• Burnley 2-7 Sheffield Wednesday

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:33 pm**

A little cheer for your Monday evening…

Four goalkeepers used

A sending off

But at least we had the wonder NTG in goal. Good heavens, we were utterly atrocious!

This Premier League stuff that we’re currently been subjected to, isn’t half bad, is it?

https://youtu.be/RmelWzBK6m8

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:41 pm**

About 300 came on the train that day, I remember them walking through Burnley Wood

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:50 pm**

That was a surreal season, and how we managed to stay up while shipping 89 goals is nothing short of remarkable, but somehow we did, and relatively comfortably in the end despite a poor finish to the campaign.

And we also enjoyed a couple of cup runs beating PL Fulham & Spurs in the FA & League cups respectively.

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:53 pm**

Remember the day well got a speeding fine.going though read on my way back home

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:58 pm**

Was that THE Ashley Westwood?

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:17 pm**

jtv wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:58 pm
Was that THE Ashley Westwood?

No. He would have been about 13 at the time. There's another Ashley Westwood - who also started his career at Crewe, but was born about 15 years earlier than ours

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:43 pm**

jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:33 pm
A little cheer for your Monday evening…

Brian Laws doing us for seven

Four goalkeepers used

A sending off

But at least we had the wonder NTG in goal. Good heavens, we were utterly atrocious!

This Premier League stuff that we’re currently been subjected to, isn’t half bad, is it?

https://youtu.be/RmelWzBK6m8

Wow thanks for reminding me, I’d erased that game from my memory.

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:18 pm**

Didn't we lose 7-4 to Watford at home too?

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:46 pm**

That video sums up the improvements we have made in the goalkeeping department that’s for sure. It’s like watching kids playground stuff.

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:58 pm**

Sheffield Wednesday had been relegated by then too.

I know there’s been much worse, but it was an awful season

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:01 pm**

I can't remember if I missed the Watford game or the Wednesday game. I know I deliberately missed one - not because I had anything particular to do - but I could play better football myself by that point.

I can't believe we ever thought NTG was any good. And Luigi Cennamo!

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:06 pm**

Nick the Greek was a superb keeper, his debut was outstanding. Then someone worked out if you shoot from long range, you’ll always score. Like bug in a cheap computer game.

Posted: **Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:40 pm**

At least we scored a couple.
My first ever game watching us play against them was at Hillsborough and they stuffed us 7-0!

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:32 am**

claret_in_exile wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:18 pm
Didn't we lose 7-4 to Watford at home too?

I remember getting home from work at just after half past 3 that afternoon. I turned on Radio Lancs as soon as I got in and heard the commentator announce that "Gareth Taylor completes his hat-trick for Burnley" which immediately lifted my mood. It was very brief joy as he went onto say "I'll hand you back to the studio with the scoreline now Burnley 3 Watford 4!".

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:12 am**

Wasn't Chris Eagles playing for Wed at that time on loan from United?

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 6:21 am**

claret_in_exile wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:18 pm
Didn't we lose 7-4 to Watford at home too?

The 4-7 to Watford was my wedding day. The debacle v Wednesday the day after we arrived home from Hawaii. We were very poor back then weren't we...

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:24 am**

Christ I remember this game. We really did throw some in in Ternents final 2 seasons.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:30 am**

beeholeclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:32 am
I remember getting home from work at just after half past 3 that afternoon. I turned on Radio Lancs as soon as I got in and heard the commentator announce that "Gareth Taylor completes his hat-trick for Burnley" which immediately lifted my mood. It was very brief joy as he went onto say "I'll hand you back to the studio with the scoreline now Burnley 3 Watford 4!".

I was playing cricket, we listened to the final scores during the tea interval:

Burnley 4 - get in
Watford 7 - what the ****

Followed by severe **** taking by the rest of the team, most of whom were Leeds fans.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:34 am**

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:12 am
Wasn't Chris Eagles playing for Wed at that time on loan from United?

I think he played for them a couple of years after.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:37 am**

The same season we lost 6-5 to Grimsby and 6-2 to Rotherham. Mental season.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:07 am**

While we were getting thrashed by Rotherham, I harnessed the negativity and started to trick my brain that we were actually getting beat by Inter Milan instead.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:09 am**

Did Nik come off because he was injured or simply because he was having a shocker? Was he replaced by Beresford?

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:20 am**

Foulthrow wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:09 am
Did Nik come off because he was injured or simply because he was having a shocker? Was he replaced by Beresford?

He was “””injured””””

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:22 am**

If you didn't know better, you'd say that game reeks of match fixing. But looking at the season, it's fair to say it was good old incompetence.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 10:43 am**

At least there was one moment of light relief during the Watford 4-7 defeat though.

I remember the Burnley fans chanting to the meagre away contingent "You've got more goals than fans"

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 11:11 am**

Have Burnley ever been involved in another game with 4 goalkeepers?

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:42 pm**

Re 4 goalkeepers possibly a game at home to
Leicester in 82/83 season.
Alan Stevenson was sent off and I think an outfield player went in goal for the resultant penalty and then a different player for the rest of the match.
Long time ago so my memory could be playing tricks.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:46 pm**

Fretters wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:37 am
The same season we lost 6-5 to Grimsby and 6-2 to Rotherham. Mental season.

