(SOFT MUSIC)
ALAN PACE: 'It's one of the hardest things to go from being
on top of the world and the Premier League.
And then waking up the next day
with all the uncertainty,
the fear, the anxiety,
the testing of your faith, your beliefs.
Trying to figure out
how quickly can you get back, what do you have to do?
Can we return to where we came from?'
(CHEERING)
(TITLE THEME)
* I *
* I need you *
* I won't give up *
* I won't give up. *
(CHEERING)
(MUSIC ENDS)
-Are you the new manager? -Are you Alan Pace?
No. I'm Alan Pace, yes.
But, no, I'm not the new manager. (LAUGHS)
-Can I have a picture with ya? -Yeah.
Do you know who he is? He owns the club.
-Oh, do you own it? -(ALAN LAUGHS)
People blamed you for us getting relegated.
Let me take it, and I'll get all of us in it.
-OK. -Put it on Snapchat.
Come on, get in.
-What the heck's that? -(ALAN LAUGHS)
"You're the person they blame for us being relegated."
Yeah, I guess so. (CHUCKLES)
Out of the mouth of babes.
'It's hard to know what you want
and can see what it's going to take to get there,
but not be able to tell anyone
exactly how painful it's going to be.'
I know how to get there.
I just don't know the exact road we'll take
and where it will lead to and everything else.
I knew before we ever got into this
that the stress level here
is unlike anything that I've ever done.
I knew it before we did it, and I still chose to do it.
-That does it-- -Should've told the rest of us.
(LAUGHTER)
It's gonna be great. We're going to make so much money!
Top of the league.
Sell the vision, deal with the reality.
And that, to be fair, that isn't too far from
some other things, OK?
I mean, if somebody turned around and said,
"OK, what's it going to take to do the next thing?"
I'm not sure that I could actually give you a roadmap.
I know that it may be easier than it has been,
but it could also be harder.
But I do know that we will get through it and we can.
It's just the work to do it.
I do know that we have an incredibly,
incredibly special manager.
NEWS: 'It's been a busy first transfer window
for Burnley boss, Vincent Kompany.'
-Congrats. Well done. -Thank you.
It's a big moment, you know,
joining a good club, a good family.
And we'll help you get better, you'll help us get better.
-Yeah. Look forward to it. -Come see the other guys.
'He's already brought in nine new players.'
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
'And with just a few days before the transfer window slams shut,
there could still be more signings to come.'
Tiny step forward so you're, feet are on that line. Perfect.
Brilliant, all done.
VINCENT: 'In the championship, there's still so much to learn
and a completely different type of pressure as well.
We still have a young team here,
but we still need more talented players.'
But you know that when you bring new players
that can exceed expectations or they can disappoint.
Take your time, now.
'It's tough.'
CRAIG: 'When you go into a newly relegated team
there's a lack of confidence from the group then.'
A lot of players leaving.
'We're going into a storm here.'
Look, give yourself time.
Yeah? Don't rush it.
CRAIG: 'But what becomes panic and what becomes chaos
becomes opportunity.
There's always something good can come from this,'
but you've got to do it right.
Everything clean for you, yeah?
There's a few things you've done well,
but like everything clean now, your first touch,
your pass. Alright, good.
CRAIG: 'You have to be really smart.
You have to recruit, you have to maximise everything you have.
Bring in younger players, hungry players,
that have big potential.
And if you can mix them with the players
who have been already here, you can have the perfect storm.'
Good touch, Jóhann! Keep it clean. Yes, here we go.
You know, when everybody doubts
you need to be resilient enough to stay on the path.
'Keep your discipline and keep going
and to be in an environment where that is possible,
it's difficult because football's very political.
Fans, media, public perception,
money, owners, everything comes into play.'
Look, you open up and then you close the distance
because from there you go with him,
otherwise you have to go with him and back,
and it's too much space. Yeah?
ALAN: So that will hit into the next year's numbers.
MORGAN: This all assumes the Championship.
To the extent we get promoted, we'll pick up an extra 20 million then.
