This season’s trip to beautiful Burnley is on Saturday with a 12.30pm kick off, and it’s being televised live by our good friends at Sky Sports. You’ll find Turf Moor about a mile to the east of Burnley town centre.

If you're coming by car you need to leave the M65 at Junction 10 and follow signs for Towneley Hall. This road eventually goes past the ground, where there is a car park at the cricket ground behind the visitors' turnstiles, costing £6.

There is also a big pay and display car park on Centenary Way, next to the Bus Station, and a bit further away there are 200 spaces next to the Hollywood Park Cinema on Manchester Road, which is handy for getting back to the motorway after the game . Otherwise there is plenty of street parking, but it's recommend that you remove any Leeds colours from your car, as there have been problems in the past with damaged motors.

There are two train stations that are in walking distance of Turf Moor, Burnley Central (20 minutes walk from the ground) and Burnley Manchester Road (15 minutes walk). Anyone coming from Leeds will arrive at Manchester Road, as Central station is on the branch line to Colne and is only served by local trains coming from the Blackburn direction.

Leaving Manchester Road station you need to cross the main road towards the cinema, and the ground should be clearly visible in the distance straight ahead. Turn left down the 'Centenary Way' dual carriageway (A682) going downhill towards the ground, and in a few minutes you'll come to a roundabout where you should turn right under the canal bridge into Yorkshire Street (A671). Continue down this road and you will reach Turf Moor on your left, with the away stand being the first one you come to.

The pub which is recommended for away fans is the ‘Talbot’, which is around five minutes walk away from Turf Moor on Church Street (the A682),. You could also try the clubhouse at the Cricket Club (by the car park mentioned above), and the ‘Queen Victoria’ (about a half a mile from the ground heading north on the A6144 Belvedere Road).

The best bet in the town centre is the ‘Bridge Bier Huis’ (and yes, it really is spelt like that) which is in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide and serves real ales and a large selection of bottled beers from around the world. Sadly, there are also pubs that are best avoided, including the Turf Hotel' on Yorkshire Street, 'The Swan' and 'The Yates' in the town centre, and any pub on Brunshaw Road.

The capacity of Turf Moor has been 22,546 since half the ground was rebuilt in the mid 1990's at a total cost of £5.3 million. The two new stands, The Jimmy McIlroy & James Hargreaves stands were built on two large former terraces at one end and one side of the ground, and were completed by September 1996. Away fans are in one of the older and smaller stands, the David Fishwick Stand (formerly the Cricket Field Stand).

The usual allocation is half this end but the bigger clubs (yep, that’s us!) get the whole end, which amounts to 4,125 seats. The view and legroom are pretty good, although the seats are made from wood. When this stand opened it was the first in the country to have central heating installed with hot pipes under the seats, but they have never been used, even when this area was for home fans!

There are two small stanchions to spoil the view for some, though they are away from the centre of the pitch. There are several snack bars, but they don't usually serve beer to away fans, although the pies are pretty good. The concourse can get really crowded if the away team brings a big following, and the toilets are fairly basic. The best bet is to try to get through to the serving hatches at the opposite end from the turnstiles, which normally have shorter queues.

Tickets for away fans coming to Gold category fixtures (which unfortunately always includes the Leeds match) are now £32 for Adults and £18 for Concessions, with Juniors at £14. Our official site is still selling tickets for the Leeds end, so you can still get one if you want to pay these sort of prices despite the game being on TV. Tickets for the home stands are only being sold to those who have something called a ‘Clarets Number’.

A few years ago Burnley were thinking of a £20m re-development of Turf Moor, which would have involves replacing the David Fishwick Stand with a new 2,500 capacity single tiered stand. But this would have resulted in away fans having a smaller allocation that at present, so we can be thankful that they decided that they couldn’t afford to go through with it.

Some of this stuff came from www.footballgroundguide.com .

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