I remember on the previous board that i made reference to these 2 results plus the Watford and Sheff Weds 7 goal debacles and suggested they were the sort of results you only saw from Sunday League teams and not a league side. One of Stan's sons, possibly Dan took real offence and went into one, accusing me of calling his Dad a Sunday League Manager, reeling off Stan's coaching qualifications and experience and that he was reading my post along with his Dad and their solicitor.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:23 pm**

claptrappers_union wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:06 pm
Nick the Greek was a superb keeper, his debut was outstanding. Then someone worked out if you shoot from long range, you’ll always score. Like bug in a cheap computer game.

Saved a pen v Palace on his debut

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:24 pm**

Foulthrow wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:09 am
Did Nik come off because he was injured or simply because he was having a shocker? Was he replaced by Beresford?

He came off through an injury but I don't think it was genuine. Beresford came on and was even worse.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:25 pm**

Can't people be banned who post links to such highlights, especially for those of us who still click and watch them despite knowing how bad it is

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:33 pm**

claret_in_exile wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:18 pm
Didn't we lose 7-4 to Watford at home too?

Only three times have we conceded seven goals at home in a league game, once in 1888/89 season and twice in April 2003.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:33 pm**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:23 pm
Saved a pen v Palace on his debut

I thought his debut was Huddersfield away, when Crichton got stuck in traffic?

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:38 pm**

We conceded seven in this game and neither of their two strikers, Shefki Kuqi & Grant Holt, scored.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:40 pm**

Murger wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:33 pm
I thought his debut was Huddersfield away, when Crichton got stuck in traffic?

A lot seem to think that but he'd replaced Crichton on the previous Tuesday night for the League Cup game v Palace and this in the days when we didn't field a weakened side in the League Cup.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:54 pm**

I think we would have still lost this game if we played both Nik and Marlon in goal at the same time, such was their incompetence that day.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:14 pm**

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:54 pm
I think we would have still lost this game if we played both Nik and Marlon in goal at the same time, such was their incompetence that day.

Wasn't just that day though - thankfully neither of them played again for us on the Turf.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:38 pm**

Gnohere went the same was as Nik the Greek - started very well, became a crowd hero and then just turned absolute bobbins, almost over night.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:39 pm**

beeholeclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:32 am
I remember getting home from work at just after half past 3 that afternoon. I turned on Radio Lancs as soon as I got in and heard the commentator announce that "Gareth Taylor completes his hat-trick for Burnley" which immediately lifted my mood. It was very brief joy as he went onto say "I'll hand you back to the studio with the scoreline now Burnley 3 Watford 4!".

I was something similar travelling home from working in Liverpool just in time for the second reading of the classified results on radio 5 three of us let out a loud cheer on hearing Burnley 4 to deathly silence on Watford 7

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:46 pm**

Fretters wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 2:38 pm
Gnohere went the same was as Nik the Greek - started very well, became a crowd hero and then just turned absolute bobbins, almost over night.

My nephew always used to ask why all the fans got excited about a centre half who couldn’t head a ball.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:10 pm**

Was this the same season we lost to Rushden and Diamonds? Somehow Papadopolous went on to have a good career after leaving, pretty sure he was in the Greek euro squad.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:11 pm**

KRBFC wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:10 pm
Was this the same season we lost to Rushden and Diamonds? Somehow Papadopolous went on to have a good career after leaving, pretty sure he was in the Greek euro squad.

That League Cup defeat was August 2001 so 20 months earlier.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:24 pm**

He did win in the Euros with Greece. After he left us he scored 50 goals for Panathinaikos.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:08 pm**

superdimitri wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:24 pm
He did win in the Euros with Greece. After he left us he scored 50 goals for Panathinaikos.

He ended his career 112 goals in 409 league games for a weird and wonderful collection of 12 different clubs. Also scored twice in 22 full internationals for Greece.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:52 pm**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:08 pm
He ended his career 112 goals in 409 league games for a weird and wonderful collection of 12 different clubs. Also scored twice in 22 full internationals for Greece.

Yeah he didn't do well when he moved to superior leagues, but should have had the potential to be very good for us at the level.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:56 pm**

superdimitri wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:52 pm
Yeah he didn't do well when he moved to superior leagues, but should have had the potential to be very good for us at the level.

Quick and the ability to go down but otherwise I wasn’t over impressed. Another who got better and better the longer he didn’t play.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 6:29 pm**

We did let a few goals in under Stan. Can remember him saying the Beast got net rash after one thrashing we got

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 6:43 pm**

warksclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 13, 2021 6:29 pm
We did let a few goals in under Stan. Can remember him saying the Beast got net rash after one thrashing we got

It was in the season before we signed Jensen that was the worst with 89 league goals conceded. In the one season Jensen played for Stan we conceded 77 league goals.

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:21 pm**

This was the one and only game my son went to.It put him off football for Life!

Posted: **Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:50 pm**

I've just remembered another from that season - 5-2 against Reading?

I also remember us winning 3-0 at Sheffield Wednesday and being the first club to win at Leicester's crisp bowl. I think that win actually took us near to the top six. Utterly bizarre season.

Edit - and we made it to the quarter finals of the FA cup!

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