session - the rest of the team saying to Paterson and Thompson, "go on, do it again so we can see what you did!". They could have played till next year and never quite repeated those goals.

[claptrappers_union]

Weirdly I remember that day much more than I do at Wembley.

I remember the journey back knowing we were going up and Sheffield United were going to be a formality. Not a regular feeling supporting Burnley

[mdd2]

anyone recall two games when we scored three goals all from outside the box apart from this one and the play off Final? Three real screamers

[Targetman]

Weirdly I remember that day much more than I do at Wembley.

I remember the journey back knowing we were going up and Sheffield United were going to be a formality. Not a regular feeling supporting Burnley

For the final itself we stayed the night before at a hotel in North Acton, it was full with fans from both teams.

The Burnley fans to a man were definitely confident that we would win. Of all the Sheffield United fans we spoke to not one of them were confident about beating us.

[martin_p]

So glad I queued up for six hours on a bank holiday Monday to get tickets for that one. It’s one of my all time favourite games as well.

[jtv]

I had missed the televised first leg at the Turf. Is there any footage of it please?

[martin_p]

I had missed the televised first leg at the Turf. Is there any footage of it please?

Full match here

https://youtu.be/A8eT1tUtxpI

[Herts Clarets]

I turned down the offer of a free ticket for this game, as it was in the Reading end, via a friend who worked for John Lewis. Can you imagine sitting on your hands when Pato launched that screamer into the top corner? Best £25 I spent being in the middle of that away support. Magical, memorable night.

[matttheclaret]

Always amazes me when I hear how so many of us were so confident going into the final against Sheffield United. Might just be me, but I certainly wasn't feeling that. I remember being a bag of nerves before and certainly wasn't thinking it was in the bag!

Then we outplayed them and I'm still not sure how we didn't win by at least three.

Great memories. The whole season, with the cup runs too was just fantastic.

[martin_p]

Always amazes me when I hear how so many of us were so confident going into the final against Sheffield United. Might just be me, but I certainly wasn't feeling that. I remember being a bag of nerves before and certainly wasn't thinking it was in the bag!

Then we outplayed them and I'm still not sure how we didn't win by at least three.

Great memories. The whole season, with the cup runs too was just fantastic.

I wasn’t feeling any level of confidence until the final whistle, especially after the late blow we’d had against Spurs a few months earlier. For the only time during a football match I actually felt physically sick during injury time my nerves were so bad. The rush when that final whistle blew is probably something I’ll never experience again at a football match.

[Herts Clarets]

I wasn’t feeling any level of confidence until the final whistle, especially after the late blow we’d had against Spurs a few months earlier. For the only time during a football match I actually felt physically sick during injury time my nerves were so bad. The rush when that final whistle blew is probably something I’ll never experience again at a football match.

It was quite unbelievable. I was stood with my Dad and when the ball was played down into the corner, with nearly 5 minutes of the added on time played, I remember saying "we've done it, we're there, we are Premier League". I think it was Pato down by the corner and as soon as it was taken the final whistle went. As I walked out of Wembley stadium, I bumped into a fan I have known for many years (those who read the Martin Buchan thread a couple of weeks ago will remember an end of game protest inside and outside the ground at Chester. This was the same bloke). This is for every trip to Hartlepool, Rochdale, Halifax and every other sh!t hole that supporting our club has dragged me to. Now look at us.

[jtv]

Full match here

https://youtu.be/A8eT1tUtxpI

Cheers Martin! That's my evening taken care of

[I'maclaret]

Any out breaks of confidence among the Clarets fans around us was greeted by others reminding them that it had all gone wrong in the last minutes of the Carling Cup. No one was allowed to celebrate until the final whistle had gone. A plaintive cry of "No, no doesn't sing that, we were sing that against Spurs" went up when someone singing "we're going to Wembley".