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I remember Freddie Pye being interviewed on TV after we’d signed Eamonn O’Keefe from Everton for an easily then club record fee of £65,000 (about £250k in today’s money).
He said something along the lines of “Larry (Lloyd) came to me and said get me Eamonn and he’ll get us up”, which he did of course. When asked if the club could afford that kind of outlay he said, “well, we don’t run a football club like you would run a business”.
Prophetic words indeed from 36 years ago which resonate in today’s football world where clubs still spend money well beyond their means.
Those extra 4000 made it noticeably busier today.
I’m not sure what you were expecting but even in our Prem days we weren’t getting much more than that against the unfashionable teams.
There was a lot of kids being taken to the game and looking at some of them probably their first football match. They are the ones we have to attract. The dads are most likely committed armchair “fans” but might get pestered enough to take their kids to future games. A worthwhile effort by the club IMO.
Pity the performance and result didn’t live up to expectations but that’s Latics for you!
In the post office in Clitheroe?
Did you go in the booze shop across the road? It’s brilliant.That would be Byrne’s.
I do like my malt whisky so I have visited that shop many times.Also, Booths in Clitheroe has a good selection of whisky, sometimes discounted to a price I cannot ignore. Another advantage of shopping in Booths is that it is a pensioner’s paradise so makes me feel young…![/quote]
Blimey lad if you can afford whiskey in Booths your being paid too much lol[/quote]
I only buy when they’re on offer.
£22 for a bottle of Glenallachie is a no-brainier.In the post office in Clitheroe?
Did you go in the booze shop across the road? It’s brilliant.That would be Byrne’s.
I do like my malt whisky so I have visited that shop many times.Also, Booths in Clitheroe has a good selection of whisky, sometimes discounted to a price I cannot ignore. Another advantage of shopping in Booths is that it is a pensioner’s paradise so makes me feel young…!
Oh, I don’t know.
Was in the post office there a few weeks back chatting to a friend of mine who is a Blackburn fan and long-standing native of Clitheroe. Consequently, people were coming over to say hello. This wasn’t long after our comeback in the 2-2 draw so no doubt the pain was still quite raw. However, the animosity towards me was quite palpable after he introduced me as a Wigan Athletic fan.
Plastic Mancs/Mousers are just that, plastic. Fakes. Not real football fans. They watch from the comfort of their armchair or local and have never set foot inside a football stadium of any kind. From a football perspective I don’t have much time for them.
At least those Blackburn fans actually go to games so the unease with which they viewed me was genuine and therefore the banter acceptably received.
I’m OK with that.
Not really.Unlucky living in Clitheroe, lol. I’m joking. I’m heading to Blackburn tomorrow, going looking at a car to buy.
When you moved, did you sell your programme collection, or have you still got them. You did used to live Standish didn’t you? I bought a programme off you once on ebay, Newcastle from 1954. I sold it on later, to Colin Boughey. Big Latics supporter of many years.
Clitheroe is a nice place to live, that’s why I moved there. However, it is infested with Blackburn supporters, some of whom I am friends with.
I think you’ve got me mixed me up with someone else Dave. I’ve never lived in Standish and never owned a programme collection of any significance. If I had the Newcastle programme from 1954 I doubt I would have sold it.
It’s not so much what Cook’s said or not said but more to do with him being and ex-Claret.
Now living in Clitheroe with the family of my better-half being massive Burnley fans I get to taste the real hatred between these two clubs.
Had a discussion with a friend at Bristol last night who reckoned Cook was on his way and that his achievements (though admirable) we’re nothing special for the following reasons. Not sure I agree but does he have a point? His argument was he took on a team with the second highest budget in the league with a number of players who won the league 12 months previous. Burn, Power, Morsy, Jacobs and top scorer in league Grigg would compliment any team and Powell on top of that who is perhaps best player in league! Add a decent few and your laughing in this league was his general sentiment. Time to judge would be next season for him. Does he have a point?Yes he has a point but football is not all about having the best players and biggest budgets. How you manage those players is a major factor on whether you are successful or not. In Paul Cook’s case he seems to have created a good work ethic and a happy, harmonious dressing room which has allowed the players to perform to their expected potential.
