When I started this Burnley blog I thought I'd listen to every game live on the radio and write a match report of every game. As I have become a father since then I have had very little time and being a Burnley fan has taken a backseat. Add that to the fact that last season under Brian Laws you never knew what you were going to get so my inerest in Burnley FC waned further. I had (intentinally) low expectations for the second half of the season when Eddie Howe was appointed Burnley manager, and the relative lack of activity in the transfer market over the summer blunted enthusiasm further still. Since then we have managed to get a few players in like Zavon Hines and Junior Stanislas, but performances in the league have been poor.
But last night the season really started for us as we got our first home win of the season against a Nottingham Forest side lacking in confidence. Eddie Howe's men really put Steve McLaren under pressure by beating them 5-1 at Turf Moor, with a goal from Jay Rodriguez after 5 minutes and a half-time score of 4-0.
The best thing about the result for me was the fact that all the strikers were on the scoresheet, Charlie Austin is starting to look like the player we signed and I'm glad he's over his injury. And another two goals for J-Rod.
I was, like most Burnley fans, looking forward to reading the papers today (online of course) butI was disappointed to see that Carlos Tevez has stolen all the headlines by refusing to play. And the few sites that were mentioning us were focusing on the fact that Steve McLaren could be out of a job if Forests' poor run continues.
On a different subject, the 'debate' on Talksport the other day was "Should football clubs play music during the game?". This was all brought up due to Norwich playing some song or other when they scored against Sunderland. The gist of it was that if your club plays music when you score you're 'small-time', but if you're a big club you don't need music to create an atmosphere. As usual Durham was winding the callers up.
