Mark Murray

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Burnley
20 May 2046
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1026 Edition

The Burnley Sentinel

26 Mar 2046
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Mar 2046

Ethan Ndiweni breaks a bone — 69 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad26 Mar 2046

Sébastien Masson damages knee ligaments — 80 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 80 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.

Squad26 Mar 2046

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.

Squad26 Mar 2046

Defences have started doubling up on Luke Harvey

14 goals and a season average of 7.24 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The terraces26 Mar 2046

The crowd has taken to Mark Murray

At 20 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.

Match24 Mar 2046

Luke Harvey sends Burnley past Nottingham Forest

It finished 1‑0, and it was Luke Harvey’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Burnley.

Player ratings26 Mar 2046

Luke Harvey was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.15. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings26 Mar 2046

A defender's afternoon for Enrique Moya

Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings26 Mar 2046

Mark Murray runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
990 Edition

The Burnley Sentinel

17 Jul 2045
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Jul 2045

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.

Squad17 Jul 2045

Real improvement from Mark Murray at Burnley

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mark Murray is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market17 Jul 2045

The Mark Grant conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Hull City will make the call about Mark Grant this week. Burnley have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

942 Edition

The Burnley Sentinel

15 Aug 2044
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Aug 2044

Timothy Moore damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.

Match13 Aug 2044

Luke Harvey settles it late for Burnley

The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Luke Harvey decided nobody was going anywhere. West Ham United had no time left to answer.

Player ratings15 Aug 2044

Both of them Luke Harvey's — 8.43

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.43, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings15 Aug 2044

Age has not caught Tyrone Omotoye yet — 8.15

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.15 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market15 Aug 2044

Mark Grant 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.

Squad15 Aug 2044

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.

Match13 Aug 2044

Burnley get the job done against West Ham United

A 4‑3 win over West Ham United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad15 Aug 2044

Mark Murray is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad15 Aug 2044

James Reid has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief