Burnley had completed their fixtures for 1998 with a home game against Walsall to kick off the next year on 2nd January, but, as we prepared for the AGM, there was massive news coming ready to come out of Turf Moor.
The AGM was held on the evening of 30th December but by the time the shareholders sat down in the James Hargreaves Suite, manager Stan Ternent had made a big signing and there was another new player to come in too before the fireworks to herald the arrival of 1999.
Earlier in the season, we?d been linked with a move for Luton?s former Burnley defender Steve Davis. At the time it was a fanciful thought and a move that was never, ever likely to happen, but as Burnley FC were set to move into a new era, that?s exactly what did happen. Steve Davis is welcomed back to Turf Moor by manager Stan Ternent
We smashed our transfer record to bring the 30-year-old Davis back to Burnley in a £750,000 deal and one of the best players of the 1990s had returned after three and a half years with Luton.
?I had always hoped I would come back,? a clearly delighted Davis said on completing the move. ?Although it is sooner than I expected, I am delighted. I only found out about the move on Tuesday, and I was surprised. I knew there had been some interest in me, but it was out of the blue.?
After a short loan spell in the 1989/90 season, he moved to Burnley in the summer of 1991 to replace Steve Davis, the previous captain, who had signed for Barnsley and was with us for four years du...