Unusual/bizarre N.E. Lancs derby memories

[Stalbansclaret]

The atmosphere for these games is always combustible and is often conducive to behaviour and events of an unusual nature.
My own particular “bloody hell did that really happen ?” moment came in the 2006 0-0 draw in the FA Cup in 2006 (the game seemingly refereed by Robbie Savage ) . For some reason I was in the Bob Lord that day not far behind the away dug-out, and at one point a bloke jumped out of the crowd totally naked apart from trainers and socks and did a breakdance style head spin on the pitch in front of Mark Hughes and Co.
I don’t need to spell out the gruesome nature of this image and it was a truly bizarre moment which I can’t unsee or forget. My friend who was at the game with me also clearly remembers this but it seems no other person I have ever mentioned it to can remember it !
Anyone on here recall this ? And any other particularly weird memories from these games ?

[Rouwens_Weapon]

The chicken on the pitch at Ewood

[Raconteur]

The atmosphere for these games is always combustible and is often conducive to behaviour and events of an unusual nature.
My own particular “bloody hell did that really happen ?” moment came in the 2006 0-0 draw in the FA Cup in 2006 (the game seemingly refereed by Robbie Savage ) . For some reason I was in the Bob Lord that day not far behind the away dug-out, and at one point a bloke jumped out of the crowd totally naked apart from trainers and socks and did a breakdance style head spin on the pitch in front of Mark Hughes and Co.
I don’t need to spell out the gruesome nature of this image and it was a truly bizarre moment which I can’t unsee or forget. My friend who was at the game with me also clearly remembers this but it seems no other person I have ever mentioned it to can remember it !
Anyone on here recall this ? And any other particularly weird memories from these games ?

From memory, in the 0-0 cup game at the Turf i can remember a fan running on the pitch wearing a t-shirt and woolly gloves trying to start some fisticuffs.

[Raconteur]

The atmosphere for these games is always combustible and is often conducive to behaviour and events of an unusual nature.
My own particular “bloody hell did that really happen ?” moment came in the 2006 0-0 draw in the FA Cup in 2006 (the game seemingly refereed by Robbie Savage ) . For some reason I was in the Bob Lord that day not far behind the away dug-out, and at one point a bloke jumped out of the crowd totally naked apart from trainers and socks and did a breakdance style head spin on the pitch in front of Mark Hughes and Co.
I don’t need to spell out the gruesome nature of this image and it was a truly bizarre moment which I can’t unsee or forget. My friend who was at the game with me also clearly remembers this but it seems no other person I have ever mentioned it to can remember it !
Anyone on here recall this ? And any other particularly weird memories from these games ?

I also remember the naked breakdancer.
His name is Mark.

[Tricky Trevor]

Ralph Coates sitting on the ball at Deadwood. The New Years day war of ‘66, I think.

[Quicknick]

Ralph Coates sitting on the ball at Deadwood. The New Years day war of ‘66, I think.

It was. Willie Morgan got sent off that day.

[summitclaret]

And Mike England from Rovers.

[bfcjg]

Blackburn's timing regarding taking the asbestos roof of the Darwen end was puzzling, the contractors doing it had no PPE.

[Gunfury]

Blackburn's timing regarding taking the asbestos roof of the Darwen end was puzzling, the contractors doing it had no PPE.

Didn’t the Burnley fans do that for them at Easter ‘83

[Claretforever]

Didn’t the Burnley fans do that for them at Easter ‘83

I think his comment may have gone over your head a little?

1983 was the year though, yes.

[Rowls]

I remember some tit in blue and white making an outrageously bad dive in our box in 2009/10 and bizarrely the referee bought it and was pointing to the spot.

[Dark Cloud]

I have numerous great memories from these games, including Burnley coming back from 2 down with 10 minutes left on Boxing Day 1976 at Ewood and getting a 2 all draw, but in terms of "bizarre" the impromptu dismantling of the Darwen End roof as shown above has to be right up there. Also the match at Ewood in '78 when we won 1-0 which was a total war zone from start to finish.

