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    Quote Originally Posted by 1959_60 View Post

    We certainly look back on the good old days with rose tinted specs, there were plenty of dire games then. But we remember these days fondly because the Clarets were a major force.
    I do remember those days fondly 59, and I thought the football was far more exciting and entertaining back then, but maybe it was my rose tinted specs, so I've just had a look at the scores in my first two full seasons watching Burnley, 1959/60 and 60/61. In 84 D1 games over the two seasons there were just three goalless draws, amongst the scores were.

    Leeds 2 Burnley 3
    Burnley 5 Everton 2
    Rovers 3 Burnley 2
    Burnley 4 City 3
    Burnley 8 Forest 0
    Arsenal 2 Burnley 4
    WHU 2 Burnley 5
    Burnley 3 Arsenal 2
    Wolves 6 Burnley 1
    Burnley 3 Sheffield Wed 3
    Burnley 3 Arsenal 2
    Burnley 5 PNE 0
    PNE 2 Burnley 3
    Burnley 5 Fulham 0
    Rovers 1 Burnley 4
    Burnley 5 United 3
    Chelsea 2 Burnley 6
    (The 4 games above were consecutive, 20 league goals in 4 games, two days after the Chelsea game we won 4-0 at Cardiff in the League Cup, 24 goals in 5 games in 23 days in October 1960)
    Burnley 5 Wolves 3
    Bolton 3 Burnley 5
    Spurs 4 Burnley 4
    Burnley 3 Leicester 2
    Arsenal 2 Burnley 5
    Burnley 5 Newcastle 3
    Burnley 3 Sheffield Wednesday 4
    Burnley 4 Chelsea 4
    Burnley 4 Forest 1
    United 6 Burnley 0
    Burnley 4 Spurs 2

    Don't know about rose tinted specs, looking back at that lot, it seems even better than I was remembering it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
    I do remember those days fondly 59, and I thought the football was far more exciting and entertaining back then, but maybe it was my rose tinted specs, so I've just had a look at the scores in my first two full seasons watching Burnley, 1959/60 and 60/61. In 84 D1 games over the two seasons there were just three goalless draws, amongst the scores were.

    Leeds 2 Burnley 3
    Burnley 5 Everton 2
    Rovers 3 Burnley 2
    Burnley 4 City 3
    Burnley 8 Forest 0
    Arsenal 2 Burnley 4
    WHU 2 Burnley 5
    Burnley 3 Arsenal 2
    Wolves 6 Burnley 1
    Burnley 3 Sheffield Wed 3
    Burnley 3 Arsenal 2
    Burnley 5 PNE 0
    PNE 2 Burnley 3
    Burnley 5 Fulham 0
    Rovers 1 Burnley 4
    Burnley 5 United 3
    Chelsea 2 Burnley 6
    (The 4 games above were consecutive, 20 league goals in 4 games, two days after the Chelsea game we won 4-0 at Cardiff in the League Cup, 24 goals in 5 games in 23 days in October 1960)
    Burnley 5 Wolves 3
    Bolton 3 Burnley 5
    Spurs 4 Burnley 4
    Burnley 3 Leicester 2
    Arsenal 2 Burnley 5
    Burnley 5 Newcastle 3
    Burnley 3 Sheffield Wednesday 4
    Burnley 4 Chelsea 4
    Burnley 4 Forest 1
    United 6 Burnley 0
    Burnley 4 Spurs 2

    Don't know about rose tinted specs, looking back at that lot, it seems even better than I was remembering it.
    I had the full collection of programmes from that season sinkov, home and away and a lot of them had autographs on them.

    The sorry tale is ex-wife number two was a proper vindictive bitch and when I left her for wife number three she threw the lot on the back of the fire. Snake with tits springs to mind!

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    In what was one of my first away outings sinkov, me and my grandad and an uncle went to see Burnley at Wolverhampton that season on a Ribblesdale Batty Holt coach setting off from Infant Street in Accrington.

    I seem to recall I sniffled all the way back to Accrington. 6-1!

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier View Post
    In what was one of my first away outings sinkov, me and my grandad and an uncle went to see Burnley at Wolverhampton that season on a Ribblesdale Batty Holt coach setting off from Infant Street in Accrington.

    I seem to recall I sniffled all the way back to Accrington. 6-1!
    I didn't go BT, but I can still remember hearing the score on my transistor radio, honestly I was in a state of shock, I could not believe any team could beat that Burnley team 6-1. But I was young, I'm not quite so wet behind the ears now.

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