54 Years a Claret.

[dsr]

It’s fantastic that she’s still able to go on.

If we hadn't got relegated we might not of bothered, chiefly because of VAR. After all, for the last two years we were using sale-of-shares credit. This year it's real money!

On the subject of people with really old memories, I did talk to a lady at church (now long dead) who saw Burnley in a home game when Tommy Boyle was captain. She couldn't remember if it was pre-WW! or post, but she did remember that she sat in the grandstand and the stewards brought tea and cakes round at half time.

[gc14]

1977/78 season , Burnley 4 Cardiff City 2 .. Ingham,Kindon (2) and Fletcher

[ClaretTony]

If we hadn't got relegated we might not of bothered, chiefly because of VAR. After all, for the last two years we were using sale-of-shares credit. This year it's real money!

On the subject of people with really old memories, I did talk to a lady at church (now long dead) who saw Burnley in a home game when Tommy Boyle was captain. She couldn't remember if it was pre-WW! or post, but she did remember that she sat in the grandstand and the stewards brought tea and cakes round at half time.

That’s a lovely story - I guess my granddad would have seen Boyle’s team.

[dougcollins]

Re the OP -my first game was almost exactly one year earlier, 1969, also at home to Arsenal.

We also lost (no surprises there then) though it was 1-0. I think George Graham scored.

I'm pretty sure the under-seat heating in the CS was operating during that season.

[winsomeyen]

I’ve posted the programme further up the thread. It was Manchester United.

" Must try harder"

[ClaretTony]

" Must try harder"

Not far out though - Wolves with the same score was a month later.

[expoultryboy]

Burnley v Eintracht Frankfurt 1967 . I was like a moth drawn to the light that night . Thanks Dad .

[Silkyskills1]

My first game was against Nottingham Forest on the 1st November 1958 at Turf Moor. Lost 0-2. Recall vaguely where I was stood with my dad and that Forest wore white shirts and black shorts. Went to the next home game a fortnight later that we also lost to? The Saturday in between the two home games was an away game at Old Trafford. We won that one but I was a few months short of 7 years old and not even considered for attending.

[Mondsley]

First game 11th March 1961. 4 4 v Chelsea. We were fined for fielding a weakened team as it was the game before Hamburg in the European Cup!

[sjb]

My first game was against Nottingham Forest on the 1st November 1958 at Turf Moor. Lost 0-2. Recall vaguely where I was stood with my dad and that Forest wore white shirts and black shorts. Went to the next home game a fortnight later that we also lost to? The Saturday in between the two home games was an away game at Old Trafford. We won that one but I was a few months short of 7 years old and not even considered for attending.

The next home game was Wolves, and you're correct, another 0-2 defeat.

[Row x]

Burnley v Eintracht Frankfurt 1967 . I was like a moth drawn to the light that night . Thanks Dad .

That was my first one as well

[Silkyskills1]

First game 11th March 1961. 4 4 v Chelsea. We were fined for fielding a weakened team as it was the game before Hamburg in the European Cup!

Remember that one. Incredible that we were 4-2 up with just a few minutes left. Jimmy Greaves playing for Chelsea in a team with well known names.

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Surprised I was still going the week after, let alone 38 years later.


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Certainly makes you appreciate the last 15 years or so!

[alwaysaclaret]

Burnley v Eintracht Frankfurt 1967 . I was like a moth drawn to the light that night . Thanks Dad .

Been going on for 2 or 3 years by this time, but remember this well, still got the programme.

[billyhamilton82]

First game 11th March 1961. 4 4 v Chelsea. We were fined for fielding a weakened team as it was the game before Hamburg in the European Cup!

Another 4-4 debut game, although with much less kudos.

16th October 1976. Burnley 4 Charlton 4 - Division Two

Charlton were leading 1-4 with 18 minutes left.

I can't remember anything about it apart from my Dad not being very impressed after the game. Obviously a defender at heart

Saturday 16th October 1976. Burnley 4 (1) (Smith 13, Noble 72, Fletcher 75, Cochrane 85) Charlton Athletic 4 (2) (Cutis (pen) 2, Flanagan 24, Hales 47 54)

Turf Moor. Att 10,601

Burnley: Peyton, Scott, Pashley, Noble, Thompson, Rodaway, Cochrane, Smith, Fletcher, Flynn, Morley. Unused sub: Jakub

Charlton: Wood, Hammond, Warman, Hunt, Berry, Curtis, Powell, Hales, Flanagan, Bowman, Penfold. Unused sub: Giles.

Referee: A Jones (Ormskirk)

Supposedly according to the Charlton website, vandals smashed the back window of the Charlton team coach after the match and the return journey was delayed while a replacement vehicle was found.

[HurstGrangeClaret]

Trying to remember my first, but the only vague memory I have was sometimes in the 60s, maybe against DL, but could be mistaken.
My dad was a lifelong Claret and strangely enough, I only found out a few years before he died in 2020 that he had gone with some mates in the back of an old van and seen us win the league in 1960 at Maine Road.
Further to that, when I was in the cops, I remember being sent to Worden Park in Leyland from my base at Penwortham to keep an eye on the fun fair being set up. It was around 8 o clock on a lovely sunny morning I think around the early 2000s. I got talking to an elderly man, smartly dressed, out walking his dog. Not sure how but the conversation got round to footy, and when I mentioned I was a lifelong Claret, he introduced himself to me as Brian Pilkington. To say I was in awe was an understatement. There I was actually talking to Claret royalty. He was a lovely man, modest and very unassuming. He even went on to lend me a rare book about Burnley FC. Brian went on to found a successful estate agency in Leyland which is still trading and of course scored our first goal in our 2-1 win at City that helped us win the league.
I felt very privileged to have met him.