Come on lads !

[DJsmallpaul]

Less then 24 hours till the REAL football season starts :clap: :clap: :clap:

Come on you Clarets We can beat Sheffield Utd !

Time to get these bookmaking ****ers to eat their words, 21st my arse fair enough we got a new manager and a small squad but our teams full of quality & there's no way were gonna finish bottom as there predicting :dontevengothere:

[Col]

all the best this year burnley. i hope you have a good season. in saying that i hope sheff utd do well too. im happy with a draw from the game.

[DJsmallpaul]

Can't wait to come to your place Col :clap:

Never been to Elland Rd mate just drove past it about 1000 times.

[Col]

Can't wait to come to your place Col :clap:

Never been to Elland Rd mate just drove past it about 1000 times.

i doubt your supporters will have met a more hostile crowd. hahaha...

[DJsmallpaul]

You kidding ?

With our rep every team likes to boyce it over us and then fail in the process :lol:

Bet your well impressed with us when we come to your gaff as we don't half make some noise on our travels

You think the man u games are good for atmosphere wait till we come ;)

[DJsmallpaul]

This say's it all ;)

Report by John Sadler : Derby v Burnley 1995

Derby v Burnley was a match in a time-warp. A third round replay played on fourth round day. But the real blast from the past came from far more distant days, when fans came only to back their beloved team, not fight their opposite numbers. When fences weren’t needed and policemen merely smiled in approval. Burnley took 4,000 Lancashire lads and lasses to the Midlands. And they were sensational.

Soon after goalkeeper Chris Pearce dropped his dreadful clanger they set up one of the loudest, sustained dins I’ve ever heard on a football ground anywhere in the world. "Jimmy Mullen’s claret-and-blue army" was the chant from the terraces and double-decker stand that housed Burnley’s admiration society.


BEDLAM
Over and over they chanted it. Clapping and stamping their feet and drumming the advertising boards in perfect rhythm. On and on for 20 minutes until the end if the match and another 15 minutes afterwards, until I urged the club’s chairman to get his manager and players to leave their dressing room, return to the pitch and wave their appreciation. The bedlam was almost deafening. It was a colourful and spectacular sight.

But it was something far more important than that. I wanted others to see and hear it. Big men, important men who are making decisions that could alienate the game from ordinary working folk. I wanted Graham Kelly to be there to prove to him that those who talk of Super Leagues should not underestimate the passion of the so-called little clubs. I wanted Sir John Quinton to be there so that the bank chairman chosen to preside over the elite could learn something of life at the other end of the scale. I wanted officials of Manchester United and Arsenal, Liverpool and the other fat cats behind the move to change the face of football to hear the voices of the people.

The bedlam of Burnley was not simply a cry of support for another of the F.A. Cup’s beaten teams. It was a roar of defiance.
"Traditions," said Arther Cox, Derby’s manager whose time in north east football taught him all there is to know about fanaticism.
"You heard the traditions of Burnley’s past out there today. A major club of 30 years ago, don’t forget."
Those who kept up that incessant, thunderous clatter were real fans. Genuine football people with a deep love of their club, no matter the result of a single game. They had nothing to do with the executive box brigade and corporate hospitality merchants to whom football is pandering in the modern era. They stood in the rain, sat in the cold and screamed their allegiance to a game which, at the highest level, continues to turn its back.

English football has no right to dismiss or take lightly the support of people like those who raised their voices so valiantly at the Baseball Ground. This, remember, was the support of a team who lost to a deflected free-kick and a goal handed on a plate by a goalkeeper who couldn’t catch the ball. The frost that caused so many postponements had the managers and scouts flocking to Derby. Brian Clough, David Pleat, Neil Warnock, Ian Branfoot together with scouts from Villa, QPR, Norwich, Portsmouth, Leicester, West Ham, Leeds, Manchester United, Oldham, Coventry, Cambridge, Blackburn to name but a few. Some will report back about individual players or one side or the other. But all will first tell the story of those incredible Burnley supporters.


LOUD
So at last the message will be cast far and wide. The cry from the Fourth Division will reach high places.
"In all my 23 years in the game I’ve never witnessed anything like that," Jimmy Mullen gasped. "It left my players feeling they were prepared to die for those people."

It left Arthur Cox thinking out loud: "Burnley have had a reminder of how things could be. It was a demonstration of potential. They now have to try and make sure they get promotion and don’t let those people down."

And that is a sobering thought.

