COYLED SPRING; WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUE PREM NEW BOYS GIVE IT LARGE.Byline: ALAN NIXON Stoke v Burnley, today, KO 3pm OWEN COYLE Owen Columba Coyle (born July 14, 1966 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish-born footballer who played international football for the Republic of Ireland, and a football manager. He is currently player-manager of St. Johnstone in the Scottish Football League First Division. will do an Irish jig jig, dance of English origin that is performed also in Ireland and Scotland. It is usually a lively dance, performed by one or more persons, with quick and irregular steps. When the jig was introduced to the United States, it was often danced in minstrel shows. of joy at the end of the season if Burnley can pull off their latest miracle - and stay in the Premier League. Coyle is going to hit the big-timlike a breath of fresh air and then hit the dance-floor at Turf Moor Turf Moor is a football stadium located in Burnley, Lancashire, and is the home ground of English football club Burnley F.C. It is situated on Harry Potts Way in Burnley, and has a capacity of 22,546, all seated. with his own traditional version of a crowdpleasing celebration. The cheery chap - who vows that the top flight will not change him - will allow himself to let his hair down in a Phil Brown-style final day show when the Hull City boss took to the mike to belt out a tune. Coyle, the next Michael Flatley Michael Ryan Flatley (born July 16, 1958 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Irish-American step dancer from the south side of Chicago. His parents were from County Mayo and County Carlow. As a child, he moved to Chicago - the city which he considers his home town. perhaps, roared with laughter and said: "You won't get me singing, but I might be doing the Riverdance - true to my Irish roots. "I love those shows, they are really spectacular ... and my niece Suzanne was a champion Irish dancer twice in the last three years." The young boss knows there is a long way to go before Burnley beat the drop and he gets on his dancing shoes. But he is determined his club does it their way - and his way. Coyle said: "I am not silly or daft or whatever you want to call it. I know how big a challenge it is this year. We will be everybody's favourite to be in that bottom three and that is why we love football - because everybody has their opinions. "But I have always thought as a player when I was an underdog with nothing to prove it was a position I liked being in. That's something we will go with and hopefully retain that Premier League status. "I think you know me. I am still the same. If I was anything else, people would see through that. We want to win games and do our utmost. "I certainly changed a bit last year in terms of a few more grey hairs and that may be the same again. But in terms of personality, I am the same and if I ever did change I am sure you would be the first to tell me." The comparisons between Coyle's Burnley and Brown's Hull are easy to make. But while the Tigers quickly lost their tag as everyone''s favourite other team he wants his Clarets to be liked and respected. Coyle and Brown were mates at Bolton as players and are similar outgoing characters, but while the Hull chief went 'large' at times there is no chance of that from the Burnley Gorbals-born gaffer. "Burnley are a different entity from anybody, we really are. When Hull and Stoke came up they spent decent money and could afford big salaries. That does not happen for us. "If we were still in the Championship, our budget would be in the bottom half of the table. It would be remiss re·miss adj. 1. Lax in attending to duty; negligent. 2. Exhibiting carelessness or slackness. See Synonyms at negligent. of me as a manager to go out and spend and then all of a sudden if it did go wrong we would be left with a Charlton or Southampton scenario." Coyle and the Clarets have come a long way in a hurry since arrived from unheralded from St. Johnstone. His main snag may be coping with life in the bottom half for the first time in his career. However, Coyle plans to go for it even if it becomes a survival battle and said: "Whatever happens, we will look to play. We won't change in terms of our desire to pass and move the ball. We will try to be effective with it." Burnley will be bottom of the table in terms of finance, but when it comes to passion there won't be a more fervent atmosphere anywhere than Turf Moor - or at the away games where their pumpedup punters will fill grounds. Coyle said: "The population is about 60-70,000 and we took half of that to Wembley. We've sold around 17,000 season tickets already. Nearly every home game will be sold out but we must make sure the atmosphere is intimidating." Team news & line-ups: See your Mania pull-out When Burnley were last in the top flight 24th April 1976, Football League Division One: Burnley 1, Coventry 3 Burnley are thumped at Turf Moor to finish the season second-from-bottom in the old first division. The manager Jimmy Adamson James Adamson (born 4 April 1929) is an English former professional footballer and football manager. He was born in Ashington. Career Playing Adamson, a right-half, joined Burnley in January 1947 after playing non-league football in his native Ashington and is sacked and the Clarets are relegated after three years in the top flight. CAPTION(S): LET'S HAVE A KNEE'S UP Coyle hopes the fans will end up dancing for joy THOSE WERE THE DAYS Chelsea's Ray Wilkins For the American Medal of Honor recipient, see Raymond H. Wilkins Raymond Colin 'Butch' Wilkins MBE (born September 14 1956 in Hillingdon, Middlesex) was an English football player, and now a highly respected coach and TV pundit and is the brother of Brighton & Hove Albion drags back Burnley's Bryan Flynn |
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