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FootyMAD >  Clarets MAD >  Clarets History >  The Orient Game
It is fifteen years since the day our great club almost died – the most emotional day I can ever recall in over forty years of watching the Clarets.
This section of Clarets Mad, devoted to the most important game in the club's history, is dedicated to Keith McNee the former sportswriter of the Burnley Express, Lancashire Evening Telegraph and Burnley Evening Star.
We were told that they would become collectors items and that they would be worth a lot of money in years to come but there was no way that I was buying one.
Here we take a look at the reports from the local journalists Granville Shackleton and Keith McNee from their respective newspapers.
It was all about Burnley and whether we would stay in the Football League and whether we would even stay in existence.
Recently we asked for your views and memories from the Orient game and below are some of those we have received so far.
Recently we asked for your views and memories from the Orient game and below are some of those we have received so far.
Recently we asked for your views and memories from the Orient game and below are some of those we have received so far.
Recently we asked for your views and memoried from the Orient game and below are some of those we have received so far.
In Living Memory – They came to bury Burnley and stayed to sing their praise
It's Cruel – Roll on the day when Liverpool meet Arsenal to avoid being ousted from the League by the likes of Kidderminster Harriers.
Burnley Survive – The tension was unbearable and the atmosphere unbelievable at Turf Moor, which usually houses no more than 3,000, on the day when 15,781 watched Burnley preserve their Football League Status at the eleventh hour.
Salvation for Burnley – Burnley Football Club is still a member of the oldest Football League in the world. In a desperate, scrambling match before 15,781 fans yesterday they survived for the narrowest of victories.
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