|  Nickname:
The Clarets
Year formed: 1882
Ground: Turf Moor
Capacity: 22,546 2006/07
average: 11,956
For visitors: 4,125 in the
David Fishwick Stand.
Record attendance:
54,775
Position last season:
15th in the Championship
Manager: Steve Cotterill (June
2004)
 Players
in:
Gabor Kiraly (Crystal Palace), Besart
Berisha (Hamburg), Robbie Blake (Leeds),
Stephen Jordan (Manchester City).
Players out: Frank Sinclair
(Huddersfield), Danny Coyne (Tranmere),
Graham Branch (Accrington), John McGreal,
Garreth O'Connor, Duane Courtney.
Key man: Ade Akinbiyi
Record transfer fee paid:
£1m (Ian Moore, Stockport County,
20 November 2000)
Record transfer fee received:
£1,500,000 (Richard Chaplow,
West Brom, 31 January 2005)
Ticket office: 0870
443 1914
Ticket prices: Adults:
£19, concessions £9-£12
Official website:
www.burnleyfootballclub.com
How to get there:
Leave M6 at junction 29 for M65. Come
off the M65 at junction 10 and follow
the signs for Towneley Hall. This
road will take you past the ground.
Best place to park:
Along with street parking there is
a designated away car park at the
cricket ground that borders the football
stadium and Fulledge Recreation Park.
Best place to eat:
The Sparrow Hawk Hotel is five minutes
on foot from the ground.
Best place to drink:
The Queen Victoria situated 100 yards
or so past the fire station where
the away fans are usually directed
to park.
Safe to wear scarf:
Advisable to keep colours covered
up in and around the centre of town.
Return journey: 410 miles
Journey time: 8hr 30mins
Best League Win: 9-0 v Darwen
09/01/1892 Division 1
Last meeting: Burnley 3, Norwich
City 0 (April 17, 2007): Darren Huckerby
limped out of contention just minutes
before kick-off with a back problem.
An hour and a half later the injury
worries were joined by a defeat in
a match that had “end of the
season” written all over it
from a Canaries perspective. If there
are excuses it is the injury list,
which comprised 11 first-team squad
members – and four others out
on loan. 16-year-old Kris Renton made
his first start, alongside Chris Martin,
after his record-breaking appearance
at Leicester on Saturday, with fellow
teenager Patrick Bexfield, 18, promoted
to the bench, where he joined yet
another of the City kids, 17-year-old
Bally Smart.
Full
Match Report
Last Norwich
away win: 3/4/2004 Burnley
3 (Wood, May, Blake), Norwich 5 (Svensson
2, Huckerby 2, McKenzie)
Chances: Cotterill’s
men made a fine start to the season
but then lost their way completely
and only just recovered in time to
thwart a potential relegation battle.
Not much expected of them this time
around and a bad start could see the
fans’ patience wearing thin
with the manager. Another key season
for Akinbiyi, who is running out of
time to find a club to call home.
Andy Gray and Ade Akinbiyi are more
than capable of scoring goals in the
Championship while former Benfica
winger Alan Mahon will be supplying
the ammunition for the strikeforce.
Prediction: 15th
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here.
For an unofficial Guide to the Ground
click
here.
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