[Col]

Can't wait to come to your place Col :clap:

Never been to Elland Rd mate just drove past it about 1000 times.

i doubt your supporters will have met a more hostile crowd. hahaha...

infact, i forgot about cardiff. that is fu*king hostile! i remember an fa cup tie we had almost 2 yrs ago, the match was on tv, as i remember the atmosphere was almost as hostile as that in instanbul. i couldnt believe the amount of hatred thrown at our fans. man, they will have their fair share when they arrive in leeds.

[Esox Lucius]

cardiff fans are mental! nasty bastards some of them.

[Col]

This say's it all ;)

Report by John Sadler : Derby v Burnley 1995

Derby v Burnley was a match in a time-warp. A third round replay played on fourth round day. But the real blast from the past came from far more distant days, when fans came only to back their beloved team, not fight their opposite numbers. When fences weren’t needed and policemen merely smiled in approval. Burnley took 4,000 Lancashire lads and lasses to the Midlands. And they were sensational.

Soon after goalkeeper Chris Pearce dropped his dreadful clanger they set up one of the loudest, sustained dins I’ve ever heard on a football ground anywhere in the world. "Jimmy Mullen’s claret-and-blue army" was the chant from the terraces and double-decker stand that housed Burnley’s admiration society.


BEDLAM
Over and over they chanted it. Clapping and stamping their feet and drumming the advertising boards in perfect rhythm. On and on for 20 minutes until the end if the match and another 15 minutes afterwards, until I urged the club’s chairman to get his manager and players to leave their dressing room, return to the pitch and wave their appreciation. The bedlam was almost deafening. It was a colourful and spectacular sight.

But it was something far more important than that. I wanted others to see and hear it. Big men, important men who are making decisions that could alienate the game from ordinary working folk. I wanted Graham Kelly to be there to prove to him that those who talk of Super Leagues should not underestimate the passion of the so-called little clubs. I wanted Sir John Quinton to be there so that the bank chairman chosen to preside over the elite could learn something of life at the other end of the scale. I wanted officials of Manchester United and Arsenal, Liverpool and the other fat cats behind the move to change the face of football to hear the voices of the people.

The bedlam of Burnley was not simply a cry of support for another of the F.A. Cup’s beaten teams. It was a roar of defiance.
"Traditions," said Arther Cox, Derby’s manager whose time in north east football taught him all there is to know about fanaticism.
"You heard the traditions of Burnley’s past out there today. A major club of 30 years ago, don’t forget."
Those who kept up that incessant, thunderous clatter were real fans. Genuine football people with a deep love of their club, no matter the result of a single game. They had nothing to do with the executive box brigade and corporate hospitality merchants to whom football is pandering in the modern era. They stood in the rain, sat in the cold and screamed their allegiance to a game which, at the highest level, continues to turn its back.

English football has no right to dismiss or take lightly the support of people like those who raised their voices so valiantly at the Baseball Ground. This, remember, was the support of a team who lost to a deflected free-kick and a goal handed on a plate by a goalkeeper who couldn’t catch the ball. The frost that caused so many postponements had the managers and scouts flocking to Derby. Brian Clough, David Pleat, Neil Warnock, Ian Branfoot together with scouts from Villa, QPR, Norwich, Portsmouth, Leicester, West Ham, Leeds, Manchester United, Oldham, Coventry, Cambridge, Blackburn to name but a few. Some will report back about individual players or one side or the other. But all will first tell the story of those incredible Burnley supporters.


LOUD
So at last the message will be cast far and wide. The cry from the Fourth Division will reach high places.
"In all my 23 years in the game I’ve never witnessed anything like that," Jimmy Mullen gasped. "It left my players feeling they were prepared to die for those people."

It left Arthur Cox thinking out loud: "Burnley have had a reminder of how things could be. It was a demonstration of potential. They now have to try and make sure they get promotion and don’t let those people down."

And that is a sobering thought.

cool. should be some good banter going down, with the yorks-lancs rivalry and all that.

[Esox Lucius]

whoever wins fair play, your northern and thats all that matters to me :lol:

[Col]

whoever wins fair play, your northern and thats all that matters to me :lol:

hahahaha

[dan the acid man]

coooooome on the owlsssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'll get me coat :lol:

[DJsmallpaul]

Woooooooohhhhhhoooo !!!!


1-0 Clarets Micha Hyde scores on his debut

20mins gone

[DJsmallpaul]

Hmm 1-1

Not bad i suppose but you always expect to win when you go in front.

Never mind..it's a point on the board & that's better than none.

[Col]

Hmm 1-1

just what i ordered. :)

[DJsmallpaul]

Yea wellk done for predicting ;) Wasn't too far of the Leeds score eiher, i knew you'd win.