You cannot fund a Championship club perpetually
from the revenues of a Championship club.
So that's probably the main conclusion here.
This is how we're funding this particular year.
It's a bet on going back up.
-No pressure. -Well, my question would be,
have you planned on coming up like first year?
As one of the squad to come to that conclusion, you know.
I can see the numbers.
The most valuable point that is for me raised there is that
the money is generated through player training and sales.
And as long as that's the focus,
whether we're in the Championship or the Premier League,
we can live and grow.
I think we've selected a group of people
who are really good at scouting talent
before they're overpriced to us, developing them.
And I think that the talent that I have as well
is to bring the bigger puzzle together.
But I think that what will make us stronger and what will actually
put us in a more comfortable position to have this discussion
year in year on, whether we're in the Championship or the Premier League,
that will turn this into a profitable business,
is if we never forget that what you see out there on the pitch, it's everything.
And what we do is we have an extremely clear playing identity.
We want players who can press high up the pitch.
We want players who are comfortable receiving the ball.
So 600, 700 passes in a game should be normal
or should be something they're comfortable with.
The real idea for me is that we make available
three or four players per season for sale
and that we've just got the next ones coming through
who we feel hopefully are maybe even stronger than the ones we've sold.
That strategy makes complete sense.
Making money on senior players on the way out.
Do you consider giving them some game time
before we are ready to sell them?
VINCENT: We play the best players and these guys,
they'll come and take them off us.
Back to your recruitment strategy. Is there any data points
you feel like you're missing that can make it even better,
that's an achievable for us to get?
Yeah, I think anything on character.
-We're trying to encourage that. -I'll take character.
We're still working on two areas that we've spent some time on.
But this is going to take a long time.
But one is on that personality slash character issue
and the other is the cohesion between individuals
and how long it takes for them to come together,
because we do test for it in the business world
in very different ways and you can test for it.
It's not out of the realm of possibility.
So quickly, we'll do a psychological profile
-for every person we hire? -Yeah.
(SOMBRE PIANO MUSIC)
PUNDIT: 'This is a big ask for Vincent Kompany.
It's not going to be easy for him bringing in so many new players.'
PUNDIT 2: 'If Burnley get this wrong for one season,
it spells disaster.'
COMMENTATOR: 'Welcome to Turf Moor
for Burnley's first home game of the season.
First home game since relegation.
Can Vincent Kompany get these new players to...'
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
'It's certainly a very warm reception from the sell-out.'
'He's a real presence. He's a real character.'
-'Yeah.' -'And he's done ever so well in football.'
-(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) -(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(MUSIC FADES, ENDS)
(CHEERING)
'Started strongly here. Bell clips it in.
Bit of confusion in the Burnley box.
And it's there! 1-0 to the visitors.
A nightmare start for Kompany's side.
Doesn't look happy there on the touchline.
Five minutes gone and Burnley trail at home.
Ball into Barnes, and he's easily shrugged off it.
Maatsen has a go. That's speculative.
It's just not clicking for Burnley at the moment.
And that's another good chance for Luton.
Burnley's new defensive line-up
struggling with the set-pieces at the moment.
Cushioned by Barnes, Brownhill!'
(CHEERING)
'A clinical finish by Josh Brownhill.
And Burnley are level against the run of play.
Ashley Barnes.
Here's Barnes.
Disappointing from Burnley.
Kompany will know they've been poor
and are lucky to get away with a point against a very...'
For Luton to score early on was a setback.
But that's what you get sometimes with a new team.
Vincent, we've spoken about the need to bring in more bodies.
Pretty imperative that you got about three or four more
in before the window closes, which is soon.
Yeah, but we knew that and it's not, it's not secret.
The main thing for me is keeping the team competitive.
But we're not yet, we're not there yet.
Now, what I would also think that we should probably do
is just again, as we've talked about it the last week,
whatever we have left over,
if we think there's some investable opportunities,
we should take those, even if they're not going to make,
as long as we've got it within the budget side.
You know, start to build that.
So we've got to make sure we haven't taken too many loans
and sealed ourselves off that way.
