The Burnley Sentinel
Squad2 Apr 2040
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Clark
80 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Burnley lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market2 Apr 2040
George Atkinson puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Burnley, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match31 Mar 2040
A 2-goal lead gone for Burnley
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Manchester City kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Burnley will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings2 Apr 2040
Up for the corner, and Robert Cunningham delivers — 7.89
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Robert Cunningham scored, was marked 7.89, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad2 Apr 2040
James Phillips says Burnley went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market2 Apr 2040
Jakub Jendryka is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Burnley is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match31 Mar 2040
The wait goes on for Burnley
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad2 Apr 2040
Lucio Falasco in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Burnley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Apr 2040
Words at Burnley training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florentino Luís is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Player ratings A goal and an assist for Lucio Falasco — 7.78
- Match Whatever happens, Burnley do not lose
- Player ratings Alejandro Garnacho runs at them all day