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Bruce has had a number of clubs since and is incredibly still at Birmingham but Macari was unable to avoid the drop at the end of the 2000/01 season after Bruce had left them in a complete mess.
Macari looked to have turned round the club’s fortunes and although he was unable to win promotion at the first attempt they did make the play offs and were looking to go one better this time round.
Like most clubs they are not particularly well off and they have had to let go a number of players who were on top money and cut their cloth accordingly and it was a major surprise when they decided on a change of management.
A couple of ex-Clarets were linked with the job with Brian Laws considered to be a favourite but Ronnie Jepson’s name was also linked but Clarets Mad believe that was for the number two position along with Peter Jackson.
In the end they went for Mick Wadsworth who had just himself been sacked at Oldham after less than a season. Wadsworth has also managed Carlisle and Southend with little success.
Things have not got off to the best of starts for them this season and they currently find themselves next to bottom in the league with only Mansfield below them. They have had problems with injuries but only twice in the first eleven league games have they won, once away at Peterborough and once at home against Barnsley.
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Scoring goals has been a problem and in the league they have found the net on just five occasions with five different goal scorers. They have failed to score a single goal since the Worthington Cup win with their last league goal scored on 7th September by Martin Smith who had a trial with the Clarets three years ago.
Huddersfield’s last game saw them go down 4-0 at Oldham against Wadsworth’s old club with former Terriers’ striker Clyde Wijnhard scoring twice. It was a game that saw them swept aside and Wadsworth admitted afterwards that they had struggled to compete.
They lined up: Scott Bevan, Steve Jenkins, Nat Brown, Jon Dyson, Kevin Sharp, Danny Schofield, Kenny Irons (Dwayne Mattis 67), Chris Holland, Scott McDonald (Kevin Gallacher 70), Jonathan Stead (Martin Smith 45), Andy Booth. Subs not used: Phillip Senior, Paul Macari.
One thing for certain is that this cup tie is an important game for both clubs with the possibility of a big pay day in Round Three for the winners. For the Clarets it is also an opportunity to reach the 3rd Round for the first time in twenty years. Incredibly we have been beaten in the 1st round nine times and the 2nd round ten times since.
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He played for both
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Lawsy made his Clarets’ debut on the last day of the 1979/80 season in a 4-0 defeat at Watford with us already relegated to the 3rd Division for the first time in our history. During that summer Brian Miller signed Oldham’s Ian Wood and it looked as though Lawsy would have a long wait for a first team place, the long wait was less than a month.
Once displaced Wood was never to take the number two shirt off Laws who made it his own for three full seasons. He could have worn any number because as the Burnley fans used to sing, he was here, there and every ******* where.
The Turf Moor crowd loved Lawsy from the start and he became part of the teenage defence that won promotion back to the 2nd Division in 1982 alongside Vince Overson, Micky Phelan and Andy Wharton with the experienced Martin Dobson as sweeper behind them.
He started the season with a goal and ended it with one in the promotion clincher at Southend although the opening day goal at Gillingham was a stunning own goal from almost the half way line.
He became the penalty taker and despite his lack of height was also the sub goalkeeper and eventually got his chance when Alan Stevenson was sent off in a home game against Leicester.
He was out of the side at the end of the 1982/83 season through injury and was replaced by another youngster called Lee Dixon as we went back down again. One thing for certain was that Bond had inherited two excellent right backs when he took over.
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His stay at Leeds Road was short lived and he played just 56 league games for them before they sold him for just £30,000 to Middlesbrough. After Boro it was Forest and a long run in Brian Clough’s side before moving to Grimsby where he ended his playing career as player manager.
Now whatever happened with Bond is not known but his eccentric behaviour surfaced at Grimsby when he threw a plate of chicken sandwiches at Ivano Bonetti in dressing room after a heated exchange. That ultimately cost him the job and he made the short journey to Scunthorpe where he has been since February 1997. He is now the eighth longest current serving manager at one club in English football.
Despite his strange behaviour in some games against the Clarets he still remains popular with those Burnley fans who can remember him.
Last Time in the Cup
Burnley 0 Huddersfield Town 1 (Clarke) – FA Cup 3rd Round, Saturday 15th January 1972.
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It was a somewhat less than exciting cup tie and one that our visitors definitely deserved to win but apart from that there is very little I can recall from the game so the rest is just a ramble.
It did prove to be a last Burnley game for goalkeeper Peter Mellor, before the following game at Orient Mellor had joined Fulham on loan (it later became a permanent move) and Burnley had splashed out some £55,000 for a young Chesterfield goalkeeper by the name of Alan Stevenson. It was the second highest fee we had ever paid out behind the £60,000 for Paul Fletcher from Bolton.
In the match programme that day manager Jimmy Adamson was singing the praises of a young 15 year old striker called Ray Hankin who had score a hat-trick the previous week for the reserves against Blackburn at Ewood Park. The final score was 4-0, Doug Collins scored the other goal, and Adamson said it was the biggest reserve team away win since 1967 when we had won 4-0 at Derby with goals from Ray Ternent, Stan Ternent, Stephen Done and Willie Brown. Yes Stanley liked going to Derby even then.
Elsewhere in the programme, which cost 7p, local TV suppliers Jack Eglin (later to become a director) were advertising a new idea in home viewing – COLOUR TV – whilst the new club shop were selling such wonderful things as plastic caps, duffle bags and cuff links with not a replica shirt in sight.
Should we have earned a replay there were no reduced charges as there will be for the Worthington Cup tie and the prices were set at 90p, 80p and 70p for seats (no concessions) with standing at 35p for adults and 25p for pensioners and juveniles.
And back to the game for the team news, they lined up as follows;
Burnley: Peter Mellor, Mick Docherty, Jim Thomson, Alan West, Colin Waldron, Martin Dobson, Dave Thomas, Frank Casper, Paul Fletcher, Steve Kindon, Leighton James. Sub not used: Arthur Bellamy.
Huddersfield Town: David Lawson, Dennis Clarke, Geoff Hutt, Steve Smith, Roy Ellam, Trevor Cherry, Brian Mahoney (Mick Fairclough), Terry Dolan, Frank Worthington, Jimmy Lawson, Les Chapman.