Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:00 pm
Just seen on my Facebook group a list of nicknames form years gone by. When did our nickname become the Clarets
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Burnley The Turfites
https://www.uptheclarets.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=60898
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Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:09 pm
I remember having a football card game and we were the Turfites.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:12 pm
The club shop used to sell lapel badges in the 60s with 'Turfites' on.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:19 pm
We adopted Claret & Blue in 1910 so certainly not before then
I'd imagine we'd have to wear the kit for at least a handful of years before it became a nickname.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:21 pm
Been the Turfites for as long as I remember
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:25 pm
When I started supporting, from afar, in the early 1960’s we were known as The Turfites. Not sure when that changed, definitively, to The Clarets.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:29 pm
I always remember as a kid that Burnley were called the Turfites but this was never really adopted by Burnley fans who have always used ‘the Clarets’. I think the Turfites handle seems to have been dropped sometime around the early seventies.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:29 pm
It will allways be the Turfites for me.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:33 pm
Didn't the club once try to introduce a mascot by the name of Turfy Topper ?
Never really took off.
Never really took off.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:33 pm
COYT
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:34 pm
That was also on a lapel badge.Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:33 pmDidn't the club once try to introduce a mascot by the name of Turfy Topper ?
Never really took off.
https://images.app.goo.gl/zfpwXUfMJbPvxWS76
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:36 pm
Sounds like a poor quality wig…Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:33 pmDidn't the club once try to introduce a mascot by the name of Turfy Topper ?
Never really took off.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:36 pm
I can't recall that - you have a better memory than I do.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:37 pm
https://images.app.goo.gl/zfpwXUfMJbPvxWS76Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:36 pmI can't recall that - you have a better memory than I do.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:42 pm
We were the Royalites for a while after the visit of the future Edward VII to the Turf.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:49 pm
Turfites when I first started going but not really used by fans. Not sure when it faded away.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:51 pm
Wow never heard that- been since prob 1970 and can’t remember anything other than The Clarets……
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:10 pm
You mean they couldn't get the top off?Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:33 pmDidn't the club once try to introduce a mascot by the name of Turfy Topper ?
Never really took off.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:12 pm
Now Reading, formerly 'The Biscuitmen' are now the Royals after Royal Berkshire.Culmclaret wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:42 pmWe were the Royalites for a while after the visit of the future Edward VII to the Turf.
I remember as a lad at Elm Park, the crowd would shout wither come on you Biscuits or come on you hoops.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:13 pm
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 8:47 pm
When I moved to Burnley in 1961 I had a quiz book that gave Burnley’s nickname as the turfites, when I mentioned this I was told that I did not know what I was talking about and that the nickname was definitely the clarets.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:17 pm
Am I right in thinking we had a spell out of Claret and Blue during and after WW2, but reverted due to popular demand?
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:29 pm
I remember the football stats books from many years ago when we were nicknamed 'The Turfites'. Man City were 'Citizens', Aston Villa were 'Villains', Chelsea were 'The Pensioners', Sunderland were 'Rokerites'. Everyone had an official nickname. West Brom were 'The Throstles'( what happened there?) and I'm sure Crystal Palace were 'The Glaziers'.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:32 pm
glad the "Turfites" was dropped, makes us sound like some kind of soil infestation.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:44 am
My rattle in the early 60's had "LARETS" on it. The "C" got lost and was never replaced.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 8:27 am
Reading are now usually called"Rs" the fans are too lazy to chant Royals.Biscuitmen after Huntley and Palmer was seldom if ever used.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 9:30 am
I’ve always thought Bulls would be appropriate for a nickname. It’s the name of the pub where the club was formed and I can’t think of another high profile football club with the same nickname.
Not that I think we should change the nickname now, it’s just seemed like a missed opportunity from some years ago
Not that I think we should change the nickname now, it’s just seemed like a missed opportunity from some years ago
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 10:20 am
Not sure being named after a pub is a good thing. We would be called a pub team!
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 11:56 am
Yes that was the case wasn’t it.Middle-agedClaret wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:25 pmWhen I started supporting, from afar, in the early 1960’s we were known as The Turfites. Not sure when that changed, definitively, to The Clarets.
Re: Burnley The Turfites
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:52 pm
Turfy Topper lapel badge
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