Richard Oldroyd
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- A labour of love
- In many ways, it seems extraordinary to think that it is over 13 years since Barry Kilby beat Ray Ingleby in the race to take ...

- An uncertain dawn
- After easing past Doncaster Rovers on Boxing Day, Eddie Howe's first year in charge of Burnley looks to be ending on a ...

- Bewildering times
- I was talking to a friend the other day, about the chairman and the finances. He was disillusioned, bewildered by the lack of ...

- All about the Ifs
- There is something about being a football fan, anxiously anticipating each new signing, which makes even the busiest summer ...

- Learning the lessons of failure
- There was a time, not very long ago, when eighth place in the Championship would have been considered a good result for ...

- Twenty years of change
- As Burnley beat Peterborough United 4-1 on 20 April 1991, few in the crowd would have been aware of the revolution which was ...

- The Inevitable Death of the Cup
- According to this week's Sunday press, the FA cup is in line for revamp. But next weekend in East London, some of the real ...

- So What Next
- So next it was supposedly Malky Mackay that turned down the Burnley approach following the public snub by Paul Lambert and ...

- Dear Eddie - Welcome
- Eddie, welcome to Burnley. Congratulations. You've landed a big job, a challenge which offers huge opportunities.

- The dangers of football's short-term reputations
- The football landscape changes at a breakneck pace. Twelve months ago, when Burnley ...

- Cool heads required in the search for the man for all seasons
- After a period of months which has by turns been frustrating, demoralising and ...

- 2011: A critical year with a pivotal beginning
- When Barry Kilby looks back on 2010, he is unlikely to do so with fondness.

- Brian Laws' Burnley: The Inbetweeners
- There has been a show on TV recently, a comedy depicting the growing pains of four ...

- The game that is saying goodbye
- Sometime last season, the BBC ran a panel debate on the state of football. During the programme, one of the panellists, ...

- Approaching the tipping point in Clarets campaign
- When Brian Laws led his team into the new campaign two months ago, his message was: ...

- Time for Coyle's boys to grow up
- Two summers ago, Owen Coyle made three headline-grabbing signings before he embarked upon his first - and ultimately only - ...

- The Changing of the Guard
- Now that Brian Laws has kept his job, attention must turn to his summer transfer activities.

- The best of times, the worst of times
- Had you allowed your attention to wander at Turf Moor on Sunday, you might have ...

- Time to fight Wolves like cornered tigers
- It shouldn't have come to this. Not this season. Not in the Premier League, whilst ...

- Time to impose sanity on the Premier League
- When Portsmouth visited Turf Moor for Saturday's Premier League basement battle, ...




