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Burnley in t' cup - Lord Snooty - 05-01-2022

Burnley v Huddersfield Town
FA Cup round 3
Saturday January 8th - 12:30 ko
at Turf Moor

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Huddersfield Town travel to Burnley in deepest, darkest Lancastershire to the Turf Moor Stadium on Saturday dinnertime for an exciting FA Cup 3rd round match between the reserve teams of each club. Blush

It's a match that Town will be desperate to win however, this season marking one hundred years since our one and only FA Cup triumph, way back in 1922.

Hopefully, head coach Carlos Corberán won't make as many changes to the team as he did last season when he changed the entire starting XI for the game against Plymouth. We're on a roll, six games unbeaten, surely he won't do that again. Maybe a start for the returning from injuries like Pipa, Aaron Rowe and Jordan Rhodes, but keep the squad as it is. There's a full week each side of this fixture, surely the lads are fit enough for a game against a Burnley side that are struggling in the Premier League and pathetically surrendered on Sunday against a very poor Leeds Urinals side.

Tickets:
Adults £15
Seniors (65+) £10
Under 23 £10
Under 17 £5

A brief history of Burnley FC: formed in 1882, they moved into Turf Moor in the following year and were one of the 12 founding members of the Football League in 1888. They did nowt, being a lower end of the league club and got relegated in 1897. They came straight back up though, winning the 2nd division title in 1898. That title win didn't get them up automatically though. Back then they had "test matches", similar to today's Play Offs, but involving the bottom two of the 1st Division and the top two of the 2nd Division. Controversially, they and Stoke both went up as by the time they met, each club only needed a draw to go up and so played out a goal less draw, in a game where there wasn't any shots at goal. So the Football League introduced automatic promotion in the next season.

After the two losing clubs complained, the League also extended the 1st Division from 16 to 18 clubs, with the two losers, Blackburn and Newcastle starting the next season in there. Burnley went back down again in 1900 and spent the first decade of the new century in Division Two, but did win their place at the top back again in 1913. They also made it to the semi finals of the FA Cup that season, but went one better by making the Final in the next one. Not only that, they won it as well, beating Liverpool 1-0 with a goal from Bert Freeman, at Crystal Palace.

They were doing well in the League now, but then the first world war came along. Despite having players killed in the conflict, they managed to finish runners up to West Brom in the first season back and then actually went and won the League title in 1920/21.

They couldn't retain the title and struggled later on in the decade, finally going down in 1930, shortly after Jack Hill had retired, with a club record of 569 appearances behind him. They also had record goal scorer George Beel in the team at this time and when he left for Lincoln in 1932, he had scored 188 goals in the Claret shirt.

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Those claret shirts changed to white in the 30s, in which time, 16 year old Tommy Lawton became their youngest ever player. He would score 16 goals in that season before being sold to Everton, where he would become one of the most prolific strikers of the time.

With not much going on in the world between 1939 and 45, a group of Burnley supporters led a campaign to reinstate the claret shirts and so when football came back again after the 2nd world war, they had the kit and the nickname, the Clarets. What's more, they got their first division place back as well, winning promotion in 1947 as runners up to Manchester City. Topping off a good season, almost, they reached the FA Cup Final and a first visit to Wembley, but lost 0-1 against Charlton Athletic.

During the 1950s, Bob Lord became chairman and would stay in that position for 26 years. In that time, they won trophies. One of those was the First Division championship title in 1959/60, under the management of Harry Potts. As champions, they entered the European Cup and made it to the quarter finals, where they were beaten by Hamburg.

They finished that season as runners up in the League to Ipswich Town and then runners up to Spurs in the FA Cup, losing 1-3 at Wembley, with future Town coach, Jimmy Robson scoring the Clarets' goal, being the 100th FA Cup Final goal.

A 3rd place finish in 1966 saw them qualify for Europe again, in the Inter Cities Fairs Cup, reaching the quarter finals and losing to Eintracht Frankfurt. But at the beginning of the next decade, they ended 24 years of top flight football by being relegated in 1970/71. They came back as 2nd division champions in 73, but went back down again in 76.

