Lancastrian living in the Scottish Borders.Burnley season ticket holder. Love my Sport. BFC, LCCC 🌹 Lowerhouse CC amongst others.
Ancrum, Scottish Borders
Joined July 2009
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A cast of mine and @claretgaily hands intertwined together which we did in hospital a few days before Gail passed away. A kind thought from a friend to arrange this. A keepsake I can cherish everyday pride of place in the house..A little bit of @ClaretGaily lives on ❤❤
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Bradford have given Burnley a 3,909 allocation for next weeks Carabao Cup game at Valley Parade - and they’re charging just a fiver a ticket.
Adults - £5
Kids -£5
Absolutely brilliant pricing from Bradford, fair play to them! 👏
And so he should be distraught. I hate diving and if more players were booked for it they would stop doing it and it would be eradicated from the game
Breel Embolo was distraught after becoming the first player to be sent off as a result of the new ‘mistaken identity’ law 🟥
After a VAR review, he received a second yellow card for a dive when Argentina’s Leandro Paredes was initially cautioned for a foul ❌
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I’ve always never been able to decide which is Britain’s most beautiful bit: North Devon or the Yorkshire Dales. But I’ve just spent the last three days in the Scottish Borders and now I have an answer. God almighty, they’re beautiful. Also, I bought some cows there.
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Still remains THE red card in a FIFA world cup opener.
Nothing compares to this.
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Today marks the 144th birthday of our great club. Lots of ups and downs and there will be more to come but we will always be there, kick every ball, laugh, cry and support them as long as we have breath. Happy birthday @BurnleyOfficial 🎂❤️
Didn't travel today. Didn't listen or watch, Summary is typical of most games. I'm not angry. I feel absolutely nothing. I've completely disenaged from the season with this 3 week break. Would rather stay home and watch the Masters ⛳️ and that's what I'm doing.#twitterclarets
FT: Burnley 0-2 Brighton
Usual story. Play alright, respond after going behind but don’t have the quality to get back in it.
That’s now 175 days without a home win in the league. One win in 23 overall. Relegation just a matter of time.
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FT: Burnley 0-2 Brighton
Usual story. Play alright, respond after going behind but don’t have the quality to get back in it.
That’s now 175 days without a home win in the league. One win in 23 overall. Relegation just a matter of time.
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So Burnley fans, will you be happy finishing 9th and missing out on the playoffs altogether next season? #twitterclarets
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The biggest time-wasters in football now are not the players but some of the officials implementing VAR. Turf Moor confirmed that. Almost three minutes to decide that Anthony was offside. Right decision but a nonsense it took so long to establish. Sort out semi-automated. Almost five minutes to decide that Barnes had handled. Not even sure it was the right decision anyway.
The unacceptable, unconscionable amount of time taken damages the game and alienates the fans, without whom there is no game. PGMO has to improve. It claims it is speeding up decision-making and then delivers this desecration of a great football game between Burnley and Brentford with delays.
PGMO use of the technology has to be better. And quicker. VAR is here to stay - IFAB underlined that in Cardiff on Saturday - so let’s make it work for the game of football not against. Improve standard of officiating - on-field and at Stockley Park. Invest even more in developing good officials. Speed up the process - and if that means a time limit on decisions then do it.
Don’t chase perfection; just prevent injustice. PGMO has forgotten Clear and Obvious only. PGMO has forgotten the game is about passionate match-goers not pedantic, slow-moving law-enforcers. #BURBRE
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🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Arsene's Wenger new offside rule has been APPROVED and will be used in the Canadian Premier League!
A player will ONLY be offside if he has FULLY passed the last defender, so it won't be decided based on a body part anymore.
If succesful, the offside rule could change across the entire world from the 2027/28 season on.
5 minutes Paul Tierney looked at this trying to make his mind up about this and then decided that it was a definite handball. Regardless of whether it was a correct decision or not it shouldn't be taking 5 mins to make a decision on this. VAR is sucking the life out of the game
To all the Burnley "it wasn't handball" people out there. Watch this perfectly executed killing of the ball with just his hip. 😍
The way he's disproven Newton's Laws of Motion here completely unminds the understanding of physics over centuries.
Or, perhaps, he handles the ball
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Reading loads of comments about accepting our fate.
Sounds like fans were expecting a busy transfer window?
Does anyone truly believe we are going to win 7/8 of our last 15 games to have a chance of survival?
Not what many of you will want to hear, but it's looking like a quiet deadline day for Burnley.
While these things are always subject to change, both ins and outs are looking unlikely at this stage.
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Reflects very poorly on the American players that they are happy to stand by and listen to their own crowd abusing their opponents (and friends) when they’re lining up shots. These scenes with Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry do the #RyderCup no favours at all
Remembering @ClaretGaily 5 years on.
Missed every day my Claret Angel. Never forgotten. How could we ever forget you.
There is a massive Gail shaped hole in our lives.
We move forward, keeping your memory alive 💔❤️❤️🩹
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Great North Run organisers have apologised.
Participants' medals were supposed to feature an aerial view of Newcastle, Gateshead, South Shields and the River Tyne.
They actually show nearby Sunderland and the River Wear which have no involvement in the event.
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RORY MCILROY!!!! ☘️
#AmgenIrishOpen
