If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

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Re: If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

Post by nil_desperandum » Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:01 am

Yes, but the quote that you refer to was in response to a question about town teams. (At least that was my interpretation)
It's not particularly difficult to work out that the city clubs are close together.

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Re: If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

Post by cold claret » Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:10 am

There used to be a football match called East v West Burnley back in the 70s for the best 10 and 11 year old players from each schools in the Burnley area..I played for the East which was mostly kids from Barden. Stoneyholme. Heasandford, St Johns. The West was Tod road St Marys and few others that i do not remember now.We got a certificate for playing in the game was quite proud at the time.

Anyone else play in this game?

Remeber the Hartley Cup played between the Burnley Primary schools as well.Shame theres no school teams like there used to be.
Then the Keighley Cup played on the Turf used to get some big crowds. St Teds used to win it most of the time
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Re: If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

Post by TheFamilyCat » Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:30 am

BarstewardsEnquiry wrote:Would the fans from East Burnley (Nelson, Brierfield) side be classed as clampets and dingles?
No, West Burnley would still be Clampitts and Dingles. They'd call us the Abduls

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Re: If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:53 am

cold claret wrote:Jack was a sound bloke.He helped a lot of the kids.The Burnley Boys Club was a special place back then.
Top bloke. He was still running it when i was a teenager. Played football for the boys club from age of 16 to about 18 or 19. He was still involved then.

Dont have anything like that these days. :(

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Re: If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

Post by cold claret » Sat Jan 13, 2018 12:34 pm

They had everything back then, football, cross country running, snooker table tennis darts.In the back room in the late 70s there was a disco but they also played Punk Rock music. :D

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Re: If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

Post by FCBurnley » Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:34 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:Of course there would. Burnley isn't exactly a town known for it's intelligent population.And Stupid people tend to like hitting things, including other people.
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Re: If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

Post by BennyD » Sat Jan 13, 2018 2:09 pm

bfcjg wrote:We are moving away from the trouble bit. If I am browsing continental cheeses in the chiller counter of Aldi resplendent in my Burnley top of Claret and blue would an oik from the East side of Burnley resplendent in his top of Blue and claret threaten and abuse me and mock my choice of Brie because I am outward looking as opposed to his choice of Burnley weavers FC (or whatever) and a Lancashire crumbly ?
If you openly admit to liking French cheese, you deserve to get your head kicked in.

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Re: If Burnley was a two club town, would there be trouble ?

Post by ablueclaret » Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:02 pm

If one was in the Premier League with a rich owner and the other a League 1 struggler owned by a local, might be interesting.

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