Dave Thomas Reviews March 2009 Part 1

By TheLongside.co.uk
March 27 2009

I WAS DELIGHTED TOTTENHAM LOST in the Carling Cup Final. It was ridiculous that they were even there. I didn’t watch it all but what I saw I thought was pretty dire with neither side playing well. As they crashed out on penalties I felt no sympathy at all when the cameras closed in on their crestfallen and weeping faces.

RUMOURS THAT COYLE WAS BEING COURTED BY BOLTON were put to rest when it emerged that contract extension talks at Burnley are in the offing. He says he has unfinished work here and has no plans to sign players and then up sticks. So that’s OK then.

ANOTHER NEW BOOK IN AUGUST: My good pal Tim Quelch will see his definitive work on the 1959/60 championship team published in August. 240 pages and profusely illustrated I know in advance how good it will be. Tim years ago compiled the best Burnley book I know Forever and Ever A Rock and Roll Years Diary of BFC. This was a wonderful compilation of all the excellent articles and match reports in the London Clarets magazine Something to Write Home About.
Anyway I have watched Tim putting together his new book and seen many of the pages already. I promise you it is a book you must buy. It doesn’t just look at Burnley FC in 1959/60; it looks at Burnley the town that season, contemporary current affairs, and how Burnley FC fitted into the general football scheme of things. Above all, it asks the question, just how did a little town like Burnley come to produce such a wonderful team and title triumph? Tim interviewed several of the players during the writing.

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