[5] He was the only player to have captained a Burnley team in a winning FA Cup Final.

In 1912 Boyle crossed the Pennines to sign for Burnley for what was then a club record fee of £1,150.

[2] Boyle served as a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War and was wounded in 1917.

[6] After the war, Boyle worked as a landlord, but was committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1930.

He died at Whittingham Hospital, Lancashire, ten years later, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Hoyland.