I remember there was a brass plaque next to the players tunnel in the cricket field stand commenerating their achievement.

Anyone got a picture and where is it now?

steve1264b wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:41 pm

I remember there was a brass plaque next to the players tunnel in the cricket field stand commenerating their achievement.

Anyone got a picture and where is it now?

Was always at the entrance to the tunnel as the players approached from the dressing room. I have a pic somewhere but I’m not sure I’d be able to find it.

It disappeared but I’m sure I read recently that it had been put somewhere although where I don’t know.

Thanks tony, im buping this just in case people have missed it.

It was a significant plaque!

Didn't it list each match, the date, the opposition and the score?

Interesting that we seemed to play each team twice in the same week, home and away.

Was that standard practice for a time? If so, when did it start / stop?

Woollyhat wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:48 pm

Interesting that we seemed to play each team twice in the same week, home and away.
Was that standard practice for a time? If so, when did it start / stop?

Looking back through " The Clarets Chronicles ", it seemed to have been introduced after WW1, and ran until the end of the 1923-24 season ...

Up until the late 1960's, you would often see sides play each other on Boxing Day and the reverse fixture a couple of days later, Burnley's most famous example being Burnley beating Manchester Utd 6-1 on Boxing Day 1963, and then losing 5-1 at Old Trafford two days later !!

The reason most often put forward for this being discontinued is that if two players or two teams had a violent bad tempered encounter in the first game, then it was probably better to let 3/4 months pass to let things calm down, rather than pitch the two against each other for hostilities to resume 2/3 days later !!

Clarets4me wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:13 pm

Looking back through " The Clarets Chronicles ", it seemed to have been introduced after WW1, and ran until the end of the 1923-24 season ...

Up until the late 1960's, you would often see sides play each other on Boxing Day and the reverse fixture a couple of days later, Burnley's most famous example being Burnley beating Manchester Utd 6-1 on Boxing Day 1963, and then losing 5-1 at Old Trafford two days later !!

The reason most often put forward for this being discontinued is that if two players or two teams had a violent bad tempered encounter in the first game, then it was probably better to let 3/4 months pass to let things calm down, rather than pitch the two against each other for hostilities to resume 2/3 days later !!

In my early days of watching, you would play league games in the first four midweeks and generally they would be against two teams twice - first time in midweeks 1 & 2 and the next team in midweeks 3 & 4. Then another team twice at Christmas and another twice at Easter, usually on Good Friday & Easter Monday with another fixture on the Saturday between them.

Using the title winning season as an example.

Everton & Preston in the first four midweeks
Manchester United at Christmas
Leicester at Easter

https://www.uptheclarets.com/fixtures-r ... 60-results