Clarets boss Stan Ternent has called on Burnley Football Club to find an appropriate way to honour the man he feels is the greatest name in the club's history - Jimmy Adamson.

Speaking at Clitheroe Football Club last night in "An Audience with Stan Ternent", he said: "We have got the Jimmy McIlroy Stand and Harry Potts Way but it is time we did more than just have the Jimmy Adamson Bar.

"For me he was magnificent. He was the captain of the best team in the club's history, the side that won the title, he was named Footballer of the Year, he went on to coach and manage the club and he was assistant manager of England at 30 years of age."

Adamson played just short of 500 games for the Clarets, making his debut in the 1950-51 season. He was the club captain in 1962 when teenage Ternent came down to Turf Moor from his home in the North East.

It was in that summer that Adamson had the honour of being named as the assistant to England boss Walter Winterbottom for the World Cup in Chile although it remains a mystery to many of those who watched him play that he never won a full England cap.

Ternent is a huge admirer of the man and his achievements and his call for some form of lasting recognition follows a similar demand from another Clarets legend Martin Dobson.

He wrote in his weekly column in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph that the club should find some way of doing something to mark a remarkable man and a remarkable career. Ternent made his suggestion in response to a question asking him to name his top three Burnley players of the last 50 years.

"In terms of entertainment you would have to have Jimmy McIlroy," he said. "But Jimmy Adamson was remarkable.

Leighton James and Willie Morgan were mentioned for third.

The night at Clitheroe, organised by chairman Dave Burgess, was a huge success with a sell-out audience of over 120 people.