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Orient goalscorer is guest

Last updated : 09 February 2007 By Tony Scholes
Britt will always be a popular guest at the Turf, and without his goal that day in May 1987 who knows where our club might have been now. He'd joined the club in the previous summer, initially on loan, from Blackpool, and along with Neil Grewcock scored the goals in the most crucial game we've ever played.

The former Chelsea, Dundee and Blackpool player was a Claret for three years. In his second season he was in the side that played Wolves in the Sherpa Van Trophy Final and was in the side on a regular basis during the 1988/89 season before his release which brought his professional career to an end at the age of 35.

Twenty years on he remains a hero, and although his best days were at Chelsea, and his Burnley career was spent totally in the bottom division, his will be a name that is always be included in any history of Burnley Football Club.

One day I'm going to see it, and he won't quite get to the ball to head home, but until that day arrives Ian Britton will always be the scorer of the goal that kept Burnley in the Football League.

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