Supporters
Burnley were listed 2nd out of a list of 92 respective Football League clubs with the most rivals, with Blackburn, Halifax and Stockport considering Burnley their main rival and Preston, Rochdale and Blackpool considering them their second main rival. Burnley consider their biggest rivalry to be with Blackburn. Games between them are known as the 'East Lancashire Derby'. Preston have always been regarded as Burnley's second biggest rivals although Bolton have in recent season become much bigger rivals than in the past, mainly due to Owen Coyle's switch between the two clubs in 2010.
Some of the club's fans play Burnley FC Supporters Team in the Internet Football Association Supporters League, which is made up of over 80 similar teams. The club badge is based on the badge used by Burnley FC on the classic 1975–1979 'V' home shirt. The team was formed in 2007, when they were challenged to a game by their Preston North End counterparts, a game that ended in a 6–1 defeat. They subsequently entered the IFASL
In early 2012 HRH The Prince of Wales confirmed that he is a supporter of Burnley F.C.
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“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)