Burnley 59-60 and our Total Football.

[blueheeler1]

There were very few goals scored by full backs and half backs in those days because the forwards were very good at converting chances into goals.

I look back on those days and feel very privileged that I was able to watch my team become champions of England, play in Europe and get to the FA Cup Final. They were a smashing team to watch in a very different era of football.
In all honesty, the only similarity with our current team, as far as I am concerned, is that every player gave it 100% in those days an that is the case with the current squad --something which can't be said about every Burnley team I have watched in tha last 66 years!

Remember the mud that resembled a pitch?

Remember the old boots up to ankles; the ball that weighed a ton when wet?

It was a proper man's game then.

I remember when the training Burnley had then was running up and down the Pennines.

"And if you tell them that they won't believe you".

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Me and my grandparents were walking along Blackpool beach in the early sixties when about twenty blokes came running towards us from the Fleetwood direction.

They were passing a ball to each other and skipping in and out of the sea wearing training gear and old fashioned pumps.

You guessed it!

It was the Burnley first team and a few reserves with Harry Potts leading the way.

If only I had my iPhone with me then? If I remember correctly we were actually at home to Blackburn in the old First Division the following Saturday.

I remember thinking Gordon Harris had the thighs of a bull, him and Tarkowski were about the same build but Bomber Harris would have been a tad shorter. Be great to transpose one or two of those lads into our current set-up!

[alfinyalcabo]

I often wonder how the players of today would cope with the weight of the old football,the good old shoulder charge,the sliding tackle from behind .. Etc.. Don't think they would last long in the 60s game ..

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Could you imagine Brian O'Neil tackling Delli Alli?

All that would be left would be snot and feathers!

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[Supersub6]

It really is a 'snowflake' game these days, it has taken a bad bump on the head to make me realise that, in spite of being able to watch my beloved Clarets playing in the PL, I am not enjoying football anywhere near as much as I used to because it is being sanitized beyond belief by all those governing the game.

[oldcolner]

I often wonder how the players of today would cope with the weight of the old football,the good old shoulder charge,the sliding tackle from behind .. Etc.. Don't think they would last long in the 60s game ..

Yes and with no yellow cards people like Hunter, Bremner, chopper Harris, Tommy Smith had a field day and rarely got sent off. There didn’t seem to many ACL injuries then either.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Yes and with no yellow cards people like Hunter, Bremner, chopper Harris, Tommy Smith had a field day and rarely got sent off. There didn’t seem to many ACL injuries then either.

Do you know OC I said exactly the same last week.

An American sports scientist blames this rash of ACL injuries on poor cleats.