'VICTIMS of their own success' is a phrase that has been used about Burnley many times in their struggles this season.

But despite sitting in the Premier League's bottom three at the halfway stage of the current campaign, manager Sean Dyche says he would not trade the successes of last term for anything, after a seventh placed finish brought European football back to Turf Moor for more than half a century, through the Europa League.

"Absolutely not. Markers in history and we've got many here. Chiselled in stone. That is an amazing thing," he said, before recognising the immediacy of the situation Burnley are in.

"But it passes quickly.

"People said 'are you enjoying these amazing times?'. I'm not now. Maybe in 15 years when I'm having a glass of wine and we're talking about those days.

"But it's so fresh and new now my only challenge is the next game. My challenge is to correct the first part of the season by doing better in the second part of the season.

"I was asked the other day about credit in the bank. It’s all gone - I don't see it like that.

"The next challenge is the next game, it’s not ‘hasn’t it been marvellous?’ Yes it has, but it’s all been parked."

And it is not just now that Dyche is remaining level-headed about his achievements.

“The first time we got promoted, I made my son’s bed the next day, I wasn’t rolling around with the champagne," he said.

"We had to remodel it (the team) and move it forward again.

"There will be a time for all the looking back. But I wouldn't change it. Absolutely not."

Dyche does accept, though, the reasons behind those external perceptions given the position the Clarets are currently in.

“You raise the bar, probably against the odds, and we did out perform the market last year, statistically and in the league table," he said.

"A lot of expectation changes the look of Burnley from last season. The players deserve that, really. But I said (on Boxing Day) that every season’s a restart at Burnley. There are no gimmes at Burnley.

"We had a great season last season. It was improbable, not impossible but improbable, that season would be the same this season.

"It’s always a challenge for us shaking the pack. It’s always a challenge for us, season on season, getting all those details right at both ends of the pitch, and this season it’s been quite obvious that on the defending side of the game, there have been too many details lacking, too many soft goals, too many soft moments."