It's Really Happening
By Dave Thomas
September 4 2009
In July there’d been a Burnley feature in the New York Times, yes you read that right – the New York Times. Someone there had cottoned on to the fact that Burnley and Chelsea had been just 67 miles apart in California in the pre-season. ‘But in reality they exist in separate universes. They may on occasion share the same space but not the same air’, wrote their feature writer.
Whilst clubs like Chelsea and Manchester United travelled in private jets, Burnley’s party of 34 had no such luxury and the story goes (according to the New York Times) that one of the buses, not plush luxury but extended vans, on the two-hour drive from airport to Ventura, was driven by Robbie Blake. The promotion and relegation system ‘inevitably leads to Cinderella stories and the glass slipper last season belonged to Burnley’. How true that was and the words fairy-tale had been used so often by fans and everyone connected with the club that they were in danger of serious over-use. It was way back in 1960 that Burnley were featured in the New York newspapers when the title-winning team played in the ‘New York Tournament’ and the comparison with Cinderella was made then for the first time. To read more please click on the link below |