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"I have long held an affinity for Burnley Football Club and a hearty regard stretching back long into the distance of my childhood. Their nickname of “The Clarets”, their “Turf Moor” home for over 130 years and more recently their manager of over 10 years Sean Dyche, he of the gruff, rough speaking voice resembling a heavy cigar smoker who should have quit long ago. It’s a brilliantly distinctive voice for a similarly distinctive team that under his stewardship has become a team the Premier League should be rightly proud.

From the outside looking in, and through the clouded cigar smoke of their no doubt non smoking manager, Burnley always seem to have the same starting XI and the same style of football that has been greased into fluid motion by the archetypal “football man” in Sean Dyche. He’s loved in Burnley and having signed a long term contract in the recent past he would seem to be their manager for the foreseeable future and I dearly hope that’s the case.

Football these days is utter madness as we all know, but Burnley were tremendous today, James Tarkowski and Ben Mee pillars in defence, Josh Brownhill greatly impressed me with his energy, non stop running as well as drawing the first save of the match as the Reds goalkeeper Alisson Becker sprawled low to his right to tip a fierce drive from the youngster around his post.

I’ve been majorly impressed with Maxwel Cornet too since his arrival at Burnley and he was both busy, as well as busy being caught offside as he rather struggled today. The more attacking threat came from Wout Weghorst and an even more recent signing from VFL Wolfsburg in Germany. Replacing the recently departed Chris Wood he typifies Dyche’s Burnley ethos and screwed his best chance wide when one-on-one with Becker after beating the offside trap.

Burnley deserved more today and were the more cohesive “unit” and attacking threat. Certainly through the heart of the game and after the opening ten minutes where Liverpool had set an early Attack v Defence mode in their favour. After this Burnley were a threat but not a major one, and this perhaps sums up why they’ve only won one league game all season and only scoring 17 goals in the 21 games hence far. They made the Reds defensive central partnership of Virgil van Dijk and Joël Matip earn their footballing money today but couldn’t score, and against an under par Liverpool playing their second game in 3 days".

The above is a brief excerpt from the chapter being read here and an early chapter from the 2021-2022 season and from a book on Liverpool FC I've always wanted to write and self-published in late May, 2023.

There's a link below for the book I'm incredibly proud of together with other ways and means of supporting me, if you are able, to thumb the eye of the traditional publishers who refused to read my original manuscripts!

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