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• Turf Moor Diaries: A Burnley Hero Is Born As Leon Cort Inspires Win Over Hammers
• By Alastair Campbell 06/2/06/2010 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 31/1/31/2010 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 27/1/27/2010 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 23/1/23/2010 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 17/1/17/2010 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 05/1/05/2010 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 02/1/02/2010 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 28/12/28/2009 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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• Turf Moor Diaries: Another 1-1 Home Draw Sets Up A Second Unwanted Streak
• By Alastair Campbell 26/12/26/2009 12:45 PM GMT
• So Burnley now have two running streaks we are desperately trying to bring to a close. Most obviously the failure to win away from home. Played nine, lost eight, drawn one. Now add to the hunt for our ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: McCarthy's Rotation Policy Pays Unfortunate Dividends
• By Alastair Campbell 20/12/20/2009 12:34 PM GMT
• Even from the away end, I could see the difference in the managerial body language as injury time played itself out. Mick McCarthy looking pumped up and proud as around him thousands burst into song ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Wenger's Moans Can't Hide Arsenal Squandering Fast Start
• By Alastair Campbell 17/12/17/2009 5:52 AM GMT
• This time last year, with Championship Burnley taking on and beating a succession of London Premier League sides, the line "Capital Punishment" was used to market the Cup run. Wins against Fulham, ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: As Any Pundit Will Tell You, We Need To Take Our Chances
• By Alastair Campbell 05/12/05/2009 12:43 PM GMT
• I freely accept, and readily admit, and do not hide that I am biased in favour of Burnley. But if anyone can explain to me how we lost today, I would be very grateful. No, that's not true. I wouldn't ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Hammers Win But Their Supporters Finish A Distant Second
• By Alastair Campbell 28/11/28/2009 3:09 PM GMT
• Just as referees have assessors in the stands, sitting in judgement, so should the fans. And where the assessors deem that one set of fans has performed substantially better than the other, then they ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Smiling Through The Driving Rain And Wind
• By Alastair Campbell 21/11/21/2009 1:59 PM GMT
• It says a fair bit about how far Burnley have come that we were so disappointed at the end. This time last year, as a mid-table Championship side, the idea of a Premier League home draw against ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Pound-For-Pound, Manchester City Game Was No Contest
• By Alastair Campbell 08/11/08/2009 12:18 PM GMT
• I've never seen so many sightseers in a car park in almost half a century following football. The players' section of the car park at the City of Manchester Stadium that is, where a yellow-jacketed ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Ladies' Day Proves a Winner Marked By a Cheeky Bum-Pinch
• By Alastair Campbell 02/11/02/2009 8:54 AM GMT
• When I set off from London for Burnley on Saturday morning, I did not expect to find myself being groped by two women in a Turf Moor corridor. And I certainly didn't expect to find myself feeling ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Wigan Triumphs To End Burnley's Impressive Run
• By Alastair Campbell 26/10/26/2009 7:18 AM GMT
• So RIP Burnley's 100 per cent home record. And given that most people assumed our first home defeat would have been in our first home game of the season, against Manchester United, I suppose we ought ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Dream Turns To Nightmare As Burnley Fall Short
• By Alastair Campbell 19/10/19/2009 6:15 AM GMT
• For four minutes, Ewood Park was a blissful, beautiful place to be. Four minutes, the gap between Robbie Blake's opening goal for Burnley, and the Blackburn equaliser that saw the bliss make the short ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Now This Is The Kind of Trend We Can All Get Used To
• By Alastair Campbell 03/10/03/2009 11:53 AM GMT
• Another trend to report. See if you can work it out. Home to Manchester United. Win. Home to Everton. Win. Home to Sunderland. Win. And now home to Birmingham. Win 2-1. Four in a row. One hundred per ... More »
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• Turf Moor Diaries: Here's To Hoping That One Ugly Trend Ends at Ewood Park
• By Alastair Campbell 26/9/26/2009 12:11 PM GMT
• There is a rather disturbing mathematical trend developing. Take a look at Burnley's four away games so far this season. Stoke: lost 2-0. Chelsea: lost 3-0. Liverpool: lost 4-0. And now Spurs 5-0. At ... More »
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