Jimmy Adamson-Team Of The Seventies Part 1
By Dave Thomas
August 17 2010
Where did it all go wrong for Jimmy Adamson? At the end of season ‘73/74 his earlier prediction that Burnley would become the team of the seventies was still a possibility after a season of wonderful football, an FA Cup semi-final, and just missing out on a place in Europe.
| In March of the following season Burnley were second in the table behind Everton. But by January 1976, his hopes and dreams had all ended following a defeat in an FA Cup tie at Blackpool, ironically to a team managed by Harry Potts, when Chairman Bob Lord asked for Adamson’s resignation. There are two schools of thought: one that saw and still sees Jimmy Adamson as one of Burnley’s great managers who should never have been sacked. The second one sees him in a less kindly light. To read the whole article please click on the link below; |