Alan Pace - an appreciation.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

A round of praise for Alan Pace.

Despite a lot of Clarets fans initial misgivings about an American being in charge at Turf Moor, Alan Pace?s tenure at Burnley Football Club has been amazing.

He has brought financial stability to the club and unlike many foreign investors he remains totally ?hands on? at Turf Moor. He lives with his family within a few miles from the Barnfield training centre, attends every game and his personal enthusiasm for the Clarets his obvious.

I love to see him at our games holding hands with his wife and giving her a gentle squeeze when we score a goal. His daughter follows suit and the whole Pace family?s attitude towards Burnley Football Club should be the model for all foreign investors when they acquire an English football club.

I have absolutely no idea as to what Alan intends to do with our club in the future but for now another season in the highest echelon of English Football awaits. Well done Alan Pace, your commitment to Burnley Football Club is obvious and is the envy of many.

[ballcock]

Couldn't agree with you more BT.

Love Alan and his families commitment to the club, they have put their hearts and soul into it.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Couldn't agree with you more BT.

Love Alan and his families commitment to the club, they have put their hearts and soul into it.

Nice to have an agreement with you ballcock, it means a lot.

[ClaretinBudapest]

Totally agree BT.My initial scepticism has been evacerated over the time that Alan has been steering the ship.Congratulations to him on another promotion.Now get that investment from the Yanks-just a small portion of the supposed 1.2 billion would suffice.

[outwoodclaret]

What Pace and the Board and their investors need to do now-having got us back to the EPL again-is to keep us there this time. Easier said than done.I have copied below my comments from an earlier thread on Alan Pace and his record at Burnley so far.

Not beyond reproach I think BT but very shrewd and understands Burnley (the town and the football club) to a far greater degree than people realise. There will be big challenges ahead if we achieve promotion back to the EPL at the end of this season. Pace will have had the experience of our last disastrous campaign in the PL under Kompany and hopefully he has absorbed the lessons of that failure. It is very easy for a team to totally disintegrate in the PL following promotion as both Leicester and Southampton have shown this season. Ipswich have shown a lot more bottle but as many suspected when they won promotion they would also struggle. Gaining a foothold in the PL is incredibly difficult as its slopes are steep and slippery. What Sean Dyche achieved at Burnley was quite simply extraordinary. We might not see its like again but I hope we do.

[Balan]

Congratulations to Alan on promotion, to the promised land. ( מזל טוב לאלן על הקידום, לארץ המובטחת ).

[wombatz]

We certainly won the ownership lottery for once

[barrie_burn]

welcome wombatz.Stay away from the politics and you'll enjoy the site.

[Turf_Forever]

Lots of good, but some others bizarre at best.

It may not be Pace himself but the pitch invasion reaction and flag/tifo policy just seem bonkers when other clubs do it miles better.

We go mad over a pitch invasion, Wrexham embrace it. We hand out a few flags to kids, Leeds give every single person a yellow scalf...

[Andingle01]

I don't think it was the pitch invasion specifically the club were mad at , more the damage done from the pitch invasion.