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ROSS HEPPENSTALL AT HILLSBOROUGH: Nobody seems quite sure how good Burnley can be this season, least of all themselves, but this win moved them menacingly to the Championship summit. For a team who have spent seven of the past eight years in the Premier League, their lofty early-season position should come as no real surprise. Still, the manner of victory was impressive. Jaidon Anthony's clinical 37th-minute opener and captain Josh Brownhill's clincher shortly after half-time showed Scott Parker's men to be in a different class to their hosts.

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND-UP: After opening their season by drubbing fellow relegated side Luton 4-1 away, the goals continued to flow, with an early own goal by Cardiff keeper Ethan Horvath followed by goals from Luca Koleosho, Josh Brownhill, Zeki Amdouni and Johann Berg Gudmundsson. Parker, who took over from Vincent Kompany this summer, said: 'I know five goals have gone in, but I'm probably more pleased with the way the team dealt with the start and how we nudged and kept jabbing our way to a point where we can execute and go and win the game.'

JON WEST: Scott Parker's first match as Burnley manager was one to savour as fellow Premier League cast-offs Luton were well beaten on their own turf last night. Goals from Josh Brownhill, Wilson Odobert, Dara O'Shea and Vitinho ensured it was a satisfying debut for Vincent Kompany's replacement in the dugout. Luton have not beaten Burnley for 24 years and Rob Edwards' side only briefly looked like stopping that run when Tahith Chong made it 2-1 early in the second half.

Burnley have confirmed the release of two players following the expiration of their contracts this summer. The Clarets will be playing their football in the Championship after being relegated from the Premier League, finishing 19th.

Craig Bellamy recovered from a nightmare first season as a Premier League player to prosper and he is certain Burnley's inexperienced strugglers can do the same even if they go down. Relegation looks a certainty after goalkeeper Aro Muric's horrendous error, allowing a Sander Berge back-pass to roll past him to gift Brighton a point after Josh Brownhill's opener. Only three of Burnley's starting line-up had played in the Premier League before this season, and that lack of nous has cost them dear in the fight for survival.

Aro Muric will never live it down. Add this one to the list of great goalkeeping howlers, to the worst footballing moments of Gary Sprake, Massimo Taibi, Peter Enckelman. No exaggeration: The goal Muric conceded at Turf Moor will still be shown in 50 years' time. It came 11 minutes from the end of a match Burnley needed to win to maintain realistic hopes of Premier League survival. And they were winning it, thanks to a piece of opportunism from Josh Brownhill in the 74th minute. But then came every goalkeeper's worst nightmare. Midfielder Sander Berge, under no pressure, played a pass back to Muric. Somehow, it rolled past the goalkeeper's boot, and travelled on, gently, into the net. Brighton 's supporters, behind the goal, cheered with disbelief. Burnley's fans howled with anguish. Manager Vincent Kompany , serving a one-match touchline ban, could only watch helpless. It was left to Craig Bellamy, his assistant, to try to find some positive words for his goalkeeper.

HENRY CLARK ATSELHURST PARK: Oliver Glasner's tenure as Crystal Palace's manager began in style with a 3-0 victory over 10-man Burnley. Josh Brownhill was sent a red for pulling back Jefferson Lerma right as the Palace midfielder was supposed to pass through on goal after 35 minutes. After 71 minutes before Jordan Ayew's close-range finish, the Eagles took the lead thanks to Chris Richards' header. With 11 minutes remaining, Jean-Phillipe Mateta sealed the victory from the penalty spot.

She has once said that she never intended to be a referee. Rebecca Welch made history by becoming the first female to head a Premier League match. And at Fulham's Craven Cottage, where the West London team took on Burnley, it was a big moment for the 40-year-old. Ms Welch pitched the pitch for her warm-up to rapturous applause after high-fiving the teams' mascots in the tunnel.

JOE BERNSTEIN AT TURF MOOR: Jay Rodriguez scored the quickest goal of the season to spark a Burnley romp that saw them win their first points and climbed off the bottom of the table. After 15 seconds, the striker struck Charie Taylor's cross before receiving further strikes from Jacob Bruun Larsen, Zeki Amdouni, Luca Koleosho, and Josh Brownhill. On boss Vincent Kompany, the pressure was eased.

VAR has praised Arsenal for making the correct call to dismiss Fabio Vieira during his team's victory over Burnley. The Gunners returned to winning ways after defeating Vincent Kompany's side 3-1, a week after losing to Newcastle at St James' Park. Arteta went on a long rant about Anthony Gordon's decision as 'embarrassing' and a "disgrace."

At odds of 6/5 and 11/10 to score at any time, Jay Rodriguez and Zeki Amdouni are the best-backed, with 4/1 respectively scoring the opener. Rodriguez has yet to find the back of the net this season, while Amdouni has bagged two in all competitions this season. However, Salford City have joint-favourites to score at any time, with Callum Hendry and Matt Smith as the best-backed at 7/2. In addition, they're receiving a scoresheet first at 11/1. Josh Brownhill, a third of the country's best, is 9/2 to find the back of the net at any point, and 12/1 to finish first. In Burnley's 5/2 loss to Tottenham a few weeks back, Brownhill scored a goal in stoppage time.

