Crazy world of football continues with Burnley sacking Dyche

The crazy world of football continued on Good Friday, when Burley made the strange decision to sack manager Sean Dyche.

After almost a decade at the Lancashire club, Burnley’s American chairman Alan Pace decided to dispense of Dyche’s services with eight games left and the club sitting four points from safety behind Everton.

However, this strange decision reaps of the usual situation foreign owners of Premiership clubs find themselves in from time to time. They press the panic button without thinking first.

True, Burnley are in a poor run of form with just four league games won all season, with five of the last six matches ending in defeat.

Even in the shockproof world of football management, this decision to sack Dyche has raised eyebrows around the football world.

Dyche, is a hugely respected and well loved figure in the world of football. With Burnley he has defied all odds to keep the club in the Premiership under financial limitations.

The club are currently in their sixth successive season in the top flight of English football. Dyche even took the club into un known territory  even they could never have dreamed of back in season 2017-18 when they finished seventh that season and a European venture followed.

When the club did go down back in 2015, Dyche was the man to bring them straight back up.

It appears the owners felt that they had to act now after a poor run of form to secure their premiership safety. The 2-0 loss at bottom club Norwich City last weekend proved to be the last straw.

Only a few days earlier, they had to come from behind to beat Everton 3-2 at Turf Moor. Proving that despite a shoestring budget, Dyce could produce results against fellow strugglers when the heat was on them.

Dyche has never ever been backed by a big budget. He has always realised the situation and has built a Burnley side that could play to their limitations, but knew how to survive in a dog fight.

With so few games left, this is surely going to be the biggest gamble in the clubs history. Get rid of a true fighter who could still have kept the club up with his determination to win even when everything is against him, or bring in somebody with the hope it could change their fortunes.

The name of Sam Allardyce has already been touted around. No real surprise there. So much rests on the outcome of their final decision.

For the owners point of view they have to get the call right, or else the fans of this great old club will never be able to look them in the face again and say, yes you made the right decision.

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