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He made his first team debut in April 1961 but it was in the next season when he came very close to playing in an FA Cup Final. He'd got into the side at the expense of Gordon Harris, but on the big day at Wembley it was Harris who was preferred with Towers, in the days before substitutes, the twelfth man.
Towers made just 44 league appearances for the Clarets and his last was certainly a significant one when he appeared at the start of the second half in our home game against Arsenal in August 1965. He'd come on as substitute for the injured Willie Irvine and thus became the club's first ever substitute in competitive football, wearing a shirt with no number.
He was sold to Oldham in January 1966 for £20,000 and he later played for Bury before moving to South Africa, where he lived for many years, to play for Cape Town and Hellenic.
For Towers, who will be 70 in October this year, it is not his first return to Turf Moor but the first time he'll have made the half time draw.