Bottom of the league table after 12 games, Burnley fans are reevaluating what it means to be a Premier League side
Burnley are in need of therapy. They’re the married couple who’ve lost their spark after a whirlwind romance that was winning the EFL Championship in 2022/23, England’s second division, by a landslide 101 points. They’re the nostalgia-laden searcher of purpose, wondering what is the point of all this?
If they were on the figurative couch, they might need more of a Frasier Crane than Jennifer Melfi to help work through classic psychodynamic defense mechanisms of repression, denial and rationalization. After all, it’s the same coach and players who trapezed the club to great heights last season. How do you confront something so diametrically opposed as their current malaise of being bottom of the Premier League table, behind a team that just picked up a 10-point deduction?
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