[Fretters]

The atmosphere for these games is always combustible and is often conducive to behaviour and events of an unusual nature.
My own particular “bloody hell did that really happen ?” moment came in the 2006 0-0 draw in the FA Cup in 2006 (the game seemingly refereed by Robbie Savage ) . For some reason I was in the Bob Lord that day not far behind the away dug-out, and at one point a bloke jumped out of the crowd totally naked apart from trainers and socks and did a breakdance style head spin on the pitch in front of Mark Hughes and Co.
I don’t need to spell out the gruesome nature of this image and it was a truly bizarre moment which I can’t unsee or forget. My friend who was at the game with me also clearly remembers this but it seems no other person I have ever mentioned it to can remember it !
Anyone on here recall this ? And any other particularly weird memories from these games ?

There was definitely a streaker. Early 2005.

[claptrappers_union]

I also remember the naked breakdancer.
His name is Mark.

I remember him, there was another dickhead who came on to the field attempting a fight with Robbie Savage, I think, by the corner flag of the Jimmy McIlroy Stand and James Hargreaves. We were on the ascendancy at the point in the game and he ruined the momentum... his numpty mates cheered him as he was lead away though.

[Raconteur]

I remember him, there was another dickhead who came on to the field attempting a fight with Robbie Savage, I think, by the corner flag of the Jimmy McIlroy Stand and James Hargreaves. We were on the ascendancy at the point in the game and he ruined the momentum... his numpty mates cheered him as he was lead away though.

This is the chap with the t-shirt and gloves.

[Herts Clarets]

This is the chap with the t-shirt and gloves.

Dixie from Brierfield. I think he got 4 months for that stunt.

[Silkyskills1]

1959-60 season when we won the league. Away at Ewood Park around October time and sat with my dad in the old Riverside stand for what was my first ever away game. I'd started going to Turf Moor about a year earlier but my mum wouldn't let me go to ganes when such as Man Utd. or Everton were playing. Blackburn scored the first goal of the game and I was bewildered because it was the first time ever I'd seen a goal scored against us followed by people cheering. Very bizarre for a 7 year old boy.

[Bosscat]

Has to be Super Chicken in the cape

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[TheOriginalLongsider]

My first ever game was a Boxing Day clash with Rovers in the 70s. I didn’t even get on the terraces before I saw a Blackburn fan getting his head kicked in on the steps leading up from the turnstiles to the Longside. In those days away fans were allowed on the Bee Hole End and I sometimes saw them in the Longside as well. Crazy days.

[conyoviejo]

Being 3-0 up in the Fa cup quarter final at Turf many many many years ago and ending up letting the Bastids get a draw with 3 late goals. Haunted me for years that. Grrr

If my memory serves me right They won the replay 2-0 ..

[conyoviejo]

Match report.

https://www.football-england.com/burnle ... -1960.html

[HeatonMoorClaret]

My first Derby....a not so friendly , Friendly
https://www.bcthic.org/View_Archive?OTE1N3wxMTZ8fHw=

[CnBtruntru]

Dixie from Brierfield. I think he got 4 months for that stunt.

What did the Chicken get? .........................A roasting I bet

[bfcjg]

The Blackburn escort leaving Turf Moor after there last defeat here, the police had to use subtle tactics to entice them to their coaches.

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[TheFamilyCat]

This is the chap with the t-shirt and gloves.

Look at Mike 'Scrappy Doo' Dean. "Lemme at 'em, lemme at 'em"

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[bfccrazy]

Always remember after we finally beat them - being back in the Turf pub in the beer garden and an old boy walked out with a pint and downed it in one. Then proclaimed “that’s the best pint I’ve had in 36 years”.

Kind of felt how I had never seen us beat them in my lifetime until that day but for that bloke, he’d seen us beat them …. Then nothing for so long as we dropped down and rose back up the leagues and finally did it again.

[Silkyskills1]

Being 3-0 up in the Fa cup quarter final at Turf many many many years ago and ending up letting the Bastids get a draw with 3 late goals. Haunted me for years that. Grrr

If my memory serves me right They won the replay 2-0 ..

