Meyler to do one.

Just off topic/what might have been, press reporting that Burnley are the subject of a £180 million takeover bid from a middle east consortium.

 

See I know they’ve got loads of guaranteed money incoming but for them to kick on any further they 100% need a new stadium and that’s £150m extra spend needed minimum. I’d rather take Sunlan for nowt.

 

Even if they were on offer for nowt, you know they'd stick to tradition, and leave the negotiations three quarters of the way through.

 

Net liabilities for SMC and HCT at last accounts (30/06/2017) were £10m and £38m respectively.

Wasn't it about £30m when they bought the club? So, clear the £77m owed to Allamhouse while transferring £59m creditors to third parties and its job done. Back where we found you.

 

No need for a larger etadium in a town of 80,000 with a lot of other clubs nearby. Even Leeds is closer to Burnley than it is to Hull though you don't see people walking round in .Burnley wearing WS scarves like you do in Hull. They do well to get the crowds they do.
They are a well run club. Get some investment on top of the PL money and they could establish themselves in the PL. Which is an jndictment on the way some clubs from cities 3 times and more larger have been run.

 

I wasn’t advocating a much bigger stadium.

 

Don't think most Burnley fans would want to leave Turf Moor.

 

Most fans don’t like to leave their historic stadium.

 

Haven't been to Turf Moor since it's been all-seater, but it was class with the big terraces.

I remember as a kid being enthralled with a story about an Anglo-Scottish Cup tie there with Celtic in the 70s - with thousands of Celtic fans ripping the place to shreds.

 

Went there 1971/1972 season. Absolutely pissing it down. Only a busful there.3 of us went in the big side stand and discovered that they served beer in a couple of bars behind it. A novelty compared to a hut selling bovril at KC. Everything going swimmingly then Waggy set off from the halfway line, going round everybody and slotting it home. We jumped up cheering whilst in the rest of the stand you could hear a pin drop and all around glaring at us. A second goal saw them get quite irate and storm into the seats behind the goal. Protests ensued. Going out a Burnley fan said don't worry, nobody is bothered about you lot, other fish to fry. It ended up with the manager being smuggled out in a laundry basket.

 

Hmm.
At the KC in 1971/72?
I was going to Boothferry Park back then.

 

Koothferry Cark?

 

Quality.

 

Of course. Must be my medication kicking in. Or not taking it. Or something.

 

I was a shape-shifting alien time traveller.

 

Did you hang around any US road signs at 4am?

 

I am not liberty to say. There were enough problems when someone posted the sign to the secret bunker where I reside.

 

I thought you lived in a cave?

 

Too cold and austere for me.

 

No that's me.