| 29th Aug 1959 West Ham v Burnley |
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Saturday August 29th 1959 Burnley 1 - 3 West Ham United Goalscorer: Connelly Att: 26,783 Teams Burnley : Blacklaw, Angus, Cummings, Seith, Miller, Adamson, Connelly, McIlroy, Pointer, Robson, Pilkington. West Ham : Dyer, Bond, Cantwell, Malcolm, Brown, Smith, Grice, Woosnam, Keeble, Smyllie, Musgrove.
Referee Mr.M.McCoy Doncaster Linesmen Mr.H.H.Sharland and Mr.R.J.Willis
Burnley came into this game with high expectations especially having won their first two games of the season. West Ham managing to win their first and draw thir last game. But it wasn't to be and the Clarets faithfull were once again worrying about the inconsistency that the Clarets could show.
The heatwave continued as Burnley lined up against a West Ham team that included a certain John Bond who as we all now know, was to go down in Burnley history for reasons other than his footballing skills.
With only 3 minutes gone on the clock and it was Connelly who put the Clarets 1-0 up, but only 4 minutes later and Woosnam had brought the Hammers back level. After their equaliser, West Ham began to show their supremacy and Grice was giving Cummings a torrid time.
The Clarets were now being made to look second rate as their attack was virtually non existent. By pure luck they went in at half time with the scores level at 1-1.
West Ham continued in the second half where they had left off in the first and it was Smyllie who scored to give them a 2-1 lead, the Clarets were lacking in confidence and Jimmy McIlroy was having a game to forget.
Grice put in a speculative high ball towards the Burnley goal and Blacklaw who had completely misjudged the flight was left scrambling trying to keep it out, but to no avail, 3-1 to West Ham. The game ended without further reply for the Clarets.
A thoroughly disappointing performance from a lacklustre Burnley team.
Programme Review
The team sheet against West Ham was as printed apart from the one change, Smyllie playing instead of John Dick.
Harry Potts Calling
Harry was thanking the support given to his Burnley team for their performance against Everton, and commented on how well the team had played in their first two games with everyone having given 100%.
Special mention was given to the reserves after their 1-0 win against Leeds United with only 10 men for most of the game as an unlucky Trevor Meredith had broken his leg early in the match.
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