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Once upon a time, on 21 April 2014, something extraordinary happened, as unfashionable Burnley sealed their promotion to the Premier League. It was the improbable culmination to one of the most magical, inspirational and unpredictable stories in the modern game. This is English football's Moneyball. At the start of the season, the Lancashire club were among the favourites for relegation from the Championship, with a tiny budget, threadbare squad and a manager plucked from the supposed scrapheap. Few outside of Turf Moor gave them a hope: Burnley were there to make up the numbers alongside big-budget, high-spending rivals. Even before they sold their star striker in the opening month of the campaign...Who Says Football Doesn't Do Fairytales? tells the story of a season which Dyche called a 'marker for history' and gives an insight into how a sporting David can still overcome economic strictures to beat the Goliaths.

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Publié par	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	01 août 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781909626843
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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First published by Pitch Publishing, 2014 Pitch Publishing A2 Yeoman Gate Yeoman Way Durrington BN13 3QZ
www.pitchpublishing.co.uk
DAVE THOMAS, 2014
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CONTENTS
Foreword By Alastair Campbell
Introduction By Sean Dyche
Prologue
Moving On Up Burnley s Post-War Promotion Parades
July
All Aboard The Pensioner Special
A Good Day Out: Burnley 4 Sparta Rotterdam 1
August
Adventures With The NHS: Burnley 1 Bolton Wanderers 1
Ooh Are We Going?: Sheffield Wednesday 1 Burnley 2
The Curse Of Amazon: Burnley 2 Yeovil Town 0
A Boy Called Joe
A Joy To Watch: Derby County 0 Burnley 3
September
We Shop At Tesco Not Harrods: Burnley 1 Blackburn Rovers 1
I Turn My Back For Two Weeks: Burnley 3 Birmingham Leeds United 1 Burnley Burnley 2 Nottingham Forest Burnley 3 Charlton Athletic 0 Doncaster Rovers 0 Burnley 2
October
Waxing Lyrical: Burnley 2 Reading 1
All Noses In The Same Direction: Ipswich Town 0 Burnley 1 Burnley 2 QPR 0
Toothaches And Penalties: Burnley 0 West Ham 2
Sean Dyche One Year On
November
The Quest For Pie And Mash: Millwall 2 Burnley 2
Pondering On The Nature Of Things: Burnley 1 Bournemouth 1
Director Clive Holt Talks With Dave Thomas
Sean Dyche, An Obscure Poem And Family Trees
Sean Dyche And Winter Arrives: Nottingham Forest 1 Burnley 1
A Letter From Old Bob: Huddersfield 2 Burnley 1
December
Culinary Treats And Cometh The Kightly: Burnley 0 Watford 0 Burnley 1 Barnsley 0
You Know It s December: Leicester City 1 Burnley 1
December
Clive Holt Chats
We Don t Need Gaviscon And Henry Winter On Sean Dyche: Burnley 2 Blackpool 1
Twas The Night Before Christmas: Middlesbrough 1 Burnley 0 Wigan Athletic 0 Burnley 0
January
Goodbye 2013: Burnley 3 Huddersfield Town 2
Into 2014 Cups And Re-Unions: Southampton 4 Burnley 3
Breakfast With The Galacticos: Yeovil 1 Burnley 2
Calm, Pragmatic And Down To Earth: Burnley 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1
January/February
Ormskirk With Chums: Burnley 0 Brighton QPR 3 Burnley 3
February
A Seven-Year-Old s Big Day: Burnley 3 Millwall 1
The History Boys: Bolton 0 Burnley Bournemouth 1 Burnley 1
It s Tough Being A Man: Burnley 3 Nottingham Forest 1
March
A Bargain At The Crooked Billet: Burnley 2 Derby County 0
Sean Dyche - A Man With Beliefs
Dyche, Moneyball And Rovers: Blackburn Rovers 1 Burnley 2
Written In The Stars: Birmingham City 3 Burnley 3
Massimo Massimo Wherefore Art Thou: Burnley 2 Leeds United 1
Tasteless Sandwiches And Reggae Music: Charlton Athletic 0 Burnley 3
Sean Dyche And Old-Fashioned Values: Burnley 2 Doncaster Rovers 0
Back To Earth With A Bump: Burnley 0 Leicester City 2
April
Battered And Depleted: Watford 1 Burnley 1
Barnes Makes The Difference: Barnsley 0 Burnley 1
Everything Back On Hold: Burnley 0 Middlesbrough 1
Blackpool Rocks: Blackpool 0 Burnley 1
The Burnley Lord Mayor s Show: Burnley 2 Wigan Athletic 0
May
Making Sense Of It All
The Beautiful Game, The Beautiful Season
Echoes Of, And Re-Writing The Past
The Co-Chairmen, Sean Dyche, And The Final Words
Final League Table
Photographs
This book is dedicated to the memory of supporter John Markey and Victor Collinge of the Border Bookshop who was so helpful; two good friends.
Gordon Harris, a great player for Burnley, and Arthur Bellamy, an unsung hero and a lovely man I met several times.
