ARTICLE: Hankin goal wins big Boxing Day game for Burnley

[ClaretTony]

Boxing Day 1973 - a home win against Liverpool

See link
https://www.uptheclarets.com/hankin-goa ... or-burnley

[bfcjg]

I'd take a repeat result !

[ClaretTony]

I think we all would

[Silkyskills1]

Remember the game well. Still a little bit icey but nothing compared to the previous home game v Arsenal. We were a very good team and youngsters like Hankin, Ingham and Billy Rodaway were becoming established first division footballers. Heady days!

[Ptangyangkipperbang]

My favourite season of being a Burnley fan.Great reads and look forward to the cup run reports I may even read the semi final one if you do it.Although I've never been able to stomach it for 50 years

[ClaretTony]

Remember the game well. Still a little bit icey but nothing compared to the previous home game v Arsenal. We were a very good team and youngsters like Hankin, Ingham and Billy Rodaway were becoming established first division footballers. Heady days!

My favourite season of being a Burnley fan.Great reads and look forward to the cup run reports I may even read the semi final one if you do it.Although I've never been able to stomach it for 50 years

I sometimes think we just didn't realise how good this team was. It didn't last long enough but it was a superb time to be watching the Clarets.

[onewillieirvine]

I presume Geoff Nulty would have played in the back four, not sure I remember him as a centre back !

[gtclaret]

Nulty did a marking job on Kevin Keegan,and did it very well.It was a great performance that day

[Silkyskills1]

Just checked the line- up and noticed Billy was sub. Would have loved the result and even more so had he been able to get on the pitch.

[Buxtonclaret]

One of my favourite games of a great season.

[Juan Tanamera]

The crushing disappointment of conceding an equaliser so late in the game which we controlled for large parts, only for the game to be turned on it's head yet again moments later.
Unbridled joy for all Clarets.
As mentioned above, a wonderful team that gave us great pleasure for a few short seasons.

[beeholeclaret]

Probably my favourite ever memory of watching the Clarets that day.

[Mondsley]

Can still see Emlyn Hughes beating the ground in frustration after Hankin's winner

[ClaretTony]

I presume Geoff Nulty would have played in the back four, not sure I remember him as a centre back !

He'd now played at the back for four games with Jim Thomson out injured

[ClaretTony]

Can still see Emlyn Hughes beating the ground in frustration after Hankin's winner

I loved Peter Higgs' comments about the gesticulating mard arse Emlyn

[Casper2]

Just checked the line- up and noticed Billy was sub. Would have loved the result and even more so had he been able to get on the pitch.

Billy did get on the pitch

[Silkyskills1]

Billy did get on the pitch

Even better then. An Evertonian and also a Claret beating Liverpool. Sheer, unadulterated joy.

[Mark the Claret]

Nulty did a marking job on Kevin Keegan,and did it very well.It was a great performance that day

Always thought Nulty was very underrated, most of the other players seemed to get all the accolades, but we missed Geoff when he wasn't there.

[ClaretTony]

Even better then. An Evertonian and also a Claret beating Liverpool. Sheer, unadulterated joy.

He was an unused sub

[ClaretTony]

Always thought Nulty was very underrated, most of the other players seemed to get all the accolades, but we missed Geoff when he wasn't there.

A lot of the players in that team would agree with you

[Casper2]

He was an unused sub

Thought he pulled the ball back for Hankin to score ?

[ClaretTony]

Thought he pulled the ball back for Hankin to score ?

Billy Ingham

[gtclaret]

I think I remember another Boxing day game against Liverpool,we lost 5-1,Brian O'Neil scored a penalty,I think it was around 1969.I remember Peter Thompson given a young Mick Docherty a torrid time

[bfcjg]

How we could have done with a Hankin on Tuesday.

[ClaretTony]

I think I remember another Boxing day game against Liverpool,we lost 5-1,Brian O'Neil scored a penalty,I think it was around 1969.I remember Peter Thompson given a young Mick Docherty a torrid time

It was 1969 and Brian O’Neil scored our late consolation.