10 Reasons Why Burnley Are Unexpectedly Back In The Premier League
4. Great Goals
At the end of season gala and awards dinner the tradition is to award a trophy to the scorer of the best goal. Screens show re-runs of those goals, and usually there are two or three stand-out candidates, but for Burnley last year there were many and some great goals didnt even make the final cut. Whether the goals came from teamwork, curlers from the corner of the area, instances of magnificent individual skill, the impishness of Danny Ings, clever corner routines, headers, the thunderbolt against Blackburn Rovers by Junior Stanislas, another long range missile from Danny Ings at Yeovil, the list went on and on. Supporters were spoiled the whole season by the quality of what they saw, but one goal did stand out above all others from the Wigan game. This was a goal of sublime quality, involving passes from the goalkeeper right to the penalty area, passes that were one-touch played at speed, passes that seemed purely instinctive, passes that involved outrageous skill, then leading to the final ball played at speed across the area where Barnes came steaming in to sweep the ball home. The whole sequence from back to front took just seconds, and it belonged more to Barcelona or Real Madrid than Burnley.
