Happy Birthday Willie Irvine

[onewillieirvine]

A Happy Birthday to the best goalscorer I've seen in the Claret and Blue.

[ClaretTony]

A Happy Birthday to the best goalscorer I've seen in the Claret and Blue.

The best that any of us could have ever seen. Happy Birthday Willie.

[durhamclaret]

Many happy returns Willie.

[DAVETHEVICAR]

A very happy birthday to Burnley’s best ever goalscorer Willie Irvine

[FCBurnley]

What a player who sadly is paying a huge price for his amazing efforts for our club. Hopefully the club is assisting Willie and his family.

[Stonehouse]

His sons still bringing him on the Turf but he’s getting quite frail ATB Willie.

[tally]

The one and only Willie Irvine happy birthday to you

[Quicknick]

The best striker I have seen in a claret and blue jersey. Happy birthday, Willie.

[Buxtonclaret]

Happy Birthday, Willie!
The memories you've given us.

[jdrobbo]

Happy Birthday, Willie. Hope it has been a good day and that CTID has been well behaved

[Silkyskills1]

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Happy birthday Willie.

[Claret Till I Die]

81 today. Thank you for all the well wishes & I'll ensure they're all passed on

[ClaretTony]

Just been talking about Willie to a friend of mine and his goal scoring before that injury at Everton. He was only 23 at the time. Had he not got that injury who knows how many goals he’d have scored. Probably Bob Lord would have sold him for big money.

Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal. I will never see the likes again.

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[Woodleyclaret]

A truly great player one I was privileged to see in Claret and Blue.

[Cajun]

My original Burnley hero. Happy birthday Willie.

[Lip]

Happy Birthday Willie. Enjoy your day .

[lakedistrictclaret]

Still my favourite ever Clarets centre forward.
Happy Birthday, Willie.

[Tricky Trevor]

Happy birthday Willie and many more. Thanks for the moments.

[Middle-agedClaret]

As I’ve said on here before, the reason why I became a Claret.
I was a young, impressionable lad from NornIron,playing for a boy’s team coached by Willie’s brother, Joe.
Joe and my father were serving in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - at that time in Berlin.
Perhaps influenced by Joe, I became a fan of Burnley, and of Willie.
That admiration remains.
I hope he has had a wonderful birthday.

[Carnsmerry12]

My favourite Burnley player.A joy to watch him play football, a natural striker who made scoring goals look so easy. Happy Birthday Willie.

[Vino blanco]

Morgan, Irvine, Lochhead, Harris and Coates....what a forward line. Happy birthday Willie, a natural goal scorer.

[claret59]

I remember watching out for his progress during his youth team experiences as he played in the A and B teams and then the Central League. His goal scoring rate was phenomenal and we waited anxiously for his first team call up.
He obviously did not disappoint. A fantastic player . I think he made his NI debut before his Burnley one! It was a privilege to have seen play. Happy Birthday Willie and thanks for the memories.

[claretblue]

Happy Birthday Sir William!

[mkmel]

I was so fortunate to have the Spurs v Burnley FA Cup game in March 1966 as my first ever game watching Burnley.

Yes we lost 4-3 in a cracking match but who scored a hat trick for Burnley?

None other than Willie Irvine!

Happy Birthday Willie!

[Herts Clarets]

Used to love Willie and his mate Andy Lochhead coming in my bar after the match and arguing about amongst other things, whose round it was and the price of a pint! They were both in after the Stockport game where Paul Barnes scored 5 goals, something Andy did twice and boy, did he let Willie know all about it.

Willie was before my time, but from someone who's opinion i respect and followed Burnley from the 1960s onwards, he was the second best goal scorer he had seen. The best? Jimmy Greaves. Not a bad player to be second best to.

A day late but best wishes to one of our all time greats and a lovely bloke to go with it.

[ClaretTony]

Used to love Willie and his mate Andy Lochhead coming in my bar after the match and arguing about amongst other things, whose round it was and the price of a pint! They were both in after the Stockport game where Paul Barnes scored 5 goals, something Andy did twice and boy, did he let Willie know all about it.

Willie was before my time, but from someone who's opinion i respect and followed Burnley from the 1960s onwards, he was the second best goal scorer he had seen. The best? Jimmy Greaves. Not a bad player to be second best to.

A day late but best wishes to one of our all time greats and a lovely bloke to go with it.

Greaves was the best for me and I always thought Spurs in the mid-60s with Greaves and Gilzean were the only forward pair better than ours. I'd add in Denis Law too at Man U during that time.

Andy & Willie arguing - what a surprise !! - They were best of mates though the two of them.

[Silkyskills1]

Yes, Jimmy Greaves in a league of his own. People today like looking at stats. and Jimmy Greaves' were phenomenal. Willie was brilliant too, good header of the ball and two footed and like grease lightning in the penalty box. Trying to mark him for 90 minutes must have been a nightmare for so many defenders.

[ClaretTony]

I'm sure Willie won't mind me repeating a story he told me not too long ago.

He was playing for Burnley and having played a ball towards another Burnley player he turned to see one of the opposition players down on the ground. Unaware what had happened, he asked Lochhead. "I've ******* nutted him," was the reply from Andy.

[IanMcL]

Willie gave me and my wife a ground tour. Forever pulling Andy Lochead's leg and vice versa, as we passed along the way.

Lovely man.

Happy Birthday legend.