Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas Column
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- Report from the Arctic
- Oh what fun we've had battling with computer technology.

- Great Expectations
- We watched Great Expectations on the telly over the holiday, Pip, Miss Havesham, Magwich, Jaggers et al. It's been excellent. ...

- The joy of Christmas
- "I'm going to sleep now and dream of Christmas, night night," said little Joe. He's only 5 and hasn't been to a Burnley game ...

- What a difference a year makes
- Or does it? It seems to me that we're pretty much as we were a year ago in the table except…

- Who's Hoos
- We welcomed a new Chief Exec to Turf Moor, Lee Hoos. The best post on a website was surely from Rileybobs: "Why are we ...

- Close Encounters of the West Ham Kind
- It was that time of year again; time to make a trip to the capital. If this journey ...

- Perceptions and the State of Play
- The dust from the end of year accounts settled and the near £4million deficit was no surprise. That it would be thus had been ...

- Goodbye Jimmy
- The roll call of footballers and legends at Jimmy Adamson's funeral was fitting.

- Underdog - A review of the new Tim Quelch book
- I had a problem with this review. It is such a marvellous book I couldn't think how ...

- The natives are getting restless
- Seeing how generally undemonstrative Eddie Howe is on the touchline made me ponder on the managers at Burnley who have been ...

- IF - the biggest word in football
- On the way home from the Blackpool game, absolutely delighted with the win of course, plus the manner of the performance, it ...

- Rebirth at the Ricoh
- The new Tim Quelch book is now available. There will be a proper review eventually but in the meantime there is enough ...

- On the Road
- In a fit of madness I'd got tickets for the next two away games at Barnsley and Coventry. I was hoping we'd get Russell Grant ...

- A case of mistaken identity
- Solved it… well… sort of… after all that faffing about last week that got nowhere… it was a case of mistaken identity.

- Trying to understand
- When ah were a lad in short pants life were ever so simple. 11 blokes came out on ter t'pitch and th'object were to score ...

- If Carlsberg did weekends
- The feelgood factor after the win over Forest continued down at Millwall.

- Turkish Delight
- We were away in Turkey for a week. Some friends have a villa there. Sometimes you just have to accept an offer to jet out to ...

- Faint Writing on the Wall
- As if the game v Middlesbrough wasn't bad enough, when I got home I re-read the programme. I'd already read it once during ...

- Making do with England
- With no Burnley game for 2 weeks there wasn't much football to look forward to. There was England v Bulgaria of course but ...

- What a Difference a Win Makes
- I bought Paul Lake's book I'm Not Really Here and it has to be one of the best football books I've read. I had a lump in my ...





