An interesting season indeed
Having played our final game of the season at Millwall on sunday recording a draw at accumilating 60 points(fininshing above Leeds :lol: ) my club today released it's retaining list which see's 4 first team players released & a couple of fringe players.
Now check this fact out, There are only 2 players at our club today that finished last season. Amazing if you think about it. Steve Cotterill came in & with just 8 proffesionals on the books every Burnley fan feared the worst. As it turned out we had a remarkable season finishing in the top 13 & recording memorable wins over premiership opposition Aston Villa & Champions leauge finalists Liverpool in the cups.
During the season we also sold our 2 best players in Robbie Blake (Birmingham) & Richard Chaplow (west brom) yet still we won more than we lost & went from conceading nearley 100 goals to just 39 this season mainly thanks to the impressive John Mcgreal & the man mountain that is Frank Sinclair, we also unearthed a future Endland defender Gary Cahill who joined us on a years load from Villa & proceeded to collect 6 of the 10 supporters clubs player of the year awards. Whatch this lad in the Prem next season, amazing defender ;)
So back to today, were now back down to 9 full time proffesionals so Cotterill's got his work cut out during the summer but if the season turns out as good as this one with a few additions to the squad i reckon we'll be fying next season. :cool:
