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Season: 1998-99
Manager: Stan Ternent, Pos: 15th in Division 2
Like the season before it, this season was almost dead for
Burnley before it started. Stan Ternent had filled the vacancy
left by Chris Waddle. With characteristic hypocrisy the board had
complained about Adrian Heath's poaching by Everton, then
promptly lured Ternent (brought through the Burnley reserve team
as a youth) from Bury.
Under Ternent Bury had enjoyed successive promotion seasons and
survival in Division One, and gave a demonstration of their
superior in a first round Coca-Cola Cup game.
Meanwhile, Burnley faced relegation for the second season in a
row. The team were more stubborn, but not markedly better, than
the previous year, and after one particularly appalling home
defeat against York City, Ternent publicly banned 4 players -
Howey, Blatherwick, Winstanley and Williams - from ever wearing a
Burnley shirt again.
By October the team were 20th out of 24 and hovered just above
that position for nearly the whole of the rest of the season.
Every time Burnley looked capable of pulling clear of relegation
new disasters struck. In March, a home defeats of 5-0 by
Gillingham (with Bob Taylor scoring all five) and 6-0 against
Manchester City put the manager's position in peril.
However, most of the major changes at the club had happened at
the boardroom level. After acrimonous public battles, Frank
Teasdale had finally handed over his controlling interest to an
unlikely alliance of local businessman Barry Kilby (favoured by
Teasdale) and flamboyant US-based PR millionare Ray Ingleby.
Largely against public opinion, Kilby let Ternent keep his job,
and backed him with the money to buy the fans' hero Steve Davis
from Luton for ú750,000, Mickey Mellon and Lenny Johnrose.
In retrospect it was a wise move, because Burnley's form improved
dramatically and ended the season with an 11-match unbeaten run,
almost finishing in the top half of the table. Burnley were safe
to fight another season in Division Two.
|
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
| HOME |
8 |
7 |
10 |
24 |
38 |
| AWAY |
8 |
11 |
11 |
46 |
48 |
| Neutral |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| TOTAL |
16 |
18 |
21 |
70 |
86 |
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League |
| 08.08.1998 |
Bristol Rovers |
(H) |
2 |
1 |
W |
Payton (2) |
|
|
| 15.08.1998 |
Chesterfield |
(A) |
0 |
1 |
L |
|
|
|
| 22.08.1998 |
York City |
(H) |
0 |
1 |
L |
|
|
|
| 29.08.1998 |
Walsall |
(A) |
1 |
3 |
L |
Armstrong |
|
Report |
| 01.09.1998 |
Millwall |
(H) |
2 |
1 |
W |
Cooke (2) |
|
Report |
| 05.09.1998 |
Luton Town |
(A) |
0 |
1 |
L |
|
|
Report |
| 09.09.1998 |
Reading |
(A) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Payton |
|
Report |
| 12.09.1998 |
Wycombe Wanderers |
(H) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Payton |
|
|
| 19.09.1998 |
Gillingham |
(A) |
1 |
2 |
L |
Payton |
|
Report |
| 26.09.1998 |
Wigan Athletic |
(H) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Reid |
|
|
| 03.10.1998 |
Manchester City |
(A) |
2 |
2 |
D |
Cooke, Payton |
|
|
| 09.10.1998 |
Colchester United |
(A) |
4 |
0 |
W |
Payton (2), Vindheim, Cooke |
|
Report |
| 17.10.1998 |
Notts County |
(H) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Vindheim |
|
Report |
| 20.10.1998 |
Oldham Athletic |
(H) |
1 |
0 |
W |
Cooke |
|
