It's Friday, it's the news!

Hello and welcome to the Friday News, with me, your Friday news reader Claretgunnergirl.

Let's kick off today's news with the astounding sighting of Lionel Messi in Burnley! Reports emerged late on Wednesday evening that a number of fans had spotted the footballing superstar going into the club shop. Staff at the shop were however unwilling to confirm the rumours, or that Messi had purchased a brand new shirt with his own name printed on the back. One fan who believes he saw Messi had this to say: "It was him! It was Messi! He's going to sign for us! Up the Clarets!" Also unconfirmed are the rumours that Messi has been sighted in club shops up and down the land during this quiet close season.

To some more concrete news now, and the launch of the (soon to be) infamous 'Lemon Chrome' shirt, the new Burnley away kit. The racy combination of zingy yellow shirt and claret shorts and socks has raised a few eyebrows in Burnley land. The shirt features a claret neckline and two eye-catching claret stripes on the right shoulder while the claret shorts and socks both have 'Lemon Chrome' trim. The new kit can be seen on the Burnley website right now, fetchingly modelled by JayRod who's also showing off a pair of disturbingly hairy legs. The Friday News wants to know what you fans think of the new shirt ... will you be buying it? Or avoiding it like the plague on account of it looking like something only big girls and Watford fans would wear? Let us know!

Burnley boss Eddie Howe is making his presence felt at Turf Moor, although unfortunately not in the transfer market. This week he's sanctioned a new indoor training facility at Gawthorpe and put his weight behind the plans to convert the empty Turf Moor leisure facility into an elite gymnasium. Expect the players to look a lot fitter next season with all these facilities at their disposal. Don't expect them to have new teammates though ... there's still not even a whiff of a Burnley-based rumour in the transfer market. News on the future of Chris McCann is thin on the ground, and the only move to/from Turf Moor currently seems to be the departure of Jack Cork to warmer climes on the South Coast. With the team due to return to training in under a week, and the first pre-season fixture at Altrincham on July 9th, the Burnley fans must be dispairing over the lack of solid transfer news.

In other news, it emerged this week that the Friday News' very own CGG had hit the headlines. The following article appeared on a well-known and supposedly informative website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenjonsin_%28footballer%29 Although CGG's people acted quickly to defend her actions and stop the blatant misuse of her name, it's uncertain as to whether her good reputation remains in tact. Only time will tell whether CGG will suffer the second fall from grace in her short news reading career.

Breaking news from the Burnley board as we're about to go off air!! Telford has firmly denied his involvement in the incident which saw Mrs Telford cruelly ploughed down by a speeding car. However, a witness to the incident claims that the person behind the wheel 'was wearing a hat like Telford's.' Could it be that he's trying to cover his tracks? More on this next week!!

And that's all from the Friday news for today ... I hope you've all enjoyed your weekly update, and that maybe some of you will try to actually do something newsworthy during the next seven days.