Stephen Cummings' Burnley Football Club blog, from the Lancashire Telegraph

Steve Cummings blog: Play-offs too big a hurdle

5:37pm Tuesday 26th February 2013

I CLOSED last Tuesday’s column by describing Burnley’s game against Middlesbrough that evening as a “must-win” fixture.

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Clarets Blog: Clarets count the cost of controversial card

7:30am Tuesday 20th November 2012

YOU could have understood it completely had Sean Dyche spent the past week or so repeatedly jabbing several large and particularly pointy pins into a wax effigy of a referee.

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Return of clean sheets is a welcome relief

5:51pm Tuesday 23rd October 2012

HAD Terry Pashley not already ruled himself out of the running for the vacant managerial position at Turf Moor you might have thought that the performance he got out of the team on Saturday evening was a pretty impressive application for the job.

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Clarets Blog: Break came at a good time for Burnley

8:17am Tuesday 11th September 2012

Blank weekends in the football calendar are rarely welcomed by any supporter. But you sense that on this particular occasion the claret and blue faithful might just have appreciated a break from what has been a discouraging beginning to the 2012/13 campaign.

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Clarets Blog: Alarm bells are going off now

8:46am Tuesday 4th September 2012

The international break has probably come at a good time for Burnley.

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Clarets Column: Burnley’s season was a mixed bag

8:04am Tuesday 1st May 2012

So, season 2011/12. How was it for you? A term of transition or one of stability? A work in progress, or a doomed project? Building for the future or meandering aimlessly?

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Burnley FC Column: Dugout view must be incredibly restricted

8:09am Tuesday 24th April 2012

Maybe it was because Burnley were at the seaside that they turned in a performance that suggested they were already on the beach. Losing to Blackpool always hurts, but that goes double when the team doesn’t bother turning up.

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Clarets Blog: An Easter of many positives for Burnley

8:06am Tuesday 10th April 2012

SO now it’s official. Burnley really are a better side when playing away from Turf Moor.

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Clarets blog: Talk of the play-offs now seems so fanciful

1:10pm Tuesday 6th March 2012

SO it turns out that it’s true after all: what goes around really does comes around. And now we know exactly how supporters of Hull City felt at the back end of last November, as they disbelievingly watched their team turn a comfortable second-half 2-0 lead into a 2-3 defeat.

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Clarets Blog: Scarce resources laid bare at Turf

8:52am Tuesday 28th February 2012

As a friend remarked on the final whistle, Saturday’s defeat to Millwall was exactly the kind of game to make you glad the start of the cricket season is just around the corner.

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Clarets Blog: Mee will have won royal approval

8:37am Tuesday 21st February 2012

So now we know; the next king of the realm won’t just have blue blood coursing through his veins, there’ll be a liberal dash of claret in there too.

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Clarets Blog: Chill factor means summer is the way forward

10:30am Tuesday 7th February 2012

There will be no more compelling argument for summer football this season than that advanced by Burnley 1 Peterborough 1; certainly not from the points of view of the 13,258 gibbering, shivering wrecks who slid, slipped and skated away from Turf Moor on Saturday.

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Clarets Blog: Festive period is rarely a thing to cheer at Turf Moor

11:30am Monday 26th December 2011

By the time you read this, the probability is that you’ll have received at least half a dozen unwanted gifts, had a massive row with your Uncle Derek over the gloopy consistency of his brandy butter sauce and groaned with incredulity at the realisation of just how quickly your waistline can expand over a 48-hour period.

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Clarets Blog: Shopping trip may have been a better bet

12:50pm Tuesday 13th December 2011

Those whose better halves dragged them Christmas shopping on Saturday afternoon should consider themselves the fortunate ones.

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Burnley FC blog: Fantastic end to heavenly week

10:00am Tuesday 6th December 2011

Stephen Cummings column: It’s unlikely that Burnley Football Club will experience a better week between now and the end of this season.

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Burnley FC blog: Adamson is rightly classed a 'legend'

2:00pm Tuesday 15th November 2011

IT was with tremendous sadness that the claret and blue faithful learnt of the passing, last week, of one of the club’s finest ever servants.

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Burnley FC blog: Frustration is the name of the game

3:00pm Tuesday 18th October 2011

Stephen Cummings column: Whether we like it or not, and I rather suspect we don’t, it has become blindingly obvious in recent weeks that this is one of those frustrating seasons of transition.

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