They did win the prestigious Anglo Scottish Cup in 1978/79, though the only Scottish club they faced were Celtic, who they beat 3-1 on aggregate in the quarter finals. They followed that by beating Mansfield Town in the semis and then Oldham Athletic 4-2 on aggregate in the Final.

It didn't lead to greater things though and they were relegated to the 3rd division for the first time in 1980. Bob Lord decided to retire and things improved slightly. They went up as 3rd division champions in 1982, but came straight back down again.

Things did get worse. And worse. They were relegated to the 4th division in 1985. By the end of the 86/87 season, they were bottom of the 4th div as the last round of matches got underway. Promotion and relegation between the League and the newly formed Conference had just been introduced and Burnley needed to beat Orient at Turf Moor, whilst either Torquay or Lincoln had to lose. Luckily for them, they did win 2-1 and Lincoln lost, so it was the Imps who went down.

They celebrated survival by making it to Wembley in the EFL PaintPotPizza Windscreens Trophy Final in 1988, losing 2-0 to Wolves. Things were getting better and they made the Play Offs in 1991, losing to Torquay in the semis, but then won the 4th division title in the next year. That triumph made them the second team to have won all four divisional titles, with Wolves being the first and Preston, Sheffield Utd and Portsmouth having achieved it since.

Jimmy Mullen was the manager now and he had them up again in 94, winning the Play Offs at Wembley by beating Stockport County 2-1 with goals from David Eyres and Gary Parkinson.

Straight back down again though. Mullen was replaced by some geordie knob called Chris Waddle, who almost had them relegated again down to the 4th tier, but fortunately for the Clarets, their board had the brains to get shut of the dozy mullet bonce and get a turnip, sorry, Stan Ternent in to replace him. Stan was the man and he got them back up to the 2nd tier in 2000, with Burnley born, ex Town striker Andy Payton finishing as top scorer.

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Burnley, like Town and a load of other clubs, were hit hard by the collapse of ITV Digital and so struggled to compete financially. However, they managed to stay in the, by now named, Championship and reached the Play Offs in 2009, under the management of Owen Coyle. After beating Reading in the semis, they faced Sheffield Utd at Wembley and won 1-0 with a goal from Wade Elliott and so that meant a return to the top flight after an absence of 33 years.

It was just for one season though. Coyle was poached by local rivals Bolton Wanderers and he was replaced by former player and ex Town full back, Brian Laws, who oversaw the relegation. Laws left to be replaced by Eddie Howe. He got homesick for Bournemouth and left to be replaced in October 2012 by ex Watford boss, Sean Dyche.

Despite being the bookies favourites for the drop, Dyche got them back into the Prima Donna League by finishing the 2013/14 season as runners up to Leicester. Straight back down and straight back up again, winning the Championship title in 2016. And despite being such a tin pot outfit, they have managed to stay in the PL ever since, even qualifying for Europe for the first time since the 60s. That was for the 2018/19 Europa League, but they didn't get past the qualification rounds.

It could be a return to the Championship at the end of this season as they have been in the bottom 3 for ages now, but I'm sure we all wish them luck in avoiding relegation, if they can catch and send down Leeds Urinals instead. Big Grin

Head to Head

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Burnley lead the head to head with 33 wins to Town's 27, with 14 draws.

It's 4 Burnley wins to 2 for Town in the FA Cup.

This is the 7th time that the two clubs have been drawn to play each other, the first one being as long ago as 1915. That was for a 1st round match, but as it was played in January, it's the equivalent of what is now the 3rd round. Burnley were a 1st division team then, finishing that season in 4th. They were also the Cup holders, having won it in the previous season. Town were in the 2nd and it was the first division team who came out on top, winning 3-1 at Turf Moor. Fred Fayers scored our goal, who I've written about before. He was a Quaker and became a conscientious objector during the war.

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The second FA Cup meeting came at the same stage in 1922. It was played on the 7th of January in Burnley, so one hundred years and a day before this match is played. That game ended in a draw between two first division clubs. Burnley had won the league a couple of years before and Town would win it in a couple of years time. We did go on to win the Cup though, with this draw at Turf Moor being the first game along the way. Ernie Islip and Billy Watson scored the goals in a 2-2 scoreline, with two goals from Clem Stephenson and one from Frank Mann winning the replay 3-2 at Leeds Road on the following Wednesday. Town then played Brighton, Blackburn, Millwall and Notts County before beating Preston in the Final.

