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• Turf Moor Diaries: Disappointing? Yes, but It Was Also a Season to Savour
• By Alastair Campbell 31/5/2010 9:15 AM GMT
• How anyone ever doubted the wisdom of the play-offs is beyond me. They provide three of the best sporting climaxes of the season, and a whole lot of excitement for twelve clubs and twelve sets of fans ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Fair Play League Offers Salvation at End of Sorry Campaign
• By Alastair Campbell 02/5/2010 7:28 AM GMT
• You may remember that when Blackburn beat Burnley at Turf Moor a few weeks ago, their jubilant fans celebrated with a chant that went on and on and on until it filled my head for the long journey ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Relegation Confirms Something We Feared All Along
• By Alastair Campbell 26/4/2010 9:41 AM GMT
• In a bizarre sort of way, getting relegated via a 4-0 hammering was less hurtful than a late, scrambled single-goal defeat might have been. We had not expected much as the day began. And looking at ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Hope Springs Eternal With Season Hinging on Last Three Games
• By Alastair Campbell 18/4/2010 5:53 AM GMT
• As I explained last week, a diary disaster meant I missed yesterday's game at the Stadium of Light. I was hosting the 50th anniversary celebrations of Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, of which I am ...
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• Turf Moor Diaries: We Finally Win Away and I'm Not There to See It. Coincidence?
• By Alastair Campbell 10/4/2010 1:27 PM GMT
• If you spot two empty seats in the away end at Hull on Match of the Day tonight, they were for me and my son. What might loosely be termed political reasons conspired to mean I missed my first away ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: the Rain Came but Failed to Wash Away Horrible Result
• By Alastair Campbell 04/4/2010 8:31 AM GMT
• For a few brief moments, our hopes rose that the rain might get so heavy that the game would have to be abandoned. It was all we had left. It was a horrible Lancashire day that got more horrible on ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Penalty That Never Was Moves Burnley Closer to Drop
• By Alastair Campbell 28/3/2010 11:36 AM GMT
• "We're having a party when Burnley go down ... We're having a party when Burnley go down..." So went the song, echoing again and again from the Cricket Field stand, as Burnley fans made the ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Hard to See a Way Back From The Cruellest Of Defeats
• By Alastair Campbell 20/3/2010 3:21 PM GMT
• It's one thing to lose games you deserve to lose. We have seen a few of those this season. It's altogether more cruel when you lose the games you could and should have won. And it is even worse when ...
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Difficult to Stay Positive in Face of Mounting Losses
• By Alastair Campbell 13/3/2010 1:52 PM GMT
• As I write this, surrounded by sorrow-drowning Burnley fans, I am looking out of the bar window as the Wolves players climb aboard their team bus. Beyond them, some of the Burnley players are heading ...
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Arsenal Top Burnley But Fall Short In League Title Stakes
• By Alastair Campbell 07/3/2010 7:39 AM GMT
• I would be hard-pressed to say Arsenal did not deserve the three points. But when you've managed to cancel out a first-half lead with a superbly taken equaliser by David Nugent, it is equally hard not ...
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Clarets Season Taking On a Touch Of The Inevitable
• By Alastair Campbell 27/2/2010 2:19 PM GMT
• The only ray of hope from this game is that if Portsmouth go out of business between now and the end of the season, Burnley will get six points back. Yes, Pompey's loyal travelling fans finally have a ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Forgettable Drubbing That's Sure To Stick In The Memory
• By Alastair Campbell 21/2/2010 12:05 PM GMT
• Because pain has no memory, I have forgotten most of the game already. In particular, the six-minute spell during which Aston Villa scored three goals. Yes, three in six. And all three of them enough ...
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• Turf Moor Diaries: A Burnley Hero Is Born As Leon Cort Inspires Win Over Hammers
• By Alastair Campbell 06/2/2010 1:58 PM GMT
• There are wins and there are WINS and this was a WIN about as WINtastic as they come. Normally when I plan to head home to London after games, I get to the nearest gangway ready to leg it as soon as ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: John Terry Arrives - And Leaves - As Centre of Attention
• By Alastair Campbell 31/1/2010 10:15 AM GMT
• It would not have mattered if Burnley had won 6-0 with a double hat-trick by goalkeeper Brian Jensen - unlikely on all counts, I confess - John Terry was always going to be yesterday's headline maker. ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: A Perfectly Fail-Safe Formula For a World Of Pain
• By Alastair Campbell 27/1/2010 6:21 AM GMT
• Football can be so, so painful, and the pain equation so complicated. The most important element of the equation, most would agree, is the Result. But dashed Expectation after days of mounting ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Return To Madejski As Anticlimactic As They Come (Video)
• By Alastair Campbell 23/1/2010 10:27 AM GMT
• I think it is fair to assume that when the FA chose Liverpool or Reading v Burnley as their live game on FA.com, they assumed it would be Liverpool not Reading. Ah yes but they of all people forgot ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Brian Laws Era Opens With a Brave Loss At Old Trafford
• By Alastair Campbell 17/1/2010 8:22 AM GMT
• Fergie is a wonderful man and a brilliant manager who has forgotten more about football than most will ever know, but what on earth was he talking about? He bounded into his little office, where he ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: A Sideways Move That Leaves Clarets Fans Asking Why
• By Alastair Campbell 05/1/2010 10:05 AM GMT
• As we trooped out of the stadium at Milton Keynes on Saturday, I bumped into Dave Burnley, one of our greatest fans. He has missed one game since the mid-1970s, changed his name by deed poll, named ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: The 4th Round Is Nice But All Eyes Are On Owen Coyle
• By Alastair Campbell 02/1/2010 2:21 PM GMT
• Strange game, strange day. Almost from the kick-off, and certainly once we were two up, you got the feeling Burnley fans were going to be as interested in the post-match interviews as in the game ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: A Painful Day Of 'What-Ifs' Punctuated By A Big 'Why'
• By Alastair Campbell 28/12/2009 2:46 PM GMT
• That hurt. It really did. And so now another long journey home from an away defeat pondering too many "what if" kind of questions. The biggest what if concerns our left back Stephen Jordan. What if he ... More »
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