Burnley players are mobbed by jubilant supporters
IT'S 20 years ago today that Burnley won one of the biggest games in the club's history.
The victory over Orient ensured Football League survival in the most dramatic of circumstances.
Before 3pm on May 9, 1987, Burnley was a town engulfed by fear and dread.
Ninety minutes had never mattered so much in the football club's 105-year history.
The Clarets, one of the founder members of the Football League, were on the brink of exclusion from all they had ever known.
Almost 18,000 heard the wake-up call, packed into Turf Moor, and watched their team escape slipping through the Football League trapdoor.
We talked to some of the main characters from that famous afternoon.Click on the links below to read more.
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