It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Thanks Stan, is Ings starting?

I do hope so CC, Yes as far as I know he finished the game on Sat. with no problems.

Great, thanks Stan.

Just out CC:

"The doubts surround Scott Arfield who missed Saturday's game with a groin strain picked up in training the day before and Dean Marney who was forced off towards the end of Saturday's win.
Sean Dyche has suggested that he'll wait as long as possible before making a decision but it is looking most likely that both will miss out. It's a blow given that David Jones will also be on the sidelines tonight as he sits out a one match ban having collected his fifth yellow card of the season in that QPR win."

... Back to 50/50 then.

Still fancy Burnley Stan, home advantage. Tough game for the Hammers Sat, Aston Villa at home only one point between the two.

Home advantage yes that true, might swing it, good luck anyway.

0-0 HT, Burnley the better team and West ham a bit clueless going forward, keep our shape and Burnley can do this.

Unlucky Stan.

Yeah thanks CC, Inexperienced management I'm afraid, still concentrate on the league as they say.

Out of the League Cup but still in this new one:

"Clarets make third round of U21 Premier League Cup: Report by David Hynds

ALEX Coleman’s last gasp heroics set up a tie with Sunderland in the third round of the U21 Premier League Cup.

The Clarets defender struck in the dying seconds of an absorbing tie at the Alexandra Stadium to complete a second half comeback that saw Ryan Noble cancel out the hosts' first half lead."

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I love these Youth/Reserve team games, Crewe and Burnley put on a very watchable and enjoyable match... And what a finish, brilliant!

Whilst you're doing well at the moment the fact you lost to West Ham who themselves are really only holding their own in the PL thanks to a lucky result at Spurs shows you the gulf you will need to bridge should you continue your current form and actually get promoted

Not forgetting of course, that that was a weakened West Ham team and not what they would label as their 1st

Thank you for your wise? words, but I'm afraid that is a typical ill informed remark based on little or no knowledge of how Burnley FC. (and clubs like them operate and their constraints)... For instance Burnley also put out a weakened team as well (not even mentioned), 5, 1st teamers to be exact so I will argue that nearly 50% of a team with a very small squad is more of an equal disadvantage then a pre-madonas team's changes like Wet Spam's.

Steady Stan! JS might be a West Ham supporter worried about having to face you guys next year!!!

No Harry, he's a Chelski bloke so we must make an allowance for such ignorance I suppose -):

Prawn sarnie brigade Stan, they have no concept of the taste of a meat pie made in Lancashire. Or a cup of oxo/bovril at half time :O)

Indeed CC indeed... By the way I also wouldn't touch a meat pie at a football match either -);

"Mickey Mouse Cup where no fan or team give two sh*ts" ..... quote from Swansea fans when Cardiff reached the final and lost after extra time on penalties in 2012 to Liverpool thanks to Gerrards Liverpool supporting cousin missing for Cardiff !!!



They beat Bradford in the 2013 final and thought they won the World Cup ... bloody gypos :-)

Stan 2191 of 2192

Indeed CC indeed... By the way I also wouldn't touch a meat pie at a football match either -);



Threw a few at Chelsea fans in the 70/80's ... Cardiff pies were more solid ,denser and more scary than anything they threw at us :-)

Bleeding hooligan -): However back to the super team:

01 Nov 2013
VICTORY OVER QPR EARNS BURNLEY THE ACCOLADE

The League Managers Association five-man Performance of the Week panel, comprising LMA Chairman Howard Wilkinson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Joe Royle, Dave Bassett and Barry Fry, were in agreement that this week, the LMA Performance of the Week Award should go to Burnley following their excellent 2-0 home win over Queens Park Rangers in the Sky Bet Championship on 26th October 2013.

Burnley manager Sean Dyche will receive a specially engraved crystal football in a presentation to commemorate the award.

Danny Ings scored twice as Burnley took the honours in the top-of-the-table Championship meeting against QPR.

Burnley were the better side in the first half but QPR went close when Junior Hoilett had a shot blocked and Joey Barton sent an effort wide.

On 65 minutes, however, Ings played a one-two with Sam Vokes and fired past keeper Robert Green to put the hosts ahead.

Two minutes from time, Ings then scored a penalty after being fouled by Barton to end QPR's unbeaten league record and keep Burnley top.

Following the match Sean Dyche was full of praise for his players;

"I'm delighted with the tactical framework of the team, the effervescence of the team but most of all the quality of the team, which I was thought was excellent.

"The first goal was fit to grace most pitches, the pace of it and the quality of the finish.

"I thought we played really well first half and had some good half chances, but I said to the players at half-time that they'd have to go even harder because QPR are not an easy group of players to crack.

"However, to deliver that performance and win in that fashion, it's right up as one of my best days here."

Sean Dyche.

By Graham Clutton11:10PM GMT 01 Nov 2013Comments4 Comments
The rivalry between Cardiff City and Swansea City has become so intense it is easy to overlook the fact that it has not always been like this.
Sunday’s game will feature a colossal police presence, not just inside the ground but also along the 40-mile route which divides the two cities in south Wales.
Such a serious security operation has been made necessary by the rivalry’s nasty recent history. Even media covering the match have been warned they may not be allowed in if they arrive less than 2½ hours before kick-off.
Yet while it is unlikely that any of the 27,000 supporters planning to attend tomorrow’s game were also at the FA Cup final in 1927, they might be surprised to know that hundreds of Swansea fans travelled to Wembley that day to cheer on Cardiff against Arsenal.
The same sense of Welsh solidarity had been evident in a far more serious context a few years before, when Lord Ninian, the MP who gave his name to Cardiff’s former ground, led a battalion from Swansea during the First World War.
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That sense of unity between the two sets of supporters is something Ashley Williams, the Swansea captain, knows well from his experience playing for Wales.
Yet when Williams is wearing the white of Swansea rather than the red of the country he captains, he knows the people of Cardiff will view him very differently.
Williams said: “It’s not nice but I’m used to it now. I think it’s natural. It’s not like I’m going to go there and play for Swansea and they will say, ‘Actually, he’s captain of Wales, so let’s not boo him’. I know if I go there with a Swansea shirt on, I’m going to get booed.”
Williams stressed he thrives on the intensity of the rivalry: “I enjoy playing in the derby games at home because you are in front of your home fans. However, it’s also nice to play away from home because you feel like you are behind enemy lines. You are there, they don’t want you there and they let you know that.”
The hostility which now exists first began to seem serious in the early Eighties.
David Giles, who played for both clubs during a 14-year career, knows what the feeling is like. Now a television and radio pundit, the Cardiff-born midfielder remembers well when he scored the winning goal for Swansea in the closing stages of the 1980 game at the Vetch Field. “I left the ground with a coat over my head so nobody knew who I was.” It was the safest way.
Through the Eighties, ill feeling between the two clubs began to overshadow the football. The rivalry was changing, as was Wales. Unemployment and strikes marred much of the decade and the unrest caused by the miners’ strike moved from the pits to the pitch.
As both clubs began to slide down the leagues, they met each other on the way. In 1987, there was serious trouble at the game at Ninian Park and the following year there was an incident which still resonates with fans.
After a day of trouble between the two sets of supporters in Swansea, a skirmish spilt onto the beach. It is said that some Cardiff fans retreated into the sea, leading Swansea to adopt the chant “Swim away”, which gave rise to some Swans fans wearing snorkels to the game when the sides last met, in February 2011.
There were dreadful scenes before and after the 1991 FA Cup tie and two years later violence again erupted in Cardiff when seats were ripped out of the Ninian Park grandstand.
Cardiff defender Jason Perry said; “There were seats being thrown and that was the dark, dark days of the derby. My wife was there. I was trying to be professional about my job but I had one eye on the grandstand.”
After that, the football authorities took the unprecedented step of banning away fans from fixtures between the clubs. Four years later, a plan was devised and the away fans returned. But they were only able to go on ‘bubble’ trips whereby away fans were escorted up and down the M4, to and from their destination. Sunday’s game falls into that category.
Those at both clubs are desperate that Sunday becomes a celebration of the first meeting between the teams in the elite division of English football for more than 50 years.
Cardiff City director Steve Borley said; “It’s amazing that you have two Welsh clubs who are the prime time four o’clock slot on a Sunday afternoon being beamed to 220 countries all the way around the world.”
Swansea City vice-chairman Leigh Dineen said: “It will certainly surpass anything we have ever known.”


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