And at the same time also not chase rabbits down holes
that we don't want to go down.
Yeah, that's tier 1, tier 2, though still.
COMMENTARY: 'Two teams relegated from the Premier League go head to head.
Burnley have new signing Manuel Benson making his first start.'
(FOOTBALL CHANTS, CHEERING)
'The players snapping at Benson's heels.
He's struggling to get into the game here.
We know Watford are a physical side, they don't mind mixing it up.
It's just starting to boil over here.'
(YELLING, CHEERING)
'Into Cleverley. 1-0!
And a well-deserved lead for the home side.
They've been looking dangerous all half
and have got their reward just before halftime.'
Ref, how was there no foul on him?
On Chaz? How's there no foul?
When you keep giving them for fucking no reason.
They won't challenge him.
SO why's he allowed to go through the back of me?
It's the heat of the battle sometimes. We've had an even match.
A battle? I don't want a fucking battle, mate.
I don't want a fucking battle.
It's just shit. It's a fucking foul.
Every one of us. We need fucking more, lads, come on.
'The second half underway.
There's some space. In goes the cross
and there's a chance for Brownhill here. Saved!
Cork with the header!
Frustration mounting for Burnley.
Brownhill on the volley! Oh, it's hit the bar.
Watford riding their luck somewhat.'
-(WHISTLE BLOWS) -'And that's the final whistle.
Watford run out 1-0 winners.
And Burnley slump to their first defeat of the season.'
ALAN: 'The easy solution is not going to be just grab a striker.
We went through three of them yesterday
and said they're just they're just not strong enough
to last the whole season.
They're too expensive for what they are.
So, you know, he's... you're going to see him.
He's mixing it up right now.'
(CROWD) Come on, Burnley! Come on, Burnley!
COMMENTARY: 'In from Cullen. Maatsen! Just missed it.
Benson's in. Wasted the chance.
Maatsen. Towards the back post, kept alive here,
but taken by the goalkeeper.
A disappointing day for Burnley, held at home by Hull City,
and no doubt about it, this league is a brutal one.'
NEWSREADER: 'England's chief economist warned of big rate rises to come.'
REPOTER: 'Raising interest rates will make a recession deeper.
The Bank of England...'
You know, folks that are within our organisation,
we felt that, you know, it was time to start moving forward
as to looking at, kind of,
how we could come together as a leadership team.
This requires everyone to be open to... open to feedback,
and especially open to where we need to go to.
OK? Because where we are is not where we're going to stay.
As Allen said, he's asked me to come in here and help you guys
become more effective as a team. Bottom line. OK?
During this process I really just want you to connect and listen.
This isn't really a discussion, it's more about just opening up
and hearing where people are.
How I think I viewed, I put financially savvy,
driven, aggressive and funny,
and I'd like to be viewed as just funny.
(LAUGHTER)
ALAN: As a team member on this team,
I am viewed as over-engaged.
I would like to be viewed as unlocking potential,
not inhibiting it.
What I do that gets in the way
of team achieving high performance.
I expect too much.
I move too fast
and I get too frustrated.
STUART: You're a micromanager.
You're in there, in everything.
Right. And so what I think Jim is saying,
pull it, right, pull it to the higher level
and then let that funnel down through direction.
So my problem that I have...
OK? Is that we don't operate at the speed
which I know that we have to be operating at, and we haven't.
Vince, interestingly, not that much of a hurry. He told us.
He's got this new club that haven't played together
and we want him to be in a hurry.
Vincent said, I'm not in a hurry.
We may or may not get out of the Championship this year.
What I need is these guys to play together.
I'm trying to build a club that's valuable.
I want our people to be valuable.
I need to teach them their role.
Some of these people I'm teaching a different role.
Even though you guys all want to win and you need the money,
I'm gonna go at my own pace.
This team can move at a certain speed,
and it's not Alan Pace speed.
I think we should close it up. I think everybody's fried.
Alright.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
OK, boys.
Um, couple of meetings today.
We'll start first on what they do on the ball.
'It's been hard work so far.
