Back in 1991, the day that Clive Tyldesely thought the season started.

See link
https://www.uptheclarets.com/burnley-ge ... unny-donny

Billy Whitehurst, not someone to get on the wrong side of if possible.

claretonthecoast1882 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 31, 2021 11:29 am

Billy Whitehurst, not someone to get on the wrong side of if possible.

It was his last season in league football but he had played top flight football for Newcastle, Oxford and Sheffield United. Played in the same team as Beardsley & Gascoigne at Newcastle.

Mark Yates - scored on his debut and then never scored again.

I remember the game well, it was a very hot day and my mates and I all came off the game with rosy red, sun burnt faces.

djemba-djemba wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:31 pm

Mark Yates - scored on his debut and then never scored again.

He was poor for us, but I seem to remember he ended up playing a lot of games at a similar level later in his career.

fidelcastro wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:04 pm

He was poor for us, but I seem to remember he ended up playing a lot of games at a similar level later in his career.

I think he suffered from the change of manager given the way he played.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:14 pm

I think he suffered from the change of manager given the way he played.

Thankfully the rest of the team didn't!

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:14 pm

I think he suffered from the change of manager given the way he played.

Poorly?

Yes, recall it being a hot day, good performance.
Wasn't the old Belle Vue pitch at the time, the biggest playing area in the country? Seem to remember people describing it as such.

ElectroClaret wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 31, 2021 2:08 pm

Yes, recall it being a hot day, good performance.
Wasn't the old Belle Vue pitch at the time, the biggest playing area in the country? Seem to remember people describing it as such.

I think you are right on that

I was a little tipsy after several pints of Tetley cask. The pies were good too. Shorts and t shirt weather and a 4-1 win. Happy days.

still my favourite season

ten bellies wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:02 pm

Shorts and t shirt weather and a 4-1 win. Happy days.

Everyone always remembers the hot, the cold and the wet days.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:24 pm

the wet days.

Macclesfield!

djemba-djemba wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:12 pm

Macclesfield!

That was beyond wet

Sunderland at Roker was the worst in my time watching us, soaked to the skin is an understatement !!!

Mark “Eddie” Yates on the scoresheet, they were great times that season

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:24 pm

the wet days.

Two come to mind. Scarborough away 1991. Exeter away 1982. Lost both.

Hull away 94/95 (?) when Deary got the winner was wet for those of us who couldn’t fit under their dilapidated roof.

Here’s the game from the angle we’ve come to love over the years…. https://youtu.be/PAlFtHAbvb4


But here is the game from the opposite angle. Plays with the mind a bit…. https://youtu.be/rDaEj5_Cb_Y

I remember being delighted when Billy Whitehead pulled the ball into himself, he was a player who always gave us a rough time. Rankin I remember being more than decent at that level too and of course Crichton in goal. Mark Yates was too much of a footballer for the level we were at, he just seemed unable to deal with the physical side of our league but could certainly play.

I was at Salford University and was dating a girl who was St John’s at Old Trafford. She asked me who the Clorets were (it was a popular mint breath freshening sweet) and thought I was mad turning down a pitch side seat at Old Trafford to go to Maidstone United (I think) later that season.

Rowls wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:40 am

Hull away 94/95 (?) when Deary got the winner was wet for those of us who couldn’t fit under their dilapidated roof.

Think it was a rare away win in the 93/94 play-off promotion season. I just got under the roof but got soaked on the way back to the car anyway.

Ah lucky you, martin!

We tried our best to cram under the stand but only succeeding in getting agonisingly close and had to endure the run off sluicing onto us.

Still, the win made it worthwhile.

ten bellies wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:28 am

Two come to mind. Scarborough away 1991. Exeter away 1982. Lost both.

I think these can be considered

Cardiff 99/00
Oxford 99/00
Hull 93/94
Bradford City (League Cup) 78/79, the last ever replay we played in the League Cup

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:24 pm

Everyone always remembers the hot, the cold and the wet days.

