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I don’t like them vlogs that the younger lads do. The one I did enjoy that I saw on the Turf was done by a couple of brothers who were Preston fans. They got ****** out their head in the cricket club before hand then hand some sort of downing competition at half time and it took about 2 minutes 30 to do half a pintQuickenthetempo wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 3:50 pmDo we have any characters left in our fanbase or have they all passed away/drifted away?
The one's everyone recognises?
Or have the Rocky's been replaced with match day Vloggers that the youngsters know?
Yeah they seemed like good lads.StayingDown4Ever wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 4:25 pmI don’t like them vlogs that the younger lads do. The one I did enjoy that I saw on the Turf was done by a couple of brothers who were Preston fans. They got ****** out their head in the cricket club before hand then hand some sort of downing competition at half time and it took about 2 minutes 30 to do half a pint
That's him !Herts Clarets wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:40 pmThe one who prevented it being a cricket score on Saturday you mean?
Not sure first one counts but Dave Burnley is a bonafide character. Probably a few othersŽižkovClaret wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 4:31 pmWho's the fella that does full face paint? He'd probably count, and well, Dave Burnley is still around isnt he?
Him who has let in 23 in nine games.Herts Clarets wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 5:40 pmThe one who prevented it being a cricket score on Saturday you mean?
Blimey, that's a blast from the past. Remember him in the early Seventies when I went to away games with Brian Wren and Pete Hodgson, both characters in their own right. Anyway, Bobbie Driver, dressed in a long white coat, carried a rattle and wound the opposition fans up! Funny chap.
Knew Brian & Pete well. I recall coming back from Wrexham in 78/9, Pete sampled his first ever pizza - and pronounced it pizzer.Mondsley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:09 pmBlimey, that's a blast from the past. Remember him in the early Seventies when I went to away games with Brian Wren and Pete Hodgson, both characters in their own right. Anyway, Bobbie Driver, dressed in a long white coat, carried a rattle and wound the opposition fans up! Funny chap.
I remember Brian Wren and Pete (Scandalous!) Hodgson well. Perhaps you also remember Keith Rigby from Tod who used to travel with them on occasion?Mondsley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:09 pmBlimey, that's a blast from the past. Remember him in the early Seventies when I went to away games with Brian Wren and Pete Hodgson, both characters in their own right. Anyway, Bobbie Driver, dressed in a long white coat, carried a rattle and wound the opposition fans up! Funny chap.
I don't think Brian ever gave up on us Tony. He stopped coming to games after some sort of fall out and his pride, or stubbornness, stopped him from returning. From the many conversations I had with him after the fall out it was obvious he was still a Claret through and through. I remember Rigger and travelled to a couple of away games in Roy's Jag. As you say, both Brian and Pete taken too young.ClaretTony wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:05 pmBrian Wren gave up on us but Pete Hodgson didn’t. Both passed away too early and I don’t think Pete made fifty.
Whoever mentioned Bobby Driver must be old. He was the one on the League Liner trip shouting ‘Of course it’s tripe.”
Mention of Brian, Pete & Keith Rigby (Rigger) should also include Roy Kilby who travelled with them and never missed a game. Thankfully Roy dragged his son to the Turf as well.
Good shout.Les Lawrence wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:37 amKenny Schappcott is a crackpot,who dropped the jackpot,then ate a snackpot.
Wrenny came and sat with us for one game years after he'd packed in going but he sadly passed away soon after. I think he was only 64 too. Really nice bloke who I got to know really well during the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. So many of that group were lost far too young, I think Roy was only in his 60s too when he died.Mondsley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 10:52 pmI don't think Brian ever gave up on us Tony. He stopped coming to games after some sort of fall out and his pride, or stubbornness, stopped him from returning. From the many conversations I had with him after the fall out it was obvious he was still a Claret through and through. I remember Rigger and travelled to a couple of away games in Roy's Jag. As you say, both Brian and Pete taken too young.
Dave Burnley is a bit like Rocky was ……. Ok in small doses.Loyalclaret wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:16 pmNot sure first one counts but Dave Burnley is a bonafide character. Probably a few others
We were talking about Selwyn at a recent meeting - over 12 years now since he passed away. His last game was the 2-1 defeat at Peterborough in September 2011.
I have a vague recollection of this.Jambounchained wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:17 amThink it was away at Wycombe - 5-0 down at the time
Haha brilliant story (although probably only in retrospect for you!)Big Vinny K wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:06 pmNorman Jones was definitely a character.
Not sure he was the nicest of human beings shall we say.
