Burnley v Sheff Utd - the £60m game

[Royal Rother]

Pisses me off all this crap about the so called £60m game, what a load of bollocks.

When we went up 3 years ago we spent very little on new players, but the additional costs of security, hospitality, staffing and infrastructure, plus of course players' wages meant that we made no more than £6m profit despite finishing 8th in the PL.

In the 2nd year we again spent very little on new players and came down. Again we made circa £6m. If we had spent more we could have stayed up I suppose, and broken even - great eh? Is that a recipe for building a successful and established PL club? No, it's just treading water.

We are now a financially stable and self-sufficient club, no longer reliant on the money of John Madejski to keep it going. We have a vibrant academy now producing a crop of excellent young players who will serve us well next season (I hope!).

That has not been achieved on the back of our 2 year PL adventure, but as a result of 10+ years of planning and vision.

If Burnley win this afternoon, wherever they finish in the next 2 seasons, I will be amazed if they have made more than £12m profit from the adventure - in fact it is highly likely they will come out of it with no profit whatsoever.

The £60m game - pah!

Anyway, as for the game itself, I don't really mind who wins, but after Burnley's extraordinary Cup runs I just about favour them though one always feels justice is served when the team finishing 3rd goes up from the play offs.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Game on!

[Sarah Star]

Cracking Burnley goal. On a par with the ones they scored against us.

[winchester_royal]

Cracking Burnley goal. On a par with the ones they scored against us.

Na, that one was much better than the two they scored at our place.

[exileinleeds]

Not enjoying it as much as the Scunny Millwall game- that was fantastic.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Yeah tops

Those empty goddamned club seats are a f*cking disgrace. Can't they round up a bunch of kids to serve as seat-fillers for the occasion? Cryssake

[Sarah Star]

Cracking Burnley goal. On a par with the ones they scored against us.

Na, that one was much better than the two they scored at our place.

You're probably right. I was just thinking all their goals were scored from distance when no one expected it.

[Compo's Hat]

Elliot took the game to Sheff U and got his reward for a Burnley team that had started poorly.

[LUX]

you should be a summariser on MOTD, Compo.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Headed ball from Burnley nearly managed to drift accidentally into the goal late on in normal time

So McCann subbed off hurt for Burnley and Gudjonsson in

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Augh! Two narrowly missed chances for Burnley to deliver a knockout blow in the first ten minutes out of the break

Ward on for Cotterill

[RoyalChicagoFC]

...and, two deliberate acts of handball later, he's off

[Compo's Hat]

you should be a summariser on MOTD, Compo.

Me > Lawrenson

Can't see Sheff U scoring now.

[Gordons Cumming]

Well if Burnley win then that sorts out the first relegation spot for next season.

Right..........who's going down with them?

[TBM]

Sheffield Utd deserved to go up due to the whole Tevas affair - the wrong team got promoted today

[TFF]

I hope Mike Dean's got a good lawyer.

[RG30]

Congratulations to Burnley, a superb football story this season. Burnley Vs Blackburn in the Premiership next season, should be tasty.

[Compo's Hat]

Thought Sheff U should of had a pen in the 2nd half but then again Burnley should of finished the game off.

Had Reading been in the final that would of been 0-0.

[Southbank Old Boy]

Pisses me off all this crap about the so called £60m game, what a load of bollocks.

When we went up 3 years ago we spent very little on new players, but the additional costs of security, hospitality, staffing and infrastructure, plus of course players' wages meant that we made no more than £6m profit despite finishing 8th in the PL.

In the 2nd year we again spent very little on new players and came down. Again we made circa £6m. If we had spent more we could have stayed up I suppose, and broken even - great eh? Is that a recipe for building a successful and established PL club? No, it's just treading water.

We are now a financially stable and self-sufficient club, no longer reliant on the money of John Madejski to keep it going. We have a vibrant academy now producing a crop of excellent young players who will serve us well next season (I hope!).

That has not been achieved on the back of our 2 year PL adventure, but as a result of 10+ years of planning and vision.

If Burnley win this afternoon, wherever they finish in the next 2 seasons, I will be amazed if they have made more than £12m profit from the adventure - in fact it is highly likely they will come out of it with no profit whatsoever.

The £60m game - pah!

Anyway, as for the game itself, I don't really mind who wins, but after Burnley's extraordinary Cup runs I just about favour them though one always feels justice is served when the team finishing 3rd goes up from the play offs.

It does boost revenue by the best part of 60m though, which is the whole point

[bobbybottler]

Sheffield Utd deserved to go up due to the whole Tevas affair - the wrong team got promoted today

It'll be someone else's fault now.