Re: Barry dingle kilby
my opinion of the Turf Moor/Ewood park games is that the attendance was affected by the fact that very few of the Rovers orientated Stanleyites would step foot inside Turf Moor, whereas the Burnley fans didn't give a toss and went to the game at Ewood anyway. This is fact based on only the people that I know.
As far as losing revenue is concerned it is reasonably unarguable as many Burnley fans who go to Stanley have told me they will probably watch more Stanley games this year as a result of our league status, more appealing fixtures and the ability to stand and watch matches rather than sit at an increasingly un-atmospheric Turf Moor (I also think Ewood is rather souless unless you are amongst the favoured few on the Darwen end).
I am under 30 and have only ever supported Stanley even as a six year old when replica shirts were unavailable so I had to rip the Crown Paints of a Liverpool shirt as that was the most similar. I have watched one Burnley match because I had a free ticket (I sat with the Leicester fans) and one Rovers match where me and my nephew left early because in his words (ten year old) its not like watching Stanley.
Get back to plastic-ville Rovers fan.
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