Hot days:
Watford away 1997 first game under Waddle
Wycombe away Valentine's Day 1998 i think - shirt sleeves in February
Palace at home first game 2003 season

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:10 pm

Hot days:
Watford away 1997 first game under Waddle
Wycombe away Valentine's Day 1998 i think - shirt sleeves in February
Palace at home first game 2003 season

All those three and

Hull away - 1983
Millwall away - 2001
Chelsea away - 2017

The Wycombe one was ridiculous given the time of year.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:51 pm

All those three and

Hull away - 1983
Millwall away - 2001
Chelsea away - 2017

The Wycombe one was ridiculous given the time of year.

Ah yes. Millwall and Chelsea. Both memorable for different reasons, other than collecting 3 points and opposition dismissals in both games.

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:20 pm

Ah yes. Millwall and Chelsea. Both memorable for different reasons, other than collecting 3 points and opposition dismissals in both games.

I always remember Stan doing his after match interview at Millwall with sweat pouring down his face.

I think the hottest of the lot might have been that Palace home game.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 1:51 pm

All those three and

Hull away - 1983
Millwall away - 2001
Chelsea away - 2017

The Wycombe one was ridiculous given the time of year.

Millwall away in 2012 as well, October and was around 30 degrees that day.

ten bellies wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 9:28 am

Two come to mind. Scarborough away 1991. Exeter away 1982. Lost both.

Exeter 82: started raining in Exeter at 9.00am, stopped at 4.35pm. Exeter then scored twice, we got one back and had another disallowed for offside when they had a player standing on the line. Got a bit lively after that. Was anyone else on here amongst those of us that got a lift back to St David’s station in a Black Maria? The police asked if anyone was going to the station….what service!

Ps The end of a 20 match unbeaten run in the league

djemba-djemba wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:12 pm

Macclesfield!

I had a ticket in the covered home end for that game and asked to get let through the gate into the away supporters!

At least it was only 2 miles home.

Culmclaret wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:35 pm

Exeter 82: started raining in Exeter at 9.00am, stopped at 4.35pm. Exeter then scored twice, we got one back and had another disallowed for offside when they had a player standing on the line. Got a bit lively after that. Was anyone else on here amongst those of us that got a lift back to St David’s station in a Black Maria? The police asked if anyone was going to the station….what service!

Ps The end of a 20 match unbeaten run in the league

Was told by the press that the linesman who flagged the offside had been an Exeter season ticket holder. That wouldn’t be allowed today.

Culmclaret wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:35 pm

Was anyone else on here amongst those of us that got a lift back to St David’s station in a Black Maria? The police asked if anyone was going to the station….what service!

I was in that van. Exeter fans thought we'd been arrested. That lift gave me the chance of a pint before our train departed in a pub across the road. The pitch was a mud bath.

My memory is that the driver of the van didn’t hang about!

Chesterfield at home last game of the 1982 season, kick off delayed, Norman Jones on the pitch with a fork trying to help the drainage. Had there not been so much at stake i don't think that game would have gone ahead. Kevin Young almost ankle deep in standing water infront of the Longside

And who can forget Exeter at home in 1987 - there is a famous picture of a sole fan stood on the Bee Hole terrace in a blizzard. I was in the CF stand and we used to sit around row Y and were getting snowed on it was that bad. A dire 0-0 game to match the dire weather.

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 03, 2021 10:02 am

Chesterfield at home last game of the 1982 season, kick off delayed, Norman Jones on the pitch with a fork trying to help the drainage. Had there not been so much at stake i don't think that game would have gone ahead. Kevin Young almost ankle deep in standing water infront of the Longside

Ah yes, forgotten about that one. The game should never have gone ahead really but they’d already opened the gates and there was a sizeable crowd. As a paranoid teenager I refused to celebrate us being champions that night as Carlisle could still take it with an eight goal win the following night.