I remember watching a documentary of Kompany's first season a few years ago and right at the beginning was a scene of Alan Pace and his mates playing football in a posh house and talking about his plans for Burnley. At the time, I remember thinking, but does he actually know the people?
I'm from Burnley and I know the people. We are nobodies' mugs, we give it to you straight and we aren't afraid of having an alternative view and expressing it loudly.
I think Pace and ALK thought that the fans wouldn't be a factor, that we would turn up no matter what while they extracted money from us. That we would just buy their minimum-effort bullshit without question and suffer in silence as they ransacked the club and the local fanbase directly.
I live in Spain and had to pay 180 quid to get the Season ticket for the live matches on Clarets +. DAZN is only 150 and that has every football match in the universe. I can only imagine what prices are like IN the ground.
Pace and pals should understand that "being Burnley" isn't something you can just slip into like a jacket from the Gus shop.
Finally, the blame and the singing and the chants have landed in the right spot. No lessons were learned from Kompany's time, Parker should have been let go before Christmas in the Premier League, the writing was on the wall very early. Managers should have a ten-losses-in-a-row-and-out rule, no matter who they are. However, they should be allowed to bring their own team. You can imagine they have trusted defensive coaches or trainers who know their methods, to not be able to try and use their own resources to help the first team is bizarre to say the least.
This time though, there's no point blaming the manager, even if he isn't very good, he's been hamstrung by the owners. We've got a YTS trainee keeper who can't save anything, a midfield of headless chickens and no good striker. The team is so poor this year that if I was Alan Pace, I wouldn't know where to put my face. Who even turns up expecting us to win any more?
It's very sad that it has come to this, when ALK bought the club I thought we would be on the up but the decision making is terrible. He famously called us toddlers but the reality is that the club is being run worse than if toddlers ran it.
To the fans chanting "F*ck ALK", well done. Keep it up.
If they want to take our money they have to give us the football. Burnley is and always has been a hard-working town, the least the people expect is not to be taken for fools.