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Burnley didn't have to wait long to get their revenge. Two seasons later in 1924 as we were on the charge to the League title, Town went to Turf Moor for a 3rd round match (5th round nowadays) and lost 0-1. The significant factor there being that Huddersfield Town were such a big draw back then that 54,775 spectators turned out for this match, a Turf Moor record that has never been beaten.

It was 33 years to the next FA Cup meeting and this time it was a whopping crowd at Leeds Road. There were 55,168 there to see 2nd division Town take on 1st division Burnley in a 5th round match. Town had beaten Sheffield Utd and Peterborough in the previous rounds and hopes were high as the Clarets arrived. Town had Bill Shankly as manager and a young Denis Law in the team, but despite Dave Hickson scoring for Town, it was Burnley who went through to the next round, winning 2-1. They lost to Aston Villa in the quarters, after a replay.

The next one came in 1964. This was at Burnley, again in the 5th round and again, Burnley won. Hopes were high again after beating Chelsea away in the previous round, but it wasn't to be as the Clarets strolled it 3-0.

And so the most recent FA Cup meeting was fifty years ago. A 3rd round match on the 15th of January 1972. It was at Turf Moor and we were the 1st division team now and they had just been relegated to the 2nd. It was a Town triumph with full back Dennis Clarke scoring the only goal of the game. We followed that with wins over Fulham and West Ham before losing to Birmingham City in the quarter finals, the last time we made it that far.

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So, we have waited 100 years to see Town win the Cup and 50 years to see us even get as far as the quarter finals. There must be some omens in there about playing Burnley at this stage of the competition and going on to have a good run. Surely, we'll give it a decent go this time. Surely! Blush

As for the league. We played four times in the Premier League, without winning any. There were three draws, both 0-0 in the first season. The legend, Christopher Schindler scored in a 1-1 draw at Turf Moor in 2018/19, but then got sent off in the return match at the JSS. Steve Mounié had given us the lead in that match, only for that bloody Chris Wood getting his customary goal against us before Ashley Barnes got the Burnley winner.

We haven't beaten them for the last 7 games, the last win being in 2013/14 at the McAlpharm, a 2-1 win with Oliver Norwood and a James Vaughan penalty giving us a two goal lead before Danny Ings pulled back a late consolation. Our last win at their place was the season before when it was Vaughaney again in a 1-0 win.

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Town's FA Cup record: Here's a quick look at our glorious history in this fine competition. And how we've been not so glorious of late. Blush

1920: Runners up
1922: Winners
1928: Runners up
1929: Semi final
1930: Runners up
1932: Quarter final
1938: Runners up
1939: Semi final
1955: Quarter final
1972: Quarter final

2021: R3 - Town 2-3 Plymouth

2020: R3 - Southampton 2-0 Town

2019: R3 - Bristol City 1-0 Town

2018: R3 - Bolton 1-2 Town
R4 - Town 1-1 Birmingham
R4r - Birmingham 1-4 Town (aet)
R5 - Town 0-2 Man Utd

2017: R3 - Town 4-0 Port Vale
R4: - Rochdale 0-4 Town
R5: - Town 0-0 Man City
R5r - Man City 5-1 Town

2016: R3 - Town 2-2 Reading
R3r Reading 5-2 Town

What about Burnley then?

1898: Quarter final
1909: Quarter final
1911: Quarter final
1913: Semi final
1914: Winners
1924: Semi final
1933: Quarter final
1935: Semi final
1952: Quarter final
1957: Quarter final
1959: Quarter final
1960: Quarter final
1961: Semi final
1962: Runners up
1964: Quarter final
1983: Quarter final
2003: Quarter final

2021: R3 - Burnley 1-1 MK Dons (aet Burnley won on pens)
R4 - Fulham 0-3 Burnley
R5 - Burnley 0-2 Bournemouth

