Willie Morgan MBE

[mikeS]

Willie at the Palace yesterday to collect his MBE.

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[bfcjg]

Was it in the main hall or or one of the wings ?

[Quicknick]

One of my favourite ever Clarets. Looks so good at 79.

[clansman]

We’ve got Willie Willie Willie Morgan on the wing on the wing!!

[CleggHall]

Excellent, a great winger, for services to charity?

[beddie]

Brilliant player for us, used to love watching him. How the hell does he still have as much hair as he did back in the 60/70s

[Jamesy]

He has always sported his signature hairstyle! Agreed, he has a great head of hair for a bloke his age.

[Royboyclaret]

Some wonderful memories of a very special player for us.

A sad day when he departed for Man United at the start of the '68/'69 season.

Congratulations on the honour.

[alwaysaclaret]

One of the greats of he's day, always felt privileged to have seen him play.

[ClaretTony]

Hard to believe it's over 60 years since he made his debut - one special player was Willie, Willie, Willie Morgan on the wing.

[Carwin261]

But for the brilliant George Best he would have been greatest winger Man Utd every had ,an absolute super star.

[LeadBelly]

We’ve got Willie Willie Willie Morgan on the wing on the wing!!

AS soon as I saw the thread title and clicked on it, I started singing that to myself- catchy tune.

My version has an extra "Willie" though, not sure which is historically correct.
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[Acting Claret]

Looks like Windsor Castle.

[LeadBelly]

Looks like Windsor Castle.

Yes he was at Windsor Castle, there was something in a localish Berks newspaper about his trip down here to receive his medal. It seems he's a very keen golfer and has organised events to raise lots of dosh for charities- particularly NSPCC.

https://wokingham.today/i-had-black-hai ... orge-best/

[alf_resco]

Logged in just to like this.

Great player with Ralphie on the other wing.

I was there at Ewood, New Year's Day 1966 when Willie got sent off for having a kick at Mike England.
We won 2-0.

Also remember a pinpoint cross for Andy Lochhead to head home v West Ham in the 3rd round FA Cup, only for the Hammers to then take us apart.

Long time ago now.
Happy days.
Sigh.

[RammyClaret61]

Great player, great kit.

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[clansman]

Leadbelly , you are right I missed out a Willie!

[DAVETHEVICAR]

Another of my favourite Burnley players
Wonderful player and sad to see him transferred to United
Congratulations to him on this deserved award

[Hipper]

Great player, great kit.

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That's in his second spell at the club which was, I think, blighted by injuries.

[ChrisG]

Although he played well before my time, I recognised him instantly when he was stood behind me a couple of years back buying a couple of cases of champagne in Tesco in Altrincham. Lovely man.

[onewillieirvine]

I can still see him now, shirt outside his shorts, him going one way the defender the other.A cross into the box for big Andy to finish off. He was some player for us, some player.

[IanMcL]

If he is 79, he is looking fantastic!

Congrats to our Willie.

[ClaretTony]

Had a strange upbringing in that he was brought up by his grandparents believing his mum was either his sister or auntie. His dad was an unknown Italian.

Special player but fell out with Bob Lord. When he came back he said he believed Lord wanted to bury the hatchet but didn’t realise he wanted to bury it in his head.

Probably one of the top two or three players I saw come through our youth system.

[lovebeingaclaret]

I seem to remember that he was the first footballer to have his own official fan club.

[sandy richardson]

And his best man when he got married was Johnny Mathis.

[JohnDearyMe]

And his best man when he got married was Johnny Mathis.

How bizarre. Just looked that up online and found this account in The Scotsman:

"This perhaps surprising friendship is the happy consequence of a chance meeting at a golf club in Manchester in the early 1980s. They did not get off to the best of starts. “I told him I was more of an Elvis man,” recalls Morgan. Nevertheless, the relationship has survived intact."

[ClaretCliff]

I seem to remember that he was the first footballer to have his own official fan club.

… and didn’t he have a boutique in Burnley too?

[mikeS]

The Willie Morgan boutique on Kierby Walk was next door to where Haffners is now.

[Stayingup]

Did he sit on the ball once at Deadwood, being you know cocky, during a 4-1 win for Burnley?

[claret59]

One of my favourite ever clarets. Saw him and Lochead tear Man Utd apart at the Turf. I think it was an Easter weekend and Utd introduced a certain George Best for Man U in the very next match of that Easter and got revenge.
Great as Willie was he had an irritating habit of beating his man and then repeating it a couple more times before crossing the ball.

[Suratclaret]

Always looked forward to seeing him torment defenders. Whenever he got the ball, you could almost feel the excitement building in the crowd. Great player

[Quicknick]

One of my favourite ever clarets. Saw him and Lochead tear Man Utd apart at the Turf. I think it was an Easter weekend and Utd introduced a certain George Best for Man U in the very next match of that Easter and got revenge.
Great as Willie was he had an irritating habit of beating his man and then repeating it a couple more times before crossing the ball.

Burnley 6 Man U 1 [Lochhead 4 Morgan 2]; Man U 5 Burnley 1

[Malvern claret]

My favourite ever Burnley player, that performance against Man Utd (Boxing Day 1963) is the best ever performance I have seen by a Burnley player. On another occasion he tore an in his prime Bobby Moore to bits on the Turf. Great memories

[sjb]

One of my favourite ever clarets. Saw him and Lochead tear Man Utd apart at the Turf. I think it was an Easter weekend and Utd introduced a certain George Best for Man U in the very next match of that Easter and got revenge.
Great as Willie was he had an irritating habit of beating his man and then repeating it a couple more times before crossing the ball.

Christmas 1963

[Quicknick]

Blacklaw, Angus, Elder, O'Neil, Miller, Todd, Morgan, Lochhead, Irvine, Harris, Coates: the best side Willie ever played in. No Manure side finished as high as the Clarets did in 1965-66 when Wille was a Manure player.

[ClaretTony]

Did he sit on the ball once at Deadwood, being you know cocky, during a 4-1 win for Burnley?

It was the 2-0 win on NYD 1966 but it was Coates.

[FCBurnley]

My Burnley Ero

[RMutt]

Did he sit on the ball once at Deadwood, being you know cocky, during a 4-1 win for Burnley?

Pretty sure my dad has told me he once bamboozled a fullback and ran up the wing taking the defender with him leaving the ball behind. I’ll check next time I see my dad.