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4 “Very rarely is football a forever story. Usually at some point things change.” It was October 2017 and Sean Dyche was facing a question linking him with the vacant Everton job after Ronald Koeman had been sacked.  He was in the midst of Burnley’s excellent start to the 2017-18 campaign, one that ended with a seventh-place finish and European football secured. It was a week after he had been linked with the vacant Leicester City job.  It w...

Sean Dyche has agreed a new contract with Burnley / Chloe Knott - Danehouse/Getty Images Exclusive - Burnley manager Sean Dyche has agreed terms on a new contract to stay at Turf Moor next season and beyond after receiving assurances from the club over transfer spending. Burnley have generally been very frugal in the transfer market in recent years, which makes the job Dyche has done to keep them competitive in the Premier League, achieving top half finishes in both 2017/18 and 2019/20, even mo...

The Dubliner was a club-record signing when he joined from Norwich in January 2017 for £13million.

May 20, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Constance Scrafield “Unless you’re looking for the silver lining,” said Al Pace, “this pandemic can really get you down.” For Mr. Pace, his wife Lin Ward, and their two businesses, Canoe North and Farmhouse Pottery, there have been many silver linings. They were stuck at their home and studio on Hockley Road for the summer of 2020, rather than taking clients on unforgettable canoe adventures ...

City A.M. “We’re OK with that.” But he adds that ALK, which completed its takeover in December 2020, chose Burnley over other teams precisely because the Clarets had scope to be modernised. “We looked at a lot of different clubs as we were evaluating what to do. The reason we settled on Burnley is that it had so many fundamental things that were positive but also there is an opportunity to maybe apply some new skills, new science, a different way of thinking. “It may be that Burnley i...

Arsenal I always feared there’d come a time when we’d really regret flogging off this country’s footballing crown jewels, and Spurs, to owners with no grasp of our risk-and-reward pyramid format. And here we are. The ESL closed-shop plan may have gone for now, but in the absence of real governmental intervention, it’ll be back. For us Gooners, it’s all felt like the latest step in a barefaced betrayal – one that began with leaving Highbury and was made worse by our...

The Blackburn Rovers & Coventry City players take a knee..Photographer Richard Martin-Roberts/CameraSport..The EFL Sky Bet Championship - Blackburn Rovers v Coventry City - Saturday 27th February 2021 - Ewood Park - Blackburn..World Copyright BURNLEY MP Antony Higginbotham has condemned plans for a new European super-league in a House of Commons debate. He was joined in his Westminster criticism of the six English clubs signed up to the proposal by Blackburn Rovers supporter and former Libe...

Jordan Henderson has called for an emergency meeting of Premier League captains on Wednesday. Henderson’s club, Liverpool, are one of six English teams who have agreed to join a breakaway Super League tournament. The others are Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur. The meeting will come a day after the Premier League’s other 14 teams held a meeting to discuss a response to the announcement of the Super League. Why has the meeting been called? The meeting has ...

Share It will surely be nothing more than coincidence that Burnley displayed what a Dyche side can do at its best against a club who could be looking his way in the summer. Still, as potential showcases go it could not have gone much better, or been more timely, than this, Burnleys most convincing Premier League win coming at Palace with chairman Steve Parish watching on. Burnley were excellent from back to front as they pulled further clear of the bottom three. They scored three different type...

Discussing the financial impact of the pandemic on the transfer market, Pace said, “It’s challenging, to say the least, and beyond people not necessarily wanting to sell. There’s a lot of conversations that I don’t think are as fruitful as they could be and that’s probably because of the intermediary position.” Not all agents are out to exploit new Premier League chairmen like Pace or impressionable young players. But it is the “bad apple” agents Pace is troubled by. “I don’...