BURNLEY'S Division Two championship winning side of 1972/73 will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a special reunion dinner at Turf Moor tomorrow.

And Martin Dobson is looking forward to meeting up with his former team-mates, who he claims contributed to the best days of his football career.

"Speaking from my own point of view, the people around me at that time made me a better player," he said.

"It was the best time of his career."

And Dobson, who captained the side, revealed the spirit within the Turf Moor camp at that time was the catalyst for their success.

"The players were together and I think that is one of the secrets of any successful team. You've got to have a good atmosphere in the dressing room, and we were a bunch of players who were very confident, with Jimmy Adamson as our manager, young and vibrant.

"As individual players and collectively as a team we came together at the right time and only lost four games all season.

"Things had started to come together the previous season when we won six or seven on the bounce.

"So the season we won the championship, we went into it full of confidence."

Dobson explained Adamson's management skills were also pivotal in re-taking their place in the First Division.

"As a team, we developed over 18 months. We were moulded in the Second Division and, because we were young, we were learning together.

"Jimmy brought Leighton James when he was 17 years old, Alan Stevenson was signed from Chesterfield and Waldo (Colin Waldron) was only young when he signed from Chelsea, as was Jim Thomson.

"Mick Docherty had been captain of the youth team just 12 months earlier.

"But with the first team, we developed into a unit.

"Jimmy was an excellent manager, as well as being an excellent coach on the training ground as well with tactics and team-work.

"Any good manager needs to see his players and put them into certain positions and get results from them.

"I came to the club as a striker orignially, as did Geoff Nulty, but we were both moved to midfield and helped the strikers by weighing in with a few goals."