All the facts that you will need to know to engage Burnley fans in conversation in the pub before and after Sunday's game.

1. Burnley Football Club was formed in 1882, as this was 6 years before the Football League was formed in 1888 that meant they didn't do much for the first few years of their existence, mainly training, eating pies and discussing the latest fashion in clogs.

2. They were originally called Burnley Rovers, but quickly changed the name when they realised that firstly local rivals Blackburn had a team of the same name, secondly poor public transport in the Burnley area meant they weren't able to do much roving and thirdly there had been a poor take up of membership of the club in the local canine community and Burnley Fidos sounded plain slly.

3. Although Blackburn are their biggest rivals, they are not the nearest, Accrington Stanley occupy the middle ground between the two clubs and currently have bragging rights after defeating Burnley in the cup last season, an event that saw dozens of Burnley supporters hospitalised after accidentally nailing their hands as well as their season tickets to the gates of Turf Moor.

4. Burnley has the biggest affiliated Saints supporters club in England, due to many players from the Southampton area playing for the club in recent years, also several ex Burnley players have come South, the £7 million they received for Jay Rodriguez funding amongst other charitable efforts , a refurbishment of the visitors end toilets, the Jay Rodriguez Pie & Pea stall in the Bee Hole Stand and a 10 year supply of white line marking for the pitch.

5. Burnley have not always played in claret and blue, this was only adopted in 1910, when after playing in a variety of kits they decided to adopt the colours of Aston Villa after a pub brawl with the Peaky Blinders crew at a 5th round FA Cup tie.

6. Burnley is the only place in England that has sub titles on normal television channels, this was instigated after an investigation showed that the Burnley dialect owes little to the English language with the English word "The" not in the language at all, indeed the Burnley dialect only has one vowel, the letter U thus the English phrase "I am going to the pub my good fellow" is "um gun t t pub m gud lud"

7. Burnley University has qualified for University Challenge on only three occasions, the last being in 1974 when the energy crisis meant that opponents Cambridge were unable to get to the studio.

8. The national dress of Burnley is very similar to that of Holland with clogs being worn in daily usage.

9 Burnley has more miles of canals that Southampton which doesn't have any canals at all, however it has nowhere near as many as Venice.

10. The Weavers Triangle is not as you may think one of the most important instruments in the Burnley Milling Association's brass band, but an area in the town which was the centre of the weaving industry.

11. Burnley is twinned with the Italian City of Milano (Milan in English, or Mlunu as it is pronounced in Burnley) this is because of close links in the 18th century where Burnley supplied the cloth that enabled Milan to be the fashion capital of the world, it is written in the statute of Milano City council that any resident of Burnley is entitled to his first drink free in any of the City's bars.

Dos anyone else know any interesting facts about our visitors on Sunday ?

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dillydog added 12:03 - Oct 12 Burnley are the largest consumers in the world of Benedictine. In ww1 the Burnley pals brigade where stationed next to the Benedictine Monastry. Each night the monks would bring benedictine out for the troops, would ad hot water to keep warm. To this day many bars have flask's of hot water to make a "BENEHOT" AS IT IS KNOWN LOCALLY
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the_saint added 21:00 - Oct 12 Has anybody received there Milan tickets yet? (Sorry to go of subject)
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NewburySaint added 08:50 - Oct 13 Hi Carroll, I personally haven't and so spoke to the ticket office yesterday and was not filled with confidence in the response I received, and it was all a bit of a shrug of the shoulders response as well. I was told they were still sending them out and everybody should receive them Friday, Saturday at the latest. I asked what would happen if I didn't receive them on Saturday because I am flying out on Monday (I lied, I'm not-we're flying out Weds!) & was told that if I hadn't received them by the time we leave I would have to get back in contact with the club who would tell me where to meet them to pick up tickets in Milan As I said it all seemed a shrug of the shoulders and almost seems as though they are angling to have supporters have to pick up their tickets in Milan because they are unable to fulfil their service, or can't be bothered, to post them out (delete as appropriate!) and in so doing individuals would have to take time out of their "holiday" to go out of their way and meet someone from the club somewhere. I believe my opinion can be backed up by the fact that the gentleman I spoke to also told me that their were many people in my position i.e. people that were flying out early next week that were yet to receive their tickets. Apologies for being pessimistic but I wasn't filled with confidence by the response I received, and in my opinion rightly so-good luck though!

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arfurdent added 09:06 - Oct 13 Burnley fans are trouble making scumbags. Always a problem after the away match outside the Cricket Club. Ordered a teacake up there and I got a bun filled with an all day breakfast. For Gollum's sake it is a bun not a teacake. Hadrian built his wall too far North
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