Coventry v Burnley report

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https://www.uptheclarets.com/anthony-at ... ets-go-top

I was amused at HT when the Parade Of Legends failed to produce Nick Pickering....

todclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 06, 2025 7:08 pm

I was amused at HT when the Parade Of Legends failed to produce Nick Pickering....

To be honest I missed a few needing to go to the loo but got back in time for Adebola & Tommy Hutch. They could have brought either of our Pickerings out, both played for them.

Thanks again Tony for the report, and a big well done to all those travelling Clarets providing that fantastic support.
They really do do us proud.

That is the 26th gameweek that has seen a change in the Championship's top team. Which is incredible after 40 gameweeks.

One incredible stat from that report - Tommy Hutchison played another 178 league games after leaving Burnley.

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 07, 2025 6:34 am

One incredible stat from that report - Tommy Hutchison played another 178 league games after leaving Burnley.

And then dropped into non-league after that. He was approaching 44 when he played his last league game for Swansea and then had three years with Merthyr Tydfil.

Due to be our player/manager in 1985. And then suddenly Buchan appeared.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:20 am

And then dropped into non-league after that. He was approaching 44 when he played his last league game for Swansea and then had three years with Merthyr Tydfil.

Due to be our player/manager in 1985. And then suddenly Buchan appeared.

There can be very few footballers, outfield players especially, who have played professionally across 4 separate decades. Debut in 1965 and last game in 1991. Why did we appoint Buchan if Tommy Hutch was lined up for player/manager? A sliding doors moment surely, as we wouldn't have endured the disaster that was Tommy Cavanagh had Buchan not been appointed.

Herts Clarets wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:27 am

There can be very few footballers, outfield players especially, who have played professionally across 4 separate decades. Debut in 1965 and last game in 1991. Why did we appoint Buchan if Tommy Hutch was lined up for player/manager? A sliding doors moment surely, as we wouldn't have endured the disaster that was Tommy Cavanagh had Buchan not been appointed.

All very strange. I was at a dinner to commemorate the 25th anniversary of winning the league. Tommy Hutch was there as manager elect but then suddenly one Saturday afternoon, Radio Lancs announced that we'd appointed Buchan. Apparently Buchan was a good friend of Laurie Brown the old Man U physio (best known because of his wife and Tommy Doc). Brown had moved to Lancs CCC and the link there was Jack Simmons, then a Burnley director, who recommended him,

As an aside - Simmons had to be carried out of that 25 year dinner having presumably consumed too much alcohol. He was a big man but Clive Hubert Lloyd was able to carry him.

Who knows? Tommy might just have done a good job but I don't think he fit the Teasdale profile.