It has never been a fun place to play for opponents. It arrives upon you, suddenly greeting you with an overarching floodlight or corrugated iron hoarding in a low-lit dale town. Turf Moor is one of England’s most claustrophobic stadiums. Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images/Reuters Burnley finished the game with 17 attempts and zero goals.īurnley fans walk past a mural outside Turf Moor stadium. The mood music is increasingly morose with each loss, with manager Vincent Kompany describing a defeat to Crystal Palace as a “tough one to take” after seeing his side cede four shots on goal and two hit the net. They’ve conceded 13 first-half goals and scored the least amount of goals (9) across the league. No team has lost more points from winning positions than Burnley this season (11). They have lost eight Premier League home games in a row dating back to 21/22 – the first time in their history. They have lost all six of their Premier League home games this season – the only team in English top-flight history to do so, and the third team in overall English league history after Newport County, (70/71 fourth tier) and Watford in 90/91 (second tier) to do so. So far, Burnley’s return to England’s top tier has been a horror show. It’s just a really frustrating and horrible place to play football.” The power the top six to eight clubs have in terms of influence, financial clout, decision-making - it’s not a level playing field. It just cares about technical perception and producing enough material for television producers to keep content out.

It doesn’t care about the experience on the ground, watching the game live. It doesn’t care about or market itself to the longstanding football fan. “The Premier League has become a technically perfect televised sport for a global audience. “Being in the Premier League, it makes me question everything I thought I knew and loved about football,” she says. Bromley first went to watch the club aged 11 with her dad, and has made it a regular feature of her life since. “The general mood is that The Championship is much better a league to play in than the Premier League,” says Natalie Bromley, who hosts the No Nay Never Burnley podcast. England’s top tier can financially sustain and set up clubs for years to come, but where to find solace when you’ve yet to register a single point on home soil, and what does that do to the mood of a supporter?

Brand Burnley means little if the team is shipping in goals. To supporters, moods will always be shaped by results – regardless of the wider context. “When I first arrived at the Club, I spoke about growing the Burnley brand and bringing the Clarets to a worldwide audience,” Chairman Alan Pace wrote to supporters before the start of the season.

Supporters can go on the same journey as shareholders and money people, but only to a point. Being in the league with the big boys is supposed to be about more than sport, particularly for provincial English towns. The Premier League is the be-all, end-all, we’re told. They’ve scored nine goals all season, the weakest return in the league. They’ve picked up four points from a possible 36. After a season-long coronation, Burnley are rooted at the foot of the table.

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