Alex-Ray Harvey has spent much of the pre-season with the first team squad, including the trip to Singapore, and on the eve of the season we can confirm that Clarets Mad will be his kit sponsor for the 2010/11 season.

Thursday 5^th August is the big night at Turf Moor when manager Brian Laws and his staff join us for our special 'Laying Down The Laws' evening just two days ahead of the season opener against Nottingham Forest.

For the sixth season, Clarets Mad will be running the popular Fantasy Premier League Mad, although there will be no Brian Jensen, Graham Alexander or Wade Elliott to select from this year.

The youth team squad went back into training last week and before the start of their league season they will be taking part in a tournament in Portugal with the help of the Clarets Mad Youth Foundation.

Clarets Mad's fourth golf day proved to be a big success yesterday at Royal Rishton with even the decent weather showing its face after previous days had not been quite so blessed.

World Cup 2010 in South Africa is just four days away and you can now get involved yourself with our Fantasy World Cup 2010 Mad and help raise some money for Burnley FC's youth development at the same time.

A week ago to day, on the eve of our last game of the season against Spurs, I was busily preparing for the end of season dinner, the Clarets Mad Golden Jubilee Jamboree.

Clarets Mad are delighted that once again we are able to assist one of our junior teams in playing in a prestigious youth tournament, this time helping the Under-14 team to play across the pond in Phoenix, Arizona.

The second Clarets Mad Pool competition, held today at the White Hart in Burnley, was won by the message board's Claretcharlie who beat DMP in the final to take the second Clarets Mad Pool title.

Burnley's Under-14 team are all set to play in Dublin this weekend after the Clarets Mad Youth Foundation sponsored them in the Hibernia Trophy.

Dan Black, Andrew Greaves, Toby & Tom Mackie and Phil Simpson all left Turf Moor yesterday morning just after 7:00 a.m, the first Burnley fans to depart for Stoke.

The youth team fell to a 1-0 defeat last night in their opening Milk Cup game against Co Londonderry, and we are able to bring you some photographs of the team.

It was 28 years ago that an old friend of mine, Burnley Express reporter Peter Higgs, walked to our first away game of the season at Gillingham. Now fellow journalists are amongst five Burnley fans set to walk to Stoke for the first game of the coming season.

The new season, our first in the Premier League, is getting closer and just two days before our first game at Stoke comes a special Clarets Mad evening with manager Owen Coyle, chief exec Paul Fletcher and head of youth Martin Dobson.

The Clarets Mad Youth Foundation is delighted to announce their financial support of three Burnley Football Club junior teams in tournaments this summer.

Clarets Mad has been running a Fantasy Premier League game for the last five seasons and this year will be no exception. But for the coming season there will be some new names alongside those of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and the other big boys.

When Burnley met Queens Park Rangers last Saturday, Clarets Mad were guests of the club to collect the Adam Kay shirt we sponsored as part of the Clarets Mad Youth Foundation.

Burnley's youth team will be taking part in the prestigious Northern Ireland Milk Cup Youth Tournament this July and Clarets Mad Youth Foundation are delighted to announce our sponsorship of the team.

We are always looking at different ways of boosting the Clarets Mad Youth Foundation fund and last Sunday held our first ever pool competition at the White Hart in Burnley.

Friday 31^st October will see racing come to the big screen at the latest Clarets Mad Youth Foundation event which will be held at Turf Moor.

East Belfast football fans are proficient in displaying past and present glories in the form of murals.

The Championship season gets underway in earnest in five weeks time. Clubs are bringing in new players and pre-season training is underway, Now it is time for you to start considering your squad again.

For the third successive season Clarets Mad are delighted to confirm that we will be Adam Kay's kit sponsors in what is his first season as a full time professional at Burnley.

Burnley Football Club have gone to great lengths this week to confirm their commitment to youth development, and that news is very reassuring indeed for Clarets Mad.

We've just had a weekend to remember with events on both Saturday and Sunday that have taken the money raised for the Clarets Mad Youth Foundation to over £24,200.