I appreciate and agree with all of that but we've suffered this season because of a poor contingency plan and a lack of foresight. Foden has been the only real success story during Pep's tenure although others have hinted at promise. Some dross has been bought at the expense of giving youngsters...
Bookmarked for when they've all been moved on in 18 months without getting a chance and then people saying they were never good enough to play for us.*
*Hope I'm wrong.
Collins Tanor has been with us since 2016 and is ALWAYS on our end of season retained list but I know the square root of f*ck all about him.
See also Mohammed Aminu.
Exactly.
I was at his home debut a week later. A 1-0 loss to Leeds, sadly. Was also at the (93?) game against Everton when we got thumped 5-2. I'm sure both goalies were substituted at half time, Margetson in our case. He was bobbins.
My first 'favourite player' growing up was Gordon Banks (I was 7) and sort of supported them without really knowing much about football. I saw the light not long afterwards.
My first match was actually at Stoke when they played Santos in a friendly in 1969. Not bad when your first footballing...
30th August, 1969. Burnley (a)D1-1 (Ian Bowyer). Seems Stan Bowles played too and Jimmy Mundy was an unused sub. I remember their blond-haired goalie (Peter Mellor) and Franny telling me to f*ck off when asking for an autograph afterwards. Joe Mercer was lovely though and said he loved the Lake...
Burnley away September, 1969. Ian Bowyer scored in a 1-1 draw. Got Joe Mercer's autograph afterwards (lovely man) whilst Franny Lee told us to eff off. First home game a school trip (from Cumbria) in October, 1971. A Lee penalty beat Everton 1-0.
'Last' game (yes, I'm a part-timer now) the FA...