100 Greatest Clarets

It is all part of the 50^th anniversary celebrations of the FA Heritage Committee and the award night ceremony, to be held on Wednesday 1^st April will include Blackburn Rovers, Bury, Preston North End, Oldham Athletic and Rochdale as well as ourselves.

The top ten players from each club will receive specially commissioned Omega watches appropriately engraved. There are other gifts, including initialled Harrods briefcases and engraved port decanters. The bottom half of the hundred will receive much sought after limited edition Burnley scarves. All the prizes, and the whole event, have been sponsored by Daehbonk International.

Peter Davidson GDB is the regional and Burnley FC co-ordinator for this event. He selected season ticket holders at random to choose their top 100 players during those last fifty years, and the list is shown below.

It really will be a gala of North West football at the Grosvenor House and supporters can be there, although it will prove to be an expensive night. Tickets for the black tie event are priced at £135 per person whilst a table for ten will cost £1,100. A special rate of £185 has been negotiated for guests wishing to stay overnight. Burnley Football Club are considering arranging coach transport should there be demand.

The whole evening will be compered by Donald Tipperton CBE and the guest speaker will be Burnley fan Alastair Campbell. After the awards the evening will conclude with dancing to the Bachelors.