Seventh last season, Burnley’s appalling start sees them bottom of the table but there is no way their manager is prepared to blame it all on their Europa League exertionsLast season’s overachievers Burnley sit bottom of the Premier League with a single point from five games. Should they lose to fifth-placed Bournemouth at home on Saturday it would compound their worst start to a league campaign for 90 years, and the normally ebullient Sean Dyche admits he is at a loss to explain the fog that has descended on his players.The fog is the manager’s own description, not meant to reference the John Carpenter film, though Dyche has taken to watching horror movies of his own in the form of replays of matches with the sound turned down. “If you cut out all the noise you can see the patterns of the game,” Dyche explains. “At Wolves last week for example, we outran them but we didn’t outsprint them. It’s not enough just to work hard, you have to work smart. Your eyes don’t lie, especially in the cold light of day watching a rerun of a defeat. You can see you are not a million miles away but you can also see you are not close enough to get a result.” Related: Burnley v Bournemouth: match preview Continue readingreadfullarticle
