{"id":348188,"date":"2025-12-14T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:23:10","slug":"burnley-boss-scott-parker-says-fans-booing-breaks-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348188\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnley boss Scott Parker says fans&#8217; booing &#8216;breaks my heart&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 13, 2025, 04:12 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Scott Parker said the sound of <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0e306f49-0f1d-27a2-4259-0643dce9c676\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=379\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a> fans booing at the final whistle of Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/report\/_\/gameId\/740754\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-2 home loss<\/a> to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"14acbd22-f709-1525-c5ab-1cb3ec8d1696\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=370\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fulham<\/a> &#8220;breaks my heart&#8221; after his relegation-battling side fell to a seventh straight <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Clarets had their chances in the game but where Fulham were clinical, the hosts spurned their best opportunities as <a data-player-guid=\"9dfb3b39-87f1-f3b7-df61-0373076f8220\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/153765\/bernd-leno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bernd Leno<\/a> made some critical saves for Marco Silva&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>And Burnley&#8217;s defence &#8212; key to their success in the Championship last term &#8212; wilted, badly at fault for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/266697\/emile-smith-rowe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emile Smith Rowe<\/a>&#8216;s opener and then, after <a data-player-guid=\"22206b61-20e3-3f7c-9dd6-58d7102d9d85\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/309563\/lesley-ugochukwu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lesley Ugochukwu<\/a> levelled, for allowing <a data-player-guid=\"1ddc7690-8e6f-6bce-c44e-12f91073d34c\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/263110\/calvin-bassey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Bassey<\/a> to put the Cottagers back in front.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/47294351\/usmnt-2026-world-cup-antonee-robinson-fulham-first-start\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. gets WC boost with Robinson Fulham return<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"ee34e89f-77b5-3e48-e5bf-524e8a680799\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/194801\/harry-wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Wilson<\/a>, who set up the first two goals, added a decisive third before the hour with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/322642\/oliver-sonne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Sonne<\/a>&#8216;s consolation too late for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Former Fulham boss Parker had already heard chants of &#8220;You&#8217;re getting sacked in the morning&#8221; from the visiting fans but it was the boos from the home stands that brought an emotional response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That makes me sad, obviously,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was only four months ago that I was standing on the balcony in the town centre and all of us were celebrating and the fans were right with us, and within four months that quickly changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand their frustration. This is the world we&#8217;re in currently. I get it. How the world of football is the instant reaction is to boo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Scott Parker oversaw a seventh straight Premier League loss in Saturday&#8217;s defeat to Fulham.\u00a0Shaun Brooks &#8211; CameraSport via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you can question the commitment of this team. This team are foot to the floor and hugely committed and nothing&#8217;s changed. The level of hard work, the commitment we put in to be successful last season is exactly the same now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It breaks my heart at the end of the game because we came here today wanting to please our fans and wanting them to support us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parker twice suffered relegation from the Premier League with Fulham and once with Bournemouth and has been here before, but said this season feels different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s frustrating,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in relegation fights and I knew the challenge. A team like us coming into the Premier League, the challenge is there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of good things and what frustrates me is, I understand from the outside world, at the end of it there&#8217;s nothing to show for it. There&#8217;s no points and I get the judgment of this world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we&#8217;re hugely competitive, we&#8217;re dominating in certain moments and we&#8217;re just falling short on this lack of focus, lack of urgency, a lack of understanding in this division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fulham moved seven points clear of trouble with their second win away of the season, and first victory at Turf Moor in 74 years.<\/p>\n<p>Boss Marco Silva said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a well-deserved win, and important win and a big win for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was told about Fulham&#8217;s record in this match, to not win here since 1951, I was a little bit in shock but we spoke about it and said we have to stop it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wilson now has three goals and three assists in his last four games, and Silva said: &#8220;In my opinion he&#8217;s in the best moment of his career &#8230; I believe this season is going to be his best in terms of numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 13, 2025, 04:12 PM ET Scott Parker said the sound of Burnley fans booing at the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-348188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}