I was at St Teds and playing for the first eleven in upper 6th form (so 17 or 18 year old). For some reason the headteacher (Gerry Martland) agreed we would play a team of adults who had formed a team from unemployed blokes at the job centre.
Norman Jones played - and they tried to kick the living shite out of us. We won 6-0 I think but could not wait to get off that pitch…..funny how Norman was playing. I thought he had a job as a coach driver !
Not sure what the school were thinking tbh !!!!JohnDearyMe wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 4:37 pmHaha brilliant story (although probably only in retrospect for you!)
If it's the Jason that I'm thinking of, you're being very generous by only describing him as 'tapped'!ClaretsPadiham wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:50 pmGolden gamble women behind jimmy mac with jesters hat
Used to be a lad traveled with Accy Clarets around 2002-2006 sure he was called Jason, lad was tapped. Maybe Leisure knows who he is ??
I sure he always wore a bowler hat.Mondsley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:09 pmBlimey, that's a blast from the past. Remember him in the early Seventies when I went to away games with Brian Wren and Pete Hodgson, both characters in their own right. Anyway, Bobbie Driver, dressed in a long white coat, carried a rattle and wound the opposition fans up! Funny chap.
Thanks Tony ,I’m sure 75 and still rant and rave in mi seat in the BL stand.ClaretTony wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:05 pmBrian Wren gave up on us but Pete Hodgson didn’t. Both passed away too early and I don’t think Pete made fifty.
Whoever mentioned Bobby Driver must be old. He was the one on the League Liner trip shouting ‘Of course it’s tripe.”
Mention of Brian, Pete & Keith Rigby (Rigger) should also include Roy Kilby who travelled with them and never missed a game. Thankfully Roy dragged his son to the Turf as well.
I was on quite a few away day coaches in the mid to late 80s when we were truly crap. Trips usually featured one of the organisers shouting 'Box Car with the rest of the coach giving it Whoo Whoo. I don't think Box Car was too fond of it!ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:45 pmOne person not mentioned on here was my old friend Brian Lucas. I'm not sure anyone who travelled to away games back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s didn't know him.
I could write a book about his antics over the years but one story prior to me knowing him cost him his job. He wanted to go to the Fairs Cup tie in Frankfurt but he couldn't get time off work. Not to be beaten, he went off sick. He'd have got away with it too had the photograph below not appeared in the Burnley Express. Brian - Dustbin to those who knew him from the 60s, then Monster and finally Box Car - received his cards on his return home.
He always wanted a word with referees too and after a defeat at Fulham he decided the referee had cost us. "You're a cheat," he bellowed at the ref as they left the field at the end. The fool of a referee (Eric Read from Bristol) decided to respond and shouted back: "Your problem is you're biased." Not to be outdone, Brian screamed at him: "To true I'm biased and I haven't come all this way to see you ******* cheat us."
Brian is on the left of the picture, almost looking young there (he'd have been 19 at the time), Malcolm Moss (who still watches us) is third and second from the right was a bloke from Preston whose name I can't recall but we always called him Preston Prick.
Not sure about football fans, look like a bunch of Oxbridge students!ClaretTony wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:45 pmOne person not mentioned on here was my old friend Brian Lucas. I'm not sure anyone who travelled to away games back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s didn't know him.
I could write a book about his antics over the years but one story prior to me knowing him cost him his job. He wanted to go to the Fairs Cup tie in Frankfurt but he couldn't get time off work. Not to be beaten, he went off sick. He'd have got away with it too had the photograph below not appeared in the Burnley Express. Brian - Dustbin to those who knew him from the 60s, then Monster and finally Box Car - received his cards on his return home.
He always wanted a word with referees too and after a defeat at Fulham he decided the referee had cost us. "You're a cheat," he bellowed at the ref as they left the field at the end. The fool of a referee (Eric Read from Bristol) decided to respond and shouted back: "Your problem is you're biased." Not to be outdone, Brian screamed at him: "To true I'm biased and I haven't come all this way to see you ******* cheat us."
Brian is on the left of the picture, almost looking young there (he'd have been 19 at the time), Malcolm Moss (who still watches us) is third and second from the right was a bloke from Preston whose name I can't recall but we always called him Preston Prick.
That's how it was in the 1960sThe Hung Juror wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 9:06 amNot sure about football fans, look like a bunch of Oxbridge students!
I can't imagine who would have been shouting Box Car but I think he loved it really.Herts Clarets wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:26 pmI was on quite a few away day coaches in the mid to late 80s when we were truly crap. Trips usually featured one of the organisers shouting 'Box Car with the rest of the coach giving it Whoo Whoo. I don't think Box Car was too fond of it!
Apart from the geasers in their bike jackets.