The Longside Reference

Saturday 25th August 1959

Burnley 5- 2 Everton

Goalscorers: Connelly (2), Pilkington, Robson

The first few minutes of the game were a little scrappy with both teams weighing each other up, but it was Burnley who were the first to find their feet when Robson had soon volleyed home a Pilkington cross.

Within the first 20 minutes Burnley were 3-0 up with further goals from a header from Pilkington and a Pointer tap in. All 3 goals had been scored in a fantastic 6 minute spell for the Clarets. This was enough to wake the sleepy Everton and it was Thomas who drove a shot passed the diving Blacklaw to make it 3-1.

The game became end to end stuff with chances being saved by both Dunlop and Blacklaw but at the half time whistle the score remained at 3-1.At the start of the second half it was Everton who were playing the better football and were having a tremendous spell of football when Robson scored his second against the run of play.

Everton wouldn't lie down though and continued to fight back, and it was Miller who headed against his own bar but the ball bounced down and was cleared, but the referee was convinced the ball had crossed the line and awarded a goal to Everton, 4-2 and Everton continued to push forward and Burnley were now under the cosh, Everton were looking the more likely to score again but it was Connelly who made it 5-2 after slotting the ball home after a break by Robson.

The final whistle blew minutes later and both teams left the pitch to rapturous applause from both sets of supporters.

Programme Review

Burnley's programme this season has a new cover, has 16 pages and costs 3d.The Burnley team was as published in the programme but Everton made one change with Bramwell playing at no 3 instead of Tansey.

Harry Potts calling

 The managers feature made intersting reading this week with a statement from all at the club for everyone to get behind them, sounds familiar but with a bit more truth in it than the same pleas today.Interesting adverts were Lucas batteries, Redmans telling us there was no bacon like their's, Altham travel services saying we score everytime we use them,Stanley Matthews football boots, and the usual back page advert for Massey's Brewery.

Two other very interesting entries were a full squad listing of this seasons professionals, there were 38 of them, what we would give for a squad that size today, and a list of season ticket prices, my oh my how I could live with those prices now.