As for next season it depends on the standard of the squad that can be assembled but it is unlikely to include too much true Championship quality. That would then be a better measure of Cook’s managerial abilities, if he’s still here that is.
Horrible East Lancashire whippet chasing inbreds.
“porrk yourr corr in the corr porrk”
Weird people who still use words like ‘pillock’ and ‘bobbins’. Blackburn really is a dark and dismal place. I’ve worked around there in the past and it really was the land time forgot. Clitheroe and places like that, proper ‘local’ type places. I used to work with a bloke from Clitheroe and he was a c*** personified. Like an East Lancashire David Brent. Had all his traits, would be listening and then shoot out of his office to take centre stage. If you had climbed Everest, he had climbed it and then sky dived off the top. One of those types. He was a dick. And he rolled his rrr’s like crazy. Insisted the best pub in the world is in Clitheroe. He made the place sound like Vegas. When in reality, its a dismal shithole where everything shuts at 9pm, except the corner shops and garages. Inbred hillbillies.
I live in Clitheroe VAT and actually know the person you are referring to. The thing is he wasn’t at all like that until he met you.[/quote]
Course you do. Same as I know your uncle Dennis and Aunt Eileen.
Listen everyone, I was joking. Lighten up. If anyone else had made such comments, it wouldn’t have brought the responses that you lot have given. Let’s be honest, you don’t like me, do you? Yet you actually don’t know me, none of you.
So just lighten up, ffs[/quote]
I was joking but I’m not sure you were.
I’m also not sure if anyone else on here would have made those comments with the same venom and vitriol. The fact you use the disclaimer “I was joking” suggests you weren’t really.
Why would I dislike you?
I disagree with some of the comments you make but I don’t see why that is a basis for you to decide I don’t like you. And your paranoia about not being liked says more about you than anyone else on the board.I think any lightening up should begin with yourself Dave.
Horrible East Lancashire whippet chasing inbreds.“porrk yourr corr in the corr porrk”
Weird people who still use words like ‘pillock’ and ‘bobbins’. Blackburn really is a dark and dismal place. I’ve worked around there in the past and it really was the land time forgot. Clitheroe and places like that, proper ‘local’ type places. I used to work with a bloke from Clitheroe and he was a c*** personified. Like an East Lancashire David Brent. Had all his traits, would be listening and then shoot out of his office to take centre stage. If you had climbed Everest, he had climbed it and then sky dived off the top. One of those types. He was a dick. And he rolled his rrr’s like crazy. Insisted the best pub in the world is in Clitheroe. He made the place sound like Vegas. When in reality, its a dismal shithole where everything shuts at 9pm, except the corner shops and garages. Inbred hillbillies.
I live in Clitheroe VAT and actually know the person you are referring to. The thing is he wasn’t at all like that until he met you.
Do you know I can actually see Bury getting a draw, and if we win that will be enough.Good call George.
Congratulations to the club on clinching promotion with an impressive win. Couldn’t make it myself but sent my representative. He walked it actually.
Doncaster will be a nothing game.We will already have got the trophy at the Wimbledon game, and the boss will be able to give the likes of Jones, Bruce, Perkins and Walker a start.
Bollocks to that.
If winning at Doncaster means we end up champions I’m sure Cook will turn out a full strength team and those players who have been instrumental in getting us promoted will want to be part of that.I’m also certain Cook will take a far more professional view of the game than Caldwell did over our final 4-1 home defeat against Barnsley the last time we got promoted.
So far this season we’ve scored 72 goals, more than anyone else except Blackburn’s 74 who’ve played one game more. We’ve conceded 25, eight less than Shrewsbury who have played two games more. Our goal difference is 9 better than the next best, Blackburn, yet two strikers is the way to go even though Powell has 14 goals and Jacobs 10 to supplement Grigg’s 20.
Yes we’re getting it all wrong…..!
