• Random question: first BFC manager to be younger than you?

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:17 pm**

Amongst the hysteria of the past few weeks, I was shocked to discover that Vinny is the first Burnley manager to be younger than me, by two years. Even when we appointed the man-child Eddie Howe, he still had about 7 years on me, so this is a sobering time. It took me a while to get used to the players being younger than me!

Without directly asking your age, who's the first Burnley manager that you were older than?

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:20 pm**

Eddie for me unless Stan looked a lot older than he was !

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:22 pm**

Adrian Heath, I think.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:23 pm**

Another one for Eddie Howe. I super most managers will be younger than me from now on.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:30 pm**

Another for Adrian Heath here...

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:32 pm**

Martin Buchan

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:33 pm**

Eddie Howe.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:34 pm**

Eddie Howe for me too but then each Manager since him.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:34 pm**

Owen Coyle.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:42 pm**

Edward Howe

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:50 pm**

Cotterill…just

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:57 pm**

Whoops, not Coyle for me. It was Cotterill, I’d completely forgotten about him.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:00 pm**

Adrian Heath

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:19 pm**

Jimmy Mullen for me - he's just a few months younger than me.

And the first to play in our first team younger than me was Eric Probert.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:20 pm**

Not had one yet, only being 30, or have we ever had a manager younger than 30? I don't believe so.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:40 pm**

claretburns wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:20 pm
Not had one yet, only being 30, or have we ever had a manager younger than 30? I don't believe so.

Just wait till you find that the chairman is younger than you!!

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:44 pm**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:19 pm
Jimmy Mullen for me - he's just a few months younger than me.

And the first to play in our first team younger than me was Eric Probert.

I think Chaplow was the first player to be younger than me, he's 15 months younger.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:47 pm**

Vincent Kompany

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:47 pm**

Must be VK for me (I am 40). Bit depressing!

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:08 pm**

Jimmy Mullen by about 7 months. First player seen younger than me probably Billy Ingham.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:18 pm**

beeholeclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:40 pm
Just wait till you find that the chairman is younger than you!!

John B & Garlick for me - not sure on Garlick's age but I do know that John is just short of eleven years behind me.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:48 pm**

Adrian heath

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:05 pm**

Adrian Heath

Steve Cotterill

Brian Laws

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:05 pm**

Still to happen, although VK is only 4 years older

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:09 pm**

Chris Waddle, 18 months younger than myself.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:10 pm**

Inchy for me, Mullen is a school year older than I am

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:08 pm**

Steve Cotterill, born in 1964 I think, 2 years younger than me

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:12 pm**

Another one for Coyle from me.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:16 pm**

gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:09 pm
Chris Waddle, 18 months younger than myself.

Correction, Inchy came before Waddle so he's the first younger than me.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:23 pm**

whalleyclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:08 pm
Steve Cotterill, born in 1964 I think, 2 years younger than me

That’s correct. He had his 40th just after getting the job.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:25 pm**

Steve Cotterill for me, by a couple of months.
Completely irrelevant, but I was driving down to London to see the Sex Pistols the day before my 43rd birthday in 2007 when I received a flurry of text messages all saying that he'd been sacked.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:30 pm**

Adrian Heath for me he is 3 yrs younger than me

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:46 pm**

Vinnie. Makes it all the more incredible as to what he’s achieved at 37 years old. Amazing.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 6:33 pm**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:19 pm
Jimmy Mullen for me - he's just a few months younger than me.

And the first to play in our first team younger than me was Eric Probert.

Oops! I forgot about him.

He's three months younger than me.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 6:52 pm**

I’m at the stage where most of the players are younger than me and it feels weird. Our senior player Jack Cork is a similar age to me. VK ain’t much older than me either so it isn’t out of the question that I reach that milestone soon

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 6:54 pm**

Martin Buchan in June'85, aged just 36 years.....A career that lasted just 110 days as Buchan failed to make the transition from dressing room to manager's office.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 6:56 pm**

Another vote for Adrian Heath.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 6:59 pm**

Adrian Heath

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:13 pm**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:19 pm
Jimmy Mullen for me - he's just a few months younger than me.

And the first to play in our first team younger than me was Eric Probert.

My memory may be playing tricks, but wasn't Eric generally on the bench around the same time Stan was?

Didn't see either of them play too regularly.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:25 pm**

dougcollins wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:13 pm
My memory may be playing tricks, but wasn't Eric generally on the bench around the same time Stan was?

Didn't see either of them play too regularly.

Stan was here when Probert first got into the team. Probert was only 16 when he made his debut.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:12 pm**

Adrian Heath was 6 years younger than me

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:18 pm**

John Haworth.....just, by a few days.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:19 pm**

Eddie Howe

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:27 pm**

Adrian Heath.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:40 pm**

Eddie Howe

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 10:22 pm**

Jimmy Mullen for me. 9 months younger.

Posted: **Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:46 pm**

Manager: Martin Buchan
Player: One from the '68 FA Youth Cup winners, I presume.

Posted: **Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:44 am**

Vk it would appear.

Posted: **Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:50 am**

Steve Cotterill for me. Problem is, as you get older they all end up younger than you

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