Today, I watched Burnley play Manchester City on the TV and know a coach from our junior club who would have been at Turf Moor watching the home team, maybe dreaming of the season that made Burnley famous. Not sure he is old enough to have a proper memory of that occasion?
The 1959-60 season saw the unfashionable Burnley steal the First Division Championship pipping the "fashionable" Wolves by one point totalling 55 points after losing 11 games and drawing 7.
By coincidence, Burnley played Manchester City at Maine Road on the final Saturday of the season (2nd May 1960). Trevor Meredith and Jimmy Robson appeared on BBC TV this morning remembering the match. Meredith was a reserve who replaced the injured England international, John Connelly on the right wing, and scored the winner in front of nearly 66,000. Score 2-1. This was the first time that season that the Clarets had led the table.
Wolves were robbed of the historic achievement of winning three Championships in a row and an FA Cup and League Double. Never mind, Spurs did that the next season (1960-1) with 66 points, 8 ahead of Wolves with Burnley in 4th place.
Burnley bounced back in 1961-2 beating Tottenham into second place and coming runners up to the extremely unfashionable Ipswich town, managed by Alf Ramsey. Tottenham got their own back at Wembley beating Burnley in the FA Cup Final 3-1, missing a second Double.
In 1962-3 Everton won the Championship with Spurs 2nd and Burnley 3rd.
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