Even as Burnley limped away from a 2-0 defeat to the worst team in the Premier League and failed to close their nine-point gap to Leeds United, few would have really dared to write them off. Nine-and-a-half years under Sean Dyche punching well above their weight will do that to an opinion.
The Clarets are not entertaining, they do not employ big names, they do not pay big money, but they had an identity, they scrapped for everything and six consecutive seasons in the top flight on meagre budgets always made you think Dyche might pull it off again.
Not now. The nonsensical sacking of the 50-year-old they should be building a statue of in Harry Potts Way, has been dismissed by panicked owners who seem to have forgotten the limits this squad is already stretching well beyond.
