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...

Arsenal tribute planned for Pointer

On Tuesday of this week the sad news reached us of the passing of our former great Ray Pointer after a long battle against illness and tomorrow Burnley fans are planning to pay tribute to him with a minute’s applause.

Pointer, of course, never played at the Emirates Stadium, but he certainly played just a few minutes walk away at Highbury and I’m sure it would have been a ground he remembered with great affection.



He scored two hat tricks for Burnley, both of them away from Turf Moor. The second of them was in a 6-2 win at Birmingham in September 1961 but ten months before that, on 17th December 1960, he scored three of our goals in a 5-2 win against Arsenal at Highbury with our other goals that day coming from the two inside-forwards Jimmy McIlroy and Jimmy Robson.
On 28th September 1961, twelve days after that Birmingham hat trick, Pointer scored again at Highbury, but this time it wasn’t for Burnley. It was the occasion of his England debut and he scored in a 4-1 win. He opened the scoring for England on that occasion when further goals came from Dennis Viollet and then two from Bobby Charlton.

Burnley Football Club, I’m sure, will be planning something ahead of the home game against Hull, but our fans are wishing to take part in a minute’s applause once the clock has reached nine minutes in the first half tomorrow; nine chosen for the reason that it was the shirt number most often worn by Pointer.

I was asked this week by a friend of mine who is not a Burnley supporter just how good Pointer was. I just simply told him: “We’ve lost one of our greats.”

My thoughts remain with his two sons and daughter Stephen, Ann-Marie and Jonathan, his grandchildren and other family and friends.

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I nicked the tribute above from another source but I think it more then adequately describes about Ray Pointer and why he was one of the great post war centre forwards that this Country has produced. Sadly he received only a small number of England caps, sad for him.. and England.

Dyche puts out a weakened team against the Arse, giving you now a great chance to go through D/C.

Yes they did a lot of diving.

Looks like an elbow to me. :-))

"He came to us from sunny Spain, Sánchez, Sánchez / He hates the scum from down the Lane, Sánchez, Sánchez / He chose to come to London town and turn the f*cking Scousers down! / Alex Sanchez number seventeen".

Elbow my bum -):

Good job for you we only put our reserves out otherwise we would have killed your lot.

.. and we scored the best goal of the game.

Arsenal defence very vulnerable but at the end of the day Burnley had no answer to Arsenal going forward.

Elbow again. :-))

Cobbles

Oh how rude.

Betting is hopeless this year Stan....results seem to go against me all the time...

Have a break RF and come back stronger.. or alternatively jack it in -):

It was a cert that Arsenal were going to win. lol

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Oh yeah, thrashed Burnley all of 2-1 in the end

A win is a win, lol.

Load of girls if you ask me , "oh you grabbed my shirt so i had to theatrically fall over"

Try being tackled by this one then JJ -): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2dr9tl_rude-women-football-player_fun