The thoughts of
Chairman Hego
(excerpts
from the little Claret book)
Annual General Meeting 1999
AGM this year will happen at the usual venue of the Sekforde Arms, Sekforde Street
near Farringdon station from 1-00pm on 10 July. It promises to be as always an occasion
full of comment and occasional controversy, and will be attended by Burnley FC Chairman
Barry Kilby and Peter Pike MP, our President. Be there and have your say. This will also
be the swansong of Chairman Hego, after three incident packed years. For business and
personal reasons, I need a break, and why not. Time for one of you good people out there
to get involved, as there will be committee posts open.
Manchester (?) United
As a general rule I try to avoid mentioning the ‘Munichs’, but they are
involved in my laugh of the week. Listening to some Leeds supporters on the Radio after
the Inter Milan joust in the San Siro, they put forward an interesting poser for the
listeners. Which is the odd one out, Exeter, Southend, Manchester, Hastings or Leighton
Buzzard ? Obviously Manchester, as all the other towns were emblazoned on Union and St
George flags at the San Siro on match night. I make no comment on these sad people, except
it makes me proud to be a Claret.
On a different but more satisfying front, the educational drip feed of the gospel
according to Uncle Stan is beginning to work on the five year old offspring. No more
Beckham, more the 1959/60 championship side recited in full. Should be mandatory in any
school curriculum.
APFSCIL
The APFSCIL dinner, which has been the source of much merriment over the years with
the participation of Messrs Cooke, Eyres, Gleghorn and Dowell is no more. In its place is
an end of season party, which will be a less formal buffet type bash, and should include
the Sheffield Wednesday band and a few words from Garth Crooks. It will be held at the
Irish Centre(?) near Camden Town tube station on Friday 14 of May, from 6.30 pm, and will
cost a tennerish. Contact Paul Burrows for details. Should be a bit of a hoot, so with no
game the day after, be there or be a plane geometric shape with four equal sides and four
right angles.
Loan Signings
Well what a mixed bag of loan boys we have had this season! Hewlett, who only came
to the Turf to get match fit again for the Bristol City first team. Wrong on two counts.
Didn’t even try to get match fit, and can’t make B.C.’s team. Nearly as bad
as Paul Stewart. O’Kane appeared, disappeared without trace, and then reappears in
Everton’s first team and has a storming game. Paul Cook, man of the match in front of
the cameras against Preston, embarrassing and uninterested at Notts County and Blackpool.
All seemed to be pretty uninterested in Burnley Football Club to a man. Tom Cowan, playing
for a contract, likes the club, and turns into the best left back we have had since early
Vinnicombe, and likewise of course Gavin Ward, are the exceptions. I think there is a
lesson to be learned here.
Ticket Prices
Friend of mine is unluckily for him an Arsenal supporter, who recently took his two
kids to see the Gooners play Wimbledon in a Premier League match. Reasonable but not great
seats. Overmars, Bergkamp, Viera, and other sort of reasonable performers. Cost £13 for
him and £8 for the kids. Hego watches Clarets get thrashed by Gillingham 5-0, seat OK on
the upper Longside, price much the same, and soon to go up whether we stay up or go down.
Interesting!
Hego
April-May 1999
