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The Egyptian deal has a whiff of the Peter Shackleton about it...does the money really exist... questionable lawyers... chasing the deal for months... where is the money coming from...

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Some people leave their thumbprint on the world and are not forgotten when they depart. Derek Gill is such a person, part of the history of the club forever so that his name will not be forgotten. Part of the Bond season, plus the ones preceding that and then following it. He was the one who made se...

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Anybody who watched Newcastle v Burnley the other day deserves an award

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But hey there’s leichenstein v Gibraltar for free

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Annoying at first and then I think petrol from Leeds and a programme is £15, so paying the extra breaks even so will no doubt stump up. For anyone travelling longer distances it’s a reasonable price to watch games.

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Well done on first article. Old hacks like me and Tony been doing it a long time and you never know how something will go down. A forum like this will always have a variety of responses. Just writing down every behind the scenes question we’d like to ask the club would make an article on itself. Nob...

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To actually go to the game, tickets, Kettledrum and summat to eat, petrol, programme etc... £60 quid maybe... makes £10 cheap and who knows if your name is on the cup this year... even Burnley's...

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Why is he likeable... because he is Del Boy in a blonde floppy wig. Loveable Del Boy but wouldn't trust him with yer money...or anything... everything he touches goes wrong

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4-2 does not do the Burnley display justice. How can anyone be critical with yet another injury, an own goal, hitting the post, makeshift centre backs. A team that never gave in, but succumbed to a club that pays huge sums for players. Burnley were brilliant said Ian Wright and they were, despite th...

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The other one they bought Lowe was excellent.

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On the plus side you only need to buy 6 presents, assuming one is for yourself.

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From Sunday Express. "I don't know what my budget is but that's the way it has always been run here. It's a fact of life that the chairman and the board have a tendency to take transfers right down to the wire. All I have asked is for some more guidelines so that I can target the players I want bett...

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Goredaleman because the problems are there. Real problems. Dyche and Garlick are at loggerheads. Nixon saying again this morning there are differences over targets and budget. Rigg coming up with names but nothing followed up. Inertia rules OK

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Mail online again and SD refers to creating a way of working that suits the people that count...staff and players.
No mention of Mr Garlick or directors.
A pointed remark or nothing to see.

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Be an exciting season though wouldn't it? Blood pressure and sanity went through the roof in that last Stan season. That last minute win at Bradford and then Branchy the saviour with those two priceless wins at the end.

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Going off on a bit of a tangent I suppose but if the squad remains as it is and the lid is kept tight on the jar on the mantelpiece, and Dyche keeps us up, he can say what Stan T said in his final season...that not being relegated with what he had at his disposal was his greatest achievement.

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Read it twice and it left me 'meh' standard newspaper stuff. But: interesting that Flood has re-surfaced. On a board of doves, caution and parsimony he is the one with a bit of flair, ambition and drive. I suspect what is going on now is driving him nuts but he doesn't hold all the cards. That is Ga...

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Oh and proper snow every winter...

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Pure nostalgia... the world as we would love it to be.. when all was well (even though it wasn't but we imagine it was).
No BLM, no EU, no Boris, no Trump, Putin or Covid.
The world through rose tinted glasses and escapism... just had a week int Dales on a farm... the real world forgotten for a week.

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Just finished a week up int Dales. Coldest we've ever known it in Aug but a grand log fire every night.
Back home and on with the heating last night and tonight. A little fan heater undert kitchen table and hot soup. Perfect.

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Great shirt pity about the ghastly scribble

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NNN vol 2 has all the Derek Gill stories and diary and the state the club was in. NNN vol 1 has the story of the JJ period but doesn't do Derek Gill proper justice. The JJ period included Mr Bond. Yes JJ was a wonderfully entertaining bloke and great raconteur. Derek Gill put the club on a superb fi...

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No nothing amusing about it Middle aged... it's bitter, vitriolic and way over the top... as if he has some kind of agenda... or thinks ooh what can I write about next...oh yeh the elbow at Norwich... it never struck me at the time that he was play acting...yep they were tussling 50 50... but an elb...

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Leeds go up...

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Cleggy only that both are much maligned

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nice one CT

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What a traumatic life he had though Cleggy… filled with personal tragedies that he kept to himself. Not even the players closest to him ever knew. Plus the Lowerhouse land scam he was involved with. So bitter at the end about so many things.

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This morning I am still astonished, amazed, overawed, disbelieving, nay gobsmacked at the result. It defies, gravity and logic. The wheels keep falling off the bus but it just keeps trundling along. Brownhill is a steal. Mee is a legend. Tarks a sh*thouse, McNeil leaves no footprints in the snow, Ba...

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Leeds. Want them to come up. Want the two derby games.

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Yep Blacklaw versus Reims... I'd rate it higher than the Banks Mexico save. Or at least the very equal.

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It's hard to dislike an away team that behave like sportsmen... Arsenal take note.

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Meanwhile the chairman's silence is deafening.

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Wonderful post Tony and many thanks for your generous acknowledgement. Please Dear Lord may the footie soon keep us occupied as I am running out of articles that have been in an old file that goes back years. What I enjoyed was seeing how the ten this and ten that articles provoked so many responses...

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yep the 3-3 was tremendous. remember that because we were in a wine bar in Ormskirk that opened for us and we sat with a few scoops and bacon sandwiches... didn't we come so close to winning it?

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oh comedy characters...sorry... not Ken Dodd then... Basil Fawlty

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Ken Dodd

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It's been good to see that this little series of ten this and ten that has resulted in such a lot of discussion and memories.
I think I got one left.

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In these articles there is no such thing as a glaring omission... all opinions are personal, there are no rights and wrongs.

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The Cummings goal. There is a very slim paperback by Peter Fyles called Burnley's Greatest Goal. Published 1999. At that point Peter was a teacher in Stockholm. The book is the thesis he wrote whilst doing his teacher training.

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The interesting thing is that Derek Gill got the club back in the money with some quite lucrative commercial deals. Plus the unexpected bonus of the Lowerhouse Land money. And then it was all splurged. The relationship between directors was toxic, Reeves injured... and it all went downhill and spect...

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Cajun...great choices.

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sex, drugs and rock and roll... and I'm 75...

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No doubt judged as manslaughter not murder... oh it was accidental... and they'll be out in 4 or 5 years. Some deterrent.

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Yep Defour...good one... we just took to him

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Darthlaw...there is no cut... it's personal choice... definition what does make a cult hero... it might just be one fleeting moment that makes you remember a guy fondly for ever. One daft stupid thing like the Ade headbutt plus the Chelsea goal...John Deary that iconic pic of him standing over Bryan...

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Dean Marney? Funny definition isn;'t it...Jimmy Mac legend yes...but cult hero?

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We used to stay with Mrs T's sister. Remember an away game at Southampton. Lost...maybe it was 2-1 or 2-0. Never seen a bloke looking more disconsolate as he trudged off at the end. As of to say just what am I doing here.

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And yep as Tony intimates, they were well sick of each other by the end of 75 with Lord wanting rid by then.

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The money that Lord owed Adamson was allegedly around £4000. There was a letter floating around for some while in Adamson's possession that mentioned the money. Adamson showed it to Fletcher and Waldron on one of their visits in is later life. The scam that Adamson and Lord cooked up together to mak...

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Colburn...All these memory lane things were written 12 years or so ago... my memory was better then... Oh Jimmy Cricket...wonderful. Brighten any day up. The nearest I got to a celeb was a signed pic from Billy Pearce cos he used to call at the video shop where one of the mums worked. I got a dozen ...

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