Good afternoon all

For anybody wishing to pay their respects to my dad, his last journey past Turf Moor will be at 1.30pm this Thursday 14th August before his funeral at St John's Church Worsthorne at 2pm followed by drinks in the Bay Horse at Worsthorne.

Thank you once again for all your kind words & messages.

Hi Darren - Is the family accepting flowers?

Leisure wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 12, 2025 3:51 pm

Hi Darren - Is the family accepting flowers?

Just family flowers only please Pete. Anyone wanting to make a donation can do so to the Jeff Astle Foundation

I’m away CTID, but I hope your dad gets a wonderful send off.

Link for donations in Willie’s memory

https://www.justgiving.com/charity/thej ... foundation

I am sure Worsthorne will be packed. Sadly I will not be there but my Daughter will be there to pay our respects There will be a 2 minute silence at our home in Florida. Out thoughts will be with the family

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 12, 2025 4:15 pm

Link for donations in Willie’s memory

https://www.justgiving.com/charity/thej ... foundation

Thank you Tony for putting the page up and thank you to all who have donated so far

Claret Till I Die wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 12, 2025 3:58 pm

Just family flowers only please Pete. Anyone wanting to make a donation can do so to the Jeff Astle Foundation

Hi Darren - Accy Clarets have just made a donation.

Leisure wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 12, 2025 7:19 pm

Hi Darren - Accy Clarets have just made a donation.

Thank you Pete

FCBurnley, I know your daughter is a neighbour of the Irvine’s. If you send her name to me, I will hopefully get the chance to make myself known to her, after the funeral.

Sadly we are away so won’t be able to pay our respects at Turf Moor tomorrow. I’m sure there will be a big turnout for a true Claret legend.

Just a reminder that Willie Irvine will be passing the Turf this afternoon around 1:30 ahead of the funeral at Worsthorne.

And please have his wife Rita, his sons Darren, Stephen & Jonathan and their families in your thoughts today.

Will do Tony.

I'm sure Willie will get the send off he deserves.

Hope today goes as well as it can for those involved.

Hope it's a great send off

Thoughts with Willie's family & friends.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 14, 2025 9:23 am

And please have his wife Rita, his sons Darren, Stephen & Jonathan and their families in your thoughts today.

Yes I definitely will. God bless to Willie and all the family.

Claret Till I Die wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 12, 2025 3:11 pm

Good afternoon all

For anybody wishing to pay their respects to my dad, his last journey past Turf Moor will be at 1.30pm this Thursday 14th August before his funeral at St John's Church Worsthorne at 2pm followed by drinks in the Bay Horse at Worsthorne.

Thank you once again for all your kind words & messages.

Thoughts and prayers with your Dad, with you, CTID, and all your family and friends.

Farewell to a Burnley FC legend RIP Willie.

RIP Willie Irvine.

Thoughts with the Irvine family as the legend and gentleman passes Turf Moor for the last time. RIP Willie Irvine

What a cracking flag that is. Well done

Spent two minutes in silent memory of the great man.
Turned the tv on and “I didn’t know you cared” opened with a brass band playing Abide With Me. Somebody knew.

Couldn't get there today but Willie, his family & friends are in my thoughts .
On holiday in Ireland a few months I took a detour to drive through Carrickfergus - his birthplace.
By chance my sat nav took me off course on a detour right past the local football ground!
RIP our greatest ever goalscorer!

Couldn't get there today but Willie, his family & friends are in my thoughts .
On holiday in Ireland a few months I took a detour to drive through Carrickfergus - his birthplace.
By chance my sat nav took me off course on a detour right past the local football ground!
RIP our greatest ever goalscorer!

I was going to go to the funeral but I knew it would be very busy and thought there were many people who should be there ahead of me. I knew Willie because he played for us and therefore the Turf was the place to be to say my farewell.

Good turn out and the club finally lowered the flag to half mast.

Willie was on his way to his home village where he is to be buried next to Arthur Bellamy.

RIP Willie.

Willie was one of the first Burnley players through the doors of Clarets Collected with his son when it opened at the Library almost two years ago.
Rest in Peace Willie Willie Irvine.

Fantastic turnout at the Church.
All three lads did great with getting their words out under obvious emotions.
Everything was said about him, more about a real family man and a true Claret Legend.
RIP Bill.

When I worked at Aldi Willie and his wife would come in quite often and he was just a normal, down to earth gentleman. They were both always so lovely. None of my colleagues had any idea who he was until I told them, which probably says a lot about who he was as a person. He was one of us. RIP Willie.

My daughter said the service was perfect and a piper played which was very emotional. Guinness to toast him after the service. I bet he’s already scored his first heavenly hat trick

I was at the funeral and the number of mourners attending, reflected the respect Bill/Willie had, of both the people of Worsthorne (his home village) and the Burnley Supporters in attendance. The Irvine family speaking fondly during the service, about their Dad and Grandad, was a moment Bill would’ve been very proud of.
Although I saw Brian Flynn there, I later learned from my Blackpool mate and his wife, who’d travelled over, they’d spoken with Billy Hamilton. I later met Henning, a friend from years ago who had travelled over, with 4 others from Norway, for the funeral.
Bill/Willie, the Burnley supporters today showed their respect and condolences, for 1 of our favourite EVER strikers.

I went down to turf moor to pay my respects. My thoughts are with the Irvine family.

Absolutely gutted I couldn't pay my respects today as I am on holiday
Thank-you Willie for all the great memories I have of you ,non more so than playing on Towneley with you Gordon Harris and Les Latcham in my youth . You are the best .
Say hello to My dad ,Uncle Tom and Nan for me please. Condolences to Rita and all the family..x

Two superb, but different, centre forwards from the 1960s. They were very good friends who also engaged in lots of banter when they were both doing the ground tours.

I had the chance to have a catch up with Andy’s lovely wife Carol, at Bills funeral,

A good turn out for Willie at The Turf and a magnificent tribute from The Ulster Clarets

Darren I rang Spurs reception a number of times this morning, without a reply. So I E mailed them, requesting they put a ground announcement out, in memory of your Dad. I wrote of the Spurs cup tie and the hat trick he scored, recalling games between the 2 Clubs, were the most anticipated matches of the season for any football supporter. Mention was made, that you and the family will be at the match. Fingers crossed, it gets mentioned and you hear it on the tannoy.

normal,down to earth gentleman.
And those words sum up my knowledge of Willie when he used to work on match days in the Foundation bar and I chatted to him on so many occasions. Sadly I didnt see him play very often as i was away at Uni, but the Willie I grew to know is as Clowbridge stated a normal down to earth GENTLEman. He may not have been that on the pitch but in real life one of the truly decent, no strings attached, bloke and a GENTLEMAN.

Was the club represented at the church?

longsidetrumpet wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 15, 2025 2:10 pm

Was the club represented at the church?

The club historian Shaun Borman was there

CTID, I spoke to Shaun, who’ve I’ve known for a long number of years, after the service. MY THOUGHTS were that he was there as a passionate Burnley supporter, to pay respect to your Dad, and not as a representative of the Football Club.

Shaun is a definitely sound bloke, a proper fan

Bfc wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 15, 2025 7:21 pm

CTID, I spoke to Shaun, who’ve I’ve known for a long number of years, after the service. MY THOUGHTS were that he was there as a passionate Burnley supporter, to pay respect to your Dad, and not as a representative of the Football Club.

I agree but he did have the club suit on