Burnley Fan here in peace. Yes I was there. From my point of view, here we go:
1/. I was shocked and pleased to go 2-0 up. For the first 20 mins we played fast-paced attacking football. We did not 'park the bus' as many on here said we would. You and perhaps your staff under-estimated little old shit Burnley?
2/. Admittedly from the 20th minute we did park the bus. Every man jack playing in black worked tirelessly to protect those 2 goals. What a defensive performance it was too. I'd loved to have seen us continue attacking football and in many ways scoring early forced us to defend and try and get the points. Believe me it was no fun for us fans to endure either! Survival in this league for just another season should guarantee the survival of our club for the next ten years. You can hardly blame us for that? It's only 8 years or go since you were down there too.
3/. The players going down with head injuries do not normally do that. Why are you so convinced they hadn't been caught?
4/. From 15 mins. onwards you were baying for our keeper to be booked. Believe me, even when we are chasing games he cannot for the life of him take a quick one. Our normal game is for him to take/roll out a short one. On several occasions on Saturday your forwards blocked that route off for him so we had to go through his pre-kick routine again.
5/. From where I was sitting the jeers about time-wasting and faking head injuries seemed childish. It's not like the ref was stopping the game immediately, which was annoying for us because I thought they were meant to. I would love to see some of these 'elbow incidents' again. They were not shown on MoTd.
6/. Perhaps your 6' 5" + players don't need as much leverage to get up above our 5'8" players as they think they do?
7/. I was impressed by your Barcelona player. Always seemed threatening when he had the ball.
Perhaps the best way to have stopped our 'time-wasting' was not to have conceded the 2 goals in the first place. Every time Rory Delap took a throw in it seemed to take longer for him than most other players to take a throw in....but then again that's not time-wasting is it? Best of luck for the rest of the season.