Big-spending Manchester City were held to a fifth successive draw as they played out a six goal thriller with Burnley at Eastlands. The visitors stunned Mark Hughes ' side by flying into a two-goal lead inside the opening 32 minutes. Graham Alexander's penalty put the Clarets ahead and Steven Fletcher exploited some slack defensive work to double their lead. But Shaun Wright-Phillips hauled the hosts...
5 consecutive draws. It just isn't good enough. What the hell happened? Why are we playing long-ball football, when we got it down and played some decent stuff through Bellamy & SWP we scored! It was another bad performance and another awful result. 1st Half: The game started slowly, being honest, Burnley probably started better. They played some real nice football. The first of many talking points...
Former Arsenal duo Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure return for Manchester City, while Burnley have no new injury worries.Boss Owen Coyle could name an unchanged side, with Kris Eagles and Robbie Blake providing width for Steven Fletcher upfront.Former City defender Stephen Jordan is fit to play against his old club, despite sustaining a thigh injury [...] http://bit.ly/SoIxW
Former Arsenal duo Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure return for Manchester City, while Burnley have no new injury worries. Boss Owen Coyle could name an unchanged side, with Kris Eagles and Robbie Blake providing width for Steven Fletcher upfront. Former City defender Stephen Jordan is fit to play against his old club, despite sustaining a thigh injury [...]
Game: Manchester City vs Burnley Date: Saturday 6th November Kick Off: 3:00pm Ground: Eastlands TV – Highlights: MOTD 1 - Thoughts: I have a lot of respect for Burnley, it's brilliant to see a club with real history back in the top flight of English football. I also have a lot of respect for Owen Coyle, he has worked wonders at Turf Moor in such a short space of time. However, they have yet to...
Burnley's away record (five games, five defeats) should encourage Manchester City to believe they can pull out of a four-draw drift. Owen Coyle has little slack in his squad and injuries will probably persuade him to field the same starting XI, which includes two former City full-backs, Stephen Jordan and Tyrone Mears. City expect to welcome back two absentees from the goalless draw at Birmingham,...
Four goals from Robbie Keane and one from Jermaine Jenas inflicted another away defeat on Burnley and gave Tottenham a record of five wins and two defeats from their first seven games, their best start to a season for 18 years. Burnley arrived at White Hart Lane without so much as an away goal to their name this season but initially did not look like a side who suffer from travel sickness. Owen Coyle's...
Thirty-three years is a long time and in that time more than one generation of Burnley supporters has grown up on fading memories that have gone from glorious technicolor, through black & white and into sepia as time has come to pass. This evening, though, the top flight - so unrecognisable from the last time they were there - came back to Turf Moor. Burnley’s supporters, so long in the shadow...
Burnley FC has recorded their first win of the season (Since 1976) and it against the champions, Manchester United thanks to wonder goal from Robbie Blake . 18th minute goal come after he take a superb volley to beat Ben Foster following long shoot on goal from Stephen Jordan. Another Veteran, Goalkeeper Brian Jensen pulled a fantastic Michael Carrick penalty save at the end of first half. Burnley...
Liverpool will be desperate to put behind a poor start to the season and kick off their challenge to the Premier League crown when they take on Stoke City on Wednesday. Catch all the live Premiership action from that game by signing up with us here on Live Sport Network. The match up between Stoke City and Liverpool will be a game of two teams that started off their 2009-10 EPL season in very different...
The 2009/10 Premier League season kicked off in style as 24 goals were scored on the opening weekend. Seven of these came at Goodison Park, where Manchester City’s pursual of Joleon Lescott clearly affected the Toffees - who were thumped 6-1 by Arsenal. David Moyes’ side never looked like the one that came fifth last season as the Merseysiders were undone by the visitors’ quick counter-attacking...
In the first weekend of Premier League action there is no doubt which result stood out, Arsenal 's 6-1 demolition of Everton at Goodison Park. Arsenal took the lead in the 26th minute thanks to a brilliant Denilson strike, after Nicklas Bendtner had done well down the wing and Fabregas touched the ball to the Brazilian for him swerve it pass Tim Howard from 25 yards out. It got even worse for Everton...
The promoted Clarets were out of the game before half-time at the Britannia Stadium after Ryan Shawcross scored with a header and Stephen Jordan netted at the wrong end...
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