100 YEARS Ago...

[mikeS]

Turf Moor, Saturday 15 January 1921
Burnley 4, Blackburn Rovers 1
(Boyle, Cross 2, Kelly)
Att 41,584
Burnley: Dawson, Smelt, Jones, Halley, Boyle, Watson, Nesbitt, kelly, Anderson, Cross, Weaver.
Burnley go five points clear at the top of Division 1.

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[onewillieirvine]

Only seems like yesterday

[redwasp]

On our way to the title. Highest scorers best defense, five points clear. Great times. When did Arsenal drop "The"?.

[redwasp]

Oops, just noticed Tottenham had scored one more than us.

[gawthorpe_view]

Both Bradford clubs in division 1.

[gawthorpe_view]

Dawson Smelt Jones, no social distancing in those days.

[claptrappers_union]

They’ll blow it, they always do

[ClaretTony]

20 gone without defeat at this stage, another 10 to go.

[BobHaidong]

Don’t know what all the fuss is about. Top of the third tier? Wheres the Premier League table?

[icu81b4]

Haworth out.

[durhamclaret]

Then 50 goals for after 23 games
Now 9 from 17
So all we need is about 7 in each of the next games to catchup!

[EarbyClaret]

Three London teams, three from the Midlands, sixteen from the North

[ClaretTony]

And 12 from the current Premier League

[durhamclaret]

Didn’t know that Arsenal were known as The Arsenal.

[Rowls]

Only two of those teams have never been top flight in the Premier League era and one of those two no longer exist as a professional outfit.

[ClaretTony]

Didn’t know that Arsenal were known as The Arsenal.

I never knew it was officially their name but some still refer to them as The Arsenal.

[durhamclaret]

I never knew it was officially their name but some still refer to them as The Arsenal.

As in one nil to the Arsenal

[Somethingfishy]

I was looking at that table and thinking " wow, a lot of draws that season" until i realisd the D and L columns are the other way round to how they are now

[Dark Cloud]

Not much "southern" representation in that league was there?

[Dark Cloud]

Didn’t know that Arsenal were known as The Arsenal.

Because that's exactly where the team was formed by workers based at the weapons and munitions store (arsenal) originally based in Woolwich, south of the river. Hence "The Gunners" emblem, even after they moved to north London and dropped Woolwich from their name.

[Masham Ale]

It was The Arsenal that beat the 30 top flight matches unbeaten record which stood for 83? Years

[mikeS]

Game 24
Blackburn Rovers 1, Burnley 3
(Hodgkinson) (Kelly, Mosscrop, Anderson)
Att: 43,000 at Ewood Park
Burnley go 21 games undefeated and extend their lead at the top of the table to six points.

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