Mark's Blog » carlingcup http://blog.markbarnes.org The incoherent ramblings of Mark Barnes; Burnley FC supporter, technology evangelical and general web geek Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Burnley v Spurs http://blog.markbarnes.org/2009/01/23/burnley-v-spurs/ http://blog.markbarnes.org/2009/01/23/burnley-v-spurs/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:17:07 +0000 Mark http://blog.markbarnes.org/?p=412 Well, just how close were we to the final. 120 seconds away from utter glory before the legs ran out and Spurs planted one in the back of the net to send them through. Lucky buggers…

It was a fantastic match both for the spectators and the general viewing public. Burnley fans exploded through the turnstiles not expecting miracles, perhaps a 1-0 or 2-0 scoreline would be good to say “we tried”. However, we got so much more than that :-D .

I won’t go into epic details or generate a full match report, I’ll leave various other excellent sites to do that for me. Suffice to say we went from elation to desperation in the blink of an eye.

We should be proud, however. Continually we’ve pulled it out when it counts, and the players’ spirit on Wednesday night will be treasured for years to come. Those who went will talk about the time we almost had it for decades, while saying “I was there” 8-) .

]]> http://blog.markbarnes.org/2009/01/23/burnley-v-spurs/feed/ 1 January Plans http://blog.markbarnes.org/2009/01/02/january-plans/ http://blog.markbarnes.org/2009/01/02/january-plans/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:07:10 +0000 Mark http://blog.markbarnes.org/?p=391 Well, January looks set to be an incredibly busy month especially with regards to travelling off this little island of ours ;-) .

The 6th sees the first leg of the Carling Cup semi-finals, with Burnley fielding a team away at Tottenham. Hopefully we will be playing a little better than our recent run of form, two losses in two games isn’t a good thing by any standard.

The 14th brings the BETT trade fair, relating to IT in education. A team of four students, including myself, are going up to support and assist the Eduprint team; however more about that in a future post.

The 21st rolls in with the second leg of the Carling Cup semi-final, with Tottenham bringing up a team to East Lancashire to face the mighty claret and blue army. After this game we’ll know for sure if we’ve made it to the final at Wembley or not, here’s hoping :-D .

Finally to round off the month the 24th is the Scotland phpBB meet, so I’ll be heading up to jump across the border. This one really isn’t to be missed if you are available and have an interest in phpBB; a number of team members will be there so it is a great opportunity to put usernames to faces ;-) and have a generally good and enjoyable time.

So as you can see, 4 trips away in 4 weeks; a very busy month all round :-D .

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Look what arrived in the post this morning ;-) , tickets for both legs of the Burnley v Spurs Carling Cup semi-final. Yay! :-D

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An absolute brilliant showing from the Clarets and Owen Coyle, who I’m sure will forever be a saint to every Burnley fan :-D .

Now the awaiting to see who we get in the semi-finals!

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