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  I CLOSED last Tuesday’s column by describing Burnley’s game against Middlesbrough that evening as a “must-win” fixture.
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  YOU could have understood it completely had Sean Dyche spent the past week or so repeatedly jabbing several large and particularly pointy pins into a wax effigy of a referee.
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           <title>Return of clean sheets is a welcome relief</title>
           
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  HAD Terry Pashley not already ruled himself out of the running for the vacant managerial position at Turf Moor you might have thought that the performance he got out of the team on Saturday evening was a pretty impressive application for the job.
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           <title>Clarets Blog: Break came at a good time for Burnley</title>
           
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  Blank weekends in the football calendar are rarely welcomed by any supporter. But you sense that on this particular occasion the claret and blue faithful might just have appreciated a break from
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           <title>Clarets Blog: Alarm bells are going off now</title>
           
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  The international break has probably come at a good time for Burnley.
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  So, season 2011/12. How was it for you? A term of transition or one of stability? A work in progress, or a doomed project? Building for the future or meandering aimlessly?
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           <title>Burnley FC Column: Dugout view must be incredibly restricted</title>
           
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  Maybe it was because Burnley were at the seaside that they turned in a performance that suggested they were already on the beach. Losing to Blackpool always hurts, but that goes double when the
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  SO now it’s official. Burnley really are a better side when playing away from Turf Moor.
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  SO it turns out that it’s true after all: what goes around really does comes around. And now we know exactly how supporters of Hull City felt at the back end of last November, as they
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           <title>Clarets Blog: Scarce resources laid bare at Turf</title>
           
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  As a friend remarked on the final whistle, Saturday’s defeat to Millwall was exactly the kind of game to make you glad the start of the cricket season is just around the corner.
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           <title>Clarets Blog: Mee will have won royal approval</title>
           
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  So now we know; the next king of the realm won’t just have blue blood coursing through his veins, there’ll be a liberal dash of claret in there too.
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           <title>Clarets Blog: Chill factor means summer is the way forward</title>
           
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  There will be no more compelling argument for summer football this season than that advanced by Burnley 1 Peterborough 1; certainly not from the points of view of the 13,258 gibbering, shivering
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           <title>Clarets Blog: Festive period is rarely a thing to cheer at Turf Moor</title>
           
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  By the time you read this, the probability is that you’ll have received at least half a dozen unwanted gifts, had a massive row with your Uncle Derek over the gloopy consistency of his brandy
  butter sauce and groaned with incredulity at the realisation of just how quickly your waistline can expand over a 48-hour period.
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           <title>Clarets Blog: Shopping trip may have been a better bet</title>
           
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  Those whose better halves dragged them Christmas shopping on Saturday afternoon should consider themselves the fortunate ones.
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           <title>Burnley FC blog: Fantastic end to heavenly week</title>
           
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           <title>Burnley FC blog: Freaky win at Hull City doesn’t hide our faults</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[Stephen Cummings column: Football’s capacity to flip reality on its head is unquestionably one of its more appealing traits. 
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           <description><![CDATA[Stephen Cummings column: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory seemed a depressingly appropriate way to conclude a bad week for Clarets supporters.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[Stephen Cummings column: Eddie Howe’s post-match assessment of Burnley’s latest bout of terrifyingly bad defending is now becoming a familiar and irritating mantra.
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