Old School

[TKIZ!]

Just thought I would post this for no particular reason than it's got Dave Higson and the atmosphere gave me goosebumps.

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[officer_dibble]

One of my fave games, and this may be a repost TKIZ...

Buuuut always good

And Coyle, from the off in that match - I think that's where his tactics come from now

Jan Age Fyortoft!

[TKIZ!]

One of my fave games, and this may be a repost TKIZ...

Buuuut always good

And Coyle, from the off in that match - I think that's where his tactics come from now

Jan Age Fyortoft!

It s very much a repost Officer and I apologise but it's Higson with the Jan Age Fjortoft that makes me pee

[Lofthouse Lower]

I always thought he'd have been a good signing for us, Fjortoft.

[hi there, i'm chris]

Amazing game.

I loved that goalkeeper jersey, but they never sold the bugger anywhere!

[Il Pirate]

What a ding dong doo!! Happy days eh?

[jaffka]

great days those, just like Mark Patterson says

[LeDonk]

"David Lee, He's seen them twin towers, he's never been but he really want's to go"

[HMX]

Never got the chance to go to Burnden - although I may have been once when I was a kid?

[boltonboris]

Never got the chance to go to Burnden - although I may have been once when I was a kid?

It was a shite hole, but it was fantastic.. For big games, there was nothing else like it

[TANGODANCER]

Never got the chance to go to Burnden - although I may have been once when I was a kid?

Bruce's sig about sums it up. Fantastic memories, great times and players, some wonderful football, superb atmospheres and the endearment of just being there. Balance it against fog, leaking stand roofs, freezing and getting soaked on the Embankment, greasy hotdogs, pissing into a piece of guttering after wading in there, a pitch that finished up like the Okefenokee Swamp and facilities that would today give Health and Safety recurring nightmares. It's still something I wouldn't have missed for the world, and, although time moves on and better things happen, it was an experience to treasure and one anyone who was there in its hey-day won't ever forget. But it's the past. Now The Reebok on Manny Road, well, a pipe dream but..........

[bobo the clown]

leaking stand roofs, pissing into a piece of guttering after wading in there

I went to the Burnden Paddock one rainy day. It was pretty full, but could see an area which seemed to have space. I got there to find it was free because there was a waterfall above it.

... & as for the bogs ..... it would have been more hygenic to piss where you were.

[thebish]

leaking stand roofs, pissing into a piece of guttering after wading in there

I went to the Burnden Paddock one rainy day. It was pretty full, but could see an area which seemed to have space. I got there to find it was free because there was a waterfall above it.

... & as for the bogs ..... it would have been more hygenic to piss where you were.

that's what the waterfall was!

[HMX]

All the videos I've seen of us at Burnden have given me goosebumps, the atmosphere was so good!

[Bruno3]

And it was a damn siight warmer stood up in a crowd in mid-winter than sitting on a freezing lump of plastic with the icy blasts of Horwich whipping round your knees.

[thebish]

And it was a damn siight warmer stood up in a crowd in mid-winter than sitting on a freezing lump of plastic with the icy blasts of Horwich whipping round your knees.

that'd be the warming flow of piss around your feet....

[bobo the clown]

leaking stand roofs, pissing into a piece of guttering after wading in there

I went to the Burnden Paddock one rainy day. It was pretty full, but could see an area which seemed to have space. I got there to find it was free because there was a waterfall above it.

... & as for the bogs ..... it would have been more hygenic to piss where you were.

that's what the waterfall was!

I'm having M.C.Escher moments now !!

[as]

Never got the chance to go to Burnden - although I may have been once when I was a kid?

Big games were amazing. We lost any chance of getting the same kind of atmosphere when we moved to a retail park.

Says a lot when we get a bigger crowd on against Bury in't lower league play-offs than we managed against Marseille in't UEFA cup

Burnden was an ugly hole, with a stupid supermarket on the end (have our directors always been so sh*t with money?), but it was in town and night matches, especially, were bouncing.

[LeDonk]

It also played Landlord for the gypsies on occasions...

[Harry Genshaw]

Wonderful viewing. Compared to todays games i'd forgotten how players tended to stay on their feet under tough challenges back then. As shit a ground as it undoubtedly was by then, I've never seen the atmosphere at the 'Bok come close.