‘WILL Burnley Football Club ever score a goal again?’. If ever a headline was to grab your attention it’s this one from the Daily Mirror website on Tuesday, for its sheer ridiculousness if nothing else.

How can a team which scored 72 Championship goals in winning promotion, with a 41-goal strike force made up of top scorer Danny Ings and Sam Vokes, be considered incapable of scoring another goal ever again – whatever level of football they are playing at?

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Talk about a slow news day.

The preposterousness did not stop there though.

The article continued: “Currently, Burnley have five recognised senior attackers in their squad and not one of them has managed a goal in the top flight at any point of their careers.”

Of those five recognised strikers – Danny Ings, Sam Vokes, Ashley Barnes, Lukas Jutkiewicz and Marvin Sordell – two of them are injured (one long term). Three of them have previous experience of the Premier League – Vokes, Jutkiewicz and Sordell – but all of their appearances were from the bench and the combined total of their minutes on the pitch did not even equate to two full games.

Vokes has the most so-called top flight experience with Wolves, but all of his three Premier League seasons at Molineux were punctuated by loan spells, including one at Turf Moor before that move was made permanent in the summer of 2012.

For Ings, currently sidelined with an injury that has forced him to miss two and a half games and is expected to rule him out of Saturday’s trip to Leicester City, and Barnes, this season’s taste of Premier League football is a first.

To add to the hysteria in the article there is a running timer, which at the last viewing read 43 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes and 5, 6, 7, 8 (you get the gist) seconds.

That may be a fact, but the fact is they did not have a game on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. There isn’t one today, or tomorrow. There has been a two-week break for internationals.

Their next available opportunity to end the drought is this weekend at the King Power Stadium.

The piece is in no way measured or balanced, but it is a snapshot of the spotlight that is pointed on Burnley by virtue of being in the Premier League. At this level of football everything is analysed in such microscopic detail that there is no hiding place.

That is why the team spirit that was so influential in them keeping the momentum going on the path to promotion, when everyone declared the wheels were going to come off, must be maintained when the world – it seems – is against them now.

Reporters, pundits and observers who marvelled at the Clarets climbing the ladder on a shoestring budget have been the quickest to knock them down, without real substance to back up their claims.

Of course a lack of goals is a concern. But Sean Dyche will back himself, and his boys, to turn things around. And rightly so.

If the players stick together, just as they did last season – they can prove the doubters wrong again.

But that band of brothers needs to be more united than ever.