Burnley has bought 13 players this summer, and all of the Clarets starters yesterday, bar one, were signed by the Belgian in the last 14 months, with veteran quartet Josh Brownhill, Jack Cork, Jay Rodriguez, and Johann Berg Gudmundsson as substitutes. Naturally, there was a lack of cohesion, but Kompany insists that his squad will get used to the required level in the Premier League as quickly as possible, despite the fact that Burnley have lost their first two games, both at Turf Moor and elsewhere.

When fans recall the time they had to put a 6-2 lead over Partizan Belgrade to lose a UEFA Cup tie in 1984, Queens Park Rangers fans still wince. They remember sweeping the Serbs away at Highbury, where Loftus Road's plastic pitch fell foul of EUFA guidelines and then fell apart in Belgrade. Capitulation is an art form that has been used by the soldiers. Nevertheless, what has been going on this season has been a total disaster. In October, QPR was at the top of the Championship table, but with five games remaining, they could be in danger of being pushed through the relegation trapdoor.

Vincent Kompany, a promotion winner, is joined by Middlesbrough's Michael Carrick and Mark Robins of Coventry City on the shortlist for the Championship Manager of the Season award. Josh Brownhill, the division's best player, has been nominated for the division's best player award, but he faces Middlesbrough's in-form Viktor Gyokeres. On April 23 as another thrilling campaign draws to an end, the winners will be announced at the EFL Awards in London.

It's likely that Burnley vice-captain Josh Brownhill was in Disneyland last summer when he learned that Vincent Kompany had been appointed manager. What's happened since at Turf Moor has been a fairy tale, but Burnley's meteoric promotion, which was announced on Friday, was due to planning as much as imagination. Fans will be reassured that Premier League preparations have already been underway for some time at Sheffield United's homecoming game on tomorrow's 37th birthday.

ADAM SHERGOLD AT THE RIVERSIDE STADIUM: Burnley has returned to the big leagues, and in what style. They have dominated the Championship promotion game, leading the table since October and undefeated since November. It was always a case of when, not if, they'd seal their Premier League return. Vincent Kompany and his allies were able to get over the line against one of Middlesbrough's biggest rivals on their own turf, which was also very rewarding.

ADEM PATEL AT BLOOMFIELD ROAD: These two Lancashire teams may have departed before game, but Blackpool put in a good effort to gain a deserved reward in Burnley's first visit to Bloomfield Road in nine years. Nonetheless, the Belgian insisted that "given the circumstances, it was a point gained." After losing in second place to 13 points at Blackburn earlier in the day, the Clarets extended their advantage over Sheffield United in second place to 13 points. It's certainly a matter of time before promotion is officially confirmed. Despite being 78% up, Kompany's side failed to score in the Championship for the second time this season and first time since August.

Jordan Beyer scored his first Burnley goal nine minutes from time to open up a 16-point deficit in the search for automatic promotion. Josh Brownhill, the German centre back, was brought home to his corner just as it seemed that the Clarets' winning streak would come to an end at six matches. With a welter of second half replacements, Coventry had dominated the first half, with striker Viktor Gyokeres as the outstanding player on the field and defense defended doggedly.

IAN HERBERT AT TURF MOOR: They can't quite get out of Turf Moor's narrow streets. The Royal Dyche pub is also on sale, with the sign above depicting the man in question in breastplate and monarchical posture as he looks across the middle distance. There is still a stein of Royal Dyche lager on sale inside, with 5p from every pint going to charity. And though he's still has the words 'Sean Dyche's claret and blue army' at the bar, Maxwell Cornet scarf pinned up on the door, he's now in West Ham. Nonetheless, the Dychian creed was emblazoned on the programme's huts outside: "Legs, hearts, and minds." It was one thing to defenestrate the man, but it was another to replace him with something diametrically different. Vincent Kompany, his successor, has stifled Route One and replaced it with what he knows: a scenic, patient, and fast route to the goal.

IAN HERBERT AT TURF MOOR: For Vincent Kompany, it was somewhere between brave and foolish to stake his professional image on Burnley this summer. To help settle a £60 million loan that fell on their owners as a result of relegation from the Premier League, the club was releasing all its best players and ending up spending £40 million less than they did in the window. Kompany's win last night, which saw the team win a fourth game, was a testament to his ability to completely rebuild and introduce a dedication to passing, which, with all respect to Sean Dyche, has been missing in these parts. Manuel Benson, a Dutch Chelsea loanee, and Ian Maatsen joined Royal Antwerp for £3.6 million to join Burnley's new Belgian enclave, showing that the new boss's ability to find class on no budget. Route one has departed, and it has been followed by a more direct, often over-elaborate route, with wingers wrangling the flanks and passing sequences, which on this occasion were of the highest order.

Following Southampton loanee Nathan Tella's debut on Vincent Kompany's side, Isaac Maatsen and Soony Carey all saw red cards at Turf Moor late on as the points were divided. But the hosts, who threw away their lead in order to get off their indifferent start to Championship life, were concerned about defending.