When Vincent Kompany and Burnley won the Championship with 101 points and followed it with a summer of spending more than £90m on players, few in Lancashire could have anticipated the club having something in common with the 1970-71 Newport team of the Fourth Division, but after seven straight defeats at Turf Moor they have matched the Welsh club’s record for the worst home start to an English league season.
Burnley’s appalling form continued with defeat to West Ham despite leading until the 86th minute, as a Dara O’Shea own goal and Tomas Soucek volley settled the match late on. Jay Rodriguez had scored from the spot to put the hosts ahead after Luca Koleosho was brought down in the box, some would argue for a second time, to give the fans hope of witnessing a first Turf Moor victory of the season.