2020: R3 - Burnley 4-2 Peterborough
R4 - Burnley 1-2 Norwich

2019: R3 - Burnley 1-0 Barnsley
R4 - Man City 5-0 Burnley

2018: R3 - Man City 4-1 Burnley

2017: R3 - Sunderland 0-0 Burnley
R3r - Burnley 2-0 Sunderland
R4 - Burnley 2-0 Bristol City
R5 - Burnley 0-1 Lincoln City

2016: R3 - Middlesbrough 1-2 Burnley
R4 - Arsenal 2-1 Burnley

I've only put all this down so I could remind everybody how Danny Cowley took his non league Lincoln City to Turf Moor and beat Premier League Burnley in 2017. Cool

So what's going on down Harry Potts Way? Managed nowadays by Sean Dyche, the former Chesterfield centre back.

He played the majority of his career for the Spireites and played in one of their most famous matches and scored in it as well. That was the FA Cup semi final draw with Middlesbrough in 1997, when they were cheated out of the win by the lack of goal line technology. Later in his career he won promotions with Bristol City, Millwall and Northampton Town.

When he hung his boots up, he returned to one of his old clubs, Watford, as a coach, then later became manager there. He was the first manager sacked by the Pozzo family in 2012. He got the job at Burnley soon after and they still have him there, almost ten years into the job.

Last week's line up in the pathetic surrender at the Big Yellow Skip of Beeston against Bielsabub's Bums:

13 Wayne Hennessey - 100 caps for Wales but can't get in ahead of Danny Ward now.
2 Matthew Lowton - Ex Sheff Utd, missed a pen in the 2012 shoot out against us.
5 James Tarkowski - Centre back with 2 England caps
6 Ben Mee - Club captain with well over 300 Burnley games.
3 Charlie Taylor - Ex Leeds and Bradford left back.
11 Dwight McNeil - 22 year old winger with over 100 apps for the club.
18 Ashley Westwood - Ex Crewe and Villa midfielder.
4 Jack Cork - Midfielder with one England cap.
7 Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson - Icelandic winger, ex Charlton.
17 Aaron Lennon - Really? Thought he'd retired years ago!
9 Chris Wood - Lanky streak of piss who always scores against us.

Subs:
16 Dale Stephens - Bloody hell, is he still playing? How old are this lot!
19 Jay Rodriguez - Another ancient one, bookending his career with his home town club.
20 Ice Cream Cornet - French born Ivory Coast international winger. Top scorer.
22 Nathan Collins- Irish centre back signed from Stoke.
23 Erik Pieters - Another from Stoke and another ancient one.
25 Will Norris - 3rd choice keeper, will probably play in this one.
26 Phil Bardsley - Another old codger from Stoke.
27 Matěj Vydra - Another who usually scores against us.
28 Kevin Long - Been there 13 years but hasn't played much.

Club connections: Mick Buxton is still regarded by many fans as the best manager we've ever had, well in living memory anyway, don't think many of us saw Herbert Chapman and his merry men. Anyway, he started his career at Burnley in the early 60s, at a time when they had a team at the top of the Football League and winning trophies and reaching Cup Finals. He was a full back, but because of the strength of the first team, he was mainly a reserve player, so by the time he left for Halifax Town in 1968, he had only 19 first team appearances.

His time at Halifax wasn't great and he broke his leg twice, but he did help the Shaymen get promoted to the 3rd division in his first season there. He was forced to retire through injury at the age of 28 and was offered a coaching role at the Shay. He coached also at Watford, Mansfield, Barnsley and Southend and luckily for us, he never really settled that far down south. He'd kept on his Barnsley home, which as far as I know, he still has, and so when Tom Johnston offered him a job at Huddersfield, he jumped at the chance.

His first impression of the set up at Leeds Road wasn't good and so when Tom retired soon after, Mick set about a new regime, sweeping away the bad influences. One of them being a former player who I know, who said he thought Buxton treated him unfairly by not giving him a chance, but ultimately, it worked.

Form turned around immediately and we went from our lowest ever placing of 91st out of 92 clubs when he was given the caretaker role, to the 4th Division Champions within 18 months. It wasn't just the success though, it was the style of play. Even though it was the 4th division, the exciting attacking football was a joy to watch and the fact that the team scored 101 league goals in 79/80 shows what a great side it was.