Went to that one with my eldest brother. Still only 7 years old and the second time in six months I'd seen us concede three goals to them. Even at that tender age it was a difficult one to understand. No goals in the first half then six in the second half.

[Silkyskills1]

Ralph Coates sitting on the ball at Deadwood. The New Years day war of ‘66, I think.

Yep, new years day 1966. Ralph would still have been 19 then and was a very arrogant, special talent.

[Nori1958]

Rovers away is like a home game for me..... Never once had a problem, apart from Burnley fans throwing bits of roof all over

[SimonSays]

Look at Mike 'Scrappy Doo' Dean. "Lemme at 'em, lemme at 'em"


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And the most unfunny, childish post of the year award goes to....

[ŽižkovClaret]

Look at Mike 'Scrappy Doo' Dean. "Lemme at 'em, lemme at 'em"


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I think more accurately would be Dean and Savage maybe saved the idiot getting a bit of a pasting by th looks of it

[Bordeauxclaret]

I wonder at what point he realised he was in way over his head.

[Fretters]

Reminds me of the idiot Rovers fan who ran on in the 2017 cup game. Think Westy floored him and there's a great shot of our lads standing over him, I think.

[Mayoclaret]

I can recall a match at Ewood that would have been mid 70's I guess. Queuing up to get in and the police forcing the Burnley fans (don't know if they did this to Rover's fans) to remove their boots or otherwise they would not be allowed in. Obviously when asked why the police said that the boots could be used as a weapon?! The scene was of dozens/hundreds of pairs of Doc Martens etc placed against a wall whilst bootless clarets fans wandered the terracing in their socks. Fortunately I had trainers on so it didn't affect me. On leaving the ground (can't recall the result) the original neat rows of paired up boots was just a random mass of footware with folks scrabbling to find some sort of matching pair that might fit to get them home!
Thankfully this would not happen at all today but looking back it was absolutely bizarre. Anyone else remember this and if so what year please?

[oswyclaret]

This is the chap with the t-shirt and gloves.

Looks like their protecting that bias ref to me!!!

[HahaYeah]

Dixie squared up to Savage before other players intervened then he sparred with a pc iirc.

Hope nothing mental happens this time.

[Targetman]

I can recall a match at Ewood that would have been mid 70's I guess. Queuing up to get in and the police forcing the Burnley fans (don't know if they did this to Rover's fans) to remove their boots or otherwise they would not be allowed in. Obviously when asked why the police said that the boots could be used as a weapon?! The scene was of dozens/hundreds of pairs of Doc Martens etc placed against a wall whilst bootless clarets fans wandered the terracing in their socks. Fortunately I had trainers on so it didn't affect me. On leaving the ground (can't recall the result) the original neat rows of paired up boots was just a random mass of footware with folks scrabbling to find some sort of matching pair that might fit to get them home!
Thankfully this would not happen at all today but looking back it was absolutely bizarre. Anyone else remember this and if so what year please?

I remember a similar thing happening many years ago at an away game at Cambridge. The police made any Burnley fans who wearing boots take them off before they would allow them entry to the ground.

[Tricky Trevor]

Thanks to Clarets Chronicles for the following report of the most bizarre match between the two. I wasn’t there.

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[footballdiedin92]

First bas tards game was the youth cup match at the turf when 5000 turned up to watch kids play. Remember a bas tar and his young son being scowled at in the cricket field stand.

[Cheapcharlie]

Unusual for me was coming home on leave in mid 80s and being confused who the ‘bastards ‘ were. We never called them that back in the day . It sounds crap and I don’t like it .

[Clive 1960]

Who can forget Easter Monday 83 in the away end horrible scenes in and outside the ground Burnley fan's in the Nuttal street stand being escorted to the away end and fighting outside going back to Mill Hill station before and after the match and even fighting on the Fair . Dark days.

[Top Claret]

I remember early 80s and one fella jumped on the pitch and tried to strangle Derek Fazackerly with his Burnley scarf