There's always things you need to improve on.'
If we look after the ball, making sure we make angles,
if we're always available, and if we control the tempo
of our passes, I think these guys can really suffer tomorrow.
'It's a journey. We just have to be patient.
And you have to remind the guys to keep doing what they're doing.'
Give it another few months, some of this will be second nature,
you'll solve it during the games yourself.
But now I need to repeat it again and again just for the time being.
OK? So bear with me.
'When you're down and people say you're not good enough,
believe in yourself, be arrogant and trust
that because you have a plan,'
because you have a routine that you will finish on top.
'Since the day I was born,
I feel like I've always had to work hard for everything.
I grew up speaking French, but I went to school speaking Dutch.
Where we grew up was, um,
socially a very difficult place to be in this world
with very little perspective to job opportunities
and everything like this.
So you battle yourself through it and you try and make,
I would say, progressively,
within your own limited means, the world a little bit fairer
wherever you can do that.
You can leave something behind, you know.'
(FANS CHANTING)
ALAN: 'This game is so important to us. A proper derby.'
Come on! Let's go!
But at the same time, it's my other daughter's wedding.
'Probably not the best timing for that.'
COMMENTATOR: 'First taste of a Lancashire Derby for Kompany.
Make no mistake, this is a big game.'
(CROWD CHANTING, YELLING)
'This new-look Burnley will be desperate for the three points to really kick start...'
'Nathan Tanner makes his first start today.
The forward, who came in on loan from Southampton, will be hoping...'
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
'Long ball looking for Rodriguez, falls to Brownhill.
-Oh, what a strike!' -(CHEERING)
'Josh Brownhill.'
(HOPEFUL MUSIC)
'Teller could be in here.
It's Nathan Teller!'
-(CHEERING) -'An instant impact.
Burnley 2 - Blackpool 0.
Burnley play it out from the back again here.
Oh! Cullen under pressure!
And Corbeanu pounces.
Blackpool have a goal back.
Burnley their own worst enemy there.
Looking for Maatsen.
Might just fall here for Teller.
It's Teller!
What a finish!
A slick first half for Burnley.
Burnley 3 - Blackpool 1.'
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
ALL: Woo!
Why are you frowning?
I'm not frowning, I just kind of want to know.
Oh, have you not looked?
I haven't looked. Oh, OK. I see you frowning, so.
I'm not frowning, call exactly what you want.
I don't... I don't understand.
COMMENTATOR: 'Gabriel marauding down the right again into the box.
Blackpool have a goal back! 3-2 it is.
Ball into the danger area.
Dougall across and it's in! 3-3!'
(SIGHS) 3-3.
-No! You're joking. -KRISTEN: 3-3!?
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(KRISTEN GROANS)
My goodness.
(SIGHS)
Well, there's a lot of things that teams need to learn to do.
-Yeah. -One of them is win.
It's a... It's a learning process.
You get a lead.
Now you have a group of guys that just...
..go to work and get it done. Just finish it out.
-And that's a skill. -Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
NEWS: 'Transfer deadline day. Such a big day for the fans.
We love it.
Halil Dervisoglu has joined Burnley on loan,
part of the Vincent Kompany revolution. He's 22...
We're edging closer and closer to the 11:00pm deadline.'
(DIAL TONE RINGING)
-'Hello?' -Hi.
'Do you think that as we're trying to close deals
and we need these players and we need to get them in
and if we see that starting and we're moving very, very fast...
it has, I think in several cases, caused us to step up,
slightly above, you know, overall budget.'
Oh, there's no doubt, I mean, the way...
There's no doubt on that one, right?
'Yeah. It would only be one transfer fee payment
and then wages, which should be looking around 400 net.'
So, can we do... Can we just do one thing though?
So, between you and I, for us going forward,
we don't quote prices net and gross.
We quote, this is what we pay per week
and let them do all the other work.
I finished up the numbers today.
We're way over where I was expecting us to be right now.
If you add in the names that are still on the discussion list,
we're over 26...
..in spend.
