Burnley fans were raging about many of the decisions.

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Originally Posted by Sir C

Someone wrote an interesting article in the early 2000s about how nasty it was going up there for a football match; something to do with the culture being founded in bitterness and resentment left over from the miners' strike.

I'm ot sure if it was about Burnley, Bradford, Barnsley or Blackburn, but I suppose they're all much of a muchness.

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Of the four, probably Barnsley. Yorkshire was more coaly than Lancashire (apart from places like Wigan).

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Originally Posted by Sir C

Someone wrote an interesting article in the early 2000s about how nasty it was going up there for a football match; something to do with the culture being founded in bitterness and resentment left over from the miners' strike.

I'm ot sure if it was about Burnley, Bradford, Barnsley or Blackburn, but I suppose they're all much of a muchness.

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Barnsley, at a guess. Don't go to Oakwell if you're a Notts Forest / County fan imo.

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Originally Posted by Ash

Barnsley, at a guess. Don't go to Oakwell if you're a Notts Forest / County fan imo.

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I was watching that Dominic Sandbrook thing about the 80s a while ago and he talked about how games between Mansfield and Chesterfield used to kick off over the whole 'scab' thing. Who knew, eh?

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Originally Posted by Burney

Of the four, probably Barnsley. Yorkshire was more coaly than Lancashire (apart from places like Wigan).

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I used to work here in Dublin with a lad from Burnley of all places and he was very much of the opinion that you would be fúcking mad to go there as a visiting football supporter, one basically because it was simply a total shíthouse and the other because quite simply certain elements of the local support would take huge personal joy from kicking fúck out of you.

He then elaborated to say this piece of advice would apply to all the towns in that general area, Blackburn being another I recall he specified.

By all accounts when those two meet it is feisty x 100.