ARTICLE: Undefeated run ends at Gillingham as Clarets lose top spot

[ClaretTony]

Gillingham v Burnley in 1992

See link
https://www.uptheclarets.com/undefeated ... e-top-spot

[dougcollins]

Thanks for reminding me - a long way for nothing!

[Culmclaret]

The name David Crown brings back some horrible memories…

[dougcollins]

Gillingham seemed to have a habit of spoiling our day.

[Dark Cloud]

An extremely late decision to travel by car (after much incessant pestering from Bigredrose) and a decision I soon regretted. Here scrambled out the car close to the ground JUST in time for kick off and I missed 15 minutes after eventually finding somewhere to park. The worst performance under Mullen that entire season (although Blackpool was pretty dire) and luckily just a blip on our way to glory, but felt like a right kick in the goolies at the time at 2 in the morning on the way home!

[ClaretTony]

An extremely late decision to travel by car (after much incessant pestering from Bigredrose) and a decision I soon regretted. Here scrambled out the car close to the ground JUST in time for kick off and I missed 15 minutes after eventually finding somewhere to park. The worst performance under Mullen that entire season (although Blackpool was pretty dire) and luckily just a blip on our way to glory, but felt like a right kick in the goolies at the time at 2 in the morning on the way home!

You are not the only one he’s pestered. The very same Bigredrose persuaded me to drive to Exeter in 1980. He can at times be very persuasive, almost bullying.

[Dark Cloud]

You are not the only one he’s pestered. The very same Bigredrose persuaded me to drive to Exeter in 1980. He can at times be very persuasive, almost bullying.

Absolutely!!! (Don't get me started on his insisting we go in my car to Swansea on a Friday night, leaving Burnley after 4.00 and then only seeing the second half (and being charged full price to get in!!)

[Targetman]

I was also there that night, went on one of the coaches.
Remember the game well, as mentioned above, it was a dreadful night for us.

We were in some sort of social club under the main stand before the game. I think there was a good following of Clarets in the 3,000 crowd.
It certainly was a long journey home!

[Silkyskills1]

On a very sad note I think that the international schoolboy match at Turf Moor was the game where a clearance got wedged behind a sign on the Longside. Little did any of us know the shockingly calamitous event that was about to unfold as a result. RIP Ben Lee.

[Cubanforever]

RIP Ben Lee indeed, met his Dutch girlfriend a few years after he passed through her brother and my friend Matt (CubanClaret) who has also recently passed.....she and her brother were very good people

[Fretters]

I had no idea Danny Murphy is Rob Futcher's nephew. I wonder if that's why he's usually so complimentary about us.

Also, with the non football stuff, life seemed so dramatic back then with regular fires, attacks, murders etc. It's like constant episodes of Brookside! Is it the same these days and I'm just not hearing about it? Doesn't feel like it, thankfully.

[snapcrackleandpop]

I went to both of these games and both were a nightmare for different reasons if i remember correctly, Cardiff great result but locked in the ground after the game and taken onto the pitch because Cardiff fans were cobbing rocks over the back of the away end.
Gillingham just dire and we were in the car within 2 mins of the second goal going in, long long way to go for an hours football.