Scott Parker's lengthy and emotional response to Burnley breaking unwanted winless record

Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Bournemouth means the Clarets have now gone 11 home league games without enjoying three points.

At no other point in the club’s history have a Burnley side endured such an unwanted streak during a single season.

Parker’s side haven’t won a league game since beating Leeds United 2-0 at Turf Moor on October 18. Since then, they’ve lost seven and drawn four.

While their away form this season hasn’t been much better, winning just two of their 15 league trips, it’s their home form that has severely let them down compared to their relegation rivals, especially the two sides that joined them in winning promotion from the Championship last term.

Sunderland boast the league’s sixth best record on home turf, while Leeds United are 13th. Only Tottenham have picked up fewer points than Burnley at their own ground.

When asked to explain Burnley’s home woes, Parker said: “There's been many, many issues.

“One's been the level of what we've been up against. I don't know what [the record was] the last time that Burnley were in the Premier League, what that was or how many games we won [two home wins under Vincent Kompany], I'm not too sure.

“Of course, while we’ve been competitive, we've wanted to have more wins, but certainly that's not been the case.

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“Looking back to the start of the season, every press conference I did, you would have said to me: ‘the last three teams that have come up have been relegated’.

“If I would have said to you: ‘what's our chances?’ You would have gone: ‘they're going to be slim’. If anyone would have predicted at certain moments, this is what the challenge was.

“Now that's not me being negative, because we drive and drive and drive to try and over-perform at certain moments and at certain moments we've not over-performed. The facts and the reality is, this club, our team, this year would have needed to over-perform. At every moment we would have had to over-perform and that's just the reality.

“Whether people want to hear that or not, or they want to see that I'm being this ultra-negative guy that isn’t giving us a fighting chance. That's the reality.

“The reality is, at times, we've not been able to over-perform due to one reason or another. The one thing that has been solely consistent, for what this team has been through this year, for what human beings they are, what they've been through from the start of the season when there's penalties going in at the last minute and that nearly moment, from the atmosphere in our stadium, how this season has played, I think it's pretty remarkable that this team are where they are and performing at the level they are.

“Now that's not been good enough and hence what you've said to me, we've not won at home, we've broken records. Yeah, I get that and that's not acceptable.

“But there is one thing that we have been, is we have stuck together through some absolute hammer blows.

“And I ask the question really, that I don't think there's many teams who have been through what they've been through. At times fans turning against them, at times underperforming, at times just looking at the opposition just thinking this quality is just what it is.

“That's the fact, that we've just at times fallen short. The one thing we haven't fallen short on is what we showed again today [against Bournemouth] and we have to maintain that.

“This could be a totally different story and we need to keep that.”

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