The players in 2013/14: Tom Heaton, Kieran Trippier, Michael Duff, Jason Shackell, Ben Mee, Dean Marney, Sam Vokes, Danny Ings, David Jones, Michael Kightly, Scott Arfield, Ross Wallace, Danny Lafferty, Junior Stanislas, David Edgar, Ashley Barnes, Chris Baird, Kevin Long, Brian Stock, Keith Treacy, Alex Cisak, Luke O Neill, Cameron Howieson, Steven Hewitt, Ryan Noble, Cameron Dummigan, Nick Liversedge and Jason Gilchrist.
The first-team staff: Sean Dyche (manager), Ian Woan (assistant manager), Tony Loughlin (first-team coach), Billy Mercer (goalkeeping coach), Mark Howard (head of sports science) and Alasdair Beattie (head physiotherapist).
Special thanks go to Alastair Campbell, Darren Bentley and Adam Riding in the Burnley media department, Mike Garlick, John Banaszkiewicz, Chris Boden and Daniel Black of the Burnley Express , Suzanne Geldard of the Lancashire Telegraph , Henry Winter of The Daily Telegraph , Juliette Ferrington at Football Focus , Tim Quelch, Matt Rowson at Watford, Dean Standing at Millwall, Tony Scholes, Tom Morton, Mike Smith, Ian Brookes and www.dnapeople.co.uk , Richard Walker from Watford FC s media department, David Blackburn, Tony Dawber, Clive Holt and www.sportnw.co.uk .
PART ONE
FOREWORD BY ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
W HEN Burnley were promoted via the play-offs in 2009 it felt like a miracle. Somehow - and this really is a miracle - as the 2013/14 season wore on, automatic promotion under Sean Dyche felt like it was never in doubt. It is a truly remarkable story.
Dyche can now rejoice in the chants of Ginger Mourinho , though I suggest we change this to salt and pepper Dychio when we play Chelsea. But it is fair to say there was a mixed reaction to his appointment following Eddie Howe s departure back to Bournemouth.
Equally, as the season started, I cannot be alone in having thought that another mid-table finish would be the best we could hope for, with the season made or broken for many according to whether we managed finally to beat Blackburn Rovers after a drought lasting more than three decades.
Data can tell a lot of stories, especially in sport. Small squad, low wage bill compared with Championship big boys, small town with several bigger clubs within an hour s drive, limited funds for transfers, not a Qatari or Russian in sight; these are all data points pointing in one direction - the likelihood that an exciting end to the season was going to be a battle for survival rather than promotion. Oh we of little faith.
A lot of the credit must go to the board for the decision to hire Sean and for running the club in a sensible way. It is brilliant that we have a board made up entirely of Burnley fans. Barry Kilby was a hugely popular chairman and one of the highlights of our last season in the Premier League was the trip to Old Trafford and amid the anti-Glazer protests the chanting of only one Barry Kilby and we ve got more cash than you . John Banaszkiewicz and Mike Garlick have been a great double act as co-chairmen and their passion for the club is never in doubt.
The players too - if I may make a statement of the obvious - have to take a lot of the credit. Go through the entire squad and you see stories of excellence and improvement. It was right that Danny Ings and Sam Vokes got all the awards and accolades for their goalscoring exploits but from back to front we had a team of players who played at the top of their game week after week.
To get a team playing better than the sum of its parts, to get players who had been six out of ten to regularly hit eight out of ten; that is down to leadership and management and that is down to Sean and his staff. Arsene Wenger once said, If the manager isn t the most important person at the club, why is he the one who gets the sack when things go wrong?
Since Sean arrived, virtually everything has gone right and none of it was by chance. It happened because he and the team made it happen. He inherited a squad that had been doing OK without being brilliant. He made a small number of changes. But the fact is he got everyone playing better. There was no team they feared.
I am writing a book about winning and the winning mindset right now, looking at winners in politics, business and sport and seeing what lessons can be transferred from one to the other. Sean really instilled a winning mindset in the club. How many times down the years have we gone behind and thought that s it ? But even at Blackburn when we went one down, I felt we would come back and win. Following Burnley in the second half of the season was so exciting because players and fans alike were so full of confidence. This is quite a rare experience.
I have got to know Sean and his backroom team well and Gawthorpe is a buzzing place; professional, well organised and intense in a good way. Automatic promotion on the resources he had is a story worthy of its own book and I am pleased Dave Thomas is writing it and delighted to provide this foreword.
We know the year ahead is going to be tough. We know that we will not compete for the top spots. But we know we can punch above our weight as well. And we know that we can be very, very proud of our club and very grateful to the board, management, players and staff who made it happen.
Alastair Campbell
May 2014
INTRODUCTION BY SEAN DYCHE
W HAT a marvellous season we have just enjoyed. This club has a rich history and I am delighted that we have been able to add another chapter to our remarkable story. I remember saying very early on that I couldn t promise results, but I could certainly guarantee we had a team that was competitive and would give everything.
The entire team has certainly done that; both the footballers on the field and my staff behind the scenes.
It s good to see that the story of the season has been recorded. Dave Thomas tells me that he only received con