As we all know this was some game and they were all cramped and cooped up with little elbow room in the press box. At the very the end of the game in the excitement and following a gust of wind all James’ hastily scribbled match notes and report vanished all over the place. James was one of the few reporters there to have a phone on his desk. The game ended, it rang, he raised his arm to pick it up, the wind blew, his notes scattered everywhere. Of course his language was ripe and he dashed off to retrieve one of the pages he could see halfway down the stand. Hoping it was page one (the intro to any report is the key one) he snatched it up and to his horror it was one of the end pages. Brian James thus had to pick up the phone again and ad lib his report of Reims 3 Burnley 2, one of the greatest nights in Burnley football history. 

TUESDAY NIGHT MARCH 10th was not a bad one for BFC results wise. In what was a full programme (except for Burnley) only Swansea of our nearest rivals won. The top six teams either drew or lost.  If the fates are not helping us then I’ll go to the foot of our stairs. Very surprisingly Cardiff lost at home to bottom three Norwich in the big upset of the night. The way is open for Burnley to get back into the top six if they beat Crystal Palace.

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