The Burnley Sentinel
Squad16 Sep 2041
A fracture rules Max Weiß out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Burnley will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Sep 2041
Thomas Smith damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings16 Sep 2041
No sign of nerves from James Reid at 21 — 7.96
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. James Reid did not need any: 7.96, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings16 Sep 2041
Alejandro Garnacho, 37, rolls back the years — 8.04
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad16 Sep 2041
Tempers go at Burnley
Ethan Ndiweni was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match14 Sep 2041
Burnley see off Huddersfield Town
Three points for Burnley, 2‑1 the final word against Huddersfield Town in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces16 Sep 2041
The crowd has taken to James Reid
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad16 Sep 2041
Burnley count the cost of losing Timothy Moore
60 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings16 Sep 2041
Lucio Falasco's mistake decides it
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Burnley needed to.
In brief
- Player ratings Ethan Ndiweni could have had three
- Market The Enrique Moya talk will not go away
- Market Timothy Wright leaves for nothing