BURNLEY WANT DERBY

The Burnley midfielder Chris McCann has said that his team are extremely looking forward to the prospect of bringing an end to the bad run of form that they have suffered against their arch rivals Blackburn. Burnley come into this match looking to beat Blackburn Rovers for the first time since 1979. This is extremely astonishing given the fact that it is one of the oldest rivalries in football. McCann has said that Burnley fans have suffered for a long time in this respect, and they need to savour the chance to taste victory against one of their biggest rivals.

Chris McCann has not been part of this fixture in the past three times because he has been injured on every occasion. He is very much looking forward to meeting Blackburn for the first time in a competitive encounter. The 25-year-old has said that these kind of matches do not come often. He has recalled the first time he was part of this derby – as a ball boy. Robbie Savage was a player for Blackburn during that period in 2005. Even though he was born in Dublin, McCann has said that he has been adopted by the town of Burnley as he has been playing for the club since the age of 16.

“You’re thinking ‘this is a massive, massive thing’. People underestimate how big it is, especially for the people of Burnley. You walk around the town and the first thing people say is ‘we can’t wait to play Blackburn’. You see how much it means to them, so you don’t want to disappoint anybody or let anybody down,” said McCann ahead of the match. Since the arrival of the new manager, Blackburn have been struggling to get results in the league. They have just one victory in the last five matches.

Burnley in Premier League 2009-10

Write-up by Roy Brown

Burnley have been Football League Champions twice, in 1920-21 and 1959-60, and have won the FA Cup once, in 1914. The Clarets also attained the 1961 quarter-finals of the European Cup. They are one particular of only 3 teams to have won all best 4 skilled divisions of English football.

The club has invested most of its background in England’s top two divisions, but remained exterior the top rated flight from 1976 to 2009. From 1985 to 1992 they had a 7-year spell in the lowest tier of the Football League. In 1987 they narrowly averted relegation to the Conference. Involving 2000 and 2009 they played in the 2nd tier of English football, until finally they gained marketing to the Premier League for the very first time in 33 many years right after successful the 2009 Football League Championship play-off Ultimate. Following profitable their initial four residence games, they are now the most profitable freshly promoted group at house with straight wins, beating the preceding report of 3 set by Blackburn Rovers.

In Might 1988, Burnley were again at Wembley this time to play Wolves in the ultimate of the Football League Trophy. 80,000 men and women packed Wembley to its potential, unsurprisingly a document for a match between two teams from English football’s fourth tier, as two excellent old clubs began to find an upturn in their fortunes. Wolves ran out convincing two- winners. In 1991-92, Burnley have been champions in the very last at any time season of the Fourth Division just before the league reorganisation, and two many years later they won the new Division Two play-offs and gained promotion to Division One particular under Jimmy Mullen. That as well was as a consequence of a match at Wembley, this time against Stockport County. Nonetheless, relegation followed after just 1 season and in 1997-98 only previous match 2-1 victory over Plymouth Argyle ensured a narrow escape from relegation into Division Three. Chris Waddle was manager in that season, but his departure and the appointment of Stan Ternent that summer saw the club start off to make even more progress. In 1999-2000 they finished Division Two runners-up and acquired promotion to Division One particular (now the Championship), in which they remained till acquiring promoted to the Premiership by means of the play-offs at the conclude of the 2008-09 season. Through the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons, Burnley emerged as significant contenders for a marketing play-off area in the Championship, even so, by 2002-03 the side’s type had declined in spite of a excellent FA Cup run, and began to concede objectives at an alarming fee. This was repeated the subsequent time and in June 2004, Ternent’s 6-yr reign as supervisor arrived to an conclude and Steve Cotterill was appointed as supervisor of the club.

Burnley have played their home games at Turf Moor considering that 1883. It now consists of four stands, the James Hargreaves Stand (The Longside), the Jimmy McIlroy Stand, the Bob Lord Stand and the David Fishwick Stand for away enthusiasts. The current capacity is 22,546, all seated. Submit war crowds in the aged stadium were in the forty,000 – 50000 array with the report attendance set in 1924 versus Huddersfield in a FA Cup match with 54,755 attending the match.

In 2008, ideas were manufactured to extend the stadium to a capacity of around 28,000. This capacity enhance would consist of a 2nd tier connected to the Bob Lord stand, along with a comprehensive re-improvement. In addition, a new stand was planned to replace the Cricket Area Stand, which would also hold a cricket pavilion and hotel. In late 2008, these options were put on hold as basic economic problems worsened in the U.K.

On promotion to the Premier League in 2009, it was believed that about £1M of perform would be essential to provide the floor up to Premier League criteria.

Dare to Dream (Mighty Burnley) is the club’s official song made by a local college teacher (Andrew Gilmore) and an 8 year aged lady (Jasmine Clarkson). The song is hoped to improve morale for the fans as well as increase Burnley’s promotion hopes. [eleven] The club’s anthem is known as ‘No Nay Never’, an adaptation of the standard Irish song, “Wild Rover”, which has lyrics to offend the club’s primary rivals Blackburn Rovers.Ironicaly, Burnley’s main rivals, Blackburn Rovers, also have ‘No Nay Never’ as their anthem. Ahead of kick-off, the song “Requiem for a Tower” by Corner Stone Cues is played. As nicely as this, “Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba (who originated in Burnley) is played. When the staff scores, the tune “Tom Hark” by The Piranhas is played. Pigbag’s most famous hit, “Pappa’s Received a Brand New Pigbag” is also played prior to kick off, along with the Clarets’ followers personal singing, to the lyrics of “Du du du du, Owen Coyle!”.

Burnley with the 16 factors is now at the 10th spot of the Premier League table. Not long ago they gave a fantastic efficiency in opposition to Manchester Metropolis. Although the match ended with a tie but they proved on their own the best in the game. Now they will deal with Aston Villa on November 21. Burnley are passionate sufficient to give their opponent tough time.

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