Another Merger!

The merger season continues with news of the incorporation of Nelson CBR into the Championship’s Burnley, thus creating something of a north Lancs ‘super club’, what with the former already being an amalgamation of Nelson, Colne Dynamoes and, last season, also former champions Blackburn Rovers: the new club will be named Dynamo Burnley, a suitably energetic name to launch the new venture and also an historical nod to Colne, of course, and will assume Burnley’s place in the Championship and play in their traditional claret, blue and white colours.

As a result of this latest of the summer’s mergers, another vacancy has been created in the Second Division, which the Football Alliance have announced will be allocated to the Manchester-based Marxist Polytechnic.