Grendel
Well-Known Member
Which seasons were the best supporting Coventry in your memory?
But that wasn't a team that specialised in winning ugly. Far from it, but you can't win them all with free-flowing attacking football.
Burnley *are* side set up to win ugly, and instructed to do all they can to disrupt a game, not all of those things within the laws of the game.
Would I want Burnley's success? Of course. Would I want to watch a team that is set up to play that way every week? No. Would I make the trade off of their success for turgid football every week? I don't know, to be honest; games like that are hard to watch even if you're winning.
Was I impressed by them? It's hard not be impressed by a team that's only conceded 12 all season, and you can see why they've achieved that. They were nothing to write home about as an attacking force, though, and one thing's for sure, they're not going to get away with being that next season.
There's a question that's taken a bit of googling to remember which was which.Which seasons were the best supporting Coventry in your memory?
On our cup run some of the games were dire - Stoke we scraped it and the Man U game was a dogfight
We escaped relegation one season with truly dire games against Stoke and Luton. We won both and any fan would rather we had won a dire game than lost trying to play attractive football.
I thought Burnley were pretty impressive and I’d swap
One of my stand out games was a dire match at Highbury when Dave Bamber scored a winner against any odds possible with about 200 fans in the away end.
I don’t remember any exciting games we lost with any satisfaction
Ahh, but you talking about something quite different and you have listed individual games.On our cup run some of the games were dire - Stoke we scraped it and the Man U game was a dogfight
We escaped relegation one season with truly dire games against Stoke and Luton. We won both and any fan would rather we had won a dire game than lost trying to play attractive football.
I thought Burnley were pretty impressive and I’d swap
One of my stand out games was a dire match at Highbury when Dave Bamber scored a winner against any odds possible with about 200 fans in the away end.
I don’t remember any exciting games we lost with any satisfaction
Ahh, but you talking about something quite different and you have listed individual games.
I am talking about the mindset of a club that sets our it's stall to play in this manner, game in, game out.
Never really as dour as all that, though, were they.Yeah I’m so grateful I didn’t support George Grahams Arsenal team - the joy
I agree its partly about refs ignoring the faux agony, but their main job is to look after the wellbeing of players, so surely there should be another process retrospective taking retrospective action!FIFA isn't the issue here, it's the refereeing in this country. In the previous two world cups the refs have been perfectly happy to let play continue while some fanny rolls about in faux agony. Every time a world cup rolls around the refereeing always stands out to me (sad I know!).
Time wasting can also be controlled by the refs to a degree, start dishing out yellows for players taking the piss and it would soon stop.
It’s just under 80,000 and they are the only club in Burnley.Perhaps because the 'town' they come from has a population of only 70000 people?
Is that because no-one else wants to play there?It’s just under 80,000 and they are the only club in Burnley.
Never really as dour as all that, though, were they.
Partly Graham's personality and a well-drilled offside trap gave them the 'boring Arsenal' reputation. They frequently battered teams in that era.
Which isn't all that impressive when you consider their budget far outstrips the majority of their opponents. It's their ability to stop goals that's impressive.Only 6 teams have scored more than Burnley in the league this season
Which isn't all that impressive when you consider their budget far outstrips the majority of their opponents. It's their ability to stop goals that's impressive.
Whether you're impressed with them or not, or whether you would swap a more expansive style for theirs if it meant an improvement or not, you cannot argue they are anything other than difficult to watch. Not with a straight face, anyway (or if you genuinely enjoy watching the 'dark arts' - this might be true, of course).
Only 6 teams have scored more than Burnley in the league this season
Agreed.Most of our fans complain we do not do it enough.
We describe them as shithousing and Sheffield United as thugs who play crap football
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