Owen Coyle Departs Burnley
Well, I wasn’t expecting to write that title a couple of weeks ago but alas the individual formerly known as ‘God’ has decided that he stands a better chance of staying in the Premier League with Bolton.
Bolton? Seriously?
He’s burnt, knocked down and destroyed a lot of bridges with the fans after continually speaking about loyalty towards the football club and supporters; who knows if he ever realised how much the football club meant to its fans. Reading between the lines it seems that he has gone due to a lack of budget at Burnley, something he would have known before signing a contract extension last year. We don’t live beyond our means and are doing fine by not over-stretching ourselves so I don’t see the need to do this just because a manager wants to get the chequebook out.
He’s already said to our chairman that he “would only leave Burnley for Celtic or Bolton” – how true that is I have no idea but it seemed that he had the opportunity to leave for Celtic earlier but didn’t because he wanted to continue the experience with Burnley – how times change.
I think it’s safe to say that almost every fan is bitterly disappointed with the move and him personally for the way in which he’s gone about it, including me. After all that he’s said previously I would have thought he had a little more respect for both the club and the fans than to deny that he wanted the job on Thursday, to miss a press conference on Saturday and then affirm he wanted to leave on Monday.
It’s a shame Owen that you have gone about it in this way; you could have left Burnley a hero but instead you’ve rather tainted your own image. Thank you for the good times but I hope that we move onto bigger and better things without you.
Always worth remembering that no man is ever bigger than the football club and Burnley will live on to fight more and bigger battles than this; and will win them too.
