Alan Pace emerges through gates at Turf Moor and is immediately asked for a selfie by four young Burnley fans lingering outside. The unfailingly polite chairman obliges and moves in for the photo. “People blamed you for us getting relegated,” says a teenager. Pace is visibly and audibly deflated and emits a gut-wrenching sigh as the group poses for the camera.
The innocent yet cutting exchange opens part two of Mission to Burnley, the latest fly-on-the-wall football documentary, which charts Burnley’s fall and rise under their American owner, ALK Capital. Pace insists he was reluctant to let the cameras in, and uncomfortable in front of them, but he and his fellow board members feature heavily in a four-parter that covers the sacking of Sean Dyche, relegation from the Premier League, Vincent Kompany’s appointment and Burnley’s Championship triumph.
