THIS is how a memorial garden at Burnley Football Club is set to look.

The project, being led by a group of life-long fans, will see the site in the shadow of Turf Moor transformed.

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The group now needs to raise up to £65,000 for the first phase of the garden before a formal planning application can be submitted to Burnley Council for consideration.

Once phase one is complete, the land will become a memorial garden ready to accept ashes of fans with a wall built to accommodate plaques to remember them by.

The Brun Lea and Calder rivers will be recreated in the garden with bricks which will also be available for purchase.

Phase two, which will need further funding, will see a life-size statue of former Burnley and manager Brian Miller, who made 379 appearances for the Clarets between 1955 and 1966.

It will be joined by a replica of the dugout at Turf Moor from 1987 from the iconic photograph of Miller with his arms in the air when Burnley avoided relegation from the Football League thanks to a 2-1 win over Orient.

The last phase will include an eight-foot statue of Clarets legend Jimmy McIlroy, who played for Burnley from 1950 to 1962, installed.

It will be sited by the exit from the garden by the stand that is named after him.