The next season almost saw another promotion, finishing 4th when only the top 3 went up. The following season was a bit of an anti climax, but that wasn't the case in the next season when Buxton's Boys won promotion to the 2nd division, in what was the last time Town won automatic promotion.

He left in 1986, harshly sacked after a poor first half of the season. But he came back again in the 90s as assistant to Ian Ross, after he'd been manager at Scunthorpe. It wasn't a long stay as he and Ross resigned to be replaced by Neil Warnock. Mick then ended up managing Sunderland at Roker Park in the 2nd division, before going back to Scunthorpe.

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One of the men brought in by Buxton was his old Burnley team mate, Jimmy Robson. His initial job was coaching the young ones and he helped bring through the likes of Mark Lillis, Simon Trevitt and Peter Butler.

Before all this though, he was a star striker for the Clarets, an inside forward as was known back then. He signed on at Burnley as a 17 year old in 1956 and stayed there for nine years, making 242 appearances and scoring 100 goals. The highlight of his time there obviously was winning the League title with them in 1959/60, scoring 18 goals in that season. His goals contributed vital winners in games against Chelsea and Blackburn Rovers, but in one game he scored five, an 8-0 win over Nottingham Forest.

A couple of seasons later, he was playing for Burnley in the FA Cup Final against Spurs at Wembley. Jimmy Greaves gave Spurs an early lead, but it was Robson who got the equaliser for the Clarets just after half time. They weren't level long though as Bobby Smith put Spurs back in front and then Danny Blanchflower completed the scoring and Spurs retained the Cup. Robson's goal, as mentioned in the History section, was the 100th goal scored in the FA Cup Finals.

He left Turf Moor in 1965 and went to Blackpool, then Barnsley and then Bury. After retirement, he returned to Burnley on their coaching set up, which eventually led him to Leeds Road in 1978. He was from the Durham and at the time, West Yorkshire Police were questioning men with north eastern accents in their hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper and Town's coach recalled in an interview a few years ago how he was stopped for questioning. As we all know, it wasn't him.

After Buxton left, Robson stayed on and also coached for Steve Smith and Malcolm McDonald, and had one match as caretaker manager before McDonald was appointed. When Eoin Hand took over, he let Jimmy go and he ended up coaching alongside former Town player David Sutton at Rochdale and then back at Burnley for Stan Ternent.

Sadly, Jimmy developed the dreaded Alzheimer's disease and died last month on December the 14th 2021, aged 82.

And another Burnley striker brought to Huddersfield by Mick Buxton was Steve Kindon. For those who don't remember him, he was built like a tank, a bit like Laurent Depoitre and just as intimidating to opposition defenders. Having met him at a celebrity cricket match, he was nowt like that in real life, a real gentle giant.

He played over 100 games for Burnley and scored 28 goals between 1968 and 1972, before he moved on to Wolves. He scored 28 for them as well, but then went back to Burnley, who were sliding down the league ladder. Town were in the 4th division and it took a lot of persuading for Buxton to tempt him down another rung of that ladder. He invited him to come to Leeds Road to watch one of the games from the Director's Box, but Kindon went and stood on the terrace with the fans and was impressed not only with the team, who won 5-1 against Rochdale on the night, but with the fans who he would come to love and who would adore him.

After the match, Kindon went over to the main stand to meet Buxton and asked, if he still wanted him to sign. He had the contract in his hand immediately and he made his debut five days later on Boxing Day against Halifax Town. He scored 37 goals for us, including a hat trick at Exeter and a dramatic late double to earn a draw at Sheffield Utd.

His last goal was in a win away at Reading and then he missed the rest of the 1981/82 season with a knee injury. As the season drew to a close, he came on to the pitch at the last home match and announced his retirement because of that injury, in front of an emotional Cowshed. He stayed on though, as Commercial Director, for a few years, a sort of similar role to the ones that Andy Booth and Michael Hefele now have.

Bob Kelly, like Jimmy Robson, was a striker in the Burnley team that won the Football League. Not the 1960 team though, he was in the side that won the league in 1920/21. He was an inside forward, who signed for them from St Helens Town in 1913 and established himself in the side after the war. He became a prolific goal scorer and scored four goals in one match of that title winning season, in a 7-1 win against Oldham. He also made his England debut and scored twice in a 5-4 win against Scotland at Hillsborough.

