Sorry 59_60 but I have to take you to task about these figures!
I started watching the Clarets in the 1952/3 season ---our first home game was v Middlesbrough and we lost 0-1.
That season the First Division averaged 3.21 goals per game. The following seasons the averages were: 3.51: 3.40: 3.31: 3.47: 3.72: 3.64: and then 1959/60 was 3.49 followed by 3.73 and 3.42: --all consistently much higher than the average number of goals in any Premier League seasons.
I also note you figures for our promotion season 1946/7, however, the average was 3.35 goals per game that season and the following season when we finished 3rd in Division One there was an average of 2.90 goals per game.
All these figure compare more than favourably with the Premier League in any season and without Claret tinted specs.
Football was far better to watch in those days with lots of goals, plenty of tackles and played by players who wanted to play and compete with each other because they really enjoyed the game and didn't need a wheelbarrow to take their wages home!
But which values of socialism are the true values BT, those of Corbyn or Starmer, or Blair perhaps ? Maybe the 20 million ghosts of those who died in Stalin's gulags would have an altogether different view of socialist values ? Maybe the 20 million who died in Mao's cultural revolution would have another view again about socialist values. ? But we'll never know will we, and I don't want to find out the hard way, I think Sir Nigel will get my little X on the ballot paper next time. Safest bet imo.
Spurs (31%) 2 Arsenal (69%) 0.
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!