Monday, April 27 – 1914
The progress of events at the Crystal Palace was followed with phenomenal interest at Burnley. Eleven or twelve thousand enthusiasts from the East Lancashire town were at the Palace, and all the rest of the population, men, women, and children, seemed to have turned out to hear the news.
About three thousand people assembled at Turf Moor, where a local Sunday School final was being played. The game had no attraction in itself.
The spectators had assembled to hear what was happening in London, the state of the game being telephoned every few minutes.
Enormous crowds congregated round the newspaper offices, and the centre of the town resembled a general election night.
When the news came soon after half-time that Freeman had scored it passed along the dense mass of humanity like lightning, and the cheering was loud and long.
“Burnley will win now,” shouted hundreds of people, and their confidence was not misplaced. Still, there was much anxiety until the final was announced, and then the huge crowd gave vent to their feelings in a roar of triumph which was carried into all parts of the town, the people dispersing cheering, singing, and waving hats and sticks.
There were a great many of the gentler sex in the crowd, and they were quite as excited and demonstrative as the men.
The night was given up to jubilation. The Burnley players will have a royal welcome when the return home this afternoon, and it is not thought there will be much work in the mills and other places of employment after noon.
At 5.40 in the evening Burnley meet Bradford City in a League match at Turf Moor, and the afternoon welcome will be renewed there.
(Dundee Courier, 27-04-1914)
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