And that was never, ever, ever in the wildest dreams
of what we were going to spend right now.
MATT: OK. No problem. OK. OK. Tell him the deal is off
because you are not meeting our terms.
No, Kelly, Kelly. Our position...
Our position is clear.
Well, I've-I've been doing this job 21 years,
and every single sell-on I do has ongoing rights to it.
My job is to negotiate the best possible deals
and have the relationships and trust of agents.
When they hear about a player that might come available to us,
that they can throw the name to me and know that they get an answer.
Gary, Gary, Gary, stop, stop.
Gary, stop.
Gary, stop, stop.
I always like to get an extra deal done that, you know,
you push the boundaries with the ownership
to make more funds available to get that...
wanna call it the hundreds and thousands
on top of the cherry, on top of the icing on the cake.
MIKE: Now, it's like I say, it's getting it's getting tight.
Look, we've got we've got another player coming in.
He's gonna be here at six o'clock. So my guess...
I guess the only issue here is where we said we're going to be.
I just need you to get him here and get moving down the road.
And I'm just very concerned that...
..if we're doing that player,
we have to do it today because of the window.
OK. Alright, thanks. Bye.
MIKE: 'Jordan. He was in. Got him in.
Kind of cleared. Paperwork's done.'
MATT: 'Seems a really, really nice kid. He'll fit in well.'
Dervisoglu is cleared and available
for selection tomorrow night,
which is a big plus.
Seemed genuinely excited to be here.
NEWS: 'One hour, 4 minutes left of the transfer window.'
'Vincent Kompany has made a record-breaking number of signings.
Surely this is a big statement.'
-16, guys. -(SIGHS) 16?
Good job.
And counting. No. (CHUCKLES)
And counting.
From the first signing with Twiney,
you know, I think until today
with the last signing we did with Beyer,
um, these moments are...
crucial moments for a club, you know.
People don't realise it quite often, but, you can have the best coach,
if you don't have the right players, it's not happening.
You can have the worst coach, if you have the best players,
you will win something. It's just simple as that sometimes.
-(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) -Ah, well done, everybody.
JOSH: 'We've got rid of a lot of players'
and a lot of new players that have come in, some young lads.
NATHAN: 'This is a very, very new group.
I'm not too sure how the chemistry is going to be within the team but...'
everyone's open. There's no egos here.
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
COMMENTATOR: 'With all these new players, it's going to take time
for Burnley to hit their stride.'
CRAIG: 'A player needs a lot of work, but...
..if we can get this right, there's no limits.
(CROWD SHOUTING)
'90th minute equaliser.'
PUNDIT: Vincent. So, so close to a win.
Yeah, close.
'Preston, one. Burnley, one.'
It ends here.
PUNDIT: It is a draw, but it's a game Burnley could have won.
You could say that about every game we've played this season.
'The final minute of the 90.'
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
I do not want to freak out the rest of the organisation.
I do not want everyone going, "Oh, my goodness,
we're going to be in the Championship for the rest of our lives."
But I just... I worry.
We shouldn't be in the place that we are.
'Chance here! And Clark with a header!
Stoke have equalised
right at the death!
Burnley letting three points slip through their fingers.'
VINCENT: So I think there's a reality you can't dismiss
is that a team gelling together, which just takes time.
Well, first off, does anyone disagree that
the given is we want this style of play?
I mean, and I'm assuming that's a given.
For me, it's not a four-three-three or it's not a-
-No, no. -It's not a system. It's principles.
-It's an identity. -Exactly.
How long do we think that that takes for us to be able to do?
PUNDIT: 'Tough league though, you know, the Championship, now.
There's so many good teams that are fighting to get up.'
PUNDIT 2: 'But you cannot buy experience.
You can only gain it.'
VINCENT: 'We got to get better.
You come through the door, Burnley Football Club.
Every day, every moment...
..you have to use it to improve.'
COMMENTATOR: 'Vincent Kompany, a frustrated manager.
VINCENT: I still back our squad
to get us through this period of games successfully.
Just wanna see the ball go in the net more. (LAUGHS)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTS)
Your team's getting battered and we're saying nothing!
