Burnley FC, the rise to the top

March

Championship -

Derby 3 - 3 Burnley (Jay Rodriguez, Frank Fielding o.g, Shaun Baker o.g)
Burnley 2 - 1 Watford (Zavon Hines (2))
Burnley 2 - 0 Ipswich (Jay Rodriguez, Marko Suler o.g)
Blackpool 1 - 2 Burnley (Ross Wallace, Junior Stanislas)
Burnley 3 - 1 Hull (André Amougou, Chris McCann, Jay Rodriguez)
Barnsley 1 - 1 Burnley (Steve Foster o.g)
Millwall 0 - 2 Burnley (Jay Rodriguez)

Unbeaten month, many own goals saving my ass! Oh well! They all count!

April

Championship -

Burnley 3 - 0 West Ham (Ben Mee, André Amougou, Zavon Hines)
Burnley 5 - 0 Coventry (Jay Rodriguez (3), Chris McCann, André Amougou)
Peterborough 0 - 0 Burnley
Burnley 1 - 2 Reading (Jay Rodriguez)
Doncaster 1 - 4 Burnley (Richard Naylor o.g, Jay Rodriguez (2), Ross Wallace)
Burnley 3 - 0 Cardiff (Dean Marney, Ben Mee, Chris McCann)

AND BURNLEY HAVE DONE IT! We won the nPower Championship in the 5-0 win against Coventry.

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Olympics

With the Olympics coming up, I had the opportunity to apply for the job. I was given the role.. I SMELL GOLD

Squad

GKs - Craig Gordon, Ben Amos

Defenders - Kyle Walker, Martin Kelly, Chris Smalling, Gary Cahill, Ryan Bertrand, Phil Jones, Kieran Gibbs

Midfielders - Dan gosling, Gareth Bale, Jordan Henderson, Marc Albrighton, Aaron Ramsey, Tom Cleverly, Theo Walcott

Strikers - Daniel Sturridge, Wayne Rooney

Fixtures

Group Game 1 - Win 6 - 1 New Zealand U23 (Rooney (3), Bale, M. Walker o.g, Henderson)
Group Game 2 - Win 7 - 0 Oman U23 (Rooney (3), Sturridge, Bale (2), Smalling)
Group Game 3 - Win 3 - 1 Brazil U23 (Rooney (2), Cleverly)
Quarter Final - Win 4 - 1 South Korea U23 (Rooney (4))
Semi Final - Win 3 - 0 Brazil U23 (Albrighton, Rooney, Jones)
Final - Win 2 - 0 Spain U23 (Walcott, Gosling)

Overall.. Rooney scored 13 goals in 6 games! Was an amazing performance from the lads!

Pre Season

As I was heading off to the Olympics I let me assistant deal with the arranging of the friendlies, and the fixtures themselves. He made us play Liverpool and City.. just before the season.. amazing! We got stuffed.. might just be the squad he picked. Either way.. time for Transfer updates..!

Transfers

Out -

Leon Cort - Free
Clarke Carlisle - Free
Alex MacDonald - Free
Joe McKee - Free
Pablo Redondo - Espanyol - £2.4m
Marvin Bartley - Norwich - Free
Leonardo Bittencourt - AZ - £1.7m loan fee
David Edgar - West Ham - £3.9m
Zeli Ismail - Rotherham - Loan
Danny Ings - Rochdale - Loan
Chevello de Rijp - Rochdale - Loan

In -

Nicolas Renault - INF Clairefontaine - Free
Jerzy Dudek - Free
Jermaine Jenas - Tottenham - £1.7m
David Bentley - Tottenham - £2.5m
Ashley Williams - Swansea - £2.5m
Emmanuel Adebayor - Man City - Loan
Cornel Rapa - Torino - £3.9m
Gary Cahill - Bolton - £2.5m
Cedric Perrot - INF Clairefontaine - Free
Ritchie De Laet - Free
Marco Lang - Mainz - £1.2m
Owen Hargreaves - Man City - Free
Luca Toni - Free
Carlos Fierro - Chivas - 900k
Nicolas Anelka - Free

Wow.. typing it out I realise I've been a busy boy! haha! Bolton got relegated with Cahill, and somehow I got a £2.5m bid accepted.. I have no idea what happened. I don't care though! Some big names.. some old big names!

what did you do to Martin Paterson?