Report |
| 24.10.1998 |
Macclesfield Town |
(A) |
1 |
2 |
L |
Little |
|
Report |
| 31.10.1998 |
Wrexham |
(H) |
2 |
1 |
W |
Payton (2) |
|
|
| 07.11.1998 |
Preston North End |
(A) |
1 |
4 |
L |
Eastwood |
|
|
| 10.11.1998 |
Stoke City |
(H) |
0 |
2 |
L |
|
|
|
| 21.11.1998 |
AFC Bournemouth |
(A) |
0 |
5 |
L |
|
|
|
| 28.11.1998 |
Blackpool |
(H) |
1 |
0 |
W |
Payton |
|
Report |
| 12.12.1998 |
Fulham |
(A) |
0 |
4 |
L |
|
|
Report |
| 19.12.1998 |
Northampton Town |
(H) |
0 |
2 |
L |
|
|
Report |
| 26.12.1998 |
York City |
(A) |
3 |
3 |
D |
Payton (2), Robertson |
|
Report |
| 28.12.1998 |
Lincoln City |
(H) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Henderson |
|
Report |
| 02.01.1999 |
Walsall |
(H) |
0 |
0 |
D |
|
|
Report |
| 09.01.1999 |
Bristol Rovers |
(A) |
4 |
3 |
W |
Davis, Branch, Payton, Cooke |
|
Report |
| 16.01.1999 |
Chesterfield |
(H) |
1 |
2 |
L |
Cooke |
|
|
| 23.01.1999 |
Millwall |
(A) |
2 |
1 |
W |
|
|
|
| 30.01.1999 |
Lincoln City |
(A) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Reid |
|
|
| 06.02.1999 |
Luton Town |
(H) |
1 |
2 |
L |
Mellon |
Moore s.o. 52 |
|
| 13.02.1999 |
Reading |
(H) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Reid |
|
|
| 20.02.1999 |
Wycombe Wanderers |
(A) |
0 |
2 |
L |
|
|
|
| 27.02.1999 |
Gillingham |
(H) |
0 |
5 |
L |
|
Bob Taylor 5 |
|
| 09.03.1999 |
Manchester City |
(H) |
0 |
6 |
L |
|
|
|
| 14.03.1999 |
Preston North End |
(H) |
0 |
1 |
L |
|
|
|
| 20.03.1999 |
Wrexham |
(A) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Mellon |
|
Report |
| 28.03.1999 |
Macclesfield Town |
(H) |
4 |
3 |
W |
Little, Cowan, Davis, Payton |
|
Report |
| 03.04.1999 |
Notts County |
(A) |
0 |
0 |
D |
|
|
Report |
| 05.04.1999 |
Colchester United |
(H) |
3 |
1 |
W |
Payton (2), Johnrose |
|
Report |
| 10.04.1999 |
Oldham Athletic |
(A) |
1 |
1 |
D |
|
|
Report |
| 13.04.1999 |
Blackpool |
(A) |
2 |
0 |
W |
Davis, Little |
|
Report |
| 17.04.1999 |
Bournemouth |
(H) |
0 |
0 |
D |
|
|
Report |
| 24.04.1999 |
Stoke City |
(A) |
4 |
1 |
W |
Pickering, Payton, Little (2) |
|
Report |
| 01.05.1999 |
Fulham |
(H) |
1 |
0 |
W |
Jepson |
Safety reached |
Report |
| 03.05.1999 |
Wigan Athletic |
(A) |
0 |
0 |
D |
|
|
Report |
| 08.05.1999 |
Northampton Town |
(A) |
2 |
2 |
D |
Cook, Cooke |
|
Report |
|
Friendly |
| 17.07.1998 |
Dawlish |
(A) |
4 |
0 |
W |
Payton, P Smith, Cooke, Carr-Lawton |
|
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| 21.07.1998 |
Elmore FC |
(A) |
4 |
0 |
W |
Little (2), Payton, P Smith |
|
|
| 25.07.1998 |
Halifax Town |
(A) |
3 |
3 |
D |
Blatherwick, Cooke, OG |
|
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| 28.07.1998 |
Morecambe United |
(A) |
0 |
1 |
L |
|
|
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| 01.08.1998 |
Rochdale |
(A) |
1 |
0 |
W |
OG (Monington) |
|
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|
FA Cup |
| 17.11.1998 |
Darlington |
(A) |
2 |
3 |
L |
Payton (2) |
rd 1, at Riverside S |
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Worthington |
| 11.08.1998 |
Bury |
(A) |
1 |
1 |
D |
Cooke |
rd 1, 1st leg |
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| 18.08.1998 |
Bury |
(H) |
1 |
4 |
L |
Payton |
rd 1, 2nd leg |
|
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AWS |
| 08.12.1998 |
Preston North End |
(H) |
0 |
1 |
L |
|
rd 1 |
Report |
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