Pointer to make draw

Ray Pointer was a member of the Burnley side that won the Football League Championship in 1959/60. He played in every league game that season scoring 19 goals but it was in the previous season that he set a post war scoring record of 27 league goals, a total bettered only once since by Willie Irvine.

He made his debut in the 1957/58 season and his Burnley career came to an end in the summer of 1965. His total of 133 goals (118 in the league) is the most by any Burnley player in post war football, the goals scored at just about one ever two games.

From Burnley he moved to Bury, Coventry and then Portsmouth where he ended his playing career, but in the late 1970s he returned to the club as a coach when Harry Potts was re-appointed as manager.

Ray celebrated his 71^st birthday just a couple of months ago and is always a welcome visitor to the Turf.