Jimmy Adamson -Team Of The Seventies Part 2


By Dave Thomas
August 19 2010

More than one soccer writer wrote features about Jimmy Adamson in the late 60s whilst he was first team coach and asked why he had not left Burnley to manage another team. His answer was simple. “Burnley are my life and I mean to stay with them,” was one magazine heading .

“It sounds corny perhaps, but I’m in love with Burnley just as much as I was in 1947 when I joined them as a junior player. My heart is with the club and with the town. I have had plenty of chances to leave and I can’t deny it but I’m glad I stayed. Put it this way, when you sew some seeds you like to watch and see them grow into something good. We have a wonderful set of young players at Turf Moor and although we haven’t won any senior honours we are soon going to. Mark my words. Our potential is better than that of all other clubs and I do mean all. Some First Division managers would give their right arms for our teenagers".
 

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