Some treatment on the pitch. A previously unpublished image.

From a report by Peter Higgs:
It's my guess that the rest of the First Division title contenders are getting very worried about Burnley. Whereas once they were prepared to dismiss them as small-town upstarts living above their station, there is now a growing realisation that the Clarets' championship hopes really are as good as any other teams - and better than most. On Saturday, 22nd February 1975, they demonstrated the character of the side. In addition to having two players under the weather they lost Ian Brennan with a thigh strain after only 19 minutes and had two players (Hankin and Ingham) limping through the second-half. Yet they still won - and won well. While the whole team played their part in a good performance it was Leighton James who again proved to be the match-winner. Two perfectly placed centres brought late goals to send the fans home happy.

During the first 30 minutes, with Doug Collins in fine form, dictating the attacks, Burnley played some excellent lent football. But they were unable to finish things off in the penalty area and eventually Sheffield dragged themselves into the game, causing a shock just before half-time when a "goal" by Tony Field was ruled out for offside. At the start of the second-half play deteriorated into a niggling bad tempered feud. Just as it seemed that the match would peter out into a timid draw, James turned on his match winning best. In the 77th minute he cut in from the left and chipped over a perfectly flighted cross which fell perfectly for Peter Noble to flick into the net. Eight minutes later James created the second goal. The Welsh winger went past Badger on the outside and fired over an accurate shot which Fletcher headed with timing, power and direction to put Burnley two ahead. Woodward scored for Sheffield in the 89th minute.

Burnley: Stevenson, Newton, Brennan (sub B. Flynn, 19 minutes), Noble, Waldron, Thomson, Ingham, Hankin, Fletcher, Collins, James.
Sheffield United: Brown, Badger, Hemsley, Eddy, Collquhoun, J. Flynn, Woodward, Speight, Jones (sub Dearden, 64 minutes), Currie, Field.
Referee: Mr A. Hart of Sevenoaks. Attendance: 18,825.