Burnley Memorabilia And Programmes

Saturday 27th February 1960

Bolton Wanderers 2 - 1 Burnley

Goalscorers: Connelly

Att: 28,772

Teams

Bolton Wanderers: Bollands, Hartle, Farrimond, Hennin, Higgins, Stanley, Birch, Deakin, Stevens, Hill, Holden.

Burnley: Blacklaw, Angus, Elder, Seith, Miller, Adamson, Connelly, McIlroy, Pointer, Lawson, Pilkington.

Referee          Mr.K.Howley (Middlesborough)
Linesmen         Mr.C.Taylor and Mr.J.Shaw

 With all the recent excitement of the F.A.Cup, Burnley were today making the short journey to Burnden Park to face near neighbours Bolton Wanderers in a League encounter.

The expectations were high but the Clarets floundered and lost the game by 2 goals to 1.Right from the kick off the Clarets were on the back foot and within the first minutes of the game they were a goal behind, thanks to a toe poke from Birch.

This goal spurred the Clarets into action, and within 10 minutes of the game starting Burnley were back level with a well taken goal from Connelly.

Burnley continued to pressurise the Wanderers but couldn't capitalise on a host of chances that they had, Adamson and McIlroy were showing the way, and were in great form for Burnley.

Half time with the scores level at 1-1.Burnley continued in the second half the more dominant team, but as in the first half they could just not get the ball in the net.

Bolton's winner came from an unexpected source when Hartle the Bolton right back looped an hopeful lob over Adam Blacklaw who today was not playing at is best.

Burnley continued to surge forward in search of the equaliser, but it wasn't to be, and the game ended in a victory to Bolton with the scoreline at 2-1.

The Clarets faithful were dejected with the result, after all the Clarets hadn't lost a game so far this year, but the very next game was to be against the League leaders Tottenham Hotspur at Turf Moor on the coming Tuesday evening, so there was still hope that the Championship hadn't passed us by just yet.

Programme Review

Just two changes to the teams printed in the programme, they were Hill in for Parry and Lawson in for Robson.

The programme itself was a very uninspiring 8 page affair costing 3d, with not much content of interest but it was good to see that the Clarets were welcomed with the words OUR ATTRACTIVE VISITORS.

There was one small advertisement in the programme which caught my eye, which was for people to give up smoking, I just wonder what exactly the Stanwood treatment