Why Could I not Remember Turf Moor?
Tuesday, 02 December 08, 09:41 AM · Comments(2)
For some strange reason last night I was thinking about the name of Burnley's ground and it had completely left my mind. Any normal person would just shrug and move on but I couldn't let it go and I just had to remember (not google or wiki it) and finally, after an hour or so, I managed to drag the words Turf and Moor out from one of my last remaining brain cells. This is the worst sign of getting older - memory loss and, in particular, sporting trivia memory loss is the unforgiving nemesis of the ageing process. When once you could name every ground (old & new) of every club, their nicknames, all the World Cup winners, every FA CUP winning team since the war and the attendance of your first ever game...... suddenly it all goes.
Oh well never mind.
Tonight it's Burnley and there's a team that conjures up the past. The youngsters out there may not realise that Burnley were once a top club, though, to be fair, it was around the time Spurs last won the league so there aren't many who remember. In the 70s they were a Division 1 team but like many before them they faded and so very nearly were relegated from the football league but avoided that fate by winning the last game of the season in 1987 in front of a huge, emotional crowd. One thing they have, of course, is a fine history which brings me onto....
My personal "most hated man in football", Peter Kenyon, who has said without a smirk on his face that Chelsea will not need any of Roman's loans from next year. If there is any truth (and there is a word Kenyon has little idea of) in this then that would surely mean a huge reduction in wage bill or maybe they'll just get rid completely of that expensive youth system that has produced..... erm....still thinking on this one.....oh there was him....what's his name... oh the guy with the funny haircut at Wolves....and that's about it.
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Tonight's loss, for me, summed up everything that has been wrong with the first team this year. Mediocre midfielding with delayed passing, strikers failing to put away 4 one-on-ones, and countless easy chances, and defensive and goalkeeping blunders. But this team had an average age of 18, and would have been much younger if not for Silvestre. They can , and will learn from their mistakes. Credit to the youngsters for keeping their chins up marvelously, and fighting till the end.
Chelsea will be free of Roman's loans if he ever leaves them and not before. They're not loans anyway as they don't have to repay or service them.