Scott Parker press conference: Burnley boss on negativity, Bruun Larsen incident and Crystal Palace

But given the club’s current predicament, the majority of the presser was dominated by the current negativity that surrounds the club.

Things threatened to turn toxic on Saturday as Burnley’s winless run stretched to 16 games with a 2-0 defeat to West Ham, prompting chants of “you’re getting sacked in the morning” and “we want Parker out”.

Jacob Bruun Larsen was also involved in an incident with supporters while he warmed up down the touchline during the first-half.

Ahead of tomorrow night’s clash, Parker addressed that situation, as well as discussing the fallout from the game, the current mood among the fans among other talking points.

Here’s what he had to say:

How painful have the past few days been?

“Sunday's a pretty bad one, like Saturday night is and Sunday is as well with a lot of reflection, a lot of planning, a lot of re-energising to bring my energy levels up.

“Often then Sundays become very self-critical and looking for answers, looking for solutions and then probably by the end of it, you probably get to a point where you've probably stripped it right back. You recharge again.

“You wake up early Monday morning and you reboot, so that's exactly the position that I'm in and that's just me as a person, really.

“So, of course, as always, there's a certain amount of doubts in certain moments, there's certain things. What can we change? What can we do? There's hurt. Certainly after the weekend, a lot of hurt for many reasons.

“But I've not changed one bit. I still do the same things what I was doing last year when it was 100 points, 16 goals [conceded], 33 games unbeaten and I think it was manager of the season. I've not changed and I will never, ever change.

“I still work tirelessly. I’m still first in here, last out and I still absolutely leave blood on the walls at certain moments in time to try and get the best out of us and try and be that person that is fronting it up constantly to this group when they need it most, really.

“That's not fake. For sure, it's not. That's just who I am and that's just the personality I am and the innate personality I am for us to try and be successful and that's what we try and do.”

Is survival still possible?

“It is doable, it is achievable. It'd be right up there [as an achievement] and it is doable.

“And again, we can look at it and think, well, you're going to have to win X amount of games and you've only won X amount and I get all that. We can highlight that and just look at that side of it.

“My constant point is, if we did that, what chance have we got? Because it would suggest that it would be pretty, pretty difficult. But we can.

“Can we go and beat Crystal Palace? For sure we can. We can. If we apply ourselves in the right way, we recharge, we refresh, we take all of the pain and all of the negativity that's come our way over the last few weeks, of course we can. That's how we need to approach this game.

“At this moment in time, we approach this game, this is what it is, it's Crystal Palace. We go down there, we put in a good performance against them last time.

“Can we turn the tide here a little bit? Can we go and put a real solid performance in and go win one game of football? That's our main focus and then we'll move on to the next.

“So there's a massive challenge here and it'll rank right up there, but it's definitely doable and that's exactly what we're striving to do.”

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What positives have you seen recently?

“Look, that's a tough question for me that sits in this position at this present moment in time where anything I say that is positive is only going to add more fire to this situation. That's the reality.

“The reality is that anything I say regarding us as a group, the positive results we come out of, three draws against big teams, the positive results at the beginning of the season when we were hugely competitive, really is something that will probably be frowned upon, will probably only antagonise the situation even more. So I want to be really careful regarding that.

“Now there are [positives] and there have been [positives]. I'm really confident I can stand in that position at this current moment in time.

“I'm weary of that because of the situation and certainly coming out the back of the weekend, I'm not stupid. I understand where everyone is.

“But like I've said many a time, there's been many, many, many positives and I said it after the [West Ham] game, what changes [the mood] is just winning.

“Sometimes that's a word that's very easy to say, but that's the only way that us as a group at this present moment in time, me as a manager and this team can probably get some air.

We can only get air by winning.

“Now, to win a game in this division at this present moment in time has proven really, really difficult. There's a challenge there for us for many reasons.

“We need to keep highlighting, not losing sight of the good things that we have done and not losing sight of the quality that we do have.

“The longer this goes on, of course, that becomes more testing. That becomes more testing to the players as individuals, because maybe they start doubting even more and they forget about that. Certainly now in this situation when the noise is very, very high, that could be the case.

“So I'll remind them, like I said, I'm reluctant to probably suggest this now because I don't want to fire anything up that's already there, which I clearly know. But trust me, every day I go in while I'm hugely critical at certain moments, I also remind these boys that they've done unbelievable and last year they did unbelievable and I owe them a lot. They deserve this opportunity of what they've got at this present moment in time.

“At this moment in time, sometimes we've just fallen a little bit short, but they do have quality and it's my job to try and get the best out of them in certain moments

“ We have lacked quality at certain moments, but that's the journey that we're currently on and at times it's a painful one, but we'll get there, no doubt.”

You’ve said before you’ve been through some tough times, is this the toughest?

“Well, outside of football, not even comparable. That's a lot worse than this. Inside of football, no, this has been really, really tough in that sense.

“Look, the last thing you ever want is your own fans chanting after 10 minutes of a team or seeing players in altercations with our own supporters. I don't want that. That hurts me. It angers me at times, but I don't want that.

“I understand the situation, I understand it. I understand the way it is now. At times, I've said it many times, I don't agree with it and I think it's sad.

“People have choices and everyone has choices. How you want to choose to vent your frustration or your anger, that's one's prerogative really.

“And while, of course, maybe I see it differently, that's a personal choice and it's one that obviously I can't control.

“I can try and control this team. We can try our hardest to please in a world where sometimes that's very difficult, but that's what we maintain to try and do and that's it.

“No one here, not one of these players, run out onto that pitch wanting to let anyone down. No one does and, yeah, so that's hurtful.”

Jacob Bruun Larsen incident with fans

“I don't know the full ins and outs.

“There was obviously something that was said, which obviously flared up and obviously Jacob's reacted, which you can't do. Which, again, is pretty puzzling at certain moments, but Jacob's obviously flared up.

“It's just not helpful, I don't want that. No one wants that, so I've spoken to Jacob and I've spoken to the team regarding that, about our reactions and our mindset and how calm we are in those moments.

“We need to have an understanding of the frustration, what the fans are going through and we need to understand their frustration that sometimes that may be vented in a certain way that maybe after the event, maybe they're a little bit sorry for maybe. We need to have an understanding of that.

“So I've tried to express that to the team that you sometimes make mistakes.”

Is James Ward-Prowse ready to start?

“I definitely think that there's an option there.

“He played in an Under-21s game, but he's not had a lot of football. But it's definitely a decision for me to make. But I have no doubt we'll see James Prowse on the pitch tomorrow night.”

What do you make of Palace?

“A tough game against a well-organised team, a well coached side who are coming off the back of a really positive result as well.

“They have some really good individual talent and the main ethos around it is a team, so it’s a difficult place to go, like we know.

“But we're looking forward to this game and we've built it up over the last couple of days in terms of: let's look forward to this now.

“I often say to the players as a young boy, when you're an eight-year-old boy, all you ever do is dream of putting a pair of football boots on and running out in a stadium and playing in the Premier League. There's another opportunity for us all to do that.

“I played 20 years and in the blink of an eye it flashed away. It only seemed like yesterday when I was playing. The opportunity is there for us again, even though it's a testing time for us.

“That opportunity is there and we're blessed and these are blessed. Don't let that slip. Let's go in now with just full force and see what we get.”

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