J, look at me!
Boys, I mean it. Don't fuck about!
You don't get battered in this game, you press!
TRAINER: That's the mentality you got to have.
Would you agree? Yeah?
Fucking start now.
VINCENT: 'We try and give everything we have.
Hard work is always respected.
But not many places more than here.
And that's something that people hopefully will associate with'
people from Burnley as well.
You own it! I won't say anything, you own it!
COMMENTATOR: 'Now then, this is a real test for Burnley.
Two-nil down after only 20 minutes.
Sent it towards the back post, header won by Harwood-Bellis
and put in by Nathan Tella!
Burnley back in it!
Benson cuts inside, scores!
2-2!
Zaroury from range! What a goal!
What a finish from Anass Zaroury!
Great work by Brownhill. Now Benson.
Can Burnley kill the game off? Josh Brownhill!
Sunderland 2, Burnley 4.
The kind of result that could change
the direction of a whole season!'
VINCENT:It's the confidence we need to have within the club.
It comes with the belief that you can do it.
COMMENTATOR: 'Burnley 1, Norwich City nil.
Zaroury scores in the 94th minute! Has won it!
We will have to go to the wire.
'Burnley up against it here. Rotherham leading 2-1.'
VINCENT: 'The 95th minute or the 105th minute, whatever it is.'
COMMENTATOR: 'Into the box. What a goal!'
VINCENT: 'Go again. Go and don't look back.'
COMMENTATOR: 'Brownhill with a shot. Dervisoglu has turned it in
right at the death!
100 minutes on the clock
and Burnley have won it!'
CRAIG: Who went off first last time?
ALAN: 'It's worthwhile you guys understanding,
Vincent doesn't do anything without preparing.'
The number one salesperson is right here.
I'm actually nervous for you guys.
-Oh. -(LAUGHTER)
And the number one evaluator is right here.
And the number one decision maker's right here.
That ship has sailed.
It's... not good enough anymore.
Oh! Come on!
-What's the punishment? -They've got to buy coffees.
From Starbucks as well, so it's an expensive one.
'Half time and Burnley have the advantage.
They lead Sheffield United 2-1 at Bramall Lane.
Robinson will sling it back in. And in!
It's 3-2!
Oh, it's against the bar! It's a real scramble!
Sheffield United have scored!
And it's in! 4-2 to United!
McBurnie's in! It's 5-2.'
-(DRAMATIC MUSIC) -'Burnley have collapsed.'
TV: 'Good morning. Nurses at 117 NHS Trusts in England,
along with others in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland,
could be out on strike before Christmas.'
(TV FADES)
ALAN: How do you handle the negativity?
It's just the way you handle the failure, I think.
It's inevitable. We're getting better.
We're getting stronger. We're the young team.
Next time we'll play them, we'll be closer.
We work hard. And when it works,
we celebrate and when it doesn't we...
-We go harder. -Yeah, that's it.
That is true. What's... What's been the hardest thing
that you've had to come back from?
I think the hardest thing would have to be...
Yeah, there was definitely... I was...
20... 20 years old.
I just came back from my third big injury
and then I signed for a new club, which was Hamburg.
It was the most expensive transfer of the history of the club.
Um, big announcement.
Hamburg was a Champions League team,
and I tore my Achilles tendon.
But it was all happening in a difficult period of time for me
because at the same time...
my sister got diagnosed with cancer.
My mother already had cancer and passed away in that time.
So we were also fearful that my sister could pass away
and at the same time I was injured for...
eight to nine months with...
a lot of criticism as well in the media.
A lot of disappointment from the fans, from the club,
and living on my own for the first time.
So all of that kind of piled into the same moment.
Um...
Everybody expects you to arrive in the building
in a certain way, either wounded or affected.
And...
Or disillusioned.
You know? And I think I...
I think I count myself as lucky that I'm able to...
actually do the opposite of that.
Come in inspired,
motivated.
Finding the positive even in the negative times.
You know, there's a consistency to hard work, that's difficult.
