Scott Parker sends message to Burnley fans pining for Vincent Kompany glory days

Some Burnley fans are muttering due to the fact that Burnley person won lone won 2 of their past 7 league campaigns and are pining for 2 years agone erstwhile they walked the Championship nether Vincent Kompany

Scott Parker has appealed to Burnley fans to halt comparing this run with their Championship romp nether Vincent Kompany 2 seasons ago.

Some Burnley fans are muttering due to the fact that Parker’s broadside person lone won 2 of their past 7 Championship games and scored conscionable 18 goals successful their 15 matches. They conifer for 2 years agone erstwhile Kompany’s team, boasting indebtedness stars Ian Maatsen, Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Nathan Tella, walked the Championship with 101 points.

Burnley are really a constituent amended disconnected than Kompany’s broadside up of today’s travel to Bristol City and Parker says helium is having to enactment with a totally-different team.

“Two years successful shot is simply a long, agelong clip and if there’s 1 happening I’ve learned, you tin get stuck successful that nostalgia,” said the Clarets boss, who was visiting Holly Grove Primary School successful the municipality arsenic portion of Burnley FC In The Community’s work, which saw them assistance 30,000 radical past year.

“Football moves so, truthful rapidly and 2 years agone what happened was thing abbreviated of incredible. The occupation everyone did, Vinnie coaching the players, it was an incredible, unthinkable achievement.

“But that was 2 years agone and you person to look astatine the hard facts, and they are this is simply a hard league to get retired of.

“If you look astatine the percentages, I deliberation it’s astir apt 30 per cent of teams that travel retired of the Premier League get promoted successful the archetypal year. The numbers are stacked against you. History tells you it doesn’t enactment similar that.

“I recognize the world we unrecorded successful contiguous and I’m ever lone ever going to beryllium judged connected a W. But we’re successful a bully place. Fundamentally, we’re successful a bully spot and psychologically, we’re successful a bully place.”

Burnley mislaid 17 players successful the summer, portion 16 came in, and Parker had to physique a caller squad from September aft the transportation model closed. “There were things happening present which were unprecedented, really,” helium said.

“There was immoderate things here, which successful 20 years of maine being successful the game, I’d not seen. I understood that, and I realised what was presented to america could person been a existent de-railer.

“We person a radical of boys present present who, archetypal and foremost want, to beryllium here. They privation to enactment the garment on, they privation to correspond this shot club.

“They walk each infinitesimal of each time connected the grooming people, trying to improve. I couldn’t person said that to you 12 weeks agone and present we’re processing this young team.

“The most-stable team, the most-stable club, gets the occupation done 9 times retired of 10 and that’s what we request to be. Parker knows Burnley request to people much - adjacent though the critics place their mean defence which has been breached conscionable six times - and is moving each time to marque them much potent.

“My past has shown maine since I was seven, and my dada forced maine to spell to training, forced maine to bash other work, that dedication and committedness to amended pays off,” helium said. “I ever autumn backmost connected that knowing that we’ll get there, arsenic agelong arsenic you enactment that hard enactment in.”

* Burnley FC In The Community were participating successful the EFL Week of Action, which is an yearly lawsuit highlighting the interaction of the 72 subordinate clubs’ foundation work, and 1.1million radical were helped past year.

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