This afternoon Jimmy McIlroy receives the Freedom of the Borough of Burnley in a ceremony at the town hall, and this evening there will be a presentation on the Turf Moor pitch.

A great player has passed away with the demise of Billy Elliott. He wasn't at Burnley all that long but he left his mark. He left his mark on the games he played in and also many a full back he played against.

A collection of photographs covering Brian Miller's career at Burnley Football Club.

Brian Miller started his Turf Moor career as an office boy but went on to play over 450 games for the Clarets and yesterday he was celebrating his 70^th birthday.

Today a former Claret celebrates his eightieth birthday and Clarets Mad sends their best wishes on his special day to Les Shannon.

He came and went in just eleven months but there's no doubt that Ade Akinbiyi made a massive impact during his short stay at Turf Moor.

When Willie Irvine stood up at the dinner given to mark the launch of his book, so that he could say thank you, he began by asking that nobody would heckle him, or interrupt him or boo him.

It was November 2000 when Burnley boss Stan Ternent smashed the club's transfer record when he signed 23 year-old striker Ian Moore from Stockport County for £1 million.

Today should have been the 20th birthday of one of our first team squad, our goalscoring England international, but Richard Chaplow will be celebrating leaving his teens down in the West Midlands.

I don't think anyone would have predicted it just a few short weeks ago but Robbie Blake is no longer a Claret having signed for Birmingham City.

At The age of 15, Adam Blacklaw left his native Aberdeen and headed for Burnley to find fame and fortune in football.

Adrian Heath looked to have taken a massive gamble in November 1996 when he paid £100,000 for an unknown playing in the Irish League with Glentoran.

Yesterday Burnley's own King, King Arthur, abdicated his throne when he moved to Queens Park Rangers in what could ultimately be a free transfer.

It all started with Burnley's craziest ever season for goalkeepers, a Championship season that saw us bring in three loan goalkeepers and end the season with a player we had earlier sent out on loan.

If asked to name one Burnley player in the last fifteen years the name Steve Davis would very much be somewhere towards the top of the list, one of the few to have had three spells with the club.

When Stan Ternent ended the Burnley careers of the Gang of Four in August 1998 there had to be new players brought in.

Paul Cook has announced his retirement from league football bringing to an end a Burnley career of just over four years.

The best managers in the world make mistakes and conversely the worst of managers actually do get things right from time to time.

Bally has gone, after two years at the Turf where he has been a virtual ever present in the side.

In the summer of 1999 Stan Ternent was looking to build a side that would hopefully challenge towards the top end of Division Two.

Paul Fletcher wore the number 9 shirt for the Clarets for most of the 1970s during the club's last period in the top flight.

There is little doubt that Jimmy is the greatest player ever to pull on a Burnley shirt and his career at the club is fairly well documented but how and why did we sign an unknown 18 year old from Belfast?