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- Clarke Carlisle's Game to Remember - Part Two
- On Monday May 25th, 2009, that philosophy took Burnley to an improbable triumph.

- Clarke Carlisle's Game to Remember - Part One
- It isn't too often that The Spectator waxes lyrical about Burnley Football Club ...

- Brian Jensen - Part Two of his decade at Burnley
- Arsenal arrived at Burnley for the Carling Cup game, not quite as all-powerful ...

- Brian Jensen - Part One of his decade at Burnley
- He is known as the Beast and he has had this name since his West Brom days.

- All's well that ends well
- The win at Wolves must surely have surprised us all. We thought they'd have been fighting for their lives but they ...

- Dogfight over - I think
- The manager was clear enough. "We are engaged in a dogfight," he admitted after the Leeds result.

- Not a happy sinking ship
- Following the club statement from Mike Garlick regarding John Sullivan, the Russians and Brendan Flood, it wasn't ...

- That was the week that was
- All of us gasped for different reasons with the news of Margaret Thatcher's death. Love her or hate her, loathe or ...

- 99% sure of safety
- 54 points and 7 above the bottom three: effectively 8 with a goal difference of +1, whilst those at the bottom end are ...

- Happy Easter ish
- It was good news for the gas company bosses with the announcement of their bonuses.

- The picture that started a book
- For years we had a Retriever, a golden-haired, lovely faithful dog that kept us company for 14 years.

- It's A Clucking Disgrace
- Mrs T and me once used to keep hens in the garden. We had a big garden in Headingley with veg patches and lawns and ...

- On the Buses
- It was Sunday morning cattle wagon time again - not that Mrs T and me partook of the splendid scenic ride to Ewood.

- Sometimes I Worry
- I worry sometimes that I'll have nothing to write, that I'll sit down, stare at the keyboard and the page will stay ...

- Clarets, Cows and Cockatoos
- Back from Oz. While we were away there wasn't a win and the angst on Clarets Mad made for drab reading.

- Off to Australia
- Prior to the Birmingham blip the worst defence in the division had become one of the best. The diehards who were at ...

- Can we play you every week?
- I was at the Turf on Thursday up in the uni bit. The students hadn't started yet so it was quiet, empty, clean and tidy.

- Better to have loved
- What a nice surprise when I got back from the dejection of Barnsley and the horrible Cup defeat. There was a Gerry ...

- Going Dahn going Dahn going Dahn
- You shake your head at the madness of football. Nottingham Forest sacked Sean O'Driscoll after they stuck four past ...

- Dedicated to Mrs T's Thumb
- I'm not one to gloat but Leeds 1 Chelsea 5 was a scoreline that was certainly pleasing on the eye. I really thought ...


