Dave does gloating rather well I think!

[Supersub6]

Oswaldtwistle.
I have never lived nearer than 100 miles from the ground since 1966 when I joined the RAF. I used to sell tickets for the Development Association during the late 1960s and through the 1970s in Germany, Weston-super-Mare and Catterick and used to pay in over £100 per month. Lived at Uxbridge for 11 years before moving to Ashington where I had a season ticket for 18 years until two seasons ago.
Have only managed one game this season but more than happy at how we are doing.

[sinkov]

"There is a large group of people for whom following a football club involves latching on to a team purely and simply because they are regularly successful, play at huge stadia, enjoy a massive global profile, and boast the best players on the planet.

Burnley and Blackburn Rovers tend not to attract that kind of following; instead, they draw their support largely from their immediate locality. For those supporters, their team is so much more than a mere fashion statement or a trendy whim; it is a physical, visceral attachment; it speaks of a person’s identity, values, and heritage. It is who you are and where you belong."

Hmmm, not too sure the above is applicable to our Blackburn friends. The season Uncle Jack bought in, 1990/91 their average gate was 8,126, ours wasn't much different, 7,882. Five years later, after Uncle Jack had invested his millions, they were playing in a modern stadium, regularly successful, had a global profile and had some of the best players money could buy, their average gate was 27,714, ours was 9,064.

I think it's valid to ask the Mrs Merton question to those 19,000 additional Blackburn fans who had appeared, as if from nowhere, during those five years, "What was it that first attracted you to the millionaire Jack Walker's football club" ? Could it really be explained by "a physical, visceral attachment; it speaks of a person’s identity, values, and heritage. It is who you are and where you belong."

I rather think not, they weren't called Bandwagon Blues for nothing. We had 'em sussed.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

"There is a large group of people for whom following a football club involves latching on to a team purely and simply because they are regularly successful, play at huge stadia, enjoy a massive global profile, and boast the best players on the planet.

Burnley and Blackburn Rovers tend not to attract that kind of following; instead, they draw their support largely from their immediate locality. For those supporters, their team is so much more than a mere fashion statement or a trendy whim; it is a physical, visceral attachment; it speaks of a person’s identity, values, and heritage. It is who you are and where you belong."

Hmmm, not too sure the above is applicable to our Blackburn friends. The season Uncle Jack bought in, 1990/91 their average gate was 8,126, ours wasn't much different, 7,882. Five years later, after Uncle Jack had invested his millions, they were playing in a modern stadium, regularly successful, had a global profile and had some of the best players money could buy, their average gate was 27,714, ours was 9,064.

I think it's valid to ask the Mrs Merton question to those 19,000 additional Blackburn fans who had appeared, as if from nowhere, during those five years, "What was it that first attracted you to the millionaire Jack Walker's football club" ? Could it really be explained by "a physical, visceral attachment; it speaks of a person’s identity, values, and heritage. It is who you are and where you belong."

I rather think not, they weren't called Bandwagon Blues for nothing. We had 'em sussed.

I remember standing on the Bee Hole End sinkov in the pissing rain getting hammered by Hereford Town and the crowd could not have been more than 3000.

On the "wrong" side of our family they all support the B@stards (Ashley Barnes' word not mine!), and they are so fecking fickle. When Shearer and Sutton were running rampant, they were all chests puffed out and attended every game. Now hardly a whimper.

I know I have bias, but the Deadwood Brigade are not a patch on our lot. I still love the absolute buzz of going to our away games the Burnley fans are always in full attendance and full voice.

I hate to say this but Owen Coyle seemed to put the "bounce" back into Burnley crowds, we have not looked back since he took us to Wembley.

For a town with the indigenous population the size it is, to have 16000 fully paid-up season ticket holders is really quite insane.

[Vintage Claret]

Born in Burnley and attended my first game at the age of 8 in 1954, my father took me to see Burnley play Spurs, I think but it was quite a while ago and I am no sure. I can remember we were in the enclosure as it was Dad's favourite place on the ground. I have been a Clarets fan ever since.

I have to admit though that in the mid-sixties I used to go on with friends every home game, but when we could not make it to away games we used to go and watch Blackburn Rovers, at Ewood Park, those were the days of Douglas and Clayton, but we had the better team with Jimmy Mac, Pointer, Angus. Those were very happy days.

[kritichris]

Bacup, following in my dad's footsteps and reinforced by going to St. Ted's.

[warminsterclaret]

Fareham, Hampshire. However my father, grandfather and great grandfather were all from Burnley.

Wow. I'm from Fareham too Outwood. What are the chances?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Wow. I'm from Fareham too Outwood. What are the chances?

I read today Wetherspoons are selling up in Fareham, is nothing sacred anymore.

[warminsterclaret]

Yes indeed BT. The Lord Arthur Lee in West Street.

[Claret_Matelot]

Yes indeed BT. The Lord Arthur Lee in West Street.

The Crown (40 West Street) is also a Wetherspoons. I suppose a high street that small couldn't support two in the same street less than half a mile apart.

[Miked111]

Accrington, first went on the Turf 1963 aged 5 with my Dad and Grandad, still get the same buzz now as I did then every game it never leaves you.