CLARETS boss Sean Dyche insists he isn’t losing any sleep over the Championship promotion race.

Dyche is continuing to focus on what he can control as Burnley, Middlesbrough and Brighton battle for the two automatic spots to the Premier League.

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And he believes his experiences in a long career in the game from player through to manager help balance the emotions at this critical stage of the season.

“The thing that people forget is I’ve been in this all my life,” said Dyche. “All those feelings I’ve had, on the pitch, as a coach, an assistant and now as a manager.

“I’ve had good times, not so good times, really tough times, really happy times, you compute them all and balance them all in different ways but the one thing you know is what will be will be because you can only force it so many ways.

“Control the controllables, that’s all I can do.

“You can’t control other people’s lives. You can only cut your own grass.

“I mean it sincerely. You can’t guarantee what’s going to happen away from you.

“If things fall for us great if they don’t they don’t.

“Lady luck, the twists and turns, the main thing is concentrate on the facts of what you do, not rely on those all other things.”

Asked how he coped with the adrenaline after games such as Tuesday’s dramatic draw with Boro, Dyche said: “It’s lucky for me. It’s two and a half hours for me to get home when I’m going back.

“The adrenaline is running and by the time you get home you’re generally tired because you’ve made sense of the game and you’ve been driving. You’re about right then. Sleeping has never been a problem for me.”

Victory at Preston tonight will return Burnley to the top of the Championship table and put the pressure on Middlesbrough and Brighton ahead of their fixtures against Ipswich and Charlton respectively tomorrow afternoon, and Dyche is keen to to get the points on the board first this weekend.

“It’s a points game whichever way you look at it,” he said. “The table only moves when you get points. It’s our intention to get them first.

“That’s my way of compartmentalising it and making sure my heart is steady, because that’s my job.”