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The Independent
26-04-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley LIVE: Championship latest score, goals and updates from fixture
Follow live coverage as Queens Park Rangers face Burnley in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season. Relegation from the top flight last term means Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United are all back in the second tier this term and will be expected to push for play-off spots again at least, but so too will Norwich City, an improving Coventry and beaten play-off finalists Leeds United. At the other end of the table, Wayne Rooney is aiming to revive Plymouth's fortunes after they narrowly avoided relegation last year, with Portsmouth and Derby the teams promoted from League One along with play-off final winners Oxford. Follow live updates from today's game in the live blog below. Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Jack Colback (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half. 26 April 2025 12:41 Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Goal! Queens Park Rangers 0, Burnley 1. Josh Cullen (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box. 26 April 2025 12:39 Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Connor Roberts (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half. 26 April 2025 12:39 Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Foul by Ronnie Edwards (Queens Park Rangers). 26 April 2025 12:39 Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Hannibal Mejbri (Burnley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. 26 April 2025 12:38 Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Harrison Ashby (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. 26 April 2025 12:38 Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Foul by Hannibal Mejbri (Burnley). 26 April 2025 12:38 Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Ronnie Edwards. 26 April 2025 12:37 Queens Park Rangers vs Burnley Attempt blocked. Luca Koleosho (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jaidon Anthony. 26 April 2025 12:37
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Burnley beat Norwich to go back top
Burnley beat Norwich to go back top Burnley took another big step towards going up as they climbed back to the top of the Championship with a 2-1 victory over Norwich at Turf Moor. The hosts were on top from the off and made their pressure count with two quick goals in the first half. Advertisement The breakthrough came 14 minutes in when Josh Cullen floated a lovely ball into the box, and Hannibal Mejbri kept his cool to stick it past Angus Gunn. It didn't take long for the Clarets to grab another. Josh Brownhill jumped on a dodgy free-kick from Norwich deep in their own half and played in Jaidon Anthony, who charged forward and made it count to double their lead. Scott Parker's side looked comfortable in the second half, but things got a bit nervy late on when Kenny McLean's header across goal gave Jack Stacey an easy tap-in. Burnley managed to see it out though, , keeping their unbeaten league run going – now up to 29 games – and the win sends them back above Leeds by three points, and five clear of third-placed Sheffield United.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Cardiff City vs Burnley LIVE: Championship latest score, goals and updates from fixture
Follow live coverage as Cardiff City face Burnley in the Championship today. An increasingly competitive second tier in English football remains an intense and exciting competition, with the prize of a place in the Premier League on offer at the end of the season. Relegation from the top flight last term means Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United are all back in the second tier this term and will be expected to push for play-off spots again at least, but so too will Norwich City, an improving Coventry and beaten play-off finalists Leeds United. At the other end of the table, Wayne Rooney is aiming to revive Plymouth's fortunes after they narrowly avoided relegation last year, with Portsmouth and Derby the teams promoted from League One along with play-off final winners Oxford. Follow live updates from today's game in the live blog below. Cardiff City FC 1 - 2 Burnley FC 20:35 First Half ends, Cardiff City 1, Burnley 2. 20:35 Delay over. They are ready to continue. 20:35 Delay in match because of an injury CJ Egan-Riley (Burnley). 20:35 Delay in match because of an injury Sivert Mannsverk (Cardiff City). 20:35 Fourth official has announced 1 minutes of added time. 20:28 Goal! Cardiff City 1, Burnley 2. Yousef Salech (Cardiff City) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Joel Bagan with a cross. 20:25 Goal! Cardiff City 0, Burnley 2. Maxime Estève (Burnley) left footed shot from very close range following a corner. 20:25 Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Perry Ng. 20:30 Attempt blocked. Maxime Estève (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Connor Roberts. 20:25 Attempt blocked. Marcus Edwards (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. 20:25 Attempt blocked. Josh Cullen (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hannibal Mejbri. 