Burnley
It's Chelsea
By TheLongside.co.uk
September 27 2008
The Clarets have today been drawn with Chelsea in the last 16 of the League Cup. The tie will be played at Stamford Bridge in the week commencing 10th November 2008. There will be many that will be disappointed at drawing such a strong side at this stage of the competition, but there will equally be many that will be dribbling at the mouth at the prospect of facing such highly esteemed opposition.
Big Phil and his merry men will probably be expecting this to be quite an easy task for them to progress to the last eight of this competition, but hopefully our Claret heroes will give them a game to remember, our form against Premiership opposition in Cup ties over recent years has been overall pretty good, and it looks as though with our improved recent form it will be game on. The last time Burnley played at Stamford Bridge was in a League Division 2 game on Saturday December 4th 1982 in front of a crowd of just 8,184, the game finished 2-1 to Chelsea with Brian Laws scoring the Burnley goal. Since those dark days of the 2nd Division Chelsea as we all know have progressed to the summit of English football, winning league titles and cups on the way, Burnley on the other hand have seen the lows of the 4th division and slowly improved their standing to the 2nd tier. This game will be a mouth watering experience for all Clarets fans worldwide, and one that many will want to say those immortal lines " I was there" Lets hope we can accredit ourselves with playing good football, and that we can travel to London in our thousands to cheer on the lads. John Terry, Deco, Lampard, Ballack, Cole and others, You'd better watch out The Clarets are coming to get you. |
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£20 a ticket, 6000 Burnley fans.
Fancy us to turn them over as well.
Very happy with this one.
Quote:IS IT £20 A TICKETtheultimatewarrior
Great draw.
£20 a ticket, 6000 Burnley fans.
Fancy us to turn them over as well.
Very happy with this one.
£20 ADULTS £10 KIDS
6,000 TICKETS
Quote:A PROGRAME DOWN THERE DEARER THAN THAT MATCH TICKETcraigduck
http://www.thefootballnetwork.net/main/s37/st110801.htm
ARE YOU GOING DUCK A place in the q/finals may be a step too far for us, but as long as we don't get mullered, i'd be fairly happy.
How much wonga will we get from this game?
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I AM ARGUS
King of merge.
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I AM ARGUS
King of merge.
Other than drawing Arsenal, this tie couldn't have been any tougher IMO. I just hope we give a good account of ourselves and dont get whalloped.
Also, will it definitely be on the Tuesday? I was kinda hoping it'd be played on the Wednesday.
Good write up by the way, whoever did it.
If the Arsenal game is on tele(which is likely) then the game may be moved to accommodate that fixture.
Quote:GUTTED FOR YOU M8,,,,CANT SOME ONE HELP BBC2,,,IE BABY SITTER,,AND GIVE HIM ALIFT DOWN MUST BE SOME ONE WHO CAN HELP,,,,,I WOULD IF I LIVED UP THERE M8,,,,THIS IS ONCE IN LIFETIME GAME COME ON BURNLEYBBC 2
Money and small child Flc, Love to have gone but bad timing.
Unless I can persuade the missus to work from home that day and babysit so I can zoom off!
also Money, ive gone back to college so im only working 3 days a week, so i dodnt have that much spare.
Its not so much once in a lifetime, they will be other big games( i hope)
Quote:YOU GOT A MONTH TO GET THOSE BROWNIE POINTS,,,,THEN GET ZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMINGGGGGGGGPiebasedlifeform
Very unlikely that I'll be able to go either.
Unless I can persuade the missus to work from home that day and babysit so I can zoom off!
HOPEFULLY BE ON SKY FOR YOU BBC2,,,,HOPE SO FOR YOU,,,AND EXTRA DOSH FOR BURNLEY(Sm127) 
Quote:LC
Good write up by the way, whoever did it.
Thanks bud.
Chelsea play in the Prem at bstdville on Sunday the 9th Nov so I can't see this game being played on the Tuesday, more likely to be the Wednesday.
Even if we do get 6,000 tickets don't think there is any way we will sell out, especially midweek in London
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008:09:28:11:53:45 by Foreverclaret.
Enjoy your night.
Don't Gamble, Bet Risk Free
I know it's a cup game, but I really can't see us getting owt from this game.
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I AM ARGUS
King of merge.
Quote:Foreverclaret
Chelsea play in the Prem at bstdville on Sunday the 9th Nov so I can't see this game being played on the Tuesday, more likely to be the Wednesday.
Good spot. Hope this is the case.
Would love to get tickets for this one seeing as it is just down the road for me!
COME ON YOU CLARETS!
Don't Gamble, Bet Risk Free
Quote:WE OUT SING EVERYONE AWY FROM HOME,,,WE WIL BRING YOU SOME GOOD OLD HOLLANDS PIES DOWN,,,AND A TIN OF BODDINGTONS,,,,ITS GRIM UPNORTH YOU NO,,,,THE SHARABANG IS ON ITS WAY TO CHELSKI,,,COME ON BURNLEYSince 66
Yeah - Loads of prawn sarnies Collector - you will do out sing us like most clubs do!!
Quote:TC
One of the Chelsea fans reckons that they will field a tough squad,
I don't think they can do anything else. One of the journos on the Sunday Supplement this morning said their squad was that strong they could field two teams in the Champions League and I don't think he's wrong.
None of these ten started against Stoke yesterday :-
Cudicini
Ferreira
Carvalho
Bridge
Ivanovic
Deco
Hilario
Joe Cole
Belletti
Anelka
Enough quality there to give us a game I think.
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Quote:they aint got ade akibibordeauxclaretQuote:TC
One of the Chelsea fans reckons that they will field a tough squad,
I don't think they can do anything else. One of the journos on the Sunday Supplement this morning said their squad was that strong they could field two teams in the Champions League and I don't think he's wrong.
None of these ten started against Stoke yesterday :-
Cudicini
Ferreira
Carvalho
Bridge
Ivanovic
Deco
Hilario
Joe Cole
Belletti
Anelka
Enough quality there to give us a game I think.
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