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Coronation Street characters named after Burnley footballers, says former player
Coronation Street scriptwriter Peter Whalley was a huge fan and a season ticket holder at Turf Moor.And he claimed that when he was looking for names for new arrivals on the cobbles he used his favourite Burnley aces for inspiration.Midfielder Paul, 46, played more than 250 times for the Lancashire club between 1993 and 2004 and revealed the Corrie connection in his new autobiography, Not Such a Bad Life.He said: "A mention on Coronation Street was always a possibility at this time."The scriptwriter was a guy called Peter Whalley, a season ticket holder, who had fun naming some of the characters in the street after his favourite Burnley players."His favourite player was Robbie Blake and apparently, he used a few names for some of the minor