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I couldn’t believe it, our own manager was offering a warm welcome to Charles Koppel and his directors. Now before you tell me it is nothing more than courtesy and in every matchday programme go and take a look at the issue for the Sheffield United game. When Warnock is here you will find that Stan offers no such welcome.
He let football fans down yesterday, who else on earth would welcome Koppel? Our own Chairman Barry Kilby has previously spoken out against franchising in the programme but yesterday, when the opportunity was at its greatest, he chose not to write.
Sorry Stan but I thought that was disgraceful. Nobody within football should be welcoming Koppel, in fact it is a pity that we didn’t do the same as Bradford City and ban the man from the ground. Or maybe you think franchising is a good idea Stan.
It gets worse though and Alastair Campbell, Burnley’s now extremely boring professional celebrity fan, has a go at the real Burnley fans for applauding Andy Cooke. He didn’t begrudge the applause before the match but thought Cookey should have been ignored at the time he was substituted.
That was nothing though compared to Tony Livesey, surely his garbage should be left in the country’s worst newspaper. He launched a dreadful attack on the Burnley fans for even applauding Andy Cooke before the game and described him as nothing more than a journeyman.
I’ll stand up here and now and say I wasn’t a particular fan of Andy Cooke’s but last week I was on my feet applauding a player who in all his time at Burnley never gave less than 100% in a Claret and Blue shirt. I was also recalling his goals that kept us in the Second Division in 1998 and also the goal that sent us all home from Derby in delight after our FA Cup win.
Andy Cooke was popular because he gave everything he had for this club and I will always recognise that whether Livesey likes it or not.
"I don’t want to do Cooke a disservice but he’s a journeyman. He created a handful of Payton’s goals but the Padiham Predator doesn’t need help from the likes of Cooke to regularly find the net. Be honest folks. if you want to say well done to ex players, go and stand with the trainspotters at the players’ entrance and get them to sign your underpants", said Livesey.
"Go and crawl back under your stone", says Clarets Mad.
I can suggest possibly that Stan’s remarks were a misjudgement that I hope he will retract but I’m sorry there is no excuse for the remarks of Campbell and particularly Livesey.
Having said that you could have turned to other pages to read Stewart Binns’ views of Tim Henman or read about actress June Whitfield (who has incidentally turned her back on Franchise and now offers her allegiance to AFC Wimbledon).
Livesey, Campbell and Binns – do we really have to put up with these so called Burnley fans who more often than not are telling us they didn’t go to the games?
Surely there are real fans who watch the Clarets who could provide the Matchday Programme readers with far better material than these three have ever done. I ask Burnley Football Club to improve their Matchday Programme with immediate effect and get rid of these three so called celebrity columnists.