[Albion] Burnley (Home) - fans of the Clarets not keen then?!

[A1X]

I believe there have only been 3 away PL attendances at the Amex that failed to reach 4 figures (outside of the pandemic matches, obviously).

They are, in date order:-

Feb 9 2019 - Burnley 837 away fans
Sep 14 2019 - Burnley 963
Feb 19 2022 - Burnley 896

Probably terrified if they come here they’ll all catch “the gay”

 

[Steve in Japan]

Wasn't it last season they did us 0-3 AND it was pissing with rain? You'd think they'd be gagging for this one...

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Yet they'll still be noisier than us.

He’s only gone and said it

 

[PeterT]

£149k conurbation, but agreed it is tiny by PL standards.

That sounds a higher value than I’d have thought…..

 

[Weststander]

That sounds a higher value than I’d have thought…..

That buys a entire row of terrace houses.

 

[RandyWanger]

They seem to have a good record against us at The Amex, thought they'd pack the away end to witness a rare win for their side.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I'm still haunted by that 0-3 defeat the other season. Beyond the result, it was raining, the Bobkin Jnrs weren't there and I broke a bit of my tooth on one of the pies.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Wasn't it last season they did us 0-3 AND it was pissing with rain? You'd think they'd be gagging for this one...

The season before I think – when they went down in the end. Dyche again!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Surprised as it's normally a guaranteed 3 points for them

It’s 12 each in wins and 15 draws.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

A vile little club with a fairly large section of extremely unpleasant fans, as was exposed following that whole Bong / Rodriguez affair. I was genuinely disappointed when they bounced back up last season. I sincerely hope we can help them and their 750 travelling fans on their way back down to the second division, where I can once again forget that they even exist outside of ITV4.

Seems way OTT, and a bit snobbish. They're a small but significant club with a more glorious history than Brighton. I’ve been to Turf Moor just once, when I went with a Huddersfield-supporting mate to watch them in some cup competition. I was living in Leeds at the time. This was about 30 years ago and things may have changed, but I loved the atmosphere in the ground and the authenticity of the stadium and fans. We had a few beers in a local working men’s club before the game. Yes, it was like living in a sitcom for a couple of hours but I love that feeling. Many people seem to look down their noses at traditional working class people on lower incomes, and those perceived as less sophisticated than we are. Sounds patronising, so I apologise for that, but I feel a bit sorry for Burnley and their fans. It’s a small club, massively overshadowed by the big Manchester and Liverpool clubs yet they’ve managed to hold their own (more or less) for much of their history. I don’t hope they get relegated but they need to start winning the odd match to have any chance of survival. I suspect their owners may splash a bit of cash in the new year.

 

[Sheebo]

Burnley's a shithole of about 70k racist and homophobic oddballs stuck in the 70s, just north of Manchester and Liverpool and with about host of other football league clubs within close proximity. Cut them some slack!

Edited for you.

 

[PeterT]

Seems way OTT, and a bit snobbish. They're a small but significant club with a more glorious history than Brighton. I’ve been to Turf Moor just once, when I went with a Huddersfield-supporting mate to watch them in some cup competition. I was living in Leeds at the time. This was about 30 years ago and things may have changed, but I loved the atmosphere in the ground and the authenticity of the stadium and fans. We had a few beers in a local working men’s club before the game. Yes, it was like living in a sitcom for a couple of hours but I love that feeling. Many people seem to look down their noses at traditional working class people on lower incomes, and those perceived as less sophisticated than we are. Sounds patronising, so I apologise for that, but I feel a bit sorry for Burnley and their fans. It’s a small club, massively overshadowed by the big Manchester and Liverpool clubs yet they’ve managed to hold their own (more or less) for much of their history. I don’t hope they get relegated but they need to start winning the odd match to have any chance of survival. I suspect their owners may splash a bit of cash in the new year.

Vincent Kompany seems quite likeable too ….

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Seems way OTT

You've not read any of Easy 10's posts before then?

 

[Seecider]

Edited for you.

Turf Moor is the only ground that I've taken my Mrs to. Great to be in a real old fashioned stadium in and old fashioned football town.

My Mrs was appalled by the vitriol and vile abuse directed towards the ref. We were in the away end.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

As an aside claret and blue mix seems an odd colour combo for quite a few clubs, was it a cheap dye?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Burnley's a shit hole

Corrected for you.

 

[studio150]

Its 3pm Saturday and no train issues. Cant understand why they wouldnt wanna escape the sh1thole of Burnley for a day out.

Apart from the overtime ban.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Seems way OTT, and a bit snobbish. They're a small but significant club with a more glorious history than Brighton. I’ve been to Turf Moor just once, when I went with a Huddersfield-supporting mate to watch them in some cup competition. I was living in Leeds at the time. This was about 30 years ago and things may have changed, but I loved the atmosphere in the ground and the authenticity of the stadium and fans. We had a few beers in a local working men’s club before the game. Yes, it was like living in a sitcom for a couple of hours but I love that feeling. Many people seem to look down their noses at traditional working class people on lower incomes, and those perceived as less sophisticated than we are. Sounds patronising, so I apologise for that, but I feel a bit sorry for Burnley and their fans. It’s a small club, massively overshadowed by the big Manchester and Liverpool clubs yet they’ve managed to hold their own (more or less) for much of their history. I don’t hope they get relegated but they need to start winning the odd match to have any chance of survival. I suspect their owners may splash a bit of cash in the new year.

It’s nothing to do with looking down on working class. You’re not the only Brighton fan who has lived up north, so,don't assume we are all middle class southern softies.
Burnley was the first town to vote BNP, and have a lot of bigots living there. The Rodriguez v Bong incident happened at West Brom, and was not proven but Burnley fans piled in on us calling Bong a liar, because Rodriguez was ‘one of their own’.
It wasn’t a not guilty verdict so there is no suggestion that Gaetan lied.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

You've not read any of Easy 10's posts before then?

Probably, I don’t know. But thanks for the warning.

Look, I may have gone over the top myself in my last post. If so, I apologise. But the hypocrisy winds me up. It’s really not nice for people of any sort to caricature Brighton as a junkie-infested luvvie town, and all Brighton fans as gay, over-entitled, leftie, woke, metropolitan elite southern softies blah blah blah. I 100% get that. But for some idiots to get their retaliation by caricaturing (in this case) Burnley and all Burnley fans/residents as racist homophobes IS NO BETTER.

Just freakin' stop it people (sorry, some people). You can’t lambast bigoted behaviour by behaving in a bigoted fashion yourself. You totally cede the moral high ground.

 

[BNthree]

It’s nothing to do with looking down on working class. You’re not the only Brighton fan who has lived up north, so,don't assume we are all middle class southern softies.
Burnley was the first town to vote BNP, and have a lot of bigots living there. The Rodriguez v Bong incident happened at West Brom, and was not proven but Burnley fans piled in on us calling Bong a liar, because Rodriguez was ‘one of their own’.
It wasn’t a not guilty verdict so there is no suggestion that Gaetan lied.

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