But if you're consistent with hard work...
..and you're consistent mentally,
there's plenty of other people that crumble.
And the more they crumble, the more you get back up.
That is true.
Resilience is a gift.
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
'Burnley host Blackburn in the Cotton Mills Derby.
Away fans will be brought into the town on special buses.'
We've not played Blackburn for about seven years.
It is always a very highly emotionally charged fixture.
(OVERLAPPING SHOUTS)
We have rivalries in America.
But they're nothing like this. Nothing.
When you get the new players in, the players from abroad,
you've got to let them know building up to it, like,
you know, this is proper stuff.
NATHAN: I didn't know anything about the Blackburn game,
the rivalry and how big it was here.
I think leading up to the week I was seeing lots of things
on the Instagram pages and Twitter pages about the game.
I think that's when it hit me.
Blackburn is "the" game. It's the game.
COMMENTATOR: 'There are derbies and then there's this one,
the East Lancashire Derby. Not for the faint-hearted.
Out come the players. They're met by a wall of noise and passion.
Massive day at Turf Moor. The stakes couldn't be higher.
If Burnley avoid defeat, they go into the World Cup break
top of the Championship.
Meanwhile, a win would take Blackburn top.
And we're under way.
Good run from Brownhill.
Inside to Barnes! Just wide!
It's tense, it's bitter, it's a derby.
Oh, Mattsen! He goes down.
A robust and fair challenge.
Driving forward, bundled over.
Blackburn want a penalty.
There's a scrap with every ball.
This is being played at 100 miles an hour.
You can sense the tension inside the stadium.
A nervous energy around the place.
Back to Cullen. That's a decent ball in. Barnes! It's close.'
Oh!
'Half time then. A typical derby, really.
Physical, very cagey.
Not many chances but it is nicely poised.'
And nothing... nothing new.
Outside there's a fair bit.
Some of the coaches had problems coming in, which we expect.
There's been a lot of anti-social stuff, but at the moment we're...
Nothing in town that's been of any major...?
Not that I'm aware of. There's pockets. Sporadic bits of...
-But they'll keep us informed if there's... -Oh, definitely, yeah.
-I'll give you a shout as soon as I know. -OK, thank you.
(SIGHS) Let's make this 3-1 and go home.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I'd rather get it over with rather than just started.
-(WHISTLE BLOWS) -(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
'Now he could pose Blackburn some problems.
That's a good ball in. Barnes! Ashley Barnes...'
-(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) -Yeah!
Woo!
'Barnes with a chance and Zaroury makes it two!
Two-nil!'
Yes!
(INDISTINCT SINGING AND CHANTING)
'He's looking for Barnes, can he finish? He can!
It's Ashley Barnes. Who else? Three-nil to Burnley.
They are heading to the top of the Championship today.
Burnley just too hot to handle in this second half.
They have demolished Blackburn.'
-(WHISTLE BLOWS) -'Well, that is a hugely significant derby win
by three goals to nil.'
(EMOTIONAL MUSIC)
'They go into the World Cup break top of the pile.'
VINCENT: 'If I talk about what it means,'
it's not something
easy to explain.
'It's going to affect how you walk into work.
It's going to affect how you go to bed.
It defines almost whether you're allowed to be happy or not.'
That's how it feels to win.
To win a derby.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH)
Guys, awesome. Thank you. Thank you.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I should have. I had enough chances, that's for sure.
-Awesome job. -Cheers.
-You need us for anything? -No, no, no, no. We're good.
-We're just enjoying with you. -Good, brilliant, brilliant.
Awesome job. Enjoy!
When you come to Burnley, everyone really feels
personally attached to this club,
and it gives it a very special meaning.
You cannot come with any sort of fear.
Win or lose, we're together.
Go represent us with your fucking attitude and your heart.
'Keep this thing going as long as you can.'
We're going to be under a transfer embargo.
How did it happen? Why did you miss?
NEWS: 'Belgium are without a manager.
Vincent Kompany is being suggested.'
In a relationship with the prettiest person in town
and everyone's going to try and lead them away.
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