20:22 Josh Cullen (Burnley) wins a free kick on the left wing. 20:22 Attempt missed. Jaidon Anthony (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Hannibal Mejbri following a fast break. 20:22 Attempt blocked. Cian Ashford (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joel Bagan. 20:20 Foul by Zian Flemming (Burnley). 20:18 Offside, Cardiff City. Calum Chambers is caught offside. 20:17 Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by CJ Egan-Riley. 20:16 Attempt missed. Zian Flemming (Burnley) header from the centre of the box following a corner. 20:16 Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Andy Rinomhota. 20:15 Yousef Salech (Cardiff City) hits the woodwork with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. 20:13 Foul by Josh Cullen (Burnley). 20:12 Hand ball by Alex Robertson (Cardiff City). 20:11 Foul by Hannibal Mejbri (Burnley). 20:08 Foul by Hannibal Mejbri (Burnley). 20:08 Sivert Mannsverk (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. 20:05 Goal! Cardiff City 0, Burnley 1. Josh Brownhill (Burnley) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hannibal Mejbri with a cross. 19:59 CJ Egan-Riley (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half. 19:56 Offside, Burnley. Lucas Pires is caught offside. 19:57 Attempt blocked. Josh Cullen (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Hannibal Mejbri. 19:51 Callum O'Dowda (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the left wing. 19:49 Foul by Sivert Mannsverk (Cardiff City). 19:50 Foul by Connor Roberts (Burnley). 19:47 Attempt saved. Jaidon Anthony (Burnley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. 19:46 First Half begins. 19:15 Lineups are announced and players are warming up. 17:45 Follow live football coverage with The Independent today. Whether it's Premier League, Champions League, a European Championship or the World Cup we will keep you up to date with everything you need to know. We will have all the latest scores, goals and updates plus analysis and reaction throughout the game here.
The Guardian
28-02-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Preston and Burnley's FA Cup clash evokes memories of a golden age
If the FA Cup has a golden age, the 1950s and 1960s lay considerable claim. A time of schoolboys being able to list the era's classic finals dipped in Pathé news sepia may have passed but reminiscing harks back to a time when towns rather than cities were English football's epicentres. Specifically, towns in Lancashire, Saturday's fifth-round lunchtime kick-off at Deepdale recalling times when Preston and Burnley competed for Cup glory. North End and the Clarets may not be the fiercest Lancastrian rivalry – Blackpool and Blackburn are respective bête noires – but it remains hotly-contested. The pair met just a fortnight ago for a 0-0 Championship draw that boiled over, Burnley's midfielder Hannibal Mejbri accusing the Preston forward Milutin Osmajic of racial abuse and Osmajic 'strongly refuting' the claims. The matter remains with the Football Association. Two founder Football League members will reconvene. Making the quarter-finals will recall an era where both regularly went deep in the competition. Each club's home is a tribute to such a mid-20th century heyday. For the Sir Tom Finney Stand at Deepdale, read the Jimmy McIlroy Stand at Turf Moor. Preston, last in the top division in 1961, were FA Cup runners-up in 1954 and 1964, quarter-finalists twice more in that period while Burnley, Football League champions in 1960, reached the semis in 1961 and lost the 1962 final. This was a last hurrah of the provincial town club – Preston became a city only in 2002 – as the lifting of footballers' maximum wage in 1961 began a drift towards Lancashire's metropolitan areas of Liverpool and Manchester from the mill towns. The post-war era furthered a trend of club chairmen being local businessmen made good, the town's tycoon given further civic status. Burnley's chairman was Bob Lord, notorious as one of the first men from a football boardroom to become a headline-grabber. Today's 3pm Saturday TV blackout is an enduring Lord Legacy. 'I want Burnley the best,' declared the owner of a chain of butcher's shops. 'Not second best.' Lord would achieve his goal but did so having been lacking in sympathy towards Manchester United after 1958's Munich Air Disaster. 'They'll just have to fight their way out of it,' Lord said after eight players died. 'They went into this of their own accord.' Arthur Hopcraft, emeritus chronicler of that football age, compared Lord to Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet premier, whose 'we will bury you' issued to Western diplomats in 1956 was very much of the Lord school. Lord had a testy relationship with McIlroy, Northern Ireland's jewel of an inside-forward, the acme of the manager Harry Potts' football, inspired by the Hungarians of the 1950s. Jack Hixon, a scout who later discovered Alan Shearer, supplied Potts with players, including the captain Jimmy Adamson, later Clarets manager, and Jimmy Robson, another inside-forward. Powerful outside-right John Connelly topped the scoring in that title-winning team. Such was the penury of the age for footballers that Adamson and McIlroy had dug ditches as the club's training ground was built in 1955. It recalled the Preston chairman Nat Buck's treatment of Finney, the greatest English player of the time, perhaps any other age. Paid only £14 a week, Finney had been offered £10,000 to join Palermo in 1952. 