Burnley 1-0 Crystal Palace
Football League Championship
5.3.11
Admission: Adults: £26 Children: £12
Programme: £3
Attendance: 14,848
Capacity: 22,546
Seated: 22,546
Covered: 22,546
Town: Burnley, Lancashire
Floodlights: Yes
Shop: Yes
Step: 2
I would first like to apologise for this match being after some matches that were played afterwards. I didn't manage to get a programme for the game so when I was looking back at the matches I missed this one out.
Burnley is in the Pendle area of Lancashire. On a map it seems like a corridor of towns going from Skipton and Keighley down to Manchester. Burnley is right in the middle of this corridor.
Burnley were clearly feeling the effects of the drop from the Premier League during this 10/11 season. They hadn't given the promotion push everyone was expecting and were struggling to move towards the play offs. Burnley had to win today if they were going to pose a threat to those in the play off places. Palace meanwhile were having yet another poor season. They were just 4 points clear of the relegation zone.
Turf Moor started life as a cricket ground in 1833. It opened as a football ground 50 years later. A grandstand was opened in 1885. In 1891 the Star Stand was opened allowing with terracing behind the goals. Prince Albert Victor visited the ground in 1886, making Turf Moor the first football ground to be visited by a member of the British Royal Family. In 1924 the record attendance was set when 54,755 watched Burnley play Huddersfield Town.
Today, Burnley has the highest league ratio of seats to inhabitants. There is one seat for every 3 inhabitants. The James Hargreaves Stand holds 8,154. The East end holds 6,280 seats and is two tiered. There are 4,000 seats in the South Stand. The West Stand also holds 4,000.
After arriving late at the ground, Burnley scored what was to be the only goal of the game through Rodriguez after just 3 minutes. The rest of the game was spent watching Palace desperately trying to get the ball forward to find the equaliser. However the full time whistle went to give Burnley 3 points and send Palace back to Norwood with nothing.
If you are going to Burnley for a match and don't want to visit any pubs then you may as well just get there for kick off and leave straight after as there is very little to see and do in the town.
Burnley Manchester Road has trains to Blackpool, Leeds and York.
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