1920/21 unbeaten run

[steve1264b]

I remember there was a brass plaque next to the players tunnel in the cricket field stand commenerating their achievement.

Anyone got a picture and where is it now?

[ClaretTony]

I remember there was a brass plaque next to the players tunnel in the cricket field stand commenerating their achievement.

Anyone got a picture and where is it now?

Was always at the entrance to the tunnel as the players approached from the dressing room. I have a pic somewhere but I’m not sure I’d be able to find it.

It disappeared but I’m sure I read recently that it had been put somewhere although where I don’t know.

[steve1264b]

Thanks tony, im buping this just in case people have missed it.

It was a significant plaque!

[2 Bee Holed]

Didn't it list each match, the date, the opposition and the score?

[Clarets4me]

[Woollyhat]

Interesting that we seemed to play each team twice in the same week, home and away.

Was that standard practice for a time? If so, when did it start / stop?

[Clarets4me]

Interesting that we seemed to play each team twice in the same week, home and away.
Was that standard practice for a time? If so, when did it start / stop?

Looking back through " The Clarets Chronicles ", it seemed to have been introduced after WW1, and ran until the end of the 1923-24 season ...

Up until the late 1960's, you would often see sides play each other on Boxing Day and the reverse fixture a couple of days later, Burnley's most famous example being Burnley beating Manchester Utd 6-1 on Boxing Day 1963, and then losing 5-1 at Old Trafford two days later !!

The reason most often put forward for this being discontinued is that if two players or two teams had a violent bad tempered encounter in the first game, then it was probably better to let 3/4 months pass to let things calm down, rather than pitch the two against each other for hostilities to resume 2/3 days later !!

[ClaretTony]

Looking back through " The Clarets Chronicles ", it seemed to have been introduced after WW1, and ran until the end of the 1923-24 season ...

Up until the late 1960's, you would often see sides play each other on Boxing Day and the reverse fixture a couple of days later, Burnley's most famous example being Burnley beating Manchester Utd 6-1 on Boxing Day 1963, and then losing 5-1 at Old Trafford two days later !!

The reason most often put forward for this being discontinued is that if two players or two teams had a violent bad tempered encounter in the first game, then it was probably better to let 3/4 months pass to let things calm down, rather than pitch the two against each other for hostilities to resume 2/3 days later !!

In my early days of watching, you would play league games in the first four midweeks and generally they would be against two teams twice - first time in midweeks 1 & 2 and the next team in midweeks 3 & 4. Then another team twice at Christmas and another twice at Easter, usually on Good Friday & Easter Monday with another fixture on the Saturday between them.

Using the title winning season as an example.

Everton & Preston in the first four midweeks
Manchester United at Christmas
Leicester at Easter

https://www.uptheclarets.com/fixtures-r ... 60-results