By TheLongside.co.uk
April 23 2006

On Tuesday 2nd May at 7.45pm, Conference champions Accrington Stanley play host to a Burnley FC XI side in a joint celebration of Paul Cook's career, and Accrington Stanley's promotion to the football league.

 Paul Cook Retirement Match

 

On Tuesday 2nd May at 7.45pm, Conference champions Accrington Stanley play host to a Burnley FC XI side in a joint celebration of Paul Cook's career, and Accrington Stanley's promotion to the football league.

 

Stan Ternent and Sam Ellis will take charge of the Burnley side, and the players that have been invited to play include:

 

Marlon Beresford, Paul Crichton, Dean West, Chris Brass, Lee Briscoe, Tom Cowan, Steve Davis, Ian Cox, Mitchell Thomas, Peter Swan, Tony Grant, Lenny Johnrose, Paul Weller, Paul Gascoigne, John Mullin, Alan Moore, Glen Little, Graham Branch, Ian Wright, Ronnie Jepson, Gareth Taylor, Andy Payton, Ian Moore, Andy Cooke, Robbie Blake and Tony Ellis.

 

Cooky's career saw 22 years of football and over 700 games, 140 of those for the Clarets. It will be a fantastic send off for Paul, and some of the names chosen for the Burnley XI certainly do the occasion justice. So get yourselves to the Crown Ground, admission is £10 for adults, and £5 for children and senior citizens, it should be a great celebration of a great career.

 

Cooky said, "It's just a chance to thank all the people of Accrington and Burnley, to celebrate with the Accy fans on our fantastic season and to see some of the Burnley players from the time we got promoted from the old second division. I couldn't think of a better way to call it a day."