THIS time last season, the Clarets had just rescued a point against Leicester City at the King Power Stadium courtesy of a 96th minute Ross Wallace free-kick, which flew past Kasper Schmeichel and sent the 2,196 travelling supporters into transports of ecstasy.

It was one of a small collection of all too few bright spots from a campaign which ultimately, and with a certain sense of inevitability, culminated in relegation.

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We will, of course, all have our favourite moments and memories from last season; the unlikely victory over Manchester City; putting Jose Mourinho’s nose out of joint at Stamford Bridge; playing Manchester United off the park at Old Trafford; the incredible comebacks at the Etihad and St. James’ Park.

There were plenty of low points too, but let’s not go there right now… Anyway, whatever your favourite reminiscences of our season in the sun, there’s every chance that it will be covered in a book I have put together about last season.

“Another Tilt at the Big Time”, with a foreword by Tony Livesey and featuring 30 black and white and colour photographs taken by a couple of Burnley die-hards who chronicled the season in pictures, will be published this Saturday by Vertical Editions and I available from all the usual outlets for £11.99.

As well as remembering the good bits, the book also dissects in detail where the campaign came undone; no wins and just four points from our opening 10 fixtures; a pair of disastrous transfer windows; two drawn-out, depressing and record-breaking goal-droughts; and a run of one win in fourteen attempts between mid-January and mid-May.

When you read that list of misery back to yourself, it’s a wonder that Sean Dyche’s men hang on for as long as they did.

Still, the aim of the book is entertain rather than depress. And, hopefully, over the course of it 200-plus pages it succeeds. With Christmas only a couple of month away, it could be the ideal gift for the Clarets in your life.

More importantly, after a weekend of ersatz international football, the real stuff is back this weekend. And what better way to get back to action than with the first local derby of the season against Bolton Wanderers?

With only one win to their name and the second lowest goals scored total in the Championship, a visit from Neil Lennon’s relegation-zone strugglers looks like just the kind of fixture Burnley need to cement their place in the play-offs.