By December 1925, he'd scored 91 goals for the Clarets and big spending Sunderland came and spent a British record transfer fee to take him to Roker Park. That was a massive £6,500, but he didn't stay there long as the Champions of England, the thrice champions Huddersfield Town came calling and he signed on at Leeds Road for manager Jack Chaplin, in February 1927.

His first Town goals came in the form of a hat trick as he scored three at Leeds Road in a 4-3 victory over Sheffield Wendy. He scored another hat trick in the next season as the bright blue n white beat Cardiff City 8-2 at Leeds Road, in what was then a record score. He never added to his League title medals though, Town finishing both those seasons as runners up. He also picked up an FA Cup runners up medal when we got beaten by Blackburn Rovers at Wembley.

Later on in that season he won his 14th and final England cap, again against Scotland. He scored as well, but it was a last minute consolation as the Scots famously won 5-1 with his Town team mate Alex Jackson, getting a hat trick.

In the next season, he scored the opener against Burnley as Town smashed them 7-1 and did the same in the season after as Town beat the Clarets 3-0. And then, having scored three in the record win against Cardiff, he scored one in the new record score in 1930 as Town beat Blackpool 10-1. He also got his second FA Cup runners up medal with the Town in 1930, when we got beaten by Arsenal at Wembley.

And it was against the Gunners that he got his final Town goal, his 42nd, which has him in joint 38th in our all time goal scoring chart, level with Ronnie Jepson and Lee Novak. That last goal, against Arsenal was in a 1-2 defeat at Leeds Road, in front of a crowd of 13,370. Now that's quite a low crowd considering that just ten weeks earlier, in an FA Cup match against the same opponent, the Leeds Road attendance record was set when 67,037 people passed through the turnstiles (legend has it that there were 10,000 locked out), such was the popularity of this great old English football competition back then. I bet there aren't a tenth of that many people watching this FA Cup match now.

Anyway, after us he went to Preston, then managed Carlisle, then Stockport (winning the Div 3N title). After the war, he coached in Portugal, Switzerland, the Channel Islands and Wales. He died in Fylde, aged 75, in 1969.

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Stan Ternent managed both clubs. As a player, he started his career at Turf Moor making just five appearances before spending the majority of his career at Carlisle, being part of the squad that won promotion to the First Division in 1974. He then left for Sunderland and started his coaching career. Bob Stokoe had been his boss at Carlisle and later in his early coaching days, became Stokoe's assistant at Blackpool. When Stokoe left, Stan became manager, but not for long, becoming their shortest ever managerial reign.

A couple of seasons at Hull, then a couple of promotions with Bury (4th div to 2nd div in 2 seasons), before dropping down a rung on the league ladder in 1998 to manage 3rd division Burnley. He had six seasons there, getting them promoted in his second season.

He then had a spell as manager of Gillingham and then an assistant's role with Derby and Paul Jewell. He was then tempted away from Jewell by the prospect of managing Huddersfield Town. He brought Ronnie Jepson in as his number 2, but despite Ronnie being a Town legend, the pair of them were sacked by incoming Chairman, Dean Hoyle, for being really crap.

Andy Payton played 52 times and scored 20 goals for us and then went to Burnley in exchange for Paul Barnes and scored 80 times for the Clarets in 176 games. Barnes scored 31 times in 65 games for Burnley, but the exchange deal didn't work in our favour as he only scored twice in 35 matches.

Burnley in popular culture: The 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind, the tv series' Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Juliet Bravo were all filmed in Burnley. I've never seen the wind whistling film. I watched the first episode on Hetty and didn't bother with the rest, but I did watch Juliet quite a lot. Don't know why though, can't remember it ever being any good. Do you have any recollections of any of these?

The anarcho-communist political, punk rock, pop, and folk band, Chumbawamba are from Burnley. I never knew that. I always thought they were from Leeds. Well, I wasn't totally wrong. By the time they had their first and biggest hit with Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down), they were living there. They had been living in a squat in Armley and were regulars at the famous Fforde Green pub.

There's loads of actors from Burnley, most of who have been in Coronation Street at some time or another. Most famous of those would be Norris, played by Malcolm Hebden. Tickety boo!

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One of the greatest ever English cricketers came from Burnley. I speak of course, of Betty Snowball who scored 189 runs in 222 minutes playing against New Zealand at Christchurch in February 1935. She played in the first ever Women's Test Match, against Australia in Brisbane in 1934 and played ten tests in all, either side of the war, in an era when there wasn't much women's cricket about. There was also some bloke called James Anderson who came from Burnley as well. He also played a few games for England.

'ow to get theere an' wheere to sup: The post code for sat nav is BB10 4BN. That's for the Cricket Club, which is right next door to the ground and serves as a car park for away fans. There's also a private car park 400 yards away on Doris Street, off Belvedere Road.

The bar is usually open at the Cricket Club and away fans are all welcome in there. A bit further from the ground, a 15 minute walk away, is the Queen Victoria, which is a Brewer's Fayre, right next to the Premier Inn.

There are two railway stations, Burnley Central and Burnley Manchester Road and they are both around a 20 minute walk from the ground.

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Recent form - last 6 matches:

Blackburn 0-0 Town
Forest 0-1 Town
Town 3-2 Blackpool
Bristol C 2-3 Town
Town 1-1 Coventry
Barnsley 1-1 Town

Leeds 3-1 Burnley
Man Utd 3-1 Burnley
Burnley 0-0 West Ham
Newcastle 1-0 Burnley
Wolves 0-0 Burnley
Burnley 3-3 Palace

Town are 6th in the Championship with 40 points. Burnley are 18th in the Prima Donna League with 11 points.

Leading scorers:

Terriers:
Danny Ward (7)
Danel Sinani (3)
Matty Pearson (3)
Sorba Thomas (3)
Duane Holmes (3)

Clarets:
Maxwel Cornet (6)
Jay Rodriguez (4)
Chris Wood (3)

January the 8th down the ages: How did we get on in previous matches played on this date?

1910: Gainsborough Trinity (h) Midland League, WON 4-1 (Joe Jee 2, Jack Foster, WE Smith)
1916: Grimsby Town (a) Wartime League, WON 1-0 (Frank Mann)
1921: Brentford (a) FA Cup, WON 2-1 (Ernie Islip, William Wright)
1927: Millwall (a) FA Cup, lost 1-3 (George Brown)
1938: Hull City (h) FA Cup, WON 3-1 (Pat Beasley, Alf Lythgoe 2)
1944: Bradford Park Avenue (h) Wartime League, lost 1-2 (Jimmy Glazzard)
1949: Queens Park Rangers (a) FA Cup, drew 0-0 (aet)
1955: Coventry City (h) FA Cup, drew 3-3 (Jimmy Glazzard 2, Jimmy Watson)
1958: Charlton Athletic (a) FA Cup, lost 0-1
1966: Southampton (h) Div 2, WON 2-0 (Alan Gilliver 2)
1972: Chelsea (a) Div 1, drew 2-2 (Les Chapman, Steve Smith)
1977: AFC Bournemouth (a) Div 4, lost 0-1
1983: Chelsea (h) FA Cup, drew 1-1 (Brian Stanton)
2002: Hull City (a) LDV Vans Trophy, WON 1-0 (Andy Booth)
2005: Torquay Utd (h) League One (3rd tier), drew 1-1 (Efe Sodje)
2011: Dover Athletic (h) FA Cup, WON 2-0 (Scott Arfield, Gary Roberts)

Played 16, WON 7, drew 5, lost 4.

Jack Foster, who scored on this date in 1910, had earlier scored 4 in our record FA Cup victory when we beat Heckmondwike 11-0. He finished that Cup campaign with 11 goals, which is a club record for a single season. He was at the back end of his career though and when Town got voted in to the Football League at the end of that season, he got a job as a chimney sweep and played football for Castleford. Later on, he came back to Town as a trainer, then a similar role at Bradford City.

For the 1955 FA Cup drawn game with Coventry, we were in Division One, they were in Division Three (South). That was a bit of an upset, but we won the replay and almost made it to the semi finals later that season. After beating Torquay and Liverpool, our brave lads were seconds away from the semis when Newcastle equalised and then won the replay.

The 1958 Cup defeat at Charlton was a 3rd round replay. We had drawn at Leeds Road on the Saturday, but the really famous match between the two clubs had taken place a fortnight earlier. That, of course, was when we lost 6-7 down at The Valley. Still the only team to have scored six goals away from home in a Football League match and lost. Only Huddersfield Town could do that!

The LDV Vans game in 2002 was at the area semi final stage. Having beaten Halifax, Wrexham, Scunthorpe and now Hull, we went on to lose the area final against Blackpool and so missed out on a trip to Wembley.

Efe Sodje, who scored in 2005, was club captain when we beat Mansfield in the 2004 Play Off Final. By the time we were receiving the trophy, he was in an ambulance on his way to Cardiff A&E with a head injury. That's why Jacko and Boothy both lifted the trophy together instead of the skipper.

Scott Arfield, who scored in the massive Cup win over Dover in 2011, is another club connection we have with Burnley. He came to us as a Scottish u21 international. By the time he left Burnley he was a full Canadian international. Huh

Burnley Anagrams: Some football related, some not.

Rich Woods
Ten Windows Withheld
Cheesy Dan
Dougy Zaire Jr
Abba cum Wham
Tanner Tents
Stoned Kevin
Alwyn Tom Tom
Fern Beermat
Trophy Tsar

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RE: Burnley in t' cup - ritchiebaby - 05-01-2022

1 is Chris Wood.

Now I can get back to read Snooty's thread, like I read the newspapers - start at the back and work forward.

RE: Burnley in t' cup - Lord Snooty - 05-01-2022

Yes, of course, Ritchie. That's the only way to read a newspaper.

Do newspapers still exist? Haven't read one for years.

Get all my news off Twitter these days. It's 95% bollox obviously. But that's still a good 4% better than what's written in a newspaper. Whistle

RE: Burnley in t' cup - theo_luddite - 06-01-2022

Bostin effort again there chap. Thumb up

Tha's reading t'wrong papers Snoots. Start wi't'Private Eye, it's only once every two weeks so a leisurely read including doing t'crossword in t'room where tha' goes to sit and think. Likely the only truly independent paper in the country these days and one of the few to still employ real journalists rather than them there journalistic algorithms.

Then ease thi'sen slowly on to't'Grauniad on line, though it can be a pain to navigate most days. I often find articles 2 or 3 days after they were posted that don't appear on t'home page. T'political cartoons are often gems though. Thumb up

All t'others are reet whingers and/or have so many adverts on their online offering (including t'Yorksha Poist) and other bollocks that meks 'em imposssible to read. Bloody Mirror is owned be reet whingers these days too (likely t'same mob as own t'Unexamined et al) so can't be really trusted anymore.

Glad I'm not t'only un that reads proper papers arse about face. Start wi' t'important stuff (SPORT) and work thi way back into t'Beano/Dandy school o'journalism stuff.

Twatter? News? Deary, deary me. Hope you aren't missing Trump!!!

RE: Burnley in t' cup - WakeyTerrier - 06-01-2022

Should be plenty of streaming options for this game, its on ViaPlay in at least 5 different countries.

I'm hoping we take the FA Cup seriously this season, I'm also hoping that Burnley don't.

Talking of the Beano, decent little exhibition on in that little hamlet called London if you get the chance to visit before March
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/beano-art-of-breaking-the-rules

RE: Burnley in t' cup - WakeyTerrier - 06-01-2022

Dyche will miss the game having tested positive for Covid and will have to self isolate

RE: Burnley in t' cup - Lord Snooty - 06-01-2022

Hogg and Sarr are back in training.
Danny Ward is fit to play.
Aaron Rowe is out with a touch of the covids.

RE: Burnley in t' cup - Lord Snooty - 06-01-2022

The draw for the 4th round is on Sunday between the two ITV matches, around 4.50 they reckon.

RE: Burnley in t' cup - jjamez - 06-01-2022

3 Sean dyche

4 jay Rodriguez

9 Bert freeman

7 Steve kindon

RE: Burnley in t' cup - Lord Snooty - 06-01-2022

All correct, jjamez.