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Burnley	0 - 1	Newcastle United
Half time:	0 - 1
Score Sheet:
		Cort (25)
	Teams
Crichton Thomas Davis Cox Briscoe Little Mellon Ball Johnrose Cook Gray		Given  Barton  Griffin  Hughes Goma  Howey Lee Speed  Cort Gallacher  Cordone
Substitutes:
(46) Mullin for Mellon  (46) Cooke for Johnrose  (70) Weller for Little (70) Branch for Gray		Dabizas for Howey (46) Gavilan for Gallacher (64) Glass for Griffin (64)  Green for Cordone (81)
Subs not used:
Jepson Lee West Mawson		Harper McClen
Bookings:
None		None
Sendings off:
None		None
Referee: Chris Foy (St.Helens)
Attendance: 11,441 (around 1000 away supporters)  The match began with reciprocal booing from both sets of fans, Clarets followers abusing former Blackburn Rover striker Kevin Gallacher and our lot mocking ex-mackem Kevin Ball.

25 mins Striker Carl Cort got his third goal in two games, heading in at the near post following a cross from Andy Griffin, who was playing in an advanced right-sided role. 

The goal was scored at the East Stand end of Turf Moor, at the opposite end to the Cricket Field Stand where the away fans were housed. 1-0.
   
Half time: Burnley 0 Newcastle 1

Full time: Burnley 0 Newcastle 1 

Cordone introduces Cort to the Tango

Ah, the joys of the Nationwide league: 18th Century toilets, what looked like gas lights, a mascot with St.Vitus dance and a PA announcer seemingly reading the team lineups out in Cantonese. 

It's a sobering thought to consider that the Gullit era ended with us charging headlong towards the First Division, which would have meant a competitive return to Turf Moor for the first time since 1983. 

On a simply dreadful night, both sides struggled to make a meaningless game into an entertaining spectacle, and floodlights were required from the off due to the murkiness enveloping this part of Lancashire. Sporadic rain showers gave way to a deluge shortly after kickoff, which along with the presence of ex-mackem Kevin Ball in the home side evoked painful memories of the Gallowgate derby debacle that finished Rudi off. 

No sign of Alan Shearer, obviously nursing his troublesome tendons/tonsils.  Dyer, Ferguson Solano and Domi were other expected absentees, and the captains armband was worn by Warren Barton, when Lee or Speed might have had reasonable claims.

As for Burnley, they had one or two players missing (including the prolific Andy Payton) but showed little enterprise or ingenuity and stand more chance of leaving Division One through the rear exit than the playoffs on this display. 

Home players received Second Division Championship medals pre-match, but struggled to produce anything worthy of note thereafter. Local sages reckon that Stan Ternent teams are famously slow starters - for their sakes let's hope so, given that they became the first team ever to lose to the Isle of Man XI in the annual tournament last week. 

PS: Painfully trite and obvious references to the Burnley duo Steve Davis and Paul Weller were studiously avoided. No doubt the official page would have regaled you with suitably rotten puns, had they actually bothered to write a proper report of this match eg: "a miscue from Davis" or "Weller having heavy-soled boots" etc. 

Biffa