Unpaid "Matchday Heroes" furore...

[Altobelli]

I might have got this wrong, but I was told Willie Irvine who was at the Turf every home game as an ambassador for the Club for many years and was only paid with a ticket to watch the game, one Saturday he turned up to do his duties and was told he was no longer needed and he was not going to get his ticket for the day's game

That's not correct Alto! I had a corporate box in those days. Willie and Andy Lochhead were paid £30.00 each for doing about 7 hours work on a matchday but they did it for the love of the club.

Willie incurred the wrath of Lees Hoos for some reason and was unceremoniously dumped. It was a pathetic way to treat a true Clarets Legend and under the old regime on here, I was castigated to the hills and back for giving Hoos constant dog's abuse!

That's roughly what I said wasn't it ?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

That's roughly what I said wasn't it ?

No! You said he was paid with a match ticket. He wasn't, he got to watch the match and was paid the princely sum of thirty quid to do the corporate greeting bollox. The way BFC treated him was deplorable and I can certainly agree with you on that!