BURNLEY boss Sean Dyche will be tuned into events at the Riverside tonight, but not banking on any particular result.

Middlesbrough and Hull City, two key players in the promotion race, go head-to-head in the televised game.

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A win for Boro would close the gap to the leading Clarets to four points ahead of the weekend’s games. Hull could trim it to five.

Either way, one or both will drop points.

But Dyche insists the outcome of this clash between two top flight hopefuls is irrelevant to the Clarets, as far as he is concerned.

“I care in the sense of watching what happens in the league we’re in, but it still comes down to us taking care of ourselves,” said the Turf Moor chief, when asked if he would be watching tonight.

“Obviously there are results which are out of our control that can still go your way, but you don’t hope to define your season on that. You want to take grip of a season yourself and do well yourselves before worrying about having to think on other results.

“But of course I’ll watch it and see how it pans out. Whatever will be, will be.”

Top scorer Andre Gray was in agreement.

“There’s no point (having an eye on the game). The ball’s in our court now,” said the striker.

“It doesn’t matter whoever wins or if it’s a draw - at least one of them is going to drop points.

“But regardless of what happens it doesn’t affect us in the league so it really doesn’t matter.

“Maybe before you’d have had a little look because they had the games in hand and if they won them they’d go above us.

“But that can’t happen now, so the ball’s in our court and it really is time to concentrate on us and whatever happens around us happens.

“We’ve got nine games to go and win now, and if we do that we know we are champions. But we’ve got to do that first, so the focus is on Saturday.”

And while Burnley’s run-in is arguably the toughest of the top four - with seven of the top half teams to play - Dyche is refusing to read anything into the remaining games.

"We all know the anomalies and the madness of the division - like MK Dons up at Derby and Middlesbrough down at Charlton - the form book goes out of the window," he said.

“It does in every division but it just seems it’s more topsy turvy in the Championship.

“One week is radically different to the next with different styles, different budgets which usually implies different technical ability.

“Everyone’s got to find their way to win and that’s what we look to do. We don’t start analysing brands and ways of playing, we analyse winning and that’s what I look for the team to do.

“Whatever team we come across on any given day, finding a way to win is the secret.”

Of Wolves, Dyche added: “They’ve had an up and down time. Kenny recently spoke of a younger squad than what he’s used to and they’ve lost some big players.

“I like Kenny (Jackett), I think he’s done a really good job at virtually every club he’s been at.

“They’ve got their own things that they want to achieve this season I’m sure, and we’ve got ours."