'You can forget about all that,' said Buck, the former house builder exercising players' draconian lack of freedom of contract. 'If tha' doesn't play for us, tha' doesn't play for anybody.' Famously, Finney set up a plumbing business with his brother Joe for a second income. Finney was beloved by Bill Shankly. Liverpool's patriarch never swayed from his protege being the best of all after their time as pre-war teammates. Another teammate, the future Chelsea, Scotland and Manchester United manager Tommy Docherty, tried to get the better of Buck in contract negotiations. 'I want £14 a week like Tom,' he demanded. The offer was £12, £10 in the summer. Docherty wasn't as good as Finney, countered Buck. 'The Doc' replied: 'Yes, but I am in the summer.' The 1954 final was supposed to be the 'Finney Final', to follow Blackpool's 1953 'Matthews Final', but 'the Preston Plumber' never got to emulate his England wing partner Stanley in winning a major medal. West Brom, managed by Vic Buckingham, later an influential figure at Ajax and Barcelona, won 3-2, beating a team managed by Scot Symon, soon to lead Rangers successfully. Finney blamed himself: 'If they looked to me for help and guidance they were wasting their time … I had a stinker.' Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion A decade later, second-tier Preston returned to Wembley, inspired by the goals of Alex Dawson, a former Busby Babe nicknamed 'the Black Prince of Deepdale', and featuring the left-half Howard Kendall, 17 years and 345 days, the then youngest-ever finalist. Dawson scored but West Ham, featuring their three future 1966 World Cup winners, prevailed 3-2 after a last-minute goal from Ronnie Boyce, who died this month. 'Tantalus himself might have pitied North End,' wrote the Guardian's Eric Todd. Preston had also fallen short of promotion. A quarter-final in 1966 preceded Kendall's move to Everton. Burnley, far more familiar in the Premier League era, have not been further than the quarters since the final they lost in 1962 to Tottenham. Spurs's goalscorers in a 3-1 win were Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Smith and Danny Blanchflower, idols of that club's 'glory game' era. Those who rail against modern football's heavy obsession with tactics may be surprised to learn this was nicknamed 'The Chessboard Final', the deliberate approach of Potts and Tottenham's Bill Nicholson, and two great teams of the era serving up what is nowadays euphemistically described as an 'intriguing tactical battle'. Todd in turn wrote the game had been 'an anti-climax to months of eager anticipation' and 'one of the quietest finals in one's memories'. With McIlroy allowed to leave in 1963, Connelly sold to United the following year, decline set in. Lord remained in control until two months before his December 1981 death, the club by then in the Third Division. There, they would find Preston. If times at these Lancashire clubs have been better, they have certainly been worse.
The Guardian
17-02-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
FA looking into Mejbri's racism allegation against Preston's Osmajic
The Football Association is examining claims that Burnley's Hannibal Mejbri was racially abused by a Preston player during their Championship fixture on Saturday. The midfielder said he received 'disgusting abuse' from Milutin Osmajic during the 0-0 draw, and submitted a complaint to the match officials. Preston said Osmajic had 'strongly refuted the claims' in a meeting with the match officials after the full-time whistle. The alleged incident occurred midway through the second half of the 0-0 draw, when Osmajic was involved in a heated verbal exchange with Mejbri. The Burnley player informed the referee, Andrew Kitchen, of the incident and later posted on social media: 'I will not be silent about what happened today. I will always call out racism whenever I hear or see it. That is the only way we change as a sport and a society. I am a strong person but nobody should have to experience this disgusting abuse on the pitch.' Preston said in a statement: 'Milutin Osmajic has strongly refuted the claims of a comment made towards Hannibal Mejbri in a post-match meeting with today's match officials. The club would like to thank the match officials for the way they have handled the issue and will assist with the investigation until a conclusion has been found.' The FA, which must decide whether to bring charges, confirmed it was looking into the claims. Kick It Out, the anti-discrimination organisation, said: 'When allegations occur, reporting them immediately and through the right channels helps them be addressed. Hannibal deserves credit for bringing the incident to the referee's attention. Speaking up takes huge courage. We also commend the officials for following the correct protocols. We expect an investigation to be carried out swiftly and sensitively.'
