A wonderfully long night in some respects pending on where you were coming from, not for me (shouldn't have been at least - it was though)
I jumped on a train from the wonderful town of Bolton to Blackburn and then to Burnley - when we got off the train at Burnley central it was like the middle of no where to start with, not to mention getting lost and asking some local who didn't seem to know him self, then again, neither did the officer we asked.
After actually finding the ground after 30 minutes of looking for it, we were in the pub watching re runs of this weekends football and listening to all the Burnley fans talking about how they were going to win tonight and how they were such a big club . . .
The inside of Turfmoor isn't actually as bad as I had imagined, although wooden seating brought back memories from last Boxing Day where I ended up in the Home end at Everton
The game it self wasn't too bad despite the 15 minute delay for kick off which rather than fill it with something worth while, they got their 2 mascots to run onto the pitch and do some crappy dance as to which point the United fans sang to them "What the f**king hell is that"
Danny Pugh should of had a hattrick but some how managed to strike straight at the keeper every time, Diegos goals was genius as he found himself one on one with the keeper, only to put it to his left hand side and bang, united were one nil up, little to the liking of the Burnley fans who all at some point probably called off side
I had a good old sing song before and during the game, with 4000 strong who couldn't, also started a few including the 12 days of Cantona and the were the loyal supporters at the end amongest a few I can remember
Half time rolled round and legend Willie Morgan done what effectivly was a Cash Dash draw and got a good reception from the United end of the ground, Not sure what was going on with the cheerleading, it was all out of time and every thing, was more amusing than anything
The second half rolled through quicker than the first so it seemed and some good chances set up by Chadwick seemed almost wasted as United struck high, wide or at the keeper, but eventually our time came again as Solskjaer struck home from a wonderful pass accross the face of the box and into the back of the net, Burnley were well and truely out of it by this point, although the bumblee bee mascot decided to dot his worm like move on the side lines to try and inspire the crowd, but the only thing he got was a song from the United end - I'll leave you guessing as to what it was . . .
The end of the match was coming clear and apparently there was an escort out to the train station for United Fans, we found this escort and it was almost as though they couldn't be bothered, they merely pointed us in the direction of some hill which me and my mate walked up only to realise that it wasn't anywhere near where we had to go, we eventually found the station and jumped on a train only to find the last train to Manchester had gone and we couldn't believe it when we got to Blackburn that there was no trains after 11pm at night! We had to jump in a cab back to Bolton in the end.
Anyways, apparently the man of the match was Glen Little according to Burnley - how, we'll never know, but the United end called for Fergie to sign him up in song
And who could forget all the songs about Jerzy Dudek!
And to be honest, you really don't think I could go this entire post with out mentioning David May do you? Our Captain played well in my opinion - although he is a guareenteed superstar everytime!
All round a good trip and even better match
Burnley 0 - 2 United
I jumped on a train from the wonderful town of Bolton to Blackburn and then to Burnley - when we got off the train at Burnley central it was like the middle of no where to start with, not to mention getting lost and asking some local who didn't seem to know him self, then again, neither did the officer we asked.
After actually finding the ground after 30 minutes of looking for it, we were in the pub watching re runs of this weekends football and listening to all the Burnley fans talking about how they were going to win tonight and how they were such a big club . . .
The inside of Turfmoor isn't actually as bad as I had imagined, although wooden seating brought back memories from last Boxing Day where I ended up in the Home end at Everton
The game it self wasn't too bad despite the 15 minute delay for kick off which rather than fill it with something worth while, they got their 2 mascots to run onto the pitch and do some crappy dance as to which point the United fans sang to them "What the f**king hell is that"
Danny Pugh should of had a hattrick but some how managed to strike straight at the keeper every time, Diegos goals was genius as he found himself one on one with the keeper, only to put it to his left hand side and bang, united were one nil up, little to the liking of the Burnley fans who all at some point probably called off side
I had a good old sing song before and during the game, with 4000 strong who couldn't, also started a few including the 12 days of Cantona and the were the loyal supporters at the end amongest a few I can remember
Half time rolled round and legend Willie Morgan done what effectivly was a Cash Dash draw and got a good reception from the United end of the ground, Not sure what was going on with the cheerleading, it was all out of time and every thing, was more amusing than anything
The second half rolled through quicker than the first so it seemed and some good chances set up by Chadwick seemed almost wasted as United struck high, wide or at the keeper, but eventually our time came again as Solskjaer struck home from a wonderful pass accross the face of the box and into the back of the net, Burnley were well and truely out of it by this point, although the bumblee bee mascot decided to dot his worm like move on the side lines to try and inspire the crowd, but the only thing he got was a song from the United end - I'll leave you guessing as to what it was . . .
The end of the match was coming clear and apparently there was an escort out to the train station for United Fans, we found this escort and it was almost as though they couldn't be bothered, they merely pointed us in the direction of some hill which me and my mate walked up only to realise that it wasn't anywhere near where we had to go, we eventually found the station and jumped on a train only to find the last train to Manchester had gone and we couldn't believe it when we got to Blackburn that there was no trains after 11pm at night! We had to jump in a cab back to Bolton in the end.
Anyways, apparently the man of the match was Glen Little according to Burnley - how, we'll never know, but the United end called for Fergie to sign him up in song
And who could forget all the songs about Jerzy Dudek!
And to be honest, you really don't think I could go this entire post with out mentioning David May do you? Our Captain played well in my opinion - although he is a guareenteed superstar everytime!
All round a good trip and even better match
Burnley 0 - 2 United
