{"id":545545,"date":"2026-04-23T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:05:23","slug":"can-burnley-stop-yo-yo-effect-and-do-they-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545545\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Burnley stop yo-yo effect – and do they want to?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six of Sean Dyche’s eight full seasons in charge of Burnley<\/a> were in the Premier League, winning promotion in his first and third full campaigns in charge.<\/p>\n

But since sacking Dyche in April 2022 with the club four points adrift with eight games left, they have not stayed still.<\/p>\n

The Clarets went down that season.<\/p>\n

Under Vincent Kompany, they won the 2022-23 Championship title with 101 points – before being relegated with just 24 points.<\/p>\n

With Parker in charge, they went up again with 100 points, only conceding 16 goals, but have now been relegated with four games remaining.<\/p>\n

“It’s a difficult one because we’ve been a bit spoiled with the Sean Dyche era when we even got into Europe one year – we overachieved massively,” said Little, who played for the club in the second and third tiers between 1997 and 2004.<\/p>\n

“He didn’t even really spend a lot of money and it was just a good set of lads, good characters who managed to all grow together.”<\/p>\n

Little continued: “Vincent Kompany totally changed the style of football, the way we played. They were one of the best Championship teams we’ve ever seen. <\/p>\n

“It was the first time where we actually went up and spent a lot of money. A lot of young players, a lot of foreign players, which wasn’t necessarily the Burnley<\/a> way. <\/p>\n

“And then straight back down, and Vincent Kompany leaves for Bayern Munich. <\/p>\n

“It’s left to Scott Parker to deal with the Championship. A lot of players left, it was all a bit of a mess, but they regrouped and had another great season.<\/p>\n

“They signed a few more experienced players this time, so they tried a different style of signings, but then that hasn’t worked either.”<\/p>\n

The supporters are not happy.<\/p>\n

As the BBC’s Burnley<\/a> fan writer Natalie Bromley put it this week:<\/a> “We are so very weak as a club. A club of nothingness. With no clear identity and none of the East Lancashire grit that has run through our DNA since 1882.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six of Sean Dyche’s eight full seasons in charge of Burnley were in the Premier League, winning promotion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-545545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}