Another Proper football ground gone forever. Nice article with photos from The Guardian today.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... SApp_Other

Great article,will never ever forget that night there with Mullen's Claret & Blue army,the second best away day I've ever experienced watching us after the Sheffield Play off final game..great memories.

Good article and a real shame it’s gone. My favourite away match along other than Wembley as above.

Another of the grounds I've seen Burnley play at that are no more. I think the departure of Maine Road was particularly sad for Burnley fans given what happened there on 2nd May 1960, but, as we all know, this one brings special memories too when we went there in our thousands.

Yes, mikeS, another proper football ground gone forever.

Went as much for the pubs at the football at times .
Best night ever though when super Johny Francis scored. " They came in their thousands they are going home as champions "

The first ground i ever got thrown out of - Boxing Day 1984 when we were on the receiving end of a 4-0 stuffing. I think it was only the fact that all the cells under the stand were already full of Burnley fans that stopped me ending up in one.

I wonder which other clubs had one of their most famous nights at Bootham Crescent. Probably not just us but quite hard to find out I’d have thought.

And I keep going back to that year…….not long after “that night”, my son was born ………..what a year! Ps he’s now had his own season ticket since he was 5!

Indeed Goodbye Bootham Crescent
https://youtu.be/012jt20U-YY

Still get Goosebumps watching Francis bundle that goal in,great times...I miss em.

Shame another traditional ground has bitten the dust, and that night was when we knew Burnley were on our way back.

I guess it may well feature in CT'S articles come next spring.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:52 am

Shame another traditional ground has bitten the dust, and that night was when we knew Burnley were on our way back.

I guess it may well feature in CT'S articles come next spring.

Were will those 30 years have gone Tiger?

Used to love York away. Sad that it is gone.

Thanks for posting this, wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Good, thought provoking article.

Really sad. Liked the ground. Other than the obvious in May 92, (it’s not Wegerle is it?) my abiding memory is of Brenda’s miss right in front of the away end in the 3-1 win a couple of years earlier

Didn't it have its own little station?
(Not that I ever got the train, we always drove there.)

Getting mixed up, the station was at Hull.

Which game did the coppers chase the burnley fans out on horse back, i think it was York can't remember what year though

Memorable for one of the greatest nights in the club's modern history - but I'm still haunted by Brendan O'Connell's open goal miss during the wilderness years - had to be seen to be believed

Superjohnnyfrancis wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:28 pm

Which game did the coppers chase the burnley fans out on horse back, i think it was York can't remember what year though

Was that not Scarborough??

Leisure wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:04 pm

Was that not Scarborough??

I honestly can't remember, it might have been Stockport County away, did Alan Armstrong play for them? I think he played that day, was early nineties.

Bloody big horse and baton coming towards everyones head think the fans got on the pitch or something, very foggy memory

Last ever video of Bootham Crescent?

https://twitter.com/YfrontFanzine/statu ... 4728481797

Many here will have enjoyed that joyous night out with Jimmy Mullen's Claret n Blue Army clinching the title but for me it was the place that kick started the 2013/14 season with our first victory of many under Sean Dyche (and the debut of the dolphins).

It's always haunting to see a beloved old football ground fading away and think of the many nights that passed there.

Dolphins?

Was that the league cup game where Scott Arfield played after just signing an impressed me playing on the left wing?

Scored one I think if it’s the game I think it is.

Shame. Currently my last away game. The 4-0 League Cup win early in SDs first promotion season.

Peter Loo wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 28, 2021 9:49 pm

Dolphins?

Was that the league cup game where Scott Arfield played after just signing an impressed me playing on the left wing?

Scored one I think if it’s the game I think it is.

Yup. We weren't convincing in the first game of the season but I think we'd drawn.

York really fancied their chances that night and came at us. They really thought they could upseyt us. As it was, we soaked up what they had and then swatted them away.

Sometimes, teams are borne out of luck or happenstance. Sometimes though, thing just click. For me, this was the night things clicked. If things hadn't gone our way (maybe if York had fluked an early goal or the referee had a stinker and sent Heaton off and gave a dodgy penalty...) then the whole season might have panned out differently?

I geuninely think that the win at York that evening was spark for everything that has since followed.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/23499462

.. and the Dolphins?

Peter Loo wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:11 pm

.. and the Dolphins?

They made various appearances throughout the season. I took at least one to Yeovil.

We want our dolphins back
We want our dolphins back
We want our dolphins back

Peter Loo wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:11 pm

.. and the Dolphins?

Inflatables if I remember correctly.

gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:53 am

Inflatables if I remember correctly.

Oh how so 80's and 90's

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:52 am

Shame another traditional ground has bitten the dust...

One of the few advantages Burnley's had: I doubt that we'd still be playing at Turf Moor had the ground's site had more re-development value.
I had some involvement with the construction of Glandford Park stadium in Scunthorpe (Paid for and more by the sale of the old ground to Safeway supermarket) and while that was a shrewd relocation for a financially struggling 4th Division side - not the only one down there wearing in claret & blue at the time - it did and has limited their ability to ever return to a higher level; I doubt that we'd now be playing in the EPL had we'd moved to a 10,000 capacity stadium down by the M65 thirty years ago.