The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
Posts Tagged: "Burnley"
Match Of The Past: Burnley FC
We continue our series of historical videos of the clubs of the Football League Championship – League One and League Two are to follow – this afternoon with Burnley FC,...
100 Owners: No.95 – Bob Lord (Burnley)
When we talk of the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers that ran our football clubs as their own fiefdoms for most of the twentieth century, there is perhaps one man...
Ralph Coates: 1946-2010 – A Burnley, Tottenham And Orient Legend
It is surprisingly uncommon to find a player whose passing will be marked equally between two different clubs, but the death of Ralph Coates at the age of sixty-four will...
Where Burnley are Going Right, And Bolton Are Going Wrong
The contrast was stark, like a particularly uncompetitive episode of the BBC’s Bargain Hunt (you can tell I don’t have a proper day job), magnified a million times. Bolton Wanderers’...
Match Of The Week: Burnley 4-3 Preston North End
On the eighth of September 1888, on the opening day of the Football League in England, Preston North End beat Burnley by five goals to two in their first match...
Owen Coyle Hasn’t Only Let Burnley Football Club Down
Owen Coyle has been receiving plaudits all season. He has refused to break the bank at Burnley and kept his faith in many of the journeymen that got the club...
Blackburn vs Burnley: Time To Burst The Bubble?
Blackburn Rovers play Burnley in the top flight for the first time in over forty years this weekend, but the fixture is being treated as a problem that needs to...
Match Of The Midweek 2: Burnley 1-0 Manchester United
Thirty-three years is a long time and in that time more than one generation of Burnley supporters has grown up on fading memories that have gone from glorious technicolor, through...
Match Of The Week 2: Burnley 1-0 Sheffield United
It has been a busy month for Wembley Stadium. So stratospheric were the costs of building it that there is an element of danger that it will lose its sense...
In Praise Of… Burnley Football Club
This evening’s Championship play-off semi-final between Reading and Burnley was a battle between old and new. In the blue corner were Reading, snatched from the jaws of obscurity by John...
The Championship – The Final Day
They’ve been stumbling, lurching and tripping on their shoelaces, but Birmingham City are a Premier League club again. As it turned out, it was a